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The Archives
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11.18.09Long live the broads, the Pods are deadThe pods are dead. Those little postcard box things on the Second Life home page have finally been put to pasture....not without the benefit, I suppose, of knowing what buttons people clicked on and that shopping was more popular than sailing or whatever it was. I called it a photo booth - and was never a fan: "Second Life is now a giant photo booth. A photo booth where you scrawl little words on the pictures or whatever so you remember them years from now, or you were too drunk that night, or you couldn’t really remember WHO the person was ...
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08.26.09Humanizing Second LifeMy brain hurts this week. Actually, it hurts most weeks, but this week it's something like an ice cream headache - the Second Life Community Convention was all yummy goodness but you eat it all all up so fast and you're left with, hmmm...an almost pleasurable lightning bolt throb. Who could resist, really - on the main track with the keynotes you had M showing his photo album, and Pip talking about how we're on the prairies which is about to become Manhattan, and Ray Kurzweil promising immortality, and Tom Hale showing off a new viewer, mesh imports, media-on-a-prim, all kinds of ...
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12.18.08Flash-Based Home Page Attracts New Users…and on the other handThere's a world, one where users generate their own content, where there's a sense of awe, of delight even. Now, this world has a Web site to attract people to enter this world. There are all kinds of other ways to attract people: blogs, youTube videos, Flickr streams. But this world, like all worlds, needed a home page to try to describe the experience of being 'inside', to try to express its character. The Web site design uses Flash. Now, that can be a bad thing, or a good thing, depending on your perspective. But they used it. And what they created ...
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12.18.08Visual Metaphors for the Imagination: Second Life Is a Photo BoothArguing about design is like arguing about wallpaper, or whether you like Monet or Manet: it's very difficult to even frame the terms of the debate, let alone decide who won it. There have been attempts, recently, to try to figure out the world's "Best Art" by applying mathematical formulas. If you ask the experts, they'll choose this: So it's with great trepidation that I step further into the debate about the Second Life home page design, unveiled by Linden Lab yesterday, to spirited and heated commentary by current residents. And for those who missed it, here it is again, ...
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12.16.08Linden Lab Launches Big Spaceship Web Design, Invisible Pods and AllEdit: Since this post, the Lab seems to have listened to the community and provided a screen shot of the new test home page. See it and comments here. Linden Lab is rolling out a new home page for the Second Life Web site. The page, designed through their recent hiring of Big Spaceship will go where others fear to tread: a Flash-based design. This is exciting news. New users will be able to experience Second Life before they even log in, by awaiting whatever Flash-y stuff they have cooked up, and for those on lower bandwidth they'll know by ...
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