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April 16th, 2008
The Archives
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04.16.08Linden Lab Announces It’s Ready to Say They’re Not Ready YetPossibly distracted by having to go back and sort out the age verification system, or maybe it's the roll out of a light weight client which they targeted for February, Linden Lab today announced that the fanfare they recently made about land price changes will be delayed now that they've realized that they weren't quite ready to make the announcement yet. The technology isn't ready, which, um, hasn't stopped them before? Edit: In all fairness, I'll stand down from that comment. Far better to get it right than to launch something glitchy. Take your time. But I'd still suggest that next ...
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04.16.08Building a 3D World One City at a Time: Google and Microsoft Chip Away at a Global BuildGoogle continues to map its own 3D version of the world, one city at a time, encouraging municipalities to load up databases of buildings in order to gain the benefits of engaging the public in planning, fostering economic development, and more. Their latest release of Google Earth includes a familiar sort of interface element to those used to the HUD based movement commands of Second Life: The latest release also includes lighting, so that 3D landscapes can be viewed by time of day. Hardly Windlight, but adds depth and texture: Meanwhile, Microsoft continues to play catch up to Google Earth in what seems ...
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04.16.08And in related news, the economy in 3D!Linden Lab also announced today that their economic statistics will be available in 3D, in keeping with the fact that when the bars are going higher, by putting it on an angle like that it looks even better! P.S. In world transactions have been failing for me for 5 days now. Am I the only one who feels like their vendors have broken down?
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04.16.08Second Life Initiates Testing Program to Measure the Known KnownsLinden has announced that it will separate new residents into test and control groups, or test and test groups, or whatever...basically try to see what the response is to specific features in the viewer and, I hope, the registration process. This is pretty common Web measurement stuff. Metrics. Stuff they can parse and analyze. Try to figure out what works and what doesn't. OR they could read the comments on previous announcements, read OTHER blogs, and get a pretty good read from there. I'm all for measurement, but some time ago Philip mentioned that they were testing out the new user experience by ...
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