When I noted that Linden Lab’s private estate revenue in SL has fallen to 2009 levels, famed steampunk land baron Desmond “the Guvnah” Shang stopped by to offer his thoughts in Comments: « Cutting back on land mass is actually a…
Iris Ophelia’s ongoing review of virtual world and MMO fashion Women have been dyeing their hair for a very long time, and for almost all of that time it was key to maintain the illusion that it was your natural…
The SL Bloggers group is back in business, thanks to Tymmerie Thorne, who has all the details here, including an in-world hang-out, and a group Twitter account. « We take ‘em all, » says Ms. Thorne, « news bloggers, fashion bloggers, badly dressed…
Back when Apple unveiled the iPhone 4s’ Siri, I wondered if she’d be the first AI we’d fall in love with, so it’s too surprising that the Times just noted Siri & Me « a new work of fiction by David…
mvfapp.com is a fun, possibly ego-stroking Twitter widget that shows you your most valuable Twitter follower, i.e.
Written 2 February, 2012 Where Was I? Where was I before I got distracted by all those avatars at coldLogic? Oh, yes! coldLogic! So…
Written 2 February, 2012 Chey gets Distracted I, uh…
Iris Ophelia’s ongoing take on etiquette & ethics in virtual spaces It should be no mystery what this week’s Metaverse Manners theme is, so let’s cut right to the chase…
Now that Facebook has filed for IPO, we’re starting to get a somewhat clearer picture of its virtual goods market, and as expected (as Wired reports), it’s fricking huge: « Facebook users spent roughly $1.85 billion on virtual goods within the…
The Associated Press’ Jason Straziuso has a great article about a great story: How the virtual community Reddit quickly rallied to raise $80,000 in donations to help a a Kenyan orphanage beset by violent thieves, one of whom hacked an…
Busy Times at the coldLogic Store Written 2 February, 2012 Chey Goes to coldLogic First the important stuff.
Iris Ophelia’s ongoing review of virtual world and MMO fashion coldLogic [Teleport to ColdLogic in ZYRRA] is a brand new all-mesh venture from Janie Marlowe, Zyrra Falcone, and Damien Fate that has a lot of fashionistas in a flutter. If…
There once was a friendly and beautiful girl named Aretha Millsaps, whose only flaw was that she didn’t exist. Also, that she only existed to promote a commercial website link on her Facebook profile, but then you probably guessed that…
Speaking of indie games, there’s a new kind of SL roleplaying game from Grendel’s Children, longtime and widely admired manufacturer of fantastic bestiary avatars in Second Life: LifeCycle Rats, which as the name suggests, turns your avatar into a rodent,…
This looks really great: Indie Game: The Movie, a documentary on the sweat and tears poured into producing low budget indie games which aspire to greatness: Indie Game: The Movie Official Trailer from IndieGame: The Movie on Vimeo. It just…
After a month long absence from social media, Linden CEO Rod Humble posted an update on his SL profile, updating the company’s plans for returning last names to SL avatars, along with other features to names, such as titles: Speaking…
Berkeley philosophy professor Alva Noe has a pretty fascinating take on the Uncanny Valley as caused by 3D computer-generated movies like The Polar Express and Tintin (which I talked about recently). If understand him right, he’s arguing that the feeling…
Viddy this SL fashion tribute to Clockwork Orange, which was created by Nestag Itano, who has a well-named male SL fashion blog called Untouchable Life. It’s from a series of movie-themed fashion spreads, which also includes this equally great Rorschach…
Tyche Shepherd’s latest indispensable Second Life economic analysis is up on SL Universe, and the news is not good: « Monthly private estate tier estimate is down below US $5 million for the first time since I began the monthly surveys…
Tyche Shepherd’s latest indispensable Second Life economic analysis is up on SL Universe, and the news is not good: « Monthly private estate tier estimate is down below US $5 million for the first time since I began the monthly surveys…
I have a new post on Internet Evolution about the rise of Reddit in the age of Facebook and Twitter, which I’m pretty proud of. Why does Reddit, a content-sharing community with pseudonymous identities, keep rising in the face of…
SL/OpenSim news: Tokyo University Developing Real Time, Open Source Kinect-to-Second Life Software Explore OpenSim & SL Regions on the Web & Convert Others for Web Use With Avatars Via the ArchTech Engine Google Reportedly Allows Second Life User to Keep…
Serendipity Haven has a fairly funny field guide for satirically spotting Linden Lab staffers in Second Life (which I first spotted on SL’s Reddit group.) The post is largely for the yucks, though there’s an underlying assumption I often see…
Iris Ophelia’s ongoing review of virtual world and MMO fashion Recently a group of experienced SL designers got together to start a new menswear-focused superbrand, Entente, opening this month. Of course, they’ve become a hot topic as a result, both…
A very cool OpenSim research project for use in real world therapy is in need of virtual cars. It’s being run by Jorge « Eggy Lippmann » Lima, a longtime SLer, for the University of Lisbon, and the study will use virtual…
SL tier prices and economic hard times keep hitting hard, even those who are hard: To wit, Hard Alley, a notorious Second Life virtual porn sim that has been popular for years (I recall reading scandalized reports about it as…
素晴らしいSLアートを見る為に、お金を払ってもいいという聴衆は、存在するのだ。し…
Click here to visit several locations originally created in Second Life and OpenSim on your web browser.
