Interesting forecast published over the holidays: Google+ is on trrack to have 400 million registered users, according to independent researcher Paul Allen. The New York Times has a story on Allen’s methodology (a lot of crowdsourcing was involved). 400 million…
As promised, ex-Linden programmer Karl « Qarl Fizz » Stiefvater has created the first version of his crowdfunded code that greatly improves Second Life mesh. What’s that mean in practical terms? Many things, as Karl explains in this video, with the big…
Top New World Notes Posts for 2011 by Popularity The Mystery of Second Life’s Flat Growth in 2011 — Despite 16K New Users Daily! (As NWN Readers Predicted) 2011′s Top 10 Second Life Fashion Items: Iris Ophelia’s List! Exodus SL…
At the close of 2011, founding Linden Lab executive Ginsu Yoon wrote a heartfelt and eloquent look back at his time as Linden’s VP of Corporate Development and humor-having lawyer from between 2005 to 2009, during which Second Life was…
Welcome to 2012, lovely NWNers. Let’s start this year with an open forum that comes with a very open-ended question: What are Your Predictions & Resolutions for Virtual Worlds, Gaming, and Technology in 2012? Of course these can be about…
Happy New Year, NWNers! While we wind down 2011, here’s my top five favorite SL machinimas for the year, more than worth watching this weekend.
SL fashionista Alicia Chenaux has a fun post on exploring Skyrim, the single-player virtual world, wherein her motto is, « I just want to kill stuff and look pretty doing it », which is as good as any other.
Here are some internal and search-based charts of Second Life activity in 2011, beautifully presented by Aaron Parker, a PhD student who occasionally blogs about SL.
Snap decision: Which of these photos above is a photo of a real life photographic studio, and which is a screen capture from Second Life, depicting mesh-based objects that only look like a photographic studio? Don’t think about that question…
Iris Ophelia’s ongoing review of virtual world and MMO fashion With the year drawing to a close, it’s time to reflect on my favorite items I’ve covered since January 2011, mesh and non-mesh alike, and to predict which releases will…
2011’s Most Popular Facebook Games by Genre: Arcade, Casino, Hidden Object, Strategy is my latest report for Inside Social Games and AppData, an in-depth look at the genres which did the best for new games on the social network in…
Iris Ophelia’s ongoing review of virtual world and MMO fashion Now that Christmas is out of the way, New Year’s Eve is approaching quickly.
私は今、ホリデーでオアフのKailuaにいる家族を訪れている。そして偶然にも、オ…
In January 2011, I asked New World Notes readers how much Second Life would grow in terms of users this year, and a plurality of you had it about right: As it stands, Second Life has about 1.05 million monthly…
.Friends is a new virtual world Facebook game developed by a company of the same name, with private investment funding. Very similar to Shaker, another new startup which got significant Valley buzz this September, it is like Shaker described as…
Written 28 December, 2011 Answers to Second Christmas Quiz 1. Move hither the entire assembly of those who are loyal in their belief (Oh, Come, All Thee Faithful) 2. Listen, the celestial messengers produce harmonious sounds (Hark! The Herald Angels Sing) 3.
Posted 27 December, 2011 Answers to First Christmas Quiz Reader Willow got all the answers right– and left a charming reply:
Here’s a collection of New World Notes posts from 2011 which generated the most page views. Interestingly, the most read post by far was not directly about Second Life, but about Google’s (ongoing) policy of banning pseudonymous names from its…
Want to make a tax deductible donation before 2011 ends to an important non-profit educational project by a Linden Lab alum, partly inspired by a related SL project? Check out the Monroe Work 2012 crowdfunded project, led by my pal…
Last week I asked NWN readers to suggest simple but powerful feature improvements to Second Life, and got a bunch of great ideas. Here are my six favorites — now you tell me, which is your favorite overall?
Courtesy Louis Platini’s Metaverse Business, a Second Life/OpenSim analytics company that gathers publicly accessible in-world data for its clients, here are the top 25 PG and M-rated Second Life sims for this month (December 2011) so far, based on average…
I’m at my family’s home in Kailua, Oahu, over the holidays, which also happens to be where President Obama vacations, and I’ve been jogging and surfing by the First Family’s beach house every day. Since this has little do with…
Exodus is a relatively new third-party viewer for Second Life, created by a team of gaming-oriented SL developers, and with the unfortunate discontinuation of Kirstens’ Viewer, some well-known SL content creators are making an exodus to Exodus. (Sorry.) Here’s top…
Exodus is a relatively new third-party viewer for Second Life, created by a team of gaming-oriented SL developers, and with the unfortunate discontinuation of Kirstens’ Viewer, some well-known SL content creators are making an exodus to Exodus. (Sorry.) Here’s top…
Please take New World Notes’ survey on how much you’d pay to stream Second Life (if you haven’t done so already, or you want to change your answer. Results posted in the New Year!
