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  • Working for free for Linden Lab’s blog

    Gwyn's Home
    Gwyneth Llewelyn
    10 Feb 2012 | 10:42 am
    Neufreistadt. Where not all content was done for free.By the time you’re reading this, it’s old news: Linden Lab, in an unexpected twist of sudden inspiration, called for bloggers to submit articles to their own official blog.Unless you’re an avid participant on the LL forums, you might have missed that completely. Fortunately, thanks to people like Chesnut Rau, the message quickly spread among the SLogosphere. And if there is a common trend among all the articles, it’s that bloggers are completely against the idea.(...)Read the rest of Working for free for Linden…

  • What my lovely new mesh rail car looks like

    Second Thoughts
    Prokofy Neva
    14 May 2012 | 6:30 pm
    What my lovely new mesh rail car looks like with message telling me "no rail here go to Tulliptree" Visit Sandbox Decorus (117, 27, 29) Posted via email from Prokofy's posterous

  • 7 ways to bootstrap a VW business

    Hypergrid Business
    Maria Korolov
    7 May 2012 | 11:36 pm
    There’s an old saying that 90 percent of new businesses fail within a year, and they fail because of a [...]

  • Bitcoins can be stolen

    Terra Nova
    Edward Castronova
    14 May 2012 | 10:19 am
    Couple of reports from the world of the virtual currency Bitcoin indicate that it has become a hacker target. A BTC is worth about $5 at the moment; the thefts are in the 6-digit area in terms of dollars. What do we have here? A real-world currency who holders are subject to extraordinary attacks? Or is it a virtual currency that is necessarily more vulnerable to security risks? Or, are the holders of Bitcoin small-scale operations with insufficient security? I can't tell; I don't know enough about security. I wonder how this hacker-theft rate compares to the theft rate for…

  • 173 Organized, partial and mirrored expressions for V4

    Hiperia3D News
    6 May 2012 | 4:30 pm
    Emma Alvarez is now a top seller at Renderosity. She has just released this product there. Only through next 15th, Caelis 173 Organized Expressions, new on the marketplace, at 30% off. Now, in addition to partial expressions, also mirrored... *** CLICK THE TITLE AND READ THE FULL STORY ***
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    Club Penguin Official Blog - English

  • Featured Igloos - May 16

    Happy77
    16 May 2012 | 1:37 pm
    Greetings Knights and Princesses! Thanks for the sweet igloo nominations you sent in! Here are some of my favorite Medieval-themed castles for the week: Flappy Scoot said: "My friend Agentplumpy has a great medieval igloo! It has dragons, a castle place and more! WADDLE ON CLUB PENGUIN!"Egghead11223 said: "My friend Squid1199 has an AMAZING and AWESOME igloo! It's like the best igloo I've ever seen u should check it out!!!"Evabeatrice said: "Please check out my best friend Oxnard09's igloo. She is always changing up her igloo designs and right now her igloo looks like a Medieval…

  • Medieval Party Story Clue #5

    Happy77
    14 May 2012 | 6:52 pm
    Greetings brave heroes! Knights and princesses have been spotted all over the island getting ready for a mighty quest! Are you feeling brave enough?Here's the next piece of the story...How are you preparing for the party? Share your plans with us in the comments below!  -Club Penguin Team 

  • Reviewed By You: Favorite Story

    Happy77
    14 May 2012 | 11:24 am
    Greetings! Thanks for all of the amazing comments you submitted about helping endangered animals! It was hard to choose just one comment to feature, but I really liked Ariane2005's:  "Hey Guys can you guess what I do everyday? Yep I clean up where I live. I do that because there are animals that live there to. Like Birds,Stray Cats, Skunks, Deer, Insects, Mystery animal, Hedgehogs too. You see any backyard can be a habitat so help keep it clean no animal likes a dirty habitat. This idea was inspired by club penguin. I have been cleaning the habitat for years. One More Thing Waddle…

  • Medieval Party Story Clue #4

    Happy77
    11 May 2012 | 1:39 pm
    Greetings!Have you been collecting all the pieces of the Medieval Party story? If not, check out this blog post to see the map. Here's the next piece of the story:Looks like even Gary is getting ready for this year's party! ;)Waddle on, brave ones!-Club Penguin Team

  • Medieval Party Story Clue #3

    Happy77
    10 May 2012 | 4:49 pm
    Greetings Penguins! Here's the 3rd part of the Medieval Party story!Hmmm... Who do you think is writing all these letters?-Club Penguin Team
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  • Discover game changing replication for vSphere VMs

    Gabrie van Zanten
    15 May 2012 | 3:01 am
    (Copied from the Veeam announcement) Need to change your disaster recovery practices? Join VMware vExpert Gabrie van Zanten, a principal consultant at Open Line for this LIVE webinar and discover how a strong replication strategy will improve your DR practices. Gabrie van Zanten is a VMware virtualization expert, the author on his ownweblog Rick Vanover, Veeam Product Strategy Specialist with extensive virtualization expertise Steven Duckaert, Veeam System Engineer with a focus on VMware and Microsoft technologies 22 May 2012 at 16:00 CEST / 10:00 EDT / 15:00 BST Topics include: Your…

  • VMware HA Admission Control and VM reservations

    Gabrie van Zanten
    9 May 2012 | 5:38 pm
      Did you know about VMware HA admission control coupled to VM reservations? To be honest I thought I knew, but recently I was pointed to some details that showed me I was wrong. What I’m talking about is the cluster setting of “HA Admission Control” and how “Percentage of cluster resources reserved as failover spare capacity” and “Host failures the cluster tolerates” are related to the CPU and memory reservations at VM level. These settings will make sure that your HA cluster will reserve enough resources to recover from host failures, depending on how high you set the %…

  • How too many vCPUs can negatively affect performance

    Gabrie van Zanten
    4 May 2012 | 6:01 am
    Customer with small vSphere environment of just two hosts had performance issues and they asked me to investigate the situation. When looking at the technical specs at first glance, you would suspect that this configuration should work. With just two hosts, each dual Quad core CPU, the enivornment had a total of 16 CPU cores. In total there were only 9 VMs running using a total of 23 vCPUs. Usually you can easily run 5 vCPUs per core, if not more. Turned out there were a number of VMs with 4 vCPUs and 2 vCPUs that really didn’t need them. You can easily discover this by checking READY en …

