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The Archives
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10.14.09Should Second Life Get Socks?OK, this is a call out really to all you coders and assorted geeks who can help explain this to me. Here's the issue: companies often don't allow access to Second Life, or aren't convinced that it's a good idea, because of the number of ports that need to be opened in order to access the virtual environment. Contrary perhaps to popular belief, it's not usually Second Life content that's the issue but rather the security fears raised from opening up internal systems to the outside world. But Linden Labs seems to be trying to tackle this issue by 'renting a coder' ...
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03.18.09Second Life Transactions Jeopardize RL Privacy (Crazy Canadians)A report from the Privacy Commission of Canada has concluded that economic transactions in Second Life could be harmful to a user's real life privacy, according to the CBC. The commission published a report from Janet Lo, who conducted the study of SL while a law student at the University of Ottawa. The paper, entitled "Second Life: Privacy in Virtual Worlds," was commissioned by the commissioner, and its table of contents can be found here. She found that agreements made between Linden Labs and Second Life users didn't necessarily translate to transactions between avatars in-world. Lo cited the infamous happening ...
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01.17.09Geeky Goodness: Virtual Worlds, Scaling, Scrum, Ogre, and SecurityI'm not a geek. I don't understand agile development, other than I think the word sounds cool and who wouldn't want to be agile? My response to the term 'scaling' is typically along the lines of "well, can't you just buy more machines or something?". OK, so now that I've established my geek credentials, I'm going to share a bunch of coding links because maybe someone will comment on whether this stuff is relevant or not. Scaling Virtual Worlds Jim Waldo posts on the experiences with Sun Microsystem's Project Darkstar and how to address issues of scaling virtual worlds. His main point ...
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