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The Archives
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06.03.08Linden Regroups and the Kids Are InThe Lab clarified its policies, procedures and plans for the Second Life birthday celebrations and for all intents and purposes the kids are in - or allowed in, or is it allowed to apply. And the implication is that Gor and other communities are allowed in as well - so long as their builds and participation are PG. This does NOT mean, however, that the applications will be accepted - just that they'll give a reason other than "we don't want to celebrate kids culture" - maybe they can say "Oh, that's not MUSICAL enough" or "Thanks anyways, but we already ...
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06.03.08Rosedale to speak at Tech Virtual Workshop in San JosePhilip Rosedale will deliver a keynote at the Summit on Digital Democracy in Exhibit Design, hosted by the Tech Virtual Museum Workshop in San Jose on June 4th. The Tech Virtual Museum is a place where folks are building art exhibit prototypes. The goal is to build a working example of an exhibit or museum space in Second Life before actually constructing it in real life. It is a great example of online collaboration covered under the Creative Commons Attribution license. Hopefully, a majority of the kinks of exhibit-building can be worked out beforehand, and a whole slew of real-life headaches ...
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06.02.08Substance Abuse Center in SL Offers Anonymous AssessmentPerhaps one of the largest stigmas when it comes to Substance Use Disorder, a chronic and fatal illness, is public perception. Researchers believe that the public stigma associated with this disease has prevented people from coming forward, which would help diagnose the problem and possibly save lives. Aleister Kronos at Ambling in SL writes of the Preferred Family Heathcare island in SL that is taking steps to avoid this common pitfall. PFH, started in 1979, has centers located in Missouri and Texas dedicated to behavioral health. But SL offers an organization like PFH a distinctive advantage. The island is a place that ...
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06.01.08Everyone Blog - There’s Nowhere Else to GoDid I read that right.....our central database is....SAD?
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06.01.08Children, Chains and Cold Cash: The Business Case for SL5BThe exclusion of builds by child AVs and (we await clarification) Gor, BDSM and other communities puts the lie to the idea that Linden Lab actually celebrates the "magic" of its community - it's in it for the money, after all, and will celebrate magic selectively. This isn't news. This isn't some radical shift in policy - there's always been a FIC, it's just that its definition has become narrower as time goes on, and in order to simplify things it's just as easy to exclude large swaths as it is to include a select group of businesses or talent. Prokofy ...
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05.31.08Lock Up Your Kids, Tie Up Your Kajira, It’s Time to CelebrateSecond Life will celebrate 5 years of "Your World, Your Imagination" by excluding three of the most active communities on the Grid by holding a celebration (SL5B) that excludes kids, Gor, and BDSM in a "fit for prime time" celebration which, I assume, will be dominated by squeaky-clean examples of business collaboration, education, and maybe a bunch of Greenie floats. The Lab announced the 5 year celebration with that kind of rousing libertarian call to action for which it's renowned, following up with the kind of community relation fiasco which is the hallmark of its execution on the great dream of ...
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05.29.08Lessons in Community Relations from Within the LabAll Hail M Linden who blogged about his first week, brown bag lunches, and sitting beside a rabbit at the staff town hall. As M said, "As I start my second week, I can happily say I have a sense of what makes Linden Lab and indeed Second Life such a magical place. It’s people with passion for the virtual world. And, it all starts with the Resident community. Thank you for a wondrous first week!" And how wonderful to see that one the same day as his in-world staff meeting that the coders in the Lab were upholding their high standards ...
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05.28.08Interface Design Should Do What You Need It ToI poked at the Sacred Cow of the interface design for the Second Life client but the following sums up the whole discussion far more clearly. (A picture is worth a 1,000 words, a world a billion of them). The sum of the argument: sometimes you need an interface to be very simple and accomplish key tasks. And sometimes you WANT an interface to be a whole lot more. Neither is right or wrong, maybe, and in fact by adding features you can forget your core objective and need a manual to use it, but you can also elevate the mundane ...
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05.27.08MMO Widgets as Collaborative ToolsA Canadian expert in Web 2.0 technology recently said that MMORPGs can be of use for business collaboration because of the special characterisitics of widgets, according to ITbusiness.ca. Deepak Ramachandran, vice-president, Enterprise 2.0 research program, at New Paradigm, a Toronto-based think tank, noted that it is how widgets are created and used that makes them an attractive business tool. Any somewhat advanced player of an MMORPG runs any number of widget on the screen at one time. Sometimes, the game becomes more about the widgets than about the actual game itself. And this, says Ramachandran, is the point. “One popular widget ...
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