  • Adding ESXi host with dvSwitch through Auto Deploy fails

    Gabrie van Zanten
    26 Apr 2012 | 3:03 pm
    Been fighting some problems with VMware Auto Deploy lately which turned out to be an easy to solve issue. I installed the first host in the cluster, which would NOT be deployed with Auto Deploy but had a local hard disk in it. Configured it the way I like it, set all the logging and network coredump location to be the vCenter host and then created a host profile. The network configuration consisted of just two vmnics (10Gbps) in a dvSwitch. The vmkernel port was of course on the dvSwitch. After this host was working fine, I copied the host profile and used this copied profile as the reference…

  • Licensing VMware SRM 5.0

    Gabrie van Zanten
    18 Apr 2012 | 3:00 am
    Had a small issue with VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) 5.0 today when performing a real failover of a single VM with a customer of mine. Nothing big, just using one VM one protection group, showing them that a failover would work. After recovery went fine, I started the reprotection and ran into a licensing error: “Not enough licenses”. This customer had bought a 25 VM license pack and received one license key for this. I had entered this key in vCenter on site-A but I hadn’t entered this on site-B, because I was under the impression that in a Linked-Clone scenario the license could…
 
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    NPSL: Nonprofits in Second Life

  • RESCHEDULED: Kids4Horses at Nonprofit Commons This Friday May 11

    rikomatic
    8 May 2012 | 3:43 am
    At this Friday's Nonprofit Commons meeting, come meet Ms. Ilene Morris , the founder and director of Kids4Horses, a nonprofit that uses virtual worlds to help ill and special needs children, while also assisting abandoned horses. (Ilene had to reschedule last week due to a personal emergency.) Come learn about their creative model to help multiple causes through virtual world technology. Join us on Friday May 11 starting at 8:30am PT. See you at the Plush Nonprofit Commons amphitheater. NONPROFIT COMMONS MEETING May 11 , 8:30am PST Plush Nonprofit Commons Amphitheater…

  • Transcript of NPC Meeting for May 4 2012

    rikomatic
    4 May 2012 | 12:25 pm
    NONPROFIT COMMONS MEETING May 4 , 8:30am PST Plush Nonprofit Commons Amphitheater http://slurl.com/secondlife/Plush%20Nonprofit%20Commons/88/126/26 AGENDA • 8:30am Introductions • 8:40am TechSoup Announcements • 8:45am Mentors Central: Sister Abeyante on Evernote • 8:55am Discussion about new NPC Survey • 9:30am OpenMic/ Announcements INTRODUCTIONS [08:31] Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): looks like folks are rezzing in so we can get started Bookmark/Search this post with: read more

  • Fill Out this Survey on the Nonprofit Commons and You!

    rikomatic
    3 May 2012 | 9:55 pm
    We have created a short survey that we would request that all organizations that are in any way involved with the Nonprofit Commons to fill out.  This includes people who regularly attend our weekly meetup, volunteers, groups that come to give announcements, and of course our tenant nonprofits.  We need your input to make sure that we are continuing to serve your diverse needs. Click here to complete this short survey today. Bookmark/Search this post with: read more

  • Survey it App!

    alebez
    3 May 2012 | 8:00 pm
    Elizabeth Dean, known as Frances Meriman inworld, came to a very spirited Nonprofit Commons meeting last Friday, April 27 to discuss how her organization, RTI International, is pushing boundaries and breaking barriers when it comes to how they provide survey research, development, and technical services to government and commercial clients worldwide. Later on in the discussion, NPC members engaged in a brief brainstorming sprint to dream up some creative app ideas to solve food access and civic engagement issues. It was a productive meeting to say the least. Back to RTI. According to their…

  • Transcript of NPC Meeting with Elizabeth Dean of RTI April 27 2012

    rikomatic
    3 May 2012 | 4:17 pm
    NONPROFIT COMMONS MEETING April 27 , 8:30am PST Plush Nonprofit Commons Amphitheater http://slurl.com/secondlife/Plush%20Nonprofit%20Commons/88/126/26 AGENDA • 8:30am Introductions • 8:40am Elizabeth Dean on Virtual Worlds for Social Research • 8:55am TechSoup Announcements • 9:05am Mentors Central • 9:30am OpenMic/ Announcements INTRODUCTIONS [08:30] Rik Panganiban (rik.riel): Hi all welcome. Let's get started as people are rezzing in. [08:31] Zinnia Zauber: Good morning! Bookmark/Search this post with: read more
 
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    Terra Nova

  • Bitcoins can be stolen

    Edward Castronova
    14 May 2012 | 10:19 am
    Couple of reports from the world of the virtual currency Bitcoin indicate that it has become a hacker target. A BTC is worth about $5 at the moment; the thefts are in the 6-digit area in terms of dollars. What do we have here? A real-world currency who holders are subject to extraordinary attacks? Or is it a virtual currency that is necessarily more vulnerable to security risks? Or, are the holders of Bitcoin small-scale operations with insufficient security? I can't tell; I don't know enough about security. I wonder how this hacker-theft rate compares to the theft rate for…

  • New Book: Virtual Economies and Financial Crime

    greglas
    14 May 2012 | 9:00 am
    I thought reader must be interested in the forthcoming title from Edward Elgar:  Virtual Economies and Financial Crime, by Dr. Clare Chambers Jones. Here is the description from the publisher: Virtual economies and financial crime are ever-growing, increasingly significant facets to banking, finance and anti-money laundering regulations on an international scale. In this pathbreaking and timely book, these two important issues are explored together for the first time in the same place. Clare Chambers-Jones examines the jurisprudential elements of cyber law in the context of virtual…

  • Is it gambling?

    Edward Castronova
    7 May 2012 | 12:45 pm
    So, you do something in a virtual world and you get a random item. Say, you kill a dragon. The item has real-world value. You obtained it as a result of three things: You paid or registered to play the game, you performed an action that may have required skill or maybe not, and the system executed a random item generation process. Still, it's not gambling. Right? It's monster-raiding. OK, now you go into a social network and do something and you get a random virtual item of nontrivial value. Say, you 'Liked' somebody's pic and you got a free virtual rose. Or you wrote…

  • Uncharted's Designer Heads to the Ivory Tower

    Edward Castronova
    30 Apr 2012 | 1:11 pm
    We've talked before in this space about academia and industry working together, and how much the academy needs to hire expertise from game developers. In perhaps the biggest such hire ever, USC has hired Richard Lemarchand. I wish I knew how much they had to pay him, as we are trying to come up with a way to do something similar. Any guesses?

