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Virtually Time Virtually Time Blog covering advancement and true returns on current virtual world, 3.D platf orm, and online communities. From their ground breaking projects to the successes learned from the failures. Written by a strong supporter of these emerging technologies w
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How to Stay Online While AFK In Second Life
2007-10-13 06:04:00 While a good number of Second Life ’s users spend a large amount of time in the world SL, at times real life presents interruptions which can take attention away from the keys (AFK). By default if one is idle for more than 15 minutes in SL the system will log out an account due to ... More About: Second Life , Online , Stay
How to Reduce Client Side Lag in Second Life
2007-10-12 00:51:00 No one likes lag, whether it be local, server side or some hardware’s fault in the middle. Have to admit I’ve many a time found myself explaining the details and walking people through changing/disabling certain settings. Rather than continuing to do that here’s a guide that I can now point them to. It also ... More About: Life , Second Life , Reduce , Side , Client
How To Stream Audio in Second Life
2007-10-11 06:00:00 Introduction This article is presented as an introduction to playing your own and audio streams within Second Life for all to hear. The concepts and details of running your own audio stream number a great deal, due to such this guide just provides the basics to getting your own station online. What is Stream ing Audio ? Music is played ... More About: Second Life
Old School ANSI Like Art In Second Life
2007-10-10 05:35:00 Sometimes what is old and lame can be new and cool again. For those that remember the works of ANSI Art put out by underground BBS based groups with names such as ACiD and iCE these works are looked upon with fond memories. Using “high” Ascii Charcters, 16 colors, programs such as THEDRAW and ... More About: Life , Second Life , School , Old School
How to Make More Money in Second Life For Content Creators on SLExchange
2007-10-09 03:08:00 For those who create content, on the Second Life 3.D platform, with and for direct sale to consumers or businesses in mind, listing such products for sale on the more popular web shops should be a familiar and common practice. Besides selling in-world at your own vendor locations and rental shops in malls, clubs and ... More About: Money , Second Life , Content , Make
Views From an OpenSim Open Source Grid
2007-10-07 01:45:00 Took a break today from the hustle and bussel of the Second Life MG (main grid) to visit the start of what could very well be the future of the platform. The OSGrid is one of a few ,currently available, home-brewed, set of simulators based on Open Sim. Rather than wait for Linden Lab to ... More About: Views , Open Source , Source
Tips and Tricks For Getting Started in Second Life
2007-10-04 23:38:00 There can be a lot of debate about if Second Life (SL) is really a game. There are no mandated goals, we can do as much or as little as we like. Having no goals is a bit hard to get used too, but you will soon see the freedom it allows us. ... More About: Second Life , Tips , Tricks , Tips and Tricks
Evian Water Heats Up Second Life with Full Frontal Nudity
2007-10-04 04:35:00 While entrance into Second Life by a major real life brand is hardly news these days, it is worth noting when that entrance involves something out of the ordinary in the way it is accomplished. Evian Water is now available in Second Life or at least a virtual equivalent to the premium bottled water is ... More About: Full , Nudity
My Metaverse Can Beat Up Your Metaverse? Can?t We All Just Multiverse Along
2007-10-03 03:02:00 For those keeping score, Google is gearing up to pwn the Virtual World market, while the Japanese are building their own private garden and China is getting ready to enter the third dimension even if it does require them to practice self-censorship to get there. Listening to the buzz surrounding these events, one would ... More About: Beat
Making Money in Second Life
2007-10-01 23:35:00 Second Life presents you with an endless variety of ways to spend your Linden Dollars, but supporting your lavish lifestyle will eventually mean deciding on a way to earn a bit more walking around money. If you decide to host an event, you can list it on the Event Calendar via the Second Life website. You ... More About: Money , Makin
Content Creation: LSL Reference On-Demand
2007-09-29 04:13:00 Finished another project today related to an ongoing attempt at contributing solutions to the continual decay of stability from the current Linden Scripting Language (LSL) online guides. Presenting the LSL Reference On-Demand Gadget. For use while in the world of Second Life as a Heads Up Display (HUD) and standalone object. Provides the ability to ... More About: Content , Creation , Tent
Linden Labs to Eurpoean Union Residents: Insta Tax Time
2007-09-28 02:17:00 From a recent email sent by Linden Labs to all premium account holders residing in European Union countries a notice that they can expect an increase of 17.5% to their upcoming bill (along with every month here-after). While this private “announcement” comes out of the blue with no warning, it does appear to be another action ... More About: Time , Resident
Getting Over The New User in a Virtual World Blues
2007-09-25 23:33:00 Received a comment yesterday, from whlptn, that sums up many of the common issues experienced by those new to Second Life and lesser but still to other open ended, user created virtual worlds. I came back to look at your sidebar of links and keep trying to understand what you are talking about, being just ... More About: World , Blues , User , Virtual , Virtual World
Don?t Forget to Advertise Your Virtual Location on That Old Web Thing
2007-09-25 10:19:00 At times, it’s easier to mark passing progress of a popular technology by watching supporting industries become available, grow and compete. Second Life has seen the birth of metaversed takes on pay-per-survey affiliate programs, stock markets and currency exchanges have born (and died), better business bureaus and even virtual courts of laws have come about. ... More About: Location , Virtual , Thing , Advertise , Vert
Camping Bots Don?t Come Around Here No More
2007-09-20 03:25:00 Since the Great Casino Crackdown, ‘campers’ in Second Life have been finding themselves with continually less places to idle away at while turning a few L$. In the great scheme of things, and lesser more immediate SL heavy use time-periods, it’s a good thing. But for those running locations not looking to artificially inflate land ... More About: Camping , Bots