Please take New World Notes’ survey on how much you’d pay to stream Second Life (if you haven’t done so already, or you want to change your answer. Results posted in the New Year!
Linden Lab To End Era As Second Life-Only Company In 2012 Survey: How Much Would You Pay For High Quality Streaming of SL on Browsers, Phones, and Tablets? Top PC Games, October 2011: WoW Grows Audience, Second Life Doubles Share,…
Go here for a great read about the twelve days of Christmas!
Twisted Krissmuss 2011 is an SL shopping tour for folks on a budget who want to buy great holiday gifts on a low budget: All the items in this Flickr pool (featured in the slideshow above) are new, transferable (so…
Ms. Strawberry Singh has a list of ten well-known SL fashion brands with a Facebook page, such as this one above, for Zaara, which you can join if you’re on the social network
Next year, Linden Lab will end a 9 year corporate history as the developer of a single product, Second Life.
Written 23 December, 2011 Christmas Song Quiz II Name that tune! I’ll post the answers after Christmas. 1. Move hither the entire assembly of those who are loyal in their belief (Hint: Oh, Come…) 2.
As we head into the new year, I’d like to share some highlights from 2011, as well as a glimpse of what’s to come in 2012. First, if you haven’t already, I hope you will explore our recently launched
Iris Ophelia’s ongoing review of virtual world and MMO fashion I’ve been an enthusiastic user of the SL Marketplace since before it was even the Marketplace. It’s been a godsend for fashionistas, since it allows us to search and browse…
I’m still immersed in the world of Skyrim, but so far, I do have a complaint: The high quality of the immersiveness leaves you wanting more interaction with some of the non-player characters you encounter. Specifically Lydia, the fine-boned warrior…
Inside Social Games’ Top Ten 2011 Facebook Games by Popularity is my new report for Inside Social Games, and because I used some different standards of measurement (such as ongoing engagement) it’s significantly different than lists of this kind you…
How much would you pay to stream Second Life from the cloud, if that removed most of the lag and loading problems associated with SL now, and you could get a quality SL experience on, say, your iPad, or a…
Written 22 December, 2011 Christmas Song Quiz Determine the names of the following songs from the first letters of the words of the title. I’ll post the answers after Christmas. 1.
Twinkle, Twinkle, Avatar Written 21 December, 2011 Christmas Songs Okay, counting down to Christmas with assorted ridiculousness! My oldest readers might remember Sweetie’s spontaneous Christmas song, made up on the run in Second Life: Sweetie: (Saved Sun Dec 09 05:01:18 2007) [2:00]
Iris Ophelia’s ongoing review of virtual world and MMO fashion It feels like it’s been ages since my last real SL fashion post, so as a bit of a holiday treat I’ve pried myself away from Skyrim, Saints Row, and…
Last month I mentioned how Einstein’s official Second Life avatar was used to promote a virtual fundraiser for real medical research — now, here’s the visually powerful results of that marathon-themed fundraiser for the Institute of Medical Research Israel-Canada (or…
The Nielsen ratings service just updated its list of Top Ten most played non-browser PC games in the US, based on data gathered from application activity in 180,000+ homes, and there’s several significant changes from last Summer. Here’s the latest…
Open forum question of the week: What simple features or simple changes to existing features would significantly improve the Second Life, for new and established users? By « simple », I mean, « Would probably take one-two Linden Lab employees less than a…
People e-mail and IM me about a lot of SL events, contests, and announcements they want me to promote, and while I at least glance at all of them, most I can’t blog about for one reason or another. However,…
Bad news in many ways: Kirsten’s Viewer, the innovative and popular third party Second Life viewer, is now effectively a defunct project. This comes after a failed crowdfunding effort by its developer, Lee « KirstenLee » Quick, to raise enough money from…
Two of my reports for Inside Social Games went up recently: How Sequels & Expansions to Popular Facebook Games Compare to Their Predecessors – Hint: Usually not as well. How January 2011′s Top 10 Facebook Games Are Doing in December…
The University of Western Australia just announced the winners of its yearly machinima contest, which I helped judge, and I’m imminently stoked to say the winners also happen to be my own two favorites from the contest. Selected from other…
I just know these underdressed avis are going to catch a cold.
Articles récents
- 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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