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Second Life The biggest upgrade to Second Life since 2003 occurred yesterday… the release of the Viewer 2 beta. I would highly recommend checking it out; it can be installed alongside the main Second Life viewer, v1.23. There hasn’t been a total user interface overhaul since v1.2 (under a separate numbering system) was released in [...] This is the first major overhaul to the Second Life viewer since last 2003. Yes, IE6 is older, but there have been two new version of IE since then! The video speaks volumes: Get it here: Sorry if I’m off the grid, folks. Penn is closed. I’ll try to be in touch, but apparently, everyone in Philly has lost their mind. To give some perspective, father of famed Peregrine Salon blogger Tim Allen was quoted (from Tunisia) as saying, “Bloody hell! Why am I currently spreading my unique brand of Arabic/English humour [...] The next iPod, or Lisa? CmdrTaco hated the iPod. Waiting for his review of the iPad. My colleague at Penn, John Mulhern, sent out a “just the facts” email concerning the iPad. I feel compelled to share it here, as it is the most hyperbole free description of the device I have seen so far. [...] Nom nom nom. I recently wrote about switching away from Internet Explorer as a recommendation to users who aren’t technically inclined. As a follow up, here’s an interesting article with some real world examples. The article brings up some good points: not only is it important to keep your browser up to date, but also [...] My Favorite Viewer From the Past, the OnRez Viewer; Notice the Browser Bar! In my previous post, I commented that I thought the new “Viewer 2.0″ (now called “Viewer 2″) would be the defining moment of Second Life’s year, and whether or not Linden Lab’s virtual world could break out of the plateau they have [...] Echo Omega: One of the Original Second Life Marketing Campaigns, circa 2004. It has been almost a year since I wrote a post asking the question, What’s With the Second Life Death Watch? Recently in the comments, I was asked to provide on update. With the release of Second Life’s 2009 Economy Wrap Up, now [...] Normalization is GOOD… most of the time. Anyone who has known me for long enough knows while I love many things I.T. related, database design and efficiency is at the top of the list. I haven’t posted in far too long, but Becky Sweger, a fellow DB enthusiast and colleague at Wharton Computing, recently made [...] Here is Sunday’s keynote from SLCC by Tom Hale, outlining a bunch of new features coming to Second Life. Some cool new stuff: new viewer with simplified user interface that actually works like most other applications, closer integration with the web site (OpenSim is far ahead on this with their Elgg integration), and mesh import, [...] Second Life has had the buzz, both positive and negative, among virtual worlds for the better part of the past five years. More and more options are starting to present themselves as viable alternatives, especially open source options. Many local academic and business entities have tried Second Life to varying degrees of success, and are [...] OpenSim: Getting it Right, Again Adam Frisby has just announced on his blog that OpenSim is being integrated with the Facebook-like open-source social networking web app, elgg. I’ve been asking for a similar feature like this from Linden Lab for years: I’ve always hated the fixed-size search window for finding things like groups, profiles, and [...] |
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