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Sony Clone: A Better Second Life?
Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Worlds, Planets, Universes, Metaverses, and Now Those Record People Have Copied Our Game, Geez Sony has just gone and cloned Second Life! OMGODZORZ even the welcome areas look like they were *lifted straight out of Ahern”. I kid you not, kids. Go check it out. I’m still absorbing the shock of [...]
Full StoryVox Lindeni
Francis Barraud, His Master’s Voice. By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Linden Trees Falling in the Simulated Forest And No One Hearing Them The Lindens’ announcement that they’re going to add voice to Second Life will likely be met with mixed responses. In the typical upbeat LL fashion, the Blob tells us that “many” residents wanted [...]
Full StoryGovernor Linden Turns Her Back on Us
By Prokofy Neva, Missing Lindens Desk. The Governor is gone…. : (
Full StoryWalking to the Metaverse
Photo by Brian. By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Planets, Worlds, Universes, Multiverses, and A Metaverse Just One Stop Away When Jerry Paffendorf, futurist of the Electric Sheep, put out the word about a Metaverse Meet-Up and said it was in Brooklyn, I checked my immunization records, got out my passport, and put on some extra [...]
Full StoryThe Lindens Do Good
Jeska readies the pitchforks for the mobs at Office Hours in Linden Village at Ambleside. By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Kremlindenology OMG a man-bites-dog story for sure. Well, we Herald reporters can’t always go around with our half-curled lips, with that sunken, two-burnt-out-holes-in-a-blanket look in our eyes from a 3-day drunk, and our felt hats [...]
Full StoryWalled Garden
Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Worlds, Planets, Universes, Metaverses, and A Secret Virtual Garden That Fits in the Palm of Your Hand I first heard the term “walled garden” to describe Second Life about two years ago from Tony Walsh at Clickable Culture. Of course it brought up strong memories of The Secret Garden which we [...]
Full StoryWanted: World-Bearer
Photo by Colin Gregory Palmer of “Atlas” by Lee Lawrie and Rene Chambellan, in the Art Deco style (1936) at Rockefeller Center. Creative Commons Attribution By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Worlds, Planets, Universes, Metaverses, and Server Farms So Large That Even the Men of Science Are Amazed The news that Philip Rosedale has personally posted [...]
Full StoryLatest Newbie Scam or Brilliant Marketing Tactic?
By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Scams, Con Artists, Ponzi Schemers, and Emergent Metaversal Marketing Strategists Americans like to think they pwn the scams on Second Life, with their long, dishonourable traditions of P.T. Barnum (“There’s a sucker born every minute”), Charles Ponzi (Italian-born), and William Thompson (“Have you confidence in me to trust me with [...]
Full StoryHard Crash
By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Virtual Estate Second Life went offline completely at about 10:50 pm SLT, after a very rough evening of avatars reporting constant hard crashes, teleport fails, transactions not going through, objects not rezzing out, etc. The valiant-sounding error message about “our best efforts” just went up, but even the website has [...]
Full StoryPractical Marketing 101 From Panty Hog
By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Virtual Estate, Simulated Entrepreneurs, Seamy Underbellies, and Commodification of All That You Once Held Dear, NOW WITH CAPTIONS FOR THE ATTENTION-DEFICITED! Prim Prim-Primer and Prime Prim-a Dona Tateru Nino is telling us over at the Blingsider that Practical RL marketing just can’t exist in Second Life. There’s only image enhancement, [...]
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