Comments on: Decoding Linden Lab and the Oracle of Virtuality

By: cube3

cube3 — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 06:05:50 +0000

BTW-
I rec. an HBO documentary called “Teenage Papparrazo” for you metas, your boy henry jenkins makes a cameo.. i just caught it tonight.

My point – the blonde, spoiled as crap 14 year old who is the center of the fame/er film. speaks to the camera and tells us what is important…i nearly choked on my LOL at his words…

“fast fun easy” that was his prescription for life.

anyhow- decide for yourselves if that was funny – ha ha, or funny sad…and then of course, enjoy the Linden Show.

By: Widget Whiteberry

Widget Whiteberry — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 22:37:41 +0000

Now I’m in interested in talking with folks who would like to explore the possibility of consolidating. The four Commonwealth islands – owned by the npo Envirolink Foundation – operate on the basis of shared facilities (meeting spaces, classrooms, recreation areas) and customized kiosks. We keep the prim count low (under 60%) so that interaction is pleasurable. Member groups use slideshows to minimize textures and rez objects when they are needed. Other measures might be implemented.

By: Jon Brouchoud

Jon Brouchoud — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 20:27:01 +0000

Scary and sad.

By: Widget Whiteberry

Widget Whiteberry — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 20:07:38 +0000

I called Concierge to ask when – based on our billing cycle – the new pricing would impact Commonwealth. They couldn’t tell me. Said there is no implementation plan in place. Really.

Unless we can find a host of npo partners, this price change may make the 4 Commonwealth sims unsustainable.

By: Second Life: Educational Exodus? « Wir sprechen Online.

Second Life: Educational Exodus? « Wir sprechen Online. — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 17:32:34 +0000

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By: c3

c3 — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 17:31:53 +0000

“they” could have done all this 7 years ago… embarked on a sustainable biz, not buzz plan…

im sure youll all go see “the social network”…
its cool… what will it be-what can it be? fck advertising, fck ecosystems for thy neighbor, just show me how i can make bank as quick as i can, before the sheriffs arrive.. 1 billion IN VALUATION is cool…. not 1 million real dollars to enhance food and shelter for a group with:)

web3d has been only part of this VC system for 15 years…and jon. youll keep retooling, until you cant afford too, as the service you provide is completely revalued as a commodity.

Shelter has been usurped as the main reason for a “home”. BY VIRTUALITY, as you should now know.. a home was a credit card, and then a gambling note for a virtualized machine system…

and as we hear today on the news.. thousands lost their homes, cause the human robots in large corporate machines couldnt keep up with the software driving them, and didnt even read the docs,, they just pressed the “interface buttons” they were trained too, and people lost homes….

can the “legal” system even help them anymore…? well you all now seem to agree that the virtual law of SL, just dont work for those who arent “top money givers” – like teachers and artists. they only contribute to human beings growth, not software monetization machines.

rant over:)…its juct amazing that for such smart folk, you keep waiting for superman.

By: Metacam Oh

Metacam Oh — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 17:00:54 +0000

That is exactly what they need to do if they really want to be the people behind the 3d web of the future. Google doesn’t own all the servers every web page is on, and if the 3d Web were to grow, Linden would never be able to manage all those servers. Becoming like the ICANN, or the domain registrar, or the paypal of virtual worlds etc, would allow them to maintain their spot at the top of the umbrella, and would open up the Metaverse which is inevitable, with Linden Lab or without.

By: Jon Brouchoud

Jon Brouchoud — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 16:04:59 +0000

This may very well lead to short-term revenue gains, or be part of some larger vision, but it has always been my personal experience that educators and non-profits are among the most active, vocal, and networked communities in SL. No matter what new drama is brewing on the grid or at the Lab, you can always count on the educators to be out there making the most of it. In fact, I think its their resilience that would lead the Lab to feel that they can pull this off and get away with it. I’m afraid they might be quite a bit more fragile and mobile than they’re anticipating.

If you talk with almost any educator in SL (even before this announcement), you’ll find that they either have an OpenSim grid already, they’re planning to migrate to OpenSim soon, or they’re on the fence. I’m not convinced that they’ll find everything they’re looking for in OpenSim (yet), but I do believe that this price hike will only serve to excite an exodus that was already underway, and to curb investment in projects that would otherwise have been built in SL next year.

Education-related projects have always been a big part of what keeps me in business as a design consultant. Early on, they were exclusively in SL, but this year almost every project I’ve worked on has requested a ‘mirror version’ of their builds in OpenSim, and those with more application-specific goals are migrating to Unity.

The metaverse is expanding, the markets are shifting, and I’m retooling. Such is life on the virtual frontier!

By: cube3

cube3 — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 15:22:52 +0000

“Perhaps the “public” Second Life is where that happens? And then the government agencies retreat back to their grid, while the teachers and students ‘port back to their own grid, but meet from time to time in the shopping mall that Second Life will become. I don’t know how I feel about this.”

lol.. feel about it…lol…where have you digerati “stars” been,,, forget LL and their one 3d toy ….
the entire communications network for humans- all being driven to the internet for 20 years has been nothing but a technocratic shiny toy non public corporate owned, people as monetized units, plan.

if you dont like to consume mall toys, dont worry, soon youll be unable too… but dont complain if then they demand to monetize your typing that down to tell everyone else to construct your “ego”..

oh wait.. they already do… typepad.TM

“like” button cube3

By: cube3

cube3 — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 15:11:45 +0000

mortal? or too moral?…

the better world… all based on the wealth of Linden lab.

another turn over all ye wealth to the king.

bad planners at the lab…they think they can be tylenol…but they are way past edsel.

even gordon gecko coudlnt “really” be a new good guy….it not in virtualities nature.