  • Facebook Credits Under Attack

    Edward Castronova
    23 Apr 2012 | 10:09 am
    Earlier we reported that Google decided not to have a virtual currency. Facebook's Credits may face legal challenges, as Joystiq reports.
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    The Metaverse Journal - virtual worlds news

  • Mini Diablo 3 Help Guide

    Lowell Cremorne
    16 May 2012 | 7:13 am
    Like the odd few hundred thousand others, I jumped into Diablo 3 at launch. It’s quite a bit of fun, but it’s also very challenging in parts. I thought as I went through I document some key strategies / tips to get you past particular hurdles. So read on below if you’re stuck! This post will grow as I progress through: apologies to non-players for this short interruption to normal programming. The Weeping Hollow: how do I defeat the group of Grotesque? This took a couple of goes but basically you just need to down one of them and when it explodes into corpse worms, the…

  • Frenzoo gets more funding for Me Girl

    Lowell Cremorne
    10 May 2012 | 7:50 am
    We’ve been following Frenzoo since 2009, and over that time the company has shifted very squarely into the mobile market. This week they’ve raised another $1 million of venture capital to primarily develop its ‘Me Girl’ 3D fashion applications (here’s a link to our 2010 story on the 3D fashion move Frenzoo made) The full press release reproduced for you below. Congrats to CEO (and expat Aussie) Simon Newstead and the team for their ongoing success – it’s no mean feat to keep the momentum going in the application space and they’ve managed it over…

  • Virtual Ability Mental Health Symposium 2012

    Lowell Cremorne
    23 Apr 2012 | 12:51 am
    I received a message today from Alice Krueger (SL:Gentle Heron) at Virtual Ability Inc, about an upcoming symposium. Save April 28 as the date – there’s an amazing array of speakers and topics. You can read the schedule below or check out Virtual Ability’s blog. The full details: Our society too often takes mental health for granted and too frequently stigmatizes people with mental health issues. The Virtual Ability Mental Health Symposium 2012, on Saturday, April 28, offers a variety of perspectives for thinking positively about mental health. Presentations will take place…

  • Federal Virtual Worlds moving beyond Second Life

    Lowell Cremorne
    22 Apr 2012 | 3:52 am
    Several years ago, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration maintained more than a dozen virtual environments for online visitors to explore in Second Life. Now it operates just one. For NOAA and other federal agencies, the focus of virtual world activity has moved beyond Second Life and diversified onto other platforms and gaming engines, according to Eric Hackathorn, a 3D Web designer for NOAA and one of the federal pioneers in virtual worlds. “Virtual worlds are in need of some rebranding,” Hackathorn told Federal Computer Week. “Historically, virtual worlds were…

  • Campus Tour wins US Virtual Worlds Challenge

    Lowell Cremorne
    10 Apr 2012 | 11:20 pm
    Congrats to Andrew Hughes and the team at Designing Digitally for their win in the 2012 Federal Virtual Worlds Challenge (see the full press release below). You can also see our own interview with Andrew from November last year right here.   Designing Digitally, Inc. Wins the 2012 Federal Virtual Worlds Challenge ITS INNOVATIVE VIRTUAL CAMPUS TOUR PRODUCT CAPTURED ACCOLADES FRANKLIN, OHIO – Designing Digitally, Inc. took first place honors in the Familiarization category in the 2012 Federal Virtual Worlds Challenge with its 3D virtual campus tour of the United States Air Force…
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    WoW Insider

  • How I learned to love tanking again

    16 May 2012 | 2:00 pm
    So yeah, I'm tanking again. There are a few reasons for this. Reason #1 is my experiences testing prot in the Mists of Pandaria beta. Quite frankly, I think it's going to be much easier to level to 90 as a tanking warrior, what with the spec working quite well on the beta at the moment. Since I expect us to be doing so by August at the latest, I wanted to get a jump on things. Another reason is simple necessity. We needed a tank; I happen to be capable of doing the job and doing it well. Even back when threat was harder than it is now, I always knew I was a respectable tank. I pay attention…

  • Spiritual Guidance: The new shadow priest trend of backtracking

    16 May 2012 | 1:00 pm
    Every week, WoW Insider brings you Spiritual Guidance for discipline, holy and shadow priests. On alternate Wednesdays, shadow priesting expert Fox Van Allen comes from out of the shadows to bask in your loving adoration. I spent a long time trying to come up with the perfect word for what's happening to shadow priests on the beta right now. At first I thought up déjà vu, but that didn't seem quite right (and shut up, I know that's a phrase, not a word). Then I got bored and played Civilization 5 for a while. Then I made a sandwich. I don't know where I'm going with any of that,…

  • Encrypted Text: Rogues can actually tank

    16 May 2012 | 12:00 pm
    Every week, WoW Insider brings you Encrypted Text for assassination, combat and subtlety rogues. Chase Christian will be your guide to the world of shadows every Wednesday. Feel free to email me with any questions or article suggestions you'd like to see covered here. In the original WoW beta, rogues were designed to be off tanks. Complete with a high dodge coefficient from agility and a buckler, rogues could survive quite a beating. Evasion was a tanking cooldown, and Vanish was a useful tank-swapping ability. Hunters worked similarly, also sporting bucklers and using Feign Death to lose…

  • The Queue: Blind panic

    16 May 2012 | 11:00 am
    Welcome back to The Queue, the daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Alex Ziebart will be your host today. Oh, crap. The Queue is due to be published in 30 minutes and I haven't even started it. Thanks a lot, Diablo! You're ruining everything! AbabakarOctopuce asked: I have two level 80 toons with vanilla gear (they got to 80 through free RaF levels). I use them mostly for professions, but if I were to ever level them up, where would I find the appropriate gear to send them into Cata zones?Continue reading The Queue: Blind…

  • Around Azeroth: Winner by default

    16 May 2012 | 10:00 am
    "Gunis was a typical dwarf in that she loved brew, and she felt the best things in life could either be aimed, built or formed in a forge," writes submitter Strawder of Ma and Pa Save The World on Garrosh (US-A). "Keen as she was, she'd sometimes go overboard, and this time was no different. The first Stormwind Fishing Tournament was also the last for a while, due mainly to her deployment of the Dwarven Fishing Pole throughout the city's canals." Gallery: Around Azeroth 3 Want to see your own screenshot here? Send it to aroundazeroth@wowinsider.com. We strongly prefer full-sized pictures with…
 