According to « TheBlack Box », which is the avatar name of a Second Life user, Google allowed him to keep his Google+ social network account named after that pseudonym. After changing the G+ account name from his real life name to…
For her next installment of Miss Metaverse Manners, Iris Ophelia takes on a totally touchy topic: The etiquette and ethics around dealing with SL content theft — both as someone being accused of such theft, and as someone making the…
SLKinect 2 is a pretty cool open source project being developed by folks at Network System Laboratory of Tokyo University to connect real world motion captured by a Kinect to avatar movement in Second Life and OpenSim. Watch: Fumi Iseki,…
One day recently, software engineer Tess Chu was walking through a hotel, when she stumbled into a furry con. This was a fortune-filled encounter, for while she’s now a Senior Software Engineer and Analyst at Kabam, the leading Facebook strategy…
One day recently, software engineer Tess Chu was walking through a hotel, when she stumbled into a furry con. This was a fortune-filled encounter, for while she’s now a Senior Software Engineer and Analyst at Kabam, the leading Facebook strategy…
While it’s now possible to have an avatar-only Google+ account (if you can convince Google your avatar is known enough to deserve one), you can also just list your avatar name alongside your real one. In your G+ profile, just…
While it’s now possible to have an avatar-only Google+ account (if you can convince Google your avatar is known enough to deserve one), you can also just list your avatar name alongside your real one. In your G+ profile, just…
Yes, this puddle-filled picture above by Graphic Dix was made in Second Life, and no, the final image hasn’t been post-processed in Photoshop or suchlike. Click here for the embiggenized version
Google is now allowing a limited number of users on its social network Google+ to have fully pseudonymous accounts, a Google representative just confirmed with me. This after Google+ VP Bradley Horowitz announced yesterday the reversal of a previous Google…
The Academy Award nominees for last year’s movies were just announced, and one prominent actor’s name wasn’t included among them, even though he was featured to universal acclaim in one of 2011′s biggest movies. I mean, of course, Andy Serkis,…
A Klein Bottle is a mathematically brain-melting object with no in or out and no front or back, and thanks to Wizard Gynoid, one of them was made to float in Second Life. Watch this machinima to see what I…
In June 2009, I asked a lead OpenSim developer about my estimate of 15,000 active users of Second Life’s open source spinoff of Second Life. This source told me that 15,000 sounded about right. In January 2012, extrapolating from this…
Over on Reddit’s sub-community for Second Life (be sure to subscribe!) « Jeran » wonders why Linden Lab is doing such a poor job advertising Second Life, pointing to recent fails like the outdated, odd-looking vampire screenshot on the front page. « [W]e…
Newt Gingrich, who once visited Second Life as an avatar flanked by a Qaddafi-esque squadron of female bodyguards, declaring it « the beginning of a very different kind of system that let’s exactly what you see in front of you happen,…
World of Skyrim Actually Much Smaller Than San Francisco Crowdfunding SL art: Peter Greenaway Acclaims SL Artist Bryn Oh, Donates to Crowdfunder to Re-Open Immersiva leads to Bryn Oh’s SL Art Crowdfunder Raises USD$6K in One Day! Linden Lab’s marketing…
Iris Ophelia’s ongoing review of virtual world and MMO fashion This Monday, people around the world will be celebrating the Lunar (or Chinese) New Year, and Second Life is no exception. Believe it or not, Chinese New Year traditions are…
The SL vampire above left is currently featured on the Second Life homepage, meant as an example of cool content new users can enjoy in-world. Which only caused SL fashionista Alicia Chenaux to complain, « Is she a vampire in a…
Cartoonimals, a popular destination in Second Life, is closing on February 14, according to Daniel Voyager, due to the owner’s increasingly frenetic real life work schedule. Looks like the sim is for sale, however
Ms. Cajsa Lilliehook has some very good tips for SL fashion bloggers (which I meant to write about sooner), such as: « With each blog photo you upload, you should provide a URL to your blog in the description… I always…
Physics grad Matthew Sutton wrote a very interesting analysis of Skyrim’s size on Quora, and if you’ve explored Bethesda’s grand, expansive game world, you’ll probably be surprised. Starting with the height of NPCs and the building they inhabit, Sutton estimates…
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- NWN Comment of the Week: Steampunk Land Baron Desmond Shang on Why Losing SL Land is Healthy for SL
- Since Avatars Can Be Perfect, Flawed Hair Seems Stylish
- SL Bloggers Group Back in Business in SL and Social Media
- New Novel About a Man Who Falls in Love With Siri
- Who’s Your Most Valuable Twitter Follower?
