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Tuesday, 19 June 2007 |
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Sponsored by:  by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs Desk Allison Fass reports that the metaverse can be a “can be a weird, chancy place for real-life brands” in a story for the July 2 issue of Forbes, and notes that avatars enjoy having sex and playing pranks instead of getting warm fuzzy feelings about real life brands. What on earth are those avatars thinking of - don't they understand they are meant to be compliant RL marketing hype recipients? Still, this is good information to know - and may explain why the Linden fanboy network recently upgraded the bad press threat level to Orange. Look for all remaining fanboys to spread out across the blog-o-sphere to defend the Lab from criticism, and teams of canine furries to patrol SL looking for unattended suspicious packages, bottles of liquid over 3 ounces in size, and outspoken critics. I do have to wonder how effective the fanboys will be. Ms. Fass quotes Lenovo computer’s Web-marketing vice president David Churbuck as saying, “There is nothing to do in Second Life except, pardon my bluntness, try to get laid". While I respect Lenovo, I can’t really completely agree here - you can also play house, play store, play war, and ban people from your land while trying to get laid. READ IT ALL HERE:
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Written by Enniv Zarf
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Tuesday, 19 June 2007 |
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Sponsored by:  By Tim Stevens
If you've ever played a Massively Multiplayer Online game such as 'Everquest' or 'Second Life,' you've probably noticed that just about every male avatar is rippling with muscle and every female -- well -- fills out her chrome armor in all the right places. The people behind the digital representations themselves can't be quite so polished, right? The answer, of course, is yes, and the NY Times has a pictoral to prove it.
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Sunday, 17 June 2007 |
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 By Prokofy Neva, Fashionable Tech Dept. for Dummies
A scripter by the name of Ethan Schuman claims that the Lindens were squashing a scripting bug today that would have enabled anyone in SL to view -- and therefore copy -- scripts inside objects in Second Life. Linden Lab has not yet published any announcement about the alleged exploit, and had not responded to any press inquiries to date. A query sent to \n
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This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it got the automatic bounce reply: "Any messages sent to this address that do not specifically report security exploits will be ignored." Ethan Schuman, a resident of Ohio who says he discovered the bug, contacted the Herald at about 5 pm SLT and said, "LL just got done squashing a bug that made any script inside any object available for viewing full perm." His claim has still not been confirmed with any Lindens publicly. "From point of discovery through reporting and hot patch, it took approximately 2 hours to fix. That was with three people with Linden cell numbers and pagers. Imagine if an ordinary joe had discovered that," Schumann added. READ IT ALL HERE:
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Written by Xavier Mohr
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Saturday, 16 June 2007 |
by Victoria Foyt
In a surreal twist the title character of my teen novel, The Virtual Life of Lexie Diamond (HarperCollins), spawned her own virtual self: an avatar on the 3D online digital world of secondlife.com. The teen girl, which is separate from the adult world, recently launched an educator's island. And it was here that Lexie's doppelganger was invited to be a sort of pundit for teens. In her first life, on the pages of my book, Lexie will tell you that life is a Bubble in which we humans are trapped like fish in a bowl, or icons on some Super Geek's Game Boy, nothing more than playthings for a higher intelligence. Lexie discovers a portal out of the Bubble, which leads to not only her deceased mother but also renewed belief in Lexie's view of the world. Therefore what better place for Lexie's alter ego to exist than on a website that portends to be a portal out of Life As We Know It?
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/victoria-foyt/imperfect...
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Written by Enniv Zarf
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Thursday, 14 June 2007 |
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Sponsored by: Half MySpace and half Sims and all Second Life, Vice magazine's new vLES site handily exports the embarrassingly long death scene of the Lower East Side. Now you don't even have to venture out to Orchard to be surrounded by puking loud douchebags. The internet will bring you there! Above what looks like a mid-90's VRML map—a little post-Tron! READ IT ALL HERE: http://gawker.com/news/the-internet-sucks...
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Written by Arbitrage Wise
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Tuesday, 12 June 2007 |
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Sponsored by: During the Finals, you can slam-dunk basketballs in the National Basketball Association's T-Mobile Arena in Second Life.
And your avatar, or virtual personality, can take a picture with a replica of the Larry O'Brien trophy and e-mail the postcard to anyone. You also can play a game of H-O-R-S-E at an.... READ IT ALL HERE: http://www.mysanantonio.com/business...
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