sooner than expected, Linden Labs yesterday announced integration of voice-messaging into Second Life for Q2/2007, with a beta-run starting as early as next week. while residents have been using Skype and other popular teamspeak-applications since ages, the native SL-feature will go further by offering 3D-enabled, spatial audio. if done properly, this will increase the [...]
as reported by Robert Scoble & 3pointD, a new Second Life-competitor is currently being developed in Australia: like SL, Outback Online is based primarily on user-generated content, but promises better scalability by use of P2P-technologies, better 3D-graphics and the ability to host much larger user-audiences than SL. however, this is private beta, no screenshots whatsoever, [...]
Linden Labs has published some detailed metrics on Second Life-usage from their launch back in september 2003 to january 2007 (link to excel-sheets). the blog-post also explains the inner workings of the LindeX (Linden-Doller exchange market). though most metrics are quite impressive and indicate solid growth of the virtual world, total hours spent online still [...]
according to Reuters, Comverse Technology is going to demo a java-based Second Life-client for mobile-phones at the upcoming 3GSM conference in Barcelona. given CPU-power & memory on mobile platforms is scarce, Comverse’ solution relies on a proxy-PC bridging the mobile client with the SL-servers. during a demonstration, a mobile-connected avatar was able to move around [...]
“First Life is a 3D analog world where server-lag doesn’t exist” – join 6 billion users and register at getafirstlife.com! …according to the comments on creator Darren Barefoot’s blog, Linden Labs takes the joke with a wink and grants Darren all rights to proceed the parody…big up!
The Ad Generator produces fake advertising by [...]
only a week after Linden Labs released the sources of their SecondLife client, hackers start releasing some inspiring modifications. like Matt Biddulph, who is manipulating virtual objects by feeding data from an external, analouge potentiometer into SL.
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Google Blogoscoped has a detailed description of the latest Google security-exploit, which apparently now has beend fixed. the exploit was based on the possibility of hosting malicous content on a google.com subdomain, alllowing attackers to capture any visitors Google-cookie.
IBM-developers re-created a virtual representation of the Australian Open tennis-stadium within SecondLife. the build can replay tournament-games [...]
the official Linden Blog features the transcript of yesterdays Town Hall talk with Cory Linden, CTO of Linden Labs. obviously, Cory mostly addresses issues regarding the recent open sourcing of the SecondLife client-software, like possible plugin-infrastructures, the installation of CVS and if/when Linden’s server-software is following the client’s path into public. not very much definitive [...]
endless.com – Amazon’s speciality shopping site for handbags and shoes is the eCommerce giant’s answer to niche-site like.com – though it lacks adavanced features like visual search.
two years ago, Technorati was one of the first sites to introduce the concept of tagging (aka ‘folksonomy’, a term relating to taxonomy). a good time for an update [...]
a major security-vulnerability in popular open-source blogging-tool Wordpress has been disclosed. Automattic responded immediatelly by releasing version 2.0.6, which takes care of the issues. might be a good hint for all users to subscribe to their developer-blog (I wonder if the hosted software at wordpress.com uses the same codebase and is/was therefor prone to the [...]
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