Posted on 4 November 2009 by daleinnis
I mentioned last time that I won a spot in Busy Ben’s Vehicle Lot, in the Boats section.
Monday was the first day we could move in, and I’ve moved in!
Well, sort of:
Right now the only thing you can actually buy is the Preview Version of the Seaspray 1.1; a nice 1-prim 1-rider zipping-around boat with [...]
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Posted on 26 October 2009 by daleinnis
So the recent Second Life weblog posting on third-party viewer policies has caused quite a stir in the comments, due in part to one particularly vocal and vehement and misinformed Resident, but due also to some quite understandable concern about the current and future role of third-party viewers in Second Life.
Ever since the Lab open-sourced [...]
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Posted on 22 October 2009 by daleinnis
I still feel a little guilty for having been so mean to Twinity. So on this latest newsletter announcement thing from Metaverse, I’ll let the big graphic speak for itself.
Yay “BLING“! :)
/me exits, stifling giggles.
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Posted on 7 October 2009 by daleinnis
I occasionally think about trying out Twinity again, but then I get an email newsletter from them, and that invariably dampens my enthusiasm.
The latest one announces a party at “Twinity’s first yoga & wellness lounge”, to mark “the launch of its new designer jewelry collection” (because every yoga and wellness lounge needs a designer jewelry [...]
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Posted on 13 September 2009 by daleinnis
Finally all trace of the NDA was scrubbed from the website registration and the installer, and I was able to get into the Blue Mars Beta! I wasn’t able to get there for very long, because RL has been amazingly busy suddenly with work stuff, and college starting, and computers needing upgrade and replacement, [...]
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Posted on 9 September 2009 by daleinnis
I just did my daily check of the link that the Blue Mars folks sent me on the 5th, to see if the very restrictive Beta agreement was still there, and Lo and Behold, it wasn’t!
Instead it led to a much friendlier registration process, containing a ToS that (while still real real long) didn’t [...]
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Posted on 6 September 2009 by daleinnis
Quick followup to the last post: I decided that since I wasn’t going to be in the beta due to the rather extreme agreement, I’d look around and see what there was to read on the Web in the way of second-hand Blue Mars stuff.
Well, from the Blue Mars Online Twitter feed, I got to [...]
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Posted on 6 September 2009 by daleinnis
BLUE MARS™ BETA TEST AGREEMENT
PLEASE READ THIS BETA TEST AGREEMENT (THE “AGREEMENT”) CAREFULLY. BY CLICKING THE “ACCEPT” BUTTON BELOW OR BY PARTICIPATING IN THE CLOSED PRE-RELEASE BETA TEST (THE “BETA TEST”) FOR BLUE MARS™ (“BLUE MARS”), YOU (“YOU”) AGREE THAT THIS AGREEMENT IS ENFORCEABLE LIKE ANY WRITTEN CONTRACT SIGNED BY YOU. IF YOU [...]
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Posted on 3 September 2009 by daleinnis
I want to share an intriguing class announcement that went out over “Hey Girlfriend!” (my shopping and general girltalk and silliness group) group IM. It’s a class at Insight Virtual College (a place I now want to find out more about!), given by Virtual Ability (one of the winners of the first Linden Prize [...]
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Posted on 9 August 2009 by daleinnis
On the snazzy black-background Flash-driven page that Second Life dot com shows if you aren’t logged in, it says
Second Life is an online, 3D virtual world imagined and created by its Residents.
On the masthead of the pages that Second Life dot com shows to logged-in Residents, it says more succinctly
Your World. Your Imagination.
I like [...]
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Posted on 8 July 2009 by daleinnis
[11:33] You: So you were on dot-chasing last night?
[11:33] Dale Innis: That’s right, boss!
[11:33] You: and…?
[11:34] Dale Innis: okay, well. looking at the biggest bunches of dots, I found basically three places: Escort Island, the Lounge of Dreams, an’ House Nishi.
[11:34] You: kay; details?
[11:34] Dale Innis: I sat around at escort island, talking to [...]
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Posted on 2 July 2009 by daleinnis
o like everyone else I’ve been seeing these Evony ads on every third webpage that I visit (including various personal web pages that subscribe to whatever ad syndication network(s) the Evony folks are saturating), and my well-ingrained ad-ignoring filters had been leading me to ignore them, when suddenly yesterday I noticed one.
It was probably able [...]
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Posted on 1 July 2009 by daleinnis
In the unlikely event that someone who reads this doesn’t also read Ahuva or Chestnut, you should go and follow those links and read the Official Scoop on today’s announcement of Honour McMillan’s new Drama Dolls product.
Having seen some of the early prototypes, I will attest that this is a Must See thing. [...]
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Posted on 9 April 2009 by daleinnis
The other evening I held a session at an unconference put on by some virtual-world-savvy IBM types.
The (un)conference was called "Seeking business value from investment in virtual worlds on the 3D internet", aka "Beyond Blogging". My session (the last on the first day) was "Field Trip: Social Aspects of Virtual Worlds". [...]
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Posted on 19 March 2009 by daleinnis
So I tried Twinity the other month, and am still on their mailing lists, and I get the occasional email from them. The frequency isn’t often enough to be annoying, but the content pretty much invariably reminds me that I am not the person that their marketing folks have in mind. The latest:
Dear [...]
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Posted on 27 February 2009 by daleinnis
I thought that since this story was extremely interesting, and involves me if only tangentially, and hasn’t gotten much exposure except for two items on the obscure “official Second Life weblog”, I would mention it here. :)
You should read the case study for details, but in the last few months them wacky IBM folks [...]
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