- Where Was I?
- Chey Gets Distracted
- Miss Ophelia’s Metaverse Manners: The SL Etiquette of Copycats, Copyright, and Crying Wolf
- FB Users Spent $1.85 BILLION on Virtual Goods in 2011!
- Badass SL Avatar Inspired by Hellboy Movies is Badass
- How Reddit’s Virtual Community Helped a Real Community
- Chey Goes to coldLogic
- Give a Warm Reception to coldLogic’s New SL Mesh Fashions
- The Short But Friend-Filled Life of a Hot Facebook Bot
- Love Me Notes – Love in Less than 50 Words
- Be a Rat in the New Second Life RPG by Grendel’s Children
- Indie Game: The Movie, Documentary on Indie Developers of Fez and Super Meat Boy
- Last Names for SLers Return Soon — Plus News & Updates
- Uncanny Valley Theory: The Effect Occurs When We’re Passive Viewers, Not Interactive Participants
- Epic Second Life Clockwork Orange Outfit is Epic
- SL Estate Revenue Falls Below $5M/Mo, Lowest Since 10/09
- SL Estate Revenue Falls Below $5M/Mo, Lowest Since 10/09
- Why Reddit Rules Over Facebook and Twitter: It’s the Pseudonymity, Stupid
- New World Notes Highlights from Last Week: Kinect and SL, Google+ and SL, Avatars vs. Hollywood, and Much More
- Why Lindens in Second Life Seem Arrogant & Out of Touch
- Iris Rants: Don’t Let Fear of SL Content Theft Cause Paranoia Over Alternate Designer Identities!
- OpenSim Study on Virtual Treatment for Phobia Needs Cars!
- Sim Deathwatch: SL’s Hardcore Hard Alley Hits Hard Times
- NWN in Japanese: Bryn OhのSLアートがクラウドファンディングを通じて、1日でUS$6000の寄付を獲得！
- Explore OpenSim & SL Regions on the Web & Convert Others for Web Use With Avatars Via the ArchTech Engine
- Google Reportedly Allows Second Life User to Keep Google+ Account Named For His SL Avatar
- Ask Miss Metaverse Manners About Dealing With SL Content Theft Accusations!
- Tokyo University Developing Real Time, Open Source Kinect-to-Second Life Software
- Have Furries Fairly Fled Second Life for Furry Forums?
- Have Furries Fairly Fled Second Life for Furry Forums?
- How to List Your Avatar Name Next to Your Real Name on Google+ (Which I Generally Recommend)
- How to List Your Avatar Name Next to Your Real Name on Google+ (Which I Generally Recommend)
- How to Photograph Photoshop-Free SL Water Reflections
- Google Now Allows Fully Pseudonymous Google+ Profiles — But Only Those Known by a "Meaningful Number" of People
- Do Hollywood Actors Fear the Rise of Avatar-Based Acting?
- A Klein Bottle Comes to Second Life (Again)!
- OpenSim Active Users: Now About 15,000 (Same as in 2009)
- Second Life Redditors Wonder WTF is Up With Linden Lab’s SL Poor Ads — Please Tell Them, Lindens!
