After a thrilling evening of marvellous total football at Villa Park, where the mighty Villa demolished Reading 1-0 thanks to a superb header from Christian Benteke, I come home to find that some people seem to think Second Life has failed!
There are those who have been writing off Second Life for years, however it’s still here and whilst Tyche Shepherd’s super stats do indicate a decline, this week’s showing a loss of twenty five private regions and two Linden regions, there are still over twenty eight thousand regions on the grid.
Whereas some see Linden Lab as moving on, The Guardian listing Linden Lab’s Creatoverse in the twenty best Android apps of last week, including a comment of:
No flying genitals or furry avatars here though: instead it’s an inventive physics toolkit: “Watch your creations bounce, roll, tilt or even accelerate on the screen…”
The simple fact of the matter remains that Second Life is Linden Lab’s premier app. Yet despite all evidence to the contrary that Second Life is dead, in an article in The Register regarding ten technology fails, which includes Microsoft Bob, OpenDoc and PDAs, on page four they also list Second Life.
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