Weekend Whimsy
1. Age of Conan – Hyborian Adventures: a few Views
(Age of Conan is the latest gaming virtual world to launch)
2. OhMy Kidd “If You Want To”
3. Almost Lover
Episode 5 of TMJ Podcast – Law and Virtual Worlds
Episode 5 revolves around a fascinating interview with Dr Melissa de Zwart, Senior Lecturer and Director, Teaching at Monash University’s Law Faculty.
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More Second Life tutorials
The prolific Torley Linden has released sixteen more tutorial videos (at around 2 minutes each) for newer Second Life users or anyone who hasn’t really looked through what Second Life can do.
The latest batch are:
- 3 ways to get to About Land
- Avatar Rendering Cost
- Find Friends & Groups faster
- Give stuff to someone nearby
- [...]
Linden Lab’s new CEO speaks
Well, he writes a few paragraphs at least, on the Official Linden Blog. It’s a fairly lucid description of his first week, with the standout line for me being:
“Inworld collaboration is going to be a killer application”
Yes indeed it is – when it’s working and even then it’s not so killer when you’re living so [...]
True traffic measurement in Second Life – when?
Linden Lab today announced that there’ll be some more work done on determining what is truly a popular location in Second Life. Determining true traffic / engagement in Second Life is one of those holy grails that has remained elusive.
We ran our own traffic measurements for a couple of months but the administrative burden became [...]
Introducing: our jobs board
We’re pleased to announce the launch our virtual worlds job board. It allows anyone to post a job advertisement for free. We may introduce a small fee in the future but at this stage there’s no cost at all. All that for a 30-day listing.
There’s a link to the job board at the top of [...]
A virtual recession?
Peer-to-peer news and information network Current is running an interesting video asking the question of whether virtual worlds (second Life in particular) are at risk of recession flowing on from the USA’s economic difficulties. It’s a short treatise that ends up arguing that real-world problems may actually emphasise virtual world opportunities.
Watch it here:
What are your [...]
