Archive for June, 2004
Meet Alphaville’s Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Interviews Viva T and Celestie (then Barbara Walters) In this interview we talk to sim Oprah Winfrey, who puts on the Oprah Winfrey show in Alphaville (although strictly adhering to a flexible — i.e. chaotic — programming schedule). We ask Oprah about some of her shows, and some of the obstacles that she has [...]
Full StoryHook Named New AVG Veep
According to a report in the Alphaville Gazette, Hook has been named the new Vice President of the Alphaville Government, replacing Paul Tully who resigned to serve as president of the Mount Fuji Government. Hook was formerly an officer in the Calvin’s Creek Government. Got that straight? Exam will be held Friday.
Full StoryJohnny Lace Design Contest claims 100+ entries
Based on the number of properties that have entered the JohnnyLace DesignContest neighborhood, there will be over 100 entries in this round of the contest. Way to go Johnny Lace!!!!
Full Storyi got them old cosmic blues again, mama
–humdog terra nova recently published an interesting article called “American Psychiatric Association Joins the Fray”. many of the comments both within and around the article talk about gaming and/or internet addiction.
Full StorySecond Life Real Estate Sales Picked up by Press
Seems like the sales of “real estate” by the Lindens (and the “taxation of it) are catching a lot of attention, starting with this Reuters article, and this meta-discussion on Terra Nova. I wonder what MMORPG Reuters was referring to with this remark: “The Second Life world is a little over a year old, but [...]
Full Storysoftware will teach computers to read lips
-humdog The MIT Technology Review reports that computer scientist Guangyou Xu of Tsinghua University in Beijing has developed software that enables a computer to learn to read facial movements, particularly those of the lips. It is hoped that this software will enable game avatars to become more expressive and vivid.
Full StoryOpen Letter from Second Life CEO/Prophet, Phil Rosedale
Digital Worlds, Digital Lives, Digital Futures An Open Letter to Thereians and the Metaverse community Philip Rosedale, CEO and Founder, Second Life With the recent announcement that the There.com commercial service is to receive reduced support, I wanted to write a bit about how I (Philip Rosedale, AKA Philip Linden) and the Second Life team [...]
Full StoryNews From Dan?s Grove: LegolasTheGreat Wins DG Presidential Election
By Dana Grove The AVH wishes to congratulate LegolasTheGreat on winning the Dan?s Grove Presidential election this past Saturday, May 29th. Final Results:263 votes castJeremy- 111LegolasTheGreat 152
Full StoryGoing to School with the AVH
Why go to college you ask? Until now there really wasn’t a reason, but now you can go there and study up on the exploits of Urizenus and his muckraking, madcap reporters, The Phantom, Humdog, IP Litium, Pat the Rat, Dana Grove, Deep Max, and all the rest. So far the Alphaville Herald is now [...]
Full StoryGaming Open Market Rocks On
Even though Gaming Open Market has left TSO (and who can blame them!), we still like to follow their project. Following is their latest press release. One thing that caught my eye is that when version 1.4 comes onstream in Second Life they are going to have full service tellers. Nice. Rock on Jamie!
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