Nov 4
Second Life News for November 4, 2007
TV Show Over? Obsess About It on the Web That same week, “CSI: NY” on CBS catapulted to No. 4 on the list, no doubt because a character, Mac Taylor, entered the virtual world Second Life to solve a crime.
Second Life and the ‘view of the child in museums and galleries’ For those of you on Facebook, you may be interested in UK Second Life Educators group.
Making Virtual Impressions As we approach the virtual Cisco Channel Partner Career fair (Nov. 6th 9-11 AM PST; http://slurl.com/secondlife/cisco%20systems%203/120/152/23/), hosted on our Second Life campus, there are a couple of interesting options to ponder from both sides of the table: the employer and the prospective employee.
Any questions for John Zdanowski, Linden Lab’s CFO? On Sunday 4th of November, 19H Belgian time - 11 am SLT/PDT that is - Linden Lab’s Chief Financial Officer John Zdanowski shall answer questions from Second Life Residents in-world.
WSE announces Midas Group are bankrupt Following the calls in Second Life by the Midas Group to boycott Hope Capital and WSE for failure to pay on bonds, WSE today declared the Midas Group bankrupt.
Tampa, Here Comes SLCC! I am very pleased to announce that we will be taking SLCC to the Tampa Marriott Waterside the weekend of September 4th. We did have a very full discussion about the other options residents sent in and after considering overall costs, the location of the previous events, and facilities the choice was Tampa or Raleigh. We heard concerns of students saying it is in the beginning of the school year but there was no open date earlier at either location.
For those who did not manage to see in SL the slides sent to the Sydney e-learning 2007 organizers. Answers to the questions asked as appetizers can be found on the wiki.
Lovespirals Second Life Machinima Fan captured video of Lovespirals performing “Walk Away” acoustic on PodShow Island in Second Life on 10/27/2007.
En Garde! Fencing System in Second Life My RL typist grudingly admits to being an unabashed drooling fan boy of the work of Reinier Knizia, the famous German game designer.
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Day 405: Creating Poses Part 2 (Animations in Objects) In Creating Poses Part 1, we used QAvimator to create a simple pose animation and uploaded it to Second Life. Whats the one thing that we cant live without in Real Life, but rarely use in Second Life? Our purses, of course
F.I.R.E. - Second Life’s first native political party Last week I noticed a press release from Second Life political party, F.I.R.E. (it stands for Freedom, Improvement, Respect and Enjoyment). They’ve surveyed SL residents on their perceptions and clim to have a future agenda on a number of issues (see full press release below).
Changes to Virtual Economies and the Dissolving Membrane: Metaplace, Second Life, Twinity A few developments seem like natural shifts in the nature of virtual worlds and their economies but leave me perplexed about the future. I’m not an economist and don’t really know the first thing about it other than what I’ve picked up in bits and pieces with my initial framework provided by Edward Castranova who helped me to understand the reason for the biases, misunderstandings, and flaws in virtual world economies.
Stream Second Life in Skype Today I discovered something SUPER cool… Want to share your Second Life experience with someone who doesnt haev
second life? Now you can - just call them on skype and stream your secondlife experience through your video feed!
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