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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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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With the announcement that Ray Kurzweil is giving the introductory keynote address at this year’s SLCC (Second Life Community Convention), there’s been some resurgence of the whole “Are Second Life and AI and nanobots and stuff going to transform the world tomorrow, or will we have to wait until next week?” meme, and related thoughts.
New [...]
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