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March 14, 2012March 14, 2012

Steller Sunshine And Philip Linden Turn 10!

Second Life has many landmarks and I don’t mean the ones you put in your inventory, ok we’lll include them too! However a big one was reached yesterday, prompted by a post earlier in the month from Hamlet Au, Steller Sunshine has now reached the grand old age of ten, according to Steller’s profile anyway which has a birthdate of 13th March 2002! Steller Sunshine is considered to be the first official non Linden resident to grace the grid.

According to Hamlet, Steller is from South California, a web designer and a mother of four. Steller’s official birthdate makes her an older resident than Philip Linden whose official birthdate was 14th March 2002! Which means Philip’s avatar officially turns 10 today, so he should be promising us something, instead of his new venture over at I Promise Philip where people are promising to meet goals or pay Philip money! Beer and Cake will do!

According to Second Life Wikia Steller created a beanstalk, which Hamlet Au told us back in 2008 ,was SL’s first instance of user created content, Steller is also credited with creating a treehouse and the Governor’s mansion, is this true? The Governor’s mansion? The mansion of the mysterious Governor Linden? Governor Linden didn’t arrive until September 2002 so is a noob compared to Steller and Philip and rumour has it Governor Linden is a bit like Doctor Who in having many guises.

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March 13, 2012March 13, 2012

Direct Delivery Launching March 21st

Hold onto your hats, Commerce Team Linden (AKA CTL) has announced in the official forum that Direct Delivery will be launching on March 21st. CTL informs us:

“Beginning on March 21, purchases on the Marketplace using Direct Delivery will go directly to recipient’s Received Items folder. The Received Items folder will NOT be used for other inventory transfers at this time. Magic Box purchases will continue to go to the Objects folder.

“At launch, we will be sharing additional details as well as updated Knowledge Base articles in all four languages supported on the Marketplace. We will also provide more details on migration.”

CTL further adds:

“The Direct Delivery launch does NOT include sending items besides Direct Delivery items to the Received Items folder. Changes to send additional items to the Received Items folder are currently on hold.”

Hopefully we’ll see explanations in four languages and a blog post … yes?

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March 13, 2012March 13, 2012

LL To Fix Offline Delivery Issue?

I’m getting too old for this all day drinking malarkey, after a weekend of excess I feel like I am running on empty. Don’t drink alcohol kids, it’s not good for you! Anyway, the show must go on. Today’s episode looks at the new proposal for Received Items functionality. Inara Pey has a good post about it, which you can read here. There’s also a thread in the official forums, which you can read here. The feedback is still very meh and I still have concerns about the whole issue but there is one striking part to this new proposal:

“We are aware of the concern with sending all items to the root of the Received Items folder. Some of you suggested that if we fixed the offline delivery problem, you would be amenable to the Received Items folder. So that is what we are going to do. Objects will be sent to the Received Items folder EVEN WHEN THE RESIDENT IS OFFLINE and the Resident will be notified via IM. The objects will be sent even if the IM fails to deliver because of the IM cap.”

Wait wait, they’re going to fix the offline delivery issue? This is a big fix, but it seems to be being overlooked.

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March 9, 2012March 9, 2012

Games Within Frontiers

I’m in pre St Patrick’s Parade in Birmingham mode, so I might need to get into some pre-parade drinking practice before Sunday, over 80,000 attended last year so you need to be in good form to appreciate the atmosphere! That’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it! Fortunately they have decided to hold the parade this Sunday, rather than next Sunday, which would have clashed with a Villa game, which is very considerate, also this means I might have to go into pre-pre real St Patrick’s day drinking practice mode for real St Patrick’s day next Saturday! This has potential. Anyway back to all things Second Life.

Andre has a red flag, Chiang Ching’s is blue

They all have hills to fly them on except for Lin Tai Yu

Dressing up in costumes, playing silly games

Hiding out in tree-tops shouting out rude names

So there’s a blog post! There’s a video! There are interesting stats, yes Linden Lab are talking more about the forthcoming experience tools!

Inara Pey covers this well, as usual. Hamlet Au points out the impressive fact that 250,000 players have engaged with Linden Realms, which uses these new funky tools. I’ll simply point out that this has potential but there may be a gotcha.

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March 9, 2012March 9, 2012

Customers Can Be Difficult, Deal With It

There are certain aspects of human nature that at times we find unseemly, what passes as unseemly depends upon your viewpoint at the time but customers can have unreasonable demands and expectations, they can blame you for things that aren’t your fault, they can swear at you, be obnoxious and refuse to listen to you. Bad experiences make people more vocal, I read somewhere that people remember bad experiences for over twenty years, whereas good experiences have less shelf life, your mileage may vary but being annoyed makes us more vocal, that’s human nature.

Recently Botgirl Questi posted a blog on why Botgirl thinks Linden Lab are investing in new products rather than Second Life. Interesting post, which received a response in the form of a blog post from Metareality Podcast superstar and owner of Sand Castle Studios Gianna Borgnine, in a post entitled: The Virtual World False Dilemna. Healthy disagreement and that is to be welcomed. However it’s in the comments of Gianna’s post that we see the human nature aspect rear its head, in a comment from someone calling themself “Another Ex Linden“:

“Would you keep talking to the public if it didn’t help your job? What if it caused personal attacks against you or something you care about? Most individual Lindens gave up years ago.

Would you let your employees talk to the public when conversations incite defamation of your company? A year ago the company issued a policy that stops most remaining Lindens from talking. Only a couple senior engineers speak publicly without PR training and scripts.

By the time I left, many Lindens moved their meetings to Skype and only logged into development servers. They added a viewer setting that ignores IMs from strangers. Assholes were always the loudest and almost nobody called them on it, so the users lost their collective voice.

This blog is years too late. Take these lessons to the next company that tries openness.”

Whether the person posting is an ex Linden only the person posting knows, but this comment applies to far more areas than the person who posted seems to realise.

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