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  • DCUO's Last Laugh features Hamill as the Joker, lots of new content

    Jef Reahard
    16 May 2012 | 2:00 pm
    Filed under: Super-hero, Game mechanics, MMO industry, Patches, News items, Free-to-play, DC Universe Online, Dungeons Sony Online Entertainment is bringing out the big guns for its next DC Universe Online content patch. As we reported last week, the Joker is set to return for The Last Laugh, and fortunately for everyone, his voiceover duties will be handled by none other than Mark Hamill. Hamill is joined by DC stalwart Arleen Sorkin (that's Harley Quinn to you, mistah), and Adam Baldwin returns to the role of Superman for the first time since DCUO's launch. The Last Laugh also features a…

  • AdventureQuest Worlds releases its first two action figures

    Eliot Lefebvre
    16 May 2012 | 1:30 pm
    Filed under: Fantasy, Video, Events, real-world, News items, Free-to-play, Browser Action figures are a great accessory for any video game. Sure, most of us have passed the point when we would use them to stage elaborate battles in the backyard, but it's nice to have something on hand to play with during load times. That's part of the reason that AdventureQuest Worlds is getting into the market with its first two figures, representing Artix and Sepulchure, available in Toys'R'Us stores nationwide starting on May 23rd. Even if you're not normally the sort to buy action figures, Artix…

  • Guild Wars 2 writers talk (at length) about MMO story

    Jef Reahard
    16 May 2012 | 1:00 pm
    Filed under: Betas, Fantasy, Game mechanics, Interviews, MMO industry, New titles, News items, Guild Wars 2 What's it like to pen the narrative for one of the most anticipated MMORPGs, well, ever? It's quite different from writing a novel or a screenplay, according to ArenaNet's Angel McCoy. She joins Guild Wars 2 lead writer Bobby Stein and Peter "The Explorer" Fries for an MMO story-flavored sit-down with fan site Under the Pale Tree. The interview is a lengthy one (who knew that writers could be so wordy?), and it covers a bunch of ground including the megalithic sprawl of GW2's narrative,…

  • A Mild-Mannered Reporter: Why there are no more Epic Archetypes in City of Heroes

    Eliot Lefebvre
    16 May 2012 | 12:30 pm
    Filed under: Super-hero, City of Heroes, Classes, Game mechanics, Opinion, Free-to-play, A Mild-Mannered Reporter My weekend plans went cross-eyed, as they often do, but as a result I found myself looking through some old notes for future columns on City of Heroes. There were a lot of notes I took early on when I was first writing columns, some of which I wound up using and some of which wound up being discarded, but one particular idea jumped out at me: a column about potential future Epic Archetypes. Specifically, I was looking back over and noting how a lot of the archetypes I listed…

  • Why I Play: RIFT

    Justin Olivetti
    16 May 2012 | 12:00 pm
    Filed under: Fantasy, Opinion, RIFT, Why I Play Is it possible for a top-tier MMO to come out of nowhere and bowl you over? Considering that I follow these games not only for a hobby but as a writer for Massively, I always assumed the answer to that was "no." Until it happened, that is. Until RIFT. It's not as though RIFT was a big secret or anything, but up until the late hours of 2010, it was very low on my -- and many of my friends' -- radars. I often got it confused with TERA, for Pete's sake! It wasn't until I got my hands on it at PAX that year and then saw how huge the beta got that I…
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    Sunday Morning Talk

  • If you live in Minnesota, don’t miss the State Fair!

    Matt Barker
    9 May 2012 | 1:57 pm
    The Minnesota State Fair We have the opportunity every day to help people find their new home in Minnesota, and while much of our time is consumed with the details of helping people find the perfect home and complete the transaction in a stress free way, one of the FIRST things we do for people relocating to Minnesota is to inform them of some of the “must see” activities in the area. In Minnesota, one of the first things that comes to mind is the State Fair.  Yeah, we know that whatever state you came from had a state fair, but ours is the  largest in the US in daily…

  • Manhattan Beach: Amazing lifestyle

    Greg Geilman
    24 Apr 2012 | 9:10 am
      One of the best things about living in Manhattan Beach (or for that matter anywhere in the South Bay) is the great weather that you enjoy almost 365 days a year. A lifetime is a collection of moments. And in this beautiful part of the world, those moments (like the one captured above) are frequent. For those considering where to live in the LA basin who have a choice and can afford to spend a little more, living in Manhattan Beach is a luxury and a treat. Manhattan Beach is separated into several sections, each with their own distinct feel. The Tree Section, The Sand Section, The hill…

  • Redondo Beach: Fun, sun and an amazing location

    Greg Geilman
    18 Apr 2012 | 9:15 am
      If you are looking for an abosultely fantastic lifestyle in Southern California, Redondo Beach has to be on your short list. Along with nearby Manhattan and Hermosa Beach, they are some of the most popular beaches with some of the best real estate and homebuying opportunities availble. The three communities are connected by The Strand, which is a cement walkway that runs along the beaches. Outdoor recreation is a huge part of the attraction to this area with rollerblading, surf, sun, volleyball, jogging or just taking a stroll down by the beach. It truly is a year round pleasant…

  • Gainesville Va – The Road Less Traveled

    Carolyn Capalbo
    9 Apr 2012 | 7:38 am
    Every grade school kid reads the poem by Robert Frost. Sometimes taking a quiet walk in a forest can bring new perspective and focus you on what is truly important. Gainesville Virginia is home to Conway Robinson State Forest. This 450 acre forest offers opportunities for education, volunteering, hiking, mountain biking, and horseback riding. Don’t forget about all the wildlife surrounding you that you get to see. This forest is also used as a demonstration site for activities from tree planting to harvesting, as well as environmental considerations for water quality and wildlife. But…

  • Lake Manassas – Active Living in Virginia

    Carolyn Capalbo
    8 Apr 2012 | 6:55 am
    Just located outside of Washington D.C., Lake Manassas is a great place to see and do it all. Underneath the calm, serene surroundings, there are plenty of attractions around for you to stay busy. For all of those golf fans out there, Lake Manassas is home to two golf clubs,The Stonewall Golf Club and The Robert Trent Jones Golf Club which actually shares the same gated entrance as the Lake Manassas community. If golf isn’t the answer and your looking for a more family friendly activity then just right around the corner is Washington D.C., where your family can check out Capitol River…
 