- Newt Gingrich, SL Fan, Likely to Be GOP’s 2012 Candidate
- Top Five New World Notes News From Last Week
- How to Stylishly Celebrate Chinese Lunar New Year in SL
- Here’s the Vampire That Should Be On SL’s Homepage
- Sim Deathwatch: Cartoonimals Leaving SL on the 14th
- Good Marketing Tips for SL Fashion Bloggers
- World of Skyrim Actually Much Smaller Than San Francisco
- Bryn Oh’s SL Art Crowdfunder Raises USD$6K in One Day!
- How to Shoot Spectacular Second Life Screenshots: Iris Ophelia’s Way… Versus Linden Lab’s Way
- Politic Against SOPA and PIPA
- OpenSim Gaining Regions… But Not Gaining Many Users
- Coliloquy Launches Dynamic Interactive Fiction E-book App
- New Year, New You! Contest Winners
- Richard Garriott Built Virtual Worlds to Leave the Real One
- Protest Today Against SOPA & PIPA, Which Threaten SL
- Stop SOPA!
- Peter Greenaway Acclaims SL Artist Bryn Oh, Donates to Crowdfunder to Re-Open Immersiva — and So Can You!
- SL Insiders on Alignment Code Controversy: No Personal Animus, Karl’s Code Will Be Integrated into the SL Viewer
- Prim-Based Game Minecraft Exceeds 20 Million Registered Users, Almost 5 Million Paying Customers
- Made in Hawaii: Tetris Battle, One of Facebook’s Top Games
- SOPA Seems Dead, But PIPA Still Threatens Second Life
- Blogger Maintenance
- Claiming Staff Bias, Ex-Linden Karl Stiefvater No Longer Helping Linden Integrate Alignment Tool into SL Viewer
- Aurasma: Virtual & Real Augmented Reality for Smartphones
- Top 7 New World Notes Posts Last Week
- Iris’ 5 Point Checklist for Flawless, Foolproof, & Photoshop-Free Second Life Snapshots
- EFF Confirms: SOPA & PIPA, If Passed, Would Jeopardize Second Life and Its Users (And Here’s How to Take Action)
- Second Life Lost 879 Private Sims and $500K to $2M in Revenue in ’11 — I.E., Why Tier Costs Won’t Likely Lower
- What Went Wrong With Multiverse: VentureBeat’s Take
- Sim Deathwatch: Without Funding, Bryn Oh’s Landmark Immersiva Art Space to Close Soon
- Could SOPA Strangle Second Life? Sadly, Seems So.
- What "Other Products" Will Linden Lab Launch in 2012?
- Youthful Opportunity: Most Who Visit SL’s Site Are Under 34
- How to Handle PR Crises on the Virtual Community of Reddit
- Announcing the New Year, New You! Image Contest
- Second Life Mesh Stats, January 2012: 22% Sims Have Some Mesh From 240 Daily Uploaders for 140K+ Total Objects
- Second Life Has an Official (If So Far Unused) Google+ Page
- Raph Koster’s Tip for Low Budget Game Development
- Lovely Tribute to Burning Man, Which Once Inspired SL
- Want Qarl’s Alignment Tool for SL Building in the Official SL Viewer? Then Vote On It!
- Reddit’s SL Community Among the Top 10% Largest (But Could Be a Lot Larger)
- Want to Play a Massively Multiplayer Storytelling Game?
- Skyrim Dragonslaying: Such an Anti-Climax (So Far)
- Top 8 Posts from New World Notes Last Week
- SL Fundraising Scandal Strongly Suggests Need to Work Directly With Real World Non-Profit Organizations
- Iris Ophelia’s Top 5 Talked-About Posts in 2011: Gender Bending, Avatar Race, Virtual Fur & Other Touchy Topics
- Erratum
- The Lindens are Stingy With Resources
- Tipodean Converts Second Life & OpenSim Content to Web Using Latest Version of Flash & Unity
- Top 50 Most Popular Second Life Sims for December 2011
- Multiverse Becomes Open Source MMO Platform After Closing
- Does Tintin Take Us Past the Uncanny Valley into a Future of Hyperreal 3D Graphics?
- A New Way to Count Prims
- Survey Suggests Substantial Market for Cloud Streaming Second Life — Which an Expert Says is Feasible at $99/Year!
- Best of New World Notes 2011: My Favorite 10 Posts
- SL Viewer Performance Comparison: Linden’s Still Best, Exodus & Mikshake Best of Third Party Viewers
- In NWN Survey on Improving Second Life, Plurality Call for Making Mesh-Capable Viewers Mandatory for All Users
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