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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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06.16.08Avatar Creation and the Newbie Experience: Lessons from SporeWhen I last debunked a Sacred Cow I talked about the orientation experience and concluded that the best thing to do was remove the avatar customization process from the grid entirely: (With Tabula Rosa once I entered the game I) became nearly instantly bored. But what occurred to me is why I stayed - and part of the reason I stayed, frankly, is I had spent so much time BEFORE I EVEN ENTERED the game setting up my avatar. Simple stuff. Choose your height, musculature, hair, eyes, and clothes. Choose a name. Decide whether you want the kick ass boots or something ...
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06.14.08Linden Lab Asks the Tough Questions – Immersion or Augmentation?I knew the day would come. No longer sufficient to sit on the fence, to claim immersion when I augment too often, my theory of the spectrum a cop-out, and today the day arrived. Linden Lab, as part of its sudden push to poll its residents is asking a lot more questions at log in - earlier this week it was whether my avatar is the same gender as me. Now, kudos to the Lab. There's nothing like having some actual data against which to start thinking about strategy and resident needs. But today, the lengthy survey included everything from how ...
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