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  • Towards a National OpenSimulator Grid

    Gwyneth Llewelyn
    23 Apr 2012 | 7:25 pm
    A bit over a month ago, Andabata Mandelbrot, addressing a Portuguese-speaking audience, launched an interesting challenge: let national OpenSim grid operators join forces together into a single OpenSim grid. Simple as that.It shouldn’t come as a surprise for OpenSim users and operators. After all, isn’t “joining forces” what OpenSim is good at? I mean the ability to HyperGrid across grids, which works more and more flawlessly as time goes by and newer versions are released. These days, it’s so easy to get some clothes on one grid, then move to another, buy some…

  • Working for free for Linden Lab’s blog

    Gwyneth Llewelyn
    10 Feb 2012 | 10:42 am
    Neufreistadt. Where not all content was done for free.By the time you’re reading this, it’s old news: Linden Lab, in an unexpected twist of sudden inspiration, called for bloggers to submit articles to their own official blog.Unless you’re an avid participant on the LL forums, you might have missed that completely. Fortunately, thanks to people like Chesnut Rau, the message quickly spread among the SLogosphere. And if there is a common trend among all the articles, it’s that bloggers are completely against the idea.(...)Read the rest of Working for free for Linden…

  • Paying content creators with micropayments

    Gwyneth Llewelyn
    6 Feb 2012 | 5:55 am
    A few years ago, I wrote about models to pay for content creators in this age where everybody wants to share content for free — except for the entertainment industry, of course, that seems to look upon 2012 as the year to come down with a legal jackhammer on top of anyone doing something that can be remotely called “piracy” or “content theft”, even if the Internet is destroyed in the process. Back then, I left the question open on how exactly to achieve that.Two years later, I pursued this same topic, by showing how Second Life®’s economy model, based on…

  • SOPA/PIPA revisited

    Gwyneth Llewelyn
    22 Jan 2012 | 7:04 pm
    Well, the breaking news is that the US Senate has postponed the voting on PIPA. This should give everybody a good reason involved to think twice on this whole issue.I was replying to Prokofy Neva’s pro-SOPA article but unfortunately his setup tends to eat up my long-winded comments (it’s not his fault — I blame it on the technology). His argumentation is based on a few reasonable assumptions. Second Life creators, exposed to piracy (via CopyBot and similar technologies), should be actually happy with legislation that protects their work even further. This is quite a legitimate…

  • SOPA will backfire

    Gwyneth Llewelyn
    14 Jan 2012 | 11:54 am
    Click here to view the embedded video.While discussing SOPA with Moon Adamant, after reading this nice article from the WordPress gang, we came to the following conclusion: are legislators so stupid as not to foresee that all this will backfire?Imagine that I’m ruthless Zuckerberg, the kind of guy who kills the animals he eats, and face being threatened to have Facebook shut down by Disney and Sony Entertainment and Warner Bros because some silly user — out of his 800 million users — just posted a link to pirated content from the entertainment industry giants. What will Zuckerberg…
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  • Victoria’s mental health professionals

    Tateru Nino
    15 May 2012 | 5:48 am
    As I’ve mentioned previously, I care for two disabled people, 24x7x365. That’s way fuller than full-time. That’s all the time, and I do other things where I can. Over the years, I’ve had plenty of exposure to people with mental health problems, as well as many GPs and mental health professionals in Victoria.Now, unlike those professionals, I’ve had no training, nor do I carry any qualification. I just have to keep getting things right in good times, in bad times and during crises, when they occur. Time after time. I’ve had extensive opportunities to compare and contrast how I deal…

  • Lumiya 2.0 now with some limited 3D

    Tateru Nino
    14 May 2012 | 7:42 pm
    Now that the Lumiya Second Life viewer (for Android phones and tablets) has hit version 2.0, it features some limited 3D support. That means you can see the world around you.At least a little. Read more ...Ads by Project Wonderful! Your ad here, right now: $0

  • Six years ago

    Tateru Nino
    13 May 2012 | 11:27 pm
    I have no recollection of saying this, but apparently I did on 28 April, 2007. Read more ...Ads by Project Wonderful! Your ad here, right now: $0

  • Is it fixed yet?

    Tateru Nino
    13 May 2012 | 5:09 am
    It’s been sixteen days, over which there has been (by my count) 53 hours of scheduled and unscheduled maintenance for the Second Life grid. That’s “drop what you’re doing and don’t touch nuthin’” maintenance, and doesn’t include the outages for in-world Search, payments, billing, the JIRA, or a couple abortive rolling restarts.During this time, the grid hasn’t been performing well. All this, I know. What I don’t know is: Is it fixed yet? Read more ...Ads by Project Wonderful! Your ad here, right now: $0

  • The Gaming Session

    Tateru Nino
    10 May 2012 | 12:40 pm
    All my gaming posts (and one new one, to sweeten the pot, as it were) – or at least all the gaming posts that I could find, leastways – have been put on a blog of their own: The Gaming Session. Gaming-related posts? That’s where you’ll find them.And before you ask, no, this isn’t The Big Secret Project. What with Second Life being so twitchy at the moment, it has been too frustrating to work on that, so I did a little work on this, instead. Read more ...Ads by Project Wonderful! Your ad here, right now: $0
 
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  • Augmented Awareness & Reality Games, ARE2012

    Tish Shute
    9 May 2012 | 1:12 pm
    Augmented Awareness & Reality Games, ARE2012 View more PowerPoint from Tish Shute ARE2012 is being live streamed this year, and the wrap up fire side chat between Bruce Sterling and Daniel Suarez and a surprise stupid fun grand finale is still to come. We have a live stream this year so you can see for yourself! Also you can catch up on any sessions you have missed, including the video of my talk, Augmented Awareness and Reality Games. My slides are here and my speaker notes are below, enjoy! 1. Hi my name is Tish Shute. Currently I am working with Will Wright and Stupid Fun Club on a new…

  • Will Wright, “Gaming Reality,” Where 2012

    Tish Shute
    24 Apr 2012 | 10:00 pm
    Hi everybody. So, basically I have been making games for a number of years, a lot of games I work on tend to be recreations of some form of reality. Sim City was one the very first ones. I love games, because games really, actually collapse all these different design fields into one thing. I think it is probably the most interesting design object there is. You know, you get aspects of environmental design, aesthetics, functional, psychological, story telling, all these really are aspects of interactive design and game design, the stuff that we're kind of doing here. Now in games, there is…

