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Emerald Flack Arabella Steadham: “I Don’t Lie”
Protip: killing reporters makes you look bad On my first visit to Emerald Point Friday night, I was killed by an unknown assailant within a minute of sitting down with the Emerald developers. I had dropped by hoping for comments from Emerald gang spokeswoman Arabella Steadham, and was pleased to see also in attendance several [...]
Full StoryEmerald Viewer Login Screen Sneak DDOS Attack?
Developers of the Emerald Second Life client appear to have used their viewer to launch a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack on the website of Hazim Gazov – a prominent critic of Emerald – after Gazov claimed the Emerald client was leaking potentially user-identifying information when rendering Second Life avatars. The DDOS attack took [...]
Full StoryLordGregGreg Exits Emerald Viewer Team
Developer concerned about stealth code in Emerald viewer LordGregGreg announced his departure from the Emerald viewer development team, saying that he is unable to track code added by other developers, and can no longer to provide assurances that Emerald does not contain stealth user-tracking "features". This is the latest in a series of internal Emerald [...]
Full StoryTeen Grid Closing – Philip Linden Red Eyed
Babysitting – a great new game for adult players !!! Philip Linden announced the end of the Teen Grid in his keynote address at the Second Life Community Conference Saturday – a surprise move that left both teen and main grid players deeply concerned at the potential impact on Second Life culture. Philip Linden reminds [...]
Full StoryYiff This Second Life Machinima!
Touching tales of furry love Second Life players’ creativity and core demographic are showcased at the not-safe-for-work www.yiffthis.com site, where romance among gay anthropomorphic woodland avatars is lovingly documented in surprisingly well produced films, complete with money shots featuring the finest in scripted prim dongs. frisky Husky in the hot tub Enticing titles such as [...]
Full StoryQarl Linden Axed – Sculpties Burn In Protest
Sculptie fires rage across the grid, as angry content creators protest the layoff of Qarl Linden – a senior developer deeply involved in various forms of mesh support for the previously prim-based virtual world. It appears that Qarl did not signed the non-disparagement agreement that was a compulsory part of the severance package for the [...]
Full StoryVideo Girl Barbie Will Be Watching
Google to sponsor a line of toys with the soul of a Flip Cam next? Mattel’s latest offering – Video Girl Barbie – dances somewhere between the creepy and cool with an almost perfect sense of iconic and ironic aimed at ages 6 and up – along with what appears to be carefully scripted media [...]
Full StoryMetaverse Meetup – Long Beach July 30 – 31
Future of Metaverse be decided around a hookah on Queen Mary? The decks of the Queen Mary will echo at the end of July with the sound of open source techno-communists in jackboots, academics in clogs, birkenstock and flip-flop clad developers, and more than a few virtual world entrepreneurs sporting the sort of [...]
Full StoryLinden Lab Stock Sinks at SharesPost
The return of Philip Rosedale as interim CEO of Linden Lab has apparently left real world investors unmoved, as offers to sell heavily discounted Linden Lab shares sit untouched at the SharesPost.com site. While SharesPost reports sales of Linden stock at $5.50 USD/share as recently as February 2010, current offers to sell stock go begging [...]
Full StoryLab Nerfs SL Combat – Players Demand Server Rollback – Lab Surrenders
Friendly fire has become a serious issue that even the best of us can no longer control Non-violent protests at Help Island Public – demanding more violence in Second Life – and a furious Jira thread have resulted in a rollback of the most recent Second Life server update – an update which crippled combat [...]
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