The Second Life sixth birthday is looming. What, I wondered, were the changes, for good or for ill, that made the biggest impacts upon the community of users, since the last birthday? While pondering this, I had the following thoughts: "Don't worry, users can barely remember what happened last week. 12 months down the track, they'll have forgotten the whole thing." We've all … [Read more...] about Second Life user retrospectives
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Poll on adult content changes in Second Life
Over at Dwell on It, Tateru Nino is running a poll on the proposed adult content changes, to gauge the spectrum of feeling on it. It's had a significant number of votes to date, so add your one by going here. For what it's worth, I tend towards the idea that the policy has flaws that need fixing before giving support. … [Read more...] about Poll on adult content changes in Second Life
Content ratings, age-verification and secret words
Linden Lab is now in the final legs of adding a new content category to its virtual environment, Second Life. Being added to the existing PG and Mature categories is the new category, Adult, which permits some content which has hitherto not been permitted in Second Life. The new content category is anticipated to go fully live in July. Of particular interest, though, are … [Read more...] about Content ratings, age-verification and secret words
Second Life offers enterprise solution
It's been rumoured for months now, but Linden Lab have finally confirmed that they've entered the alpha phase of "a server solution that is completely disconnected from the main Second Life environment with all of the rich functionality in the box." As far as virtual worlds and enterprise, it doesn't get much bigger than this. The announcement has a bunch of significant … [Read more...] about Second Life offers enterprise solution
And the earth moved in Second Life
In regards to Second Life, it doesn't get much bigger than the announcement made in the past few hours (Tateru Nino has an excellent summary of the announcement over at Massively). Essentially, Linden Lab have decreed that any adults-only content on the mainland of Second Life will eventually be relocated to a new continent. For the sake of illustration, let's call the new … [Read more...] about And the earth moved in Second Life