  • ScreenBurn Presents Will Wright’s Stupid Fun Club: SXSW Interactive 2012

    Tish Shute
    22 Jan 2012 | 7:30 pm
    I am super excited to be speaking at SXSW Interactive 2012, as part of Will Wright’s Stupid Fun Club, on “A Lifestyle with a Gaming Sense.” Michael Trice just did a post on our session for SXSW.com, Screen Burn Panels at the Palmer Presents Will Wright’s Stupid Fun Club. The photos of Will Wright, Tish Shute (me!) and Peter Swearengen are by Anya Zavarzina. Thank you Anya for such great photos! I have been too busy to blog much lately, but there is a lot to unpack in future posts in my quote in Michael’s SXSW post! “Really we’ve entered a new era…

  • On Becoming a Reality Architect: Exploring the Power of Connection Between People and Algorithms (TEDXSiliconAlley talk)

    Tish Shute
    28 Oct 2011 | 4:44 pm
    Watch live streaming video from tedx at livestream.com On Becoming A Reality Architect (Not a Reality Star) View more presentations from Tish Shute 1) Like most of us I wear a lot of hats. And I frequently work under a designer title. But recently someone said to me, “So you’re a Reality Architect.” I found the suggestion intriguing in part because I have been thinking about what it means to have agency in the algorithmic landscapes of the future that Kevin Slavin describes in his awesome TED talk, How Algorithms Shape the World. And, Reality Architect, if it implies anything, it…

  • Story Telling – the Art, Science, and Business of Data: Talking with Edd Dumbill about Strata, NYC, 2011

    Tish Shute
    31 Aug 2011 | 1:51 pm
    I’m really looking forward to the O’Reilly Strata events that are coming to NYC in a couple of weeks. I’m fascinated to see where the art, science, and business of data has gone since February, when I attended the first Strata Conference in Santa Clara – a sold out event imbued with an awareness that this was an important gathering of cognoscenti working on the next big thing. Strata in New York City is a sequence of events,  Strata JumpStart, Sept. 19th, and then The Strata Summit, “The Business of Data,” Sept. 20th & 21st, and followed by the Strata…
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    Second Life

  • Reply to Introduce yourself here!

    KickininsKay
    16 May 2012 | 1:26 am
    KickininsKay posted a reply: HI everyone, I'm LT in world, even though I go by Kay over here on Flickr. Been in SL for a while already, and kind of just started actually doing something with pics.. So let me know what you think! Looking forward to see all of your works :D

  • Reply to Introduce yourself here!

    Daikota Wind
    15 May 2012 | 5:45 am
    Daikota Wind posted a reply: Hi everybody, i 'm joining the community for showing my work in sl. Need help to become good and then better. Anyone is free to contact me. Enjoy

  • Reply to Introduce yourself here!

    Rauni_Lain
    12 May 2012 | 5:35 pm
    Rauni_Lain posted a reply: Hi, I'm Rauni and I've been in SL for a while and thought that since I was getting into making ports that I would share them with everyone and get some feedback! Nice to meet all of you! :3

  • Reply to Introduce yourself here!

    PattyPerth
    11 May 2012 | 8:09 pm
    PattyPerth posted a reply: Hi. I'm Pat Perth (aka Patty). I've been in SL since Jun 4, 2005. Since January 2011 I have been developing The End of Time, an estate that offers peace and beauty to all who visit, absolutely free of charge. Everyone is welcome. See my website here for more information.

  • Reply to Introduce yourself here!

    paigan9
    11 May 2012 | 2:04 pm
    paigan9 posted a reply: Hello, everyone. I'm Paigan (pronounced PAY-gan). I've been in Second Life for about 4 and a half years. I've taken a few photos now and then and have always wanted to do more with it. I'm really interested in using Windlight settings to create better shots. Any tutors or photography classes out there?
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  • The WELL interviews Howard Rheingold, and maybe you should join us

    rolandlegrand
    30 Apr 2012 | 5:14 pm
    There is a fascinating discussion going on at The WELL, where Howard Rheingold is being interviewed by community members about this book Net Smart. The discussion is wide-ranging. Howard provides plenty of links to useful resources about crap detection, journalism, education, and all things helping people to thrive online. The interview goes beyond the “howto” stuff (as does the book), and interviewers also ask Howard about the vision of early internet pioneers, whether or not some of these not yet fulfilled visions are being realized now, and about the internet as an augmentation…

  • Playing around with Spreecast

    rolandlegrand
    30 Apr 2012 | 7:05 am
    I’m testing Spreecast, a service which allows you to run a videoshow, to invite people, to get reactions in text chat and to embed the whole thing wherever you like. Robert Scoble published an interview with co-founder Jeff Fluhr: I’m a strong believer in synchronous communication and the co-presence it enables – whether one uses virtual environments, text chat modules, videoconferencing (such as Blackboard Collaborate or Google Hangout) or hybrid forms (video plus text chat, video plus video by guests plus chat text, podcasts with a live session). So here I’ll embed…

  • MOOCs and their differences

    rolandlegrand
    25 Apr 2012 | 3:30 pm
    I started the Computer Sciences 101 course taught by professor Nick Parlante (Stanford University) as a massive open online course (MOOC) on the Coursera platform. Nick says there are not enough people on this planet with computer skills, so he hopes that this introductory course will incite some of us to deepen their knowledge and skills. During 6 weeks we’ll do small coding experiments in the browser (using JavaScript) to play with the nature of computers, “understanding their strengths and limitations.” My impression is that the course is cleverly designed. The lecture…

  • Big Data and Cyberpunk

    rolandlegrand
    23 Apr 2012 | 5:31 pm
    Monday afternoon: while I’m in a chat session on one screen, I watch my finance twitter list  on the other screen. The tweets about Europe are rather apocalyptic, like this one by the investment banker Dan Alpert: Developed econs sinking on oceans of easy money. Dragged down by debt overhang, austerianism and excess global supply of labor and capacity. — Dan Alpert (@DanielAlpert) April 23, 2012   It reminds me of cyberpunk – a sci-fi genre which combines hightech with low life – the collapse of the social order as we know it. The story is in the near-future, or even…

  • ‘This is my cybernetic organism: the Internet’

    rolandlegrand
    20 Apr 2012 | 8:12 am
    I just finished reading William Gibson’s Distrust that Particular Flavor. Gibson is the man who gave us the notion of ‘cyberspace’ in his 1982 story “Burning Chrome” and popularized by his 1984 novel Neuromancer. Here is his formulation of “cyberspace” in Neuromancer: Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts… A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in het human system. Unthinkable complexity.
 
