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The Archives
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09.28.10I’m a Genius! Teen Grid to Merge with Main GridSo I woke up early this morning and for some reason decided I'd post about the Teen Grid and its imminent demise. Now, I don't usually get much right, but a scant 5 hours after my post, Terrence Linden announced, well, that Teens would be 'welcome' on the Main Grid. (I'm not given to gloating, or not visible gloating anyways, but I just kind of felt like it tonight, it's really rainy out is the reason). Tateru and Lalo noted in the comments to my last post that the Teens were always using the same "grid", although I can't help noticing ...
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09.28.10The Kids Drop In: Second Life, Getting YoungerSecond Life is lowering the age limit, which isn't necessarily the same thing as lowering the age (I mean, surely there are 17-year olds running around the Grid?), and I've been wondering, lately, whether this might be a good thing. There's something I find intriguing about what the impact will be of a slightly younger demographic. Their interests might be different (more games, more socializing?) but there's also the possibility that you'll end up with some newly ambitious and engaged content creators (who, yeah, can probably learn Blender a lot faster than I can). This isn't to say that I ...
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10.30.09Teen Grid Merger with Second Life Low on the RadarMark Kingdon, CEO of Linden Lab, assures me that while there is a great deal of interest in exploring the idea of merging the Teen and Main Grid in some fashion, this is NOT currently on the Lab's roadmap. Several people had contacted me about an event at which a Linden Lab employee seemed to indicate that the idea of a merger was something being actively pursued. This was clearly, however, speculation or 'off-the-cuff' thinking. Quoting Kingdon: "There is indeed interest in Linden Lab and the wider Second Life community in having a mixed grid but it would come with a long list ...
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10.28.09Teen Grid Merger with Second Life NOT Imminent (Update)Update: Right - so my unsubstantiated rumor idea doesn't work so well - what seemed like a good source (a Linden speaking at an event) turns out to have been more like a speculative "yeah, we should move in that direction" off-hand remark. As clarified by Mark Kingdon: "There is indeed interest in Linden Lab and the wider Second Life community in having a mixed grid but it would come with a long list of challenges. As such, integrating the grids is not on our current roadmap. It would be a significant policy change for the Lab and we ...
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01.20.09Trends in Education 2009 & Teens in Second LifeOdd how trends come and go. When I was at the New Media Consortium meeting this past summer the teachers seemed a little shy around Second Life - almost as if many of them had been burned by it, or were uncertain of it - that the shine had gone off a little. But increasingly, the signs are that the uptake by education of virtual worlds continues. Shifts to openSim and secure servers might soon be matched by comparable offerings by Linden Lab, giving the IT/security folks some relief (and letting them get some hands on the tech - always ...
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