Ciaran Laval

May 13, 2011May 13, 2011

Why LL Should Be Careful When Deleting History

As revealed by Tateu Nino, a number of pages have been deleted from the official Wiki, plenty of staff users pages have gone along with transcripts of office hours. Exactly what happened I don’t know, although Linden Lab are working on the wiki, deleting so much history seems rather painful to me, a geeky guy who has read plenty of old forum threads and information on Second Life from a time before I arrived here.

However what I find most disappointing is that I don’t think the guys at Linden Lab understand that people like me love reading old transcripts and forum posts, as exemplified by Rand Linden’s reply to Qie Niangao on the issue of the Wiki deletions:

“Qie – I don’t believe we removed anything of historical value”

Everything, absolutely everything, has historical value, whether you feel it’s worth preserving for posterity or not is another matter, but everything has historical value.

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May 13, 2011May 13, 2011

Prim Savers Rebrands as Prim Misers

Phil Deakins has announced on the official forums that his low prim furniture store, Prim Savers, is rebranding itself as Prim Misers. Why is this of any particular interest you may ask, well it’s a cautionary tale and one that appears to be laced with disagreement, deceit and downright spitefulness. Phil has rebranded his store not because of any sort of attempt to reinvent his brand, it appears to be more of a case of his brand being in dispute with another brand and someone else being more determined to gain the legal right to use the name.

Our tale starts on a forum thread back in January 2010 where Phil explains:

“As most people here know, I’ve been trading in SL as “Prim Savers” for a long time – in the low prim furniture field. Two months ago a new low prim furniture store opened up as “PrimSavers” (no space between the words). The owner claims that it’s a different business name and I disagree. Anyone got any thoughts? ”

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May 12, 2011May 12, 2011

SL Home & Garden Expo 2011 – RFL Vendor Sales List

Welcome to the 2011 Home, Garden and Patio Expo!! 2011′s Expo, will open on Friday, May 13th at NOON, and remain open 24 hours each day until it closes on May 22nd at 10pm SLT

As always we have the best of the best in SL home designs!! From Landscaping to Furniture to Homes and everything in between, we have anything you would ever need to set up your dream home in SL!! Over 100 of the best stores in SL have gotten together to help support a very worthy cause, Relay for Life! Each one of these wonderful people are donating some amazing items – first seen here at the Expo – to help fight for a cure for Cancer! Below you will see the incredible items they have chosen to sell with 100% of the proceeds going to RFL (most at prices that are beyond belief!!). Come on down to the expo, the items listed below are a very small sample of the stunning items you will see.

Come take a look at the magnificent designs, see what the best of the best have chosen to display. Walk through fantasy living exhibits, to modern life, to futuristic, your mind is your only limit, designs!!

Take some time to browse, and see how you could make your Second Life anything your mind desires!! Continue reading “SL Home & Garden Expo 2011 – RFL Vendor Sales List”

May 11, 2011May 11, 2011

Will Mesh Finally Make A Decent Viewer 2 Sales Pitch?

KirstenLee Cinquetti, Third Party Viewer developer extraordinaire, makes an appeal on her blog for people to switch over to viewer 2:

“Now comes an appeal. Things are getting to a point where I suspect mesh will very shortly arrive onto the grid along with lots of new features. I strongly believe some will appear in the next development cycle. There is one problem.. 1.23 based clients! The whole deal is being right royally hampered and delayed by the insistence in keeping this client alive.

I honestly do not care what your viewer preference may be.. But I really implore you to switch to V2 based solutions (even if this causes some pain). Firestorm, Kokua, daveP’s funk special, it does not matter, the sooner the better. See the world with my eyes!”

Viewer 2 has since its inception been given a frosty welcome, and this goes back to the closed beta period, as the leaked feedback that made its way to The Alphaville Herald revealed. The simple fact of the matter is that Viewer 2 has been unloved, will Mesh change that?

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May 11, 2011May 11, 2011

SPONSOR SPOTLIGHT — UrbanizeD

UrbanizeD Main Store — UrbanizeD Sponsor Spotlight

This is UrbanizeD’s second year at the SL Home & Garden Expo. Creator, Pitsch Parx, is grateful to have the chance to be part of this great initiative.

“This expo is THE best platform any designer could want for his work and coupled with the great cause it supports, it is BI winning!”

UrbanizeD was created on Valentines Day 2009, on the Deizha estate. A spur of the moment decision of Pitschs’ to take his RL, creative background and unleash it on SL. What started out as rental homes, quickly changed into landscaping and designing furniture. To bring the rentals up to the standard Pitsch had in mind he has had to continually keep learning to create that what SL had not previously offered. This evolution continues still, to this day. Every collection shows progress on all sides of the process – textures, animations, and shapes. Raising the bar is part of what UrbanizeD exceeds at. Twice a year an all new collection is used to display the creativity they want to share with the people of SL. Continue reading “SPONSOR SPOTLIGHT — UrbanizeD”