Second Life

Letters and blogs

Source: guardian.co.uk

• What effect will the financial crisis have on virtual worlds like Second Life (Vic Keegan, October 2)? Given that the economic underpinnings of the Linden dollar make CDOs look like Krugerrands, the grid may not survive the looming depression.

Published Wed, Oct 8

Opinion: Looking back to look forward

Source: second

Which brings me to the present state of affairs at Linden Lab and Second Life. The laundry list of doom-sayers has been ongoing, but I've noticed a few that speak to a more profound problem with the grid: Terra Nova's suggestion that the sluggish SL economy forecasts a "Virtual World Winter...

Published Sun, Jun 29

Product Review: Second Life

Source: grandslacker (WordPress)

In a nutshell Second Life is a three-dimensional virtual world, termed the "grid", which is served from the Second Life servers to the Second Life client software in more-or-less real time (we'll get to that later). You, the user, termed a "resident", interact with the world via a 3d virtu...

Published Sat, May 31

Guns N’ Roses Performing Tonight at Pera Vista

Source: The Grid Live

Post from: The Grid Live Guns N’ Roses Performing Tonight at Pera Vista My friend and sometime contributor Mozy Pera has just let me know about something special going on at her place tonight. Gunz N’ Roses will be performing on Pera Vista Tonight, SATURDAY MAY 10 at 6PM…don’t miss out!! Sec...

Published Sat, May 10

The Grid Live Year in Review for 2007

Source: The Grid Live

Real Lawyers in a Virtual World Real lawyers making real money from Second Life. Second Life Drops the Hammer On Gambling Looks like the end is in sight for people earning a living using gambling and casinos in Second Life as Linden Labs has posted a new policy concerning gambling inside SL.

Published Tue, Jan 1

Patch: Today in Second Life - Thursday 11 October, 2007

Source: Second Life Insider

Median concurrency for the day was 37274. The Grid Stability Index for the day was 1.37 (lower is better). Linden Lab introduces new liaison staff: Patch Linden, Kosmo Linden, Trinity Linden, and Kate Linden. ...

Published Thu, Oct 11

Oops, Linden Labs did it again!

Source: Looker Lumet

What was supposed to be a nice evening among friends, became again a struggle for staying on the grid, pffft. But what happened…….exactly, we were thrown off of Second Life. Apparently Linden labs were having a master clean up, with all sims at the same time.

Published Tue, Oct 2