Archive for the year 2006
Spreading the Love at Linden Lab: Eeeeewwwww…
Is Second Life a platform, a game, a country, a virtual world, a corporate application, something in between? We were tossing these ideas around last night on SecondCast (new episodes now available, btw), but we never settled on the real truth, as revealed in this blog post from Yahoo! technologist Bradley Horowitz: Second Life is [...]
Full StorySL Herald Get’s Really Really Wired
It’s been a good week for the the Attention Ho’s at the Second Life Herald. Not only did the soiree in the Herald Suite at SXSW blast into the infosphere when Torrone and Fried hacked up their Roomba to play real frogger, but in the April issue of Wired Magazine (just now on the stands), [...]
Full StoryStratics Confirms Mob Management for SL Portal
The Herald’s continuing investigation into the nomination of a renowned mafia boss to manage the Stratics SL portal has revealed that the story is indeed true. Teresk of Stratics has confirmed to the Herald that Marsellus Wallace will be the new manager of the SL Stratics site, as indicated in the Stratics and Stratics News [...]
Full StoryMafia Boss Gains Control of SL Stratics
In an ongoing investigation into the news that a Second Life portal was coming to Stratics, the Herald has learned some alarming news: the avatar chosen to manage the soon-to-be-launched Stratics site covering all things Second Life appears to be none other than renowned mob boss (and occasional Herald contributor) Marsellus Wallace.
Full StoryPost Six Boy Matthias Zander
Due to frequent requests over the past 14 months or so (since the Post Six Grrrls were introduced), we at the Herald are very pleased to introduce the first of the Post Six Boys, Matthias Zander! Matthias is not only the fashion and reviews editor of the Herald, but he also creates jewelry and shoes [...]
Full StoryStratics comes to SecondLife
Yes, Stratics as finally "discovered" SecondLife. According to a forum posting by the resident known as Trenton Campbell (Teresk of the Stratics staff, apprently), they are in the final stages of developing a SecondLife portal, and apparently are in need of "news reporters, content editors, forum moderators, etc." He then showed his naivety by comparing [...]
Full StoryRoomba Frogger Conquers Memespace
The story about Roomba Frogger broken by Herald Editor Walker Spaight is now officially the talk of the metaverse now that Daniel Terdiman’s story has appeared on News.com. A quick visit to Technorati also shows a rapid diffusion of the story into blogspace, and why shouldn’t there be? But of course along with the oohs [...]
Full StoryRealFrogger Technology Revealed at SXSW
Among the innovative new technologies revealed at South by Southwest this week, there was no doubt that the most future-forward of them all was the RealFrogger street-crossing device that made its debut on the final night of South by Southwest Interactive. (Disclaimer: Development of the RealFrogger technology was sponsored by iHerald, the rarely-heard-from technology arm [...]
Full StoryIs LL Stealing U2′s IP??
Though they’ve been around for just about a year now, the first I heard of the musical group currently known as U2 in SL was a few weeks back, when virtual photojournalist Alex Fitzsimmons sent along some shots (which I’ll be able to add to this post as soon as I am not in an [...]
Full StoryWe R Teh SeXXy at SXSW
The Herald editorial staff takes itself off to the 2006 edition of the South by Southwest Interactive Festival tomorrow, where we’ll be blathering on about all kinds of things while we’re not gorging ourselves on free food and stumbling around from party to party. The Herald’s Editor Emeritus, Urizenus Sklar, will be appearing on a [...]
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