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  • Acquisition, Retention, Monetization: Final Report

    Vili Lehdonvirta
    25 Apr 2012 | 5:37 am
    Today’s HIIT Gamification of Services Seminar in Helsinki also doubles as the final seminar of a research project called ARMS: Acquisition, Retention and Monetization in Virtual and Social Spaces, in which I’ve had the pleasure of working during the past couple of years.We are publishing the final report of the project here on VERN. Enjoy! ARMS: Project Final Report – Introduction The ARMS research project – short for Acquisition, Retention and Monetization of Virtual and Social Spaces – started in fall 2009 as a part of Tekes’s (The Finnish Funding Agency for…

  • Seminar on gamification and virtual economy

    Juho Hamari
    19 Apr 2012 | 8:04 am
    Participate: http://goo.gl/Yff2W Date & time: April 25th | 10:00 – 17:00 Place: Arkadiankatu 28 – Class 4 – 3rd floor – Aalto School of Economics Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT with cooperation with Aalto Service Factory ASF is organizing a seminar on “Gamification” of services on 25th of April at the premises of Aalto School of Economics. The seminar approaches the phenomena of Gamification from different inter-related perspectives: playfulness, game design, virtual economics and service marketing. The sessions will seek answers to…

  • Designing Virtual Currency by Breaking (Almost) Every Rule in the Economics Textbook

    Vili Lehdonvirta
    15 Apr 2012 | 1:38 pm
    I’ve neglected to post my Game Developers Conference presentation slides here. The talk was about designing virtual currency. Not how to design sources, sinks or markets, but how to design the actual objects that are used as money in a virtual economy, and how users interact with those objects. There is much room for innovation in that area, as a couple of historical examples show. The slides themselves are mostly pictures. To get the full story, click through to SlideShare and check out the Notes tab, which contains an almost full transcript of the talk. Designing Virtual Currency by…

  • Linden Lab no longer releasing economic metrics

    Jenn Martin
    22 Mar 2012 | 1:11 am
    In recent news, Linden Lab has announced that they will no longer provide their customary annual or quarterly economic reports.  Blogger Tateru Nino reports that Peter Gray, a spokesperson for Linden Lab, has stated that, “We don’t plan to publish a Q4 2011 economic summary. We are discontinuing regular reporting of aggregate economy-level data, because landowners and merchants have told us that the information is of limited value to them. Moving forward, we will instead focus on improved reporting tools that help individuals better manage their businesses in SL.” Since their…

  • Loss Aversion in Facebook Games

    Juho Hamari
    25 Feb 2012 | 3:08 am
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    Botgirl's Identity Circus

  • Cliché Necromancy

    16 May 2012 | 9:01 am
      Since Whiskey Day is embracing the cliché, I thought I'd love up a few myself. Creativity is like playing a slot machine. Place a bet. Pull the lever. Watch the clichés spin. Pray to the Muse for a winning combination. Spin again.

  • Cleverness Escapes Me

    15 May 2012 | 9:23 am

  • A Simple Bridge Solution for a Mobile Second Life and OpenSim Client

    15 May 2012 | 9:18 am
    I was on Second Life this morning from my iPhone. It was fast, easy and cheap. Here's how: Installed Splashtop Remote Desktop on my phone, on sale for $0.99 today Installed and launched the free Splashtop Streamer program for my Mac. Launched Imprudence and sized the window to 800 x 600 Logged into Second Life and started interacting via my phone The desktop client isn't designed for small screens so it was very clumsy to move around or access other options. But would be relatively simple for Linden Lab or a Third Party Viewer team to optimize the UI to better support remote phone and…

  • "There is nothing like deeply examining the nature of existence in a mini skirt "

    15 May 2012 | 9:16 am
    Although my look hasn't evolved in four years (no snide remarks, please) this Metaverse TV interview from 2008 shows how much my persona has changed over time. Very, very freaky!

  • Botgirl vs Dummy 2 Trailer

    15 May 2012 | 9:16 am
    Since having so much fun with Love Doll, I've been romancing a few other ideas using dolls and action figures. One concept was to bring back Shira and Mira in an encounter with a different SciFi character. Another was to put virtual and physical characters together and let the sparks fly. I was playing around again with VideoScribe HD last night and ended up with this short trailer reuniting the Dummy and I.
 
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  • Neko Graffiti Girl Meets Banksy

    Stacia Villota / Virtual Neko
    22 Apr 2012 | 1:11 am
    Irony. Wit. Anonymity. Banksy Excerpted from Seven Years with Banksy, © Robert Clarke 2012 It was 1994. I was living in the Williamsburg borough of Brooklyn, New York City, shoulder to shoulder with artists, poets and transients all converting a large old warehouse into living quarters. Spaces were huge and rent was minimal. About twelve of us [...]

  • Kawaii War and Japanese Pop Art

    Stacia Villota / Virtual Neko
    8 Jan 2012 | 5:26 am
    There’s a war going on in Japan. Few of us have ever heard of it, fewer still would recognize it because it looks deceptively sweet. One might even say… very kawaii. From the battlefront however, it’s a whole ‘nuther story. Allow me to introduce Mikati Slade, an incredibly talented Japanese pop artist and veteran of [...]

  • The Return of the Solstice Fairy

    Stacia Villota / Virtual Neko
    25 Dec 2011 | 3:03 am
    Pale mist hovered at the edge of the lake, wrapping icy fingers around the dry reeds and transforming their plumy heads into a thousand wild and magical fairy wands. The moment had come. A riot of stars dimmed in anticipation as soft, rhythmic footsteps emerged from the trees. Her arrival would have been unremarkable, were [...]

  • Totoro and the Neko 隣のトトロ

    Stacia Villota / Virtual Neko
    5 Dec 2011 | 3:22 pm
    隣のトトロ tonari no totoro I dreamed I was walking with Totoro, in a forest of magical light. All around us the flowers were singing, as we whispered long into the night… There was a boy… A very strange enchanted boy… They say he wandered very far, Very far, Over land and sea. A little shy And sad of [...]

