Isle Of Dee Presents:
Full Moon Concert and Dance Party on Saturday, 12th November, from 1:00 to 3:00pm SLT
Second Life News And Views
A couple of articles to compare and contrast, the first, which many of you will have read, is from Slate Magazine: Why Second Life Failed. The second, probably less widely reported, is from the Indian section of The Business Standard: Virtues and Veracity Of The Second Life. Both articles are inaccurate, the Slate article because Second Life hasn’t failed and the the second article because it draws on a history of Second Life that doesn’t paint a true picture of where Second Life is today, but it’s a wonderful read of what was, what could have been and what may be in the future if the cards are played correctly.
The problem with Second Life articles is that they wind Second Life users up, when we criticise Second Life, poke fun at it, it’s ok, when someone who seems to know little about the platform makes snidey remarks and says it’s failing, we go into full on defence mode. The truth about Second Life probably lies somewhere in the middle of the two articles.
Bring Back Ursula!
The new Zindra adult gateway is in the process of being built, the gateway, for which the freedom continent won the right to run will be on sims with the Zindra name, as part of the deal. The bizarre part of this is that these sims aren’t on the Zindra continent, they aren’t next to the Zindra continent either, this isn’t like the United Sailing Sims deal with the Blake sea, this is a completely different arrangement.
I must admit that the misuse of the continent name in this fashion is a bit of a disappointment, although names and Zindra have often been a strange combination, there was until recently a sim on Zindra called Zindra, that didn’t get used for a fat lot. The sim is no more. However, as Zindra is no longer Zindra, they should rename the continent, back to the originally touted name of Ursula, which I always found much palatable anyway.
Of course the more important thing is how well this gateway helps promote adult content, so I took a quick look at that.
Shock Change! Torley Not Doing Video Tutorials
Ok ok changes to the UI are fine, changes to how things look are fine, changes to the voice over on Second Life videos tutorials? This isn’t fine!! What has happened to Torley?
On a more serious note, these tutorials are worth a look…. with or without Torley! It’s also worth reading the November update blog post that has more details about the new viewer release.
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Sue Linden Weds SL Couples
There you are in Second Life, feeling all romantic and you send your chosen one a partnership request, and await eagerly for their reply…and wait…. and then wait some more, your heart filled with doubts…. when you realise your potential partner can’t accept the request because of a bloody bug! This is in some ways is so very Second Life isn’t it.
Jira Web-4154 is a tale of woe, expired requests, frustrated couples, people who feel the moment has been pretty much ruined but all is not lost, into this sorry tale comes Sue Linden!