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09.30.09The Power of -In: Second Life’s Dynamic Web InterfaceWhen it comes to whether business will adopt Second Life instead of, say, Protosphere or Forterra's OLIVE, we can talk feature sets and look at nice shiny corporate builds all day, but as I proposed yesterday, the advantage that Linden Lab has over all of the competition isn't what THEY can do, but rather what content creators can accomplish. The challenge, I proposed, is whether the Lab can engage, support and build an ecosystem of developers who collectively will be able to build a marketplace of ideas, applications, content, and services. Whether the Lab can pull this off is partly ...
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12.06.08The Architecture of Our Time: Virtual Worlds, and The New York TimesThe New York Times magazine has a stunning article covering virtual world architecture, including the work of Scope Cleaver, Jon Brouchoud (Keystone Bouchard), David Denton (D B Bailey) , Lester Clark (Designer Dingson) and many others. In addition to giving a quick summary of Second Life and how prims are rezzed, the Times comments that in a virtual world: "... the only limit is the imagination. Many of the buildings in Second Life are difficult to wrap your head around. They often represent a collision of architectural styles, time periods, interfaces (some buildings are formed out of Web pages), materials, objects ...
recent posts
- Is Second Life Consumerism Redux?
- Open Source Web-based Viewer Launched: 3Di Puts OpenSim in the Browser
- The Power of -In: Second Life’s Dynamic Web Interface
- The Story Box: Second Life Breaking Borders
- Virtual Worlds for Enterprise: Feature Wars in Forterra, Protosphere and Nebraska
- Linden Lab Seeking New PR Agency – What Do You Want to See?
- Tom Hale on Content Protection in Second Life
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