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Second Life Perfect, No Help Needed
By Prokofy Neva, Kremlindenologist Linden Lab, makers of the 3-d streaming virtual world Second Life, announced that it was finished — and perfect–today, during office hours. Robin Linden, VP of Community and Support, confirmed at her office hours Tuesday that “Live Help” will be shut down. The 24/7 service will no longer be needed because [...]
Full StorySheep Warned After Violation of Dreamland Community Covenant
By Prokofy Neva, Corporate Watch Anshe Chung, owner of Anshe Chung Studios (ACS), creators of Dreamland, a popular Second Life residential and commercial region with more than 500 islands, has written to the leadership of the Electric Sheep Company regarding violation of her company’s covenant. Anshe Chung announced to the Herald this evening that she [...]
Full StoryThe Greed Shepherd
By Prokofy Neva, Corporate Watch The Electric Sheep Company released for public beta testing a few hours ago a new search engine. The engine doesn’t contain things you’ve tagged, so it’s not like SLOOG or SL 411 or Babbage Linden’s engine or any one of a score of search engines depending on the community to [...]
Full StoryOops! There Goes the Pr0n too…and the Lindens Observe the Holidays
By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Community Affairs OK, so your favourite casino and dance-pad house had to close down over the Feds bustin’ in. Alright, so that ageplay club you once sampled has had to close because of Chadrick Linden carding them. So your teleporter isn’t working. And geez, with the grid messed up again, [...]
Full StoryVirtual Worlds 2007, Report #6: Final Score, Babbage Linden 72, Everybody Else, 0
By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Planets, Worlds, Universes, Multiverses, Metaverses, and Lost Socks in the Dryer During one of the panels at Virtual Worlds 2007, Michael Wilson, CEO of Makena Technologies, maker of There.com, made a number of astute and penetrating comments. Look up this guy to understand that he’s no newb. “Let me tell [...]
Full StoryExtra! Prok and Plastic Tie the Knot!
In a cross-border caper organized in the wee hours of Saturday morning by otakup0pe Neumann of libsecondlife, notorious griefer Plastic Duck and infamous blogger antagonist Prokofy Neva were married at a brief ceremony on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls. The deliriously happy couple then disappeared into a HoJos after downing some Red Bull purchased [...]
Full StoryVirtual Worlds 2007, Report No. 4: $5 Million Worth of Worlds
Prokofy Neva, Corporate Watch So they had this big conference with 600 of the most influential people in the world, in terms of middle management or even CEO level, from major broadcast media, online games, social media, advertising, development companies, educators and government. It was kind of scary, in fact, thinking of what a terrorist [...]
Full StoryVirtual Worlds, Report No. 3: Half Time Score: There, 10; SL 3
Well, alright, maybe it’s 6-4, as one MTV guy conceded. The ad people in the room, the suits, respond to control. And Viacom/MTV/There offer them control. There won’t be any “flying objects,” as Colin Parris, the IBM VP, delicately called the Anshe Chung flying penises problem. He’s staying with SL because it’s on balance a [...]
Full StoryVirtual Worlds 2007, Report #2: How the Hair Holds Up
Prokofy Neva, Kremlindenologist So I walk into the 55th floor of the Millenium Hotel and I see it…The Hair. Our Hero’s Hair is Holding Up. Relieved, I shake Philip Rosedale’s hand and ask him how he’s holding up, but the message has already been telegraphed to me: gelled, sturdy, stellar, architectural — thank you very [...]
Full StoryThe Medicis of Second Life
The Magic World of Leo Burnett; Big New Tree of Media Life By Prokofy Neva, Virtual Corporation Watch The big corporations that have entered Second Life are a rough analogy to the Medicis of medieval Florence – avidly (avariciously) engaged in commerce, yet sponsoring art and architecture. I haven’t worked out all the analogies yet [...]
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