Smoking Makes You Look Cool When It’s Virtual
2007-09-15 00:59:00 ::Short & WILD Cigarette:: Marlmoro(BOX) by sakura Jannings Out of the industries I’m still waiting to see begin dabbling in 3.D is B2C tobacco. While they may be vilianized and banned from a good number of push media directed towards real life, in virtual worlds smoking is great fun without any of the drawbacks. As such ... More About: Cool , Smoking , Virtual
Name Value Speculation for Virtual Worlds
2007-09-14 01:21:00 We’ve all experienced the situation when at times having a discussion descends into should-haves and what-ifs. One of my personal favorite rebuttals to the futility of playing this game is to bring up domain name speculation and what anyone could have done years ago with a few thousand dollars and a couple hours of their ... More About: Worlds , Virtual
Businesses in Second Life Directory Listing Site Now Available
2007-09-12 23:42:00 As I had mentioned last week, a new directory site for locating, previewing and direct visiting of real life companies operating within the Second Life virtual world would soon be available, this site is now completed and available for public use… http://www.BusinessesInSecondLife.com/ Business in Second Life provides listings along with mouse-over previews and SLurl enabled links to ... More About: Site , Directory , Listing
LSL Wiki Offline Browseable Package Available for Download
2007-09-12 00:32:00 Last week, I found myself waiting yet again for a single page send response from the one and only LSL Wiki (Linden Scripting Language). Don’t get me wrong, it’s a great service with kudos to Catherine Omega [SL History] for providing the hosting service for an always useful, but not always logical syntax, only ... More About: Offline , Download , Package , Available
State of Unrest for Content Creators in Second Life
2007-09-10 15:01:00 With the current price of main land parcels in Second Life , now starting around 6L$ per square meter, it appears even Anshe Chung is feeling the pinch. While Anshe Chung Studios (ACS) has been, since last year, dabbling in commercial content creation for general consumers, she appears just recently to be listing some of what ... More About: Second Life , Content , State , Tent
Coldwell Banker Virtual Home Walkthrough While in The Real Life Location
2007-09-08 03:38:00 Press junket for first ever virtual home for sale in real life by Coldwell Banker Bain real estate. Suzanne Mueller, vice president of marketing discussing the various reasons behind this move for the company. Share This More About: Life , Home , Location , Virtual , Real
Real Life Business in Second Life Directory
2007-09-07 04:50:00 With so many real world companies now in Second Life it’s difficult to keep track of them let alone find the time to visit each one. Finding the current static and wiki real world business in SL listings lacking I began putting together a site, Business es in Second Life . The site is to provide a list ... More About: Directory , Real
Another Chinese Virtual World Enters the Fray
2007-09-06 05:58:00 above: new virtual world NovoKing’s front web site page imposed over Second Life’s most dated front page Add another to the rapidly growing list of Second-Life-Like Virtual World s that allow user created content and rely heavily on social interaction as a central attraction and form of continual growth. NovoKing, so new no one can seem to ... More About: Chinese , The Fray , Virtual World
What time is it? How far are we away from The 3.D Net
2007-09-05 02:30:00 Got woken up a few months ago from my father calling me at the inhuman hour of nine in the morning. He had been watching a Good Morning America segment about Second Life. Was eating lunch with him the other day, he brought up some guy he heard about on the news with a lawsuit ... More About: Time
Project Discussion Round-up, Coldwell Banker?s Virtual Home: 30 Days Later
2007-09-04 08:50:00 Going to do a link round-up type posting today. Giving you a short list of sites that carried the news about Coldwell Banker’s rebuilding a 3.1 million dollar real life house within the virtual world of Second Life. But the value of reading here is that these are only sites which have spawned reader comments ... More About: Home , Project , Round Up , Virtual , Days
Age Verification in Second Life
2007-09-03 01:17:00 Received my letter from Linden Labs informing me that since I’m a concierge customer the early ability of age verifying my accounts with their chosen third party provider Aristotle’s Integrity, was available to me. Integrity, sure why not, looks like a name I can trust, the logo of inverted asterisk surrounded by a black box ... More About: Life , Second Life , Verification
IBM?s Live Sales Now Staff Available 120 Hours a Week in Second Life
2007-09-01 22:55:00 Found the time this week to swing by IBM’s Virtual Business Center. Didn’t stay long but had a few technical hardware questions easily and quickly answered by an English speaking representative at 3AM EST during a weekday. For all I know and imagine to be available, I could visit one of the web based sales ... More About: Life , Second Life , Sales , Live , Week
New Wood for Content Creators
2007-08-31 20:49:00 While I try my best at keeping involvement with Second Life, well rounded, I will admit my dedication to making things, for use by the building masses, has been lacking as of late. Because of this I’m happy to announce some brand new, real life based, objects and textures sets. Copy/Modify/Transfer enabled, well as more ... More About: Content , Wood , Tent
Second Life Considerations: Technical Limitations and Corporate Success by
2007-08-30 19:41:00 As a follow up comment to, Why Second Life Marketing Is Doomed to Fail…Chrischun Fassbinder Says: August 30th, 2007 at 12:19 pm Good article with points outlining some of the currently most cursed technical limitations that none are to happy to have as roadblocks. I?d like to shine a bit more of a positive light on these ... More About: Second Life , Technical , Corporate , Success
Big Business is Big
More articles from this author:2007-08-29 22:50:00 Noticed the article on Australia?s Second Life News Source about Coldwell Banker Australia announcing their franchise’s win of the Inman Innovator Award. This being in part due to Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC.’s involvement in Second Life, started in April of this year. It’s a prestigious award and no small accomplishment to be won for ... More About: Business , Big Business , Sine 1, 2 |
