{"id":3782,"date":"2014-03-14T19:15:53","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T19:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=3782"},"modified":"2014-03-14T19:15:53","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T19:15:53","slug":"whoops-your-everything-search-for-desura-did-not-return-any-matches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=3782","title":{"rendered":"Whoops! Your Everything search for “Desura” did not return any matches"},"content":{"rendered":"

For a long long time people bemoaned the fact that Linden Lab did not advertise Second Life. This has changed in the last couple of years, Linden Lab have embraced advertising, but there’s another oddity. Linden Lab aren’t exactly embracing Second Life when it comes to their other products.<\/p>\n

For example a search inside Second Life for Desura gives us these results :<\/p>\n

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Search results for Desura<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If you have to squint, the results for a Desura search within Second Life provides us with “Whoops! Your Everything search for “Desura” did not return any matches<\/em>” Ok let’s try this again, surely there will be something in Second Life regarding Blocksworld, right? Wrong :<\/p>\n

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Search results for Blocksworld<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Blocksworld<\/a> is of course a different product but it seems odd to me that you can’t easily find any information about this product within Second Life, which is Linden Lab’s premier product.<\/p>\n

Desura<\/a> is a different platform too, but Desura actually seems to be a bit more switched on when it comes to being friendly to their sister products.<\/p>\n

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You will find a listing for Second Life on Desura<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Second Life On Desura<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Second Life being on Desura makes sense of course, Desura is a digital distribution platform and you can’t distribute Desura via Second Life. However what you can do with Desura in Second Life is talk about it. Linden Lab could promote it, provide information about it, advertise it beyond the login screen and demonstrate how other companies could promote their products within Second Life, therefore demonstrating a very good use case of Second Life.<\/p>\n

The now defunct Dio and Versu products may well have benefited from an inworld presence, particularly in terms of discussions. Emily Short <\/a>of Versu fame takes part in discussions about interactive fiction, sometimes in the UK, sometimes in the USA. Second Life would be a great platform for such discussions because people from all around the world could take part in them, that’s one of the beauties of the virtual world, it knocks down the barrier of distance.<\/p>\n

The same goes for Dio, people could have discussed Dio, maybe even entering discussions with the devs and via that discussion word could have spread about Dio, meaning more people may have taken an interest in the product.<\/p>\n

Of course some discussions are better face to face, there’s added richness from face to face discussions and then of course there’s the issue of whether the devs would have time to organise and attend discussions inworld.<\/p>\n

However it remains an odd omission in my opinion, for Linden Lab to not be using Second Life to advertise their other products, a Linden Lab island would be a start, whereby they could use the feature rich possibilities of a 3D world to advertise their own wares and at the same time, advertise Second Life as being a suitable product to promote wares in general.<\/p>\n

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