Milia 2007 – Second Life developments
Gary Hazlitt has posted on his blog some vignettes from his attendance at Mip TV / Milia 2007.
Gary’s posting contains some interesting insights on marketing in SL and future developments including some fascinating statements made by Linden Lab CEO Philip Rosedale.
Second Nature, or The Jean-Claude Bradley Center for Open Notebook Science!
On the island Second Nature there is a science build called the Jean-Claude Bradley Center for Open Notebook Science, which is linked with Drexel University.
Dr Jean-Claude Bradley is a chemistry professor and coordinator of e-learning for the College of Arts and Sciences at Drexel University. Along with his highly skilled team (check out the credits [...]
Virtual drug use – a way to minimise harm?
The Drug Policy Alliance have posted an interested article on the role of virtual worlds like SL and drug use experimentation. Essentially, work is being done so that individuals can ‘experience’ a substance prior to taking it in real life. As the blog post mentions, how do you re-create the physiological and psychological effects of [...]
Light at the end of the tunnel for lag?
There are growing reports of Linden Labs opening up their servers to open source. New blog ‘LA 2nd Life’ run by Australian, DanteJones Laszlo, outlines nicely the upsides of non-Linden Labs owned servers.
Whether open sourcing solves some of the greater underlying architectural issues is debatable, at least in the short term. Aside from lag, the [...]
Hope Capital – the debate continues
Cyberland CEO Shaun Altman has responded in detail to some claims made by Hope Capital CEO LukeConnell Vandeverre during our interview on Friday evening.
Additionally, World Stock Exchange non-executive director, IntLibber Brautigan has waded into the debate backing the Hope Capital CEO and calling into question Altman’s motives and alleged the involvement of Anshe Chung. [...]
Aussie population update – 8000 on the horizon
Meta Linden has provided an update on SL metrics. In the past month, Australia has had significant growth to 2.43% of the overall SL population:
1. As at 31st March there were 3,177,434 unique residents (up half a million on the previous month)
2. Ten percent of that is 317,743. (the ten percent rule is [...]
Aussie SL documentary on SBS
We’ve just found out that Aussie film-maker Shelley Matulick has made a documentary on a Melbourne-based couple living and loving in SL and it’s screening this evening on SBS TV at 7.30pm.
All the details here