  • Neko Tricks and Neko Treats

    Stacia Villota / Virtual Neko
    30 Oct 2011 | 6:50 pm
    “Ugh. Where’s my big brother when I need him? This candy bag is getting heeaaavvvyyy…..” I promise, this little Neko won’t play any tricks. I won’t even make you smell my virtual cat feet (who came up with that poem anyway?!) — provided, of course, that you give me something good to eat. Preferably dark [...]
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  • Koji at The Great Fissure

    Ryan Darragh
    28 Apr 2012 | 5:58 pm
    It was a hard life, living in the Wastelands. No one denied that. In fact, it was one of the hardest lives one could be born to. It was even harder living on the edge of the Great Fissure. No one quite believed that, unless they themselves had been born to it. Or exiled there. Hard lives breed hard people. The people of Gravatia, having been bred and born to hard lives, were among the hardest people one might ever hope (or hope not) to encounter. Their town, if such it could be called, straggled along the rim of the Great Fissure, its ramshackle buildings of wood and stone perched…

  • Basic pleasure model

    Ryan Darragh
    16 Apr 2012 | 8:53 pm
    He hated the term. He hated it, but no matter what he did, no matter who he tried to be, he could not escape it. He had been trapped by it from the very beginning, from his very incept date, for the phrase had been prominently featured in his homeostatic promotional material—in shining, swirling letters, in multiple languages, and repeated in subliminal whispers that could barely be heard, yet made their way deep into the mind and all but guaranteed a purchase, if not actual satisfaction. In fact, if he had come with an interactive instruction manual—which he had not—the phrase would no…

  • Pretty In Pink

    Ryan Darragh
    23 Mar 2012 | 8:49 pm
    As a rule, out of professional and general courtesy, I make every effort not to co-opt someone else’s idea for an ensemble, no matter how impressed I am with the accomplishment. However, a while back I was at one of my more favorite dance clubs, and it was a theme night, but a non-specific theme night, if you know what I mean—I think it may actually have been Come As You Are. It definitely wasn’t Sands of the Sahara, Enchantment Under the Sea, or Pocket-Sized And Smokin’ Hot (at least, I don’t think so). Anyway, I noticed a guy there rather boldly attired all in…

  • Narcissus’ Room

    Ryan Darragh
    10 Mar 2012 | 8:54 am
    If you haven’t yet, take a few minutes to check out the new monthly sale event Narcissus’ Room (slurl, blog).  You’ll find a good selection of designs just for men, including a skin/hair combo pack from Dekade and these two gentleman’s accessory packs (above) from Plank Couture.  Everything is priced at just L$40 to L$90, and participating designers will change out their sale items each month.

  • Too much is never enough, apparently

    Ryan Darragh
    7 Mar 2012 | 6:46 pm
    I believe firmly that we can all learn from History. In terms of cold-weather attire for the male of the species, History shows us (if nothing else) that oh, I do so love a good pea coat. In RL, I have a calf-length pea coat in a wonderful foresty green, with burnt-orange lining—not exactly traditional, but really quite handsome. In SL, on the other hand, I have…well, not just one but two more. At least. Three (or possibly more) pea coats should surely be enough, at least one would think so; yet how could I resist one more? As it turns out, I could not. The object of my yielded-to…
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  • On The Wild Side

    15 May 2012 | 1:41 pm
    Check out the latest group gift for Vinyl Cafe Addicts!Grab this swingy, strapless, zebra print dress at Vinyl Cafe here.  It's mesh and comes in three sizes, sure to fit almost everyone.  Style NotesHair: Vive 9Skin: Glam AffairJewellery:  A & AStilettos: Purrfect 10

  • sixteen.

    15 May 2012 | 1:20 am
    hiiiiiiiiiiiiii!freeskin; jesylilo group gift | JeSyLiLO | free to join, here.skin; mother goose | 1L | here. (new)shoes; pixel mode | subscribo | here. (there is a history for this gift, so check the subscribo history, it's number one)nonfreehair - boon, Boo Nakamura.shape - not for sale.lashes - zeery's color couture, Zeerya Pyrithea. | coming soon.ily buhbye!

  • American girl

    14 May 2012 | 8:42 am
     Skin - Mother Goose's, Lucky letter, 0L$Shirt/Pants/Shoes - =PIA=, group gifts, 0L$Bag -S@bbia, group gift, 0L$Hair - Diva, lucky letter, 0L$ (already blogged by Sophielle:p)

  • StashBash Fairy Haze

    13 May 2012 | 8:57 pm
    ***WARNING - This is a Petites Post, you must own a Yabusaka Petite Avatar to wear these items***The third annual StashBash is coming to a close this coming week.We normally don't cover whole hunts on this blog, unlike some, just due to the sheer size of most of them. This one is short, only 20 stores, so I could cover it all over a set amount of posts.Today's post if for the petite items offered in the hunt. If you missed Part 1 or Part 2, please check them out =)Co-Organizer of the hunt, Hempy, designer of ((RIPE)), had made this fairy last minute for the hunt, as she had just gotten a…

  • fifteen.

    10 May 2012 | 9:35 pm
    hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!freeheadband; evergreen group gift | *evergreen* | free to join, here.skin; al vulo group gift | <<AL VULO! Update Group | free to join, here.eyes; insufferable bastard | subscribo gift | here.top; sheep door group gift | Sheep Door | free to join, here.pants; tokidoki group gift | I Love Tokidoki | 150L join fee, here.bag; dew group gift | " DEW " Update Group | free to join, here.clutch; aleida | 0L | here.shoes; lethe | 0L | here.non freehair - boon, Boo Nakamura.pose - marukin, Valencia Southard.
 
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    The Metaverse Journal - virtual worlds news

  • Mini Diablo 3 Help Guide

    Lowell Cremorne
    16 May 2012 | 7:13 am
    Like the odd few hundred thousand others, I jumped into Diablo 3 at launch. It’s quite a bit of fun, but it’s also very challenging in parts. I thought as I went through I document some key strategies / tips to get you past particular hurdles. So read on below if you’re stuck! This post will grow as I progress through: apologies to non-players for this short interruption to normal programming. The Weeping Hollow: how do I defeat the group of Grotesque? This took a couple of goes but basically you just need to down one of them and when it explodes into corpse worms, the…

  • Frenzoo gets more funding for Me Girl

    Lowell Cremorne
    10 May 2012 | 7:50 am
    We’ve been following Frenzoo since 2009, and over that time the company has shifted very squarely into the mobile market. This week they’ve raised another $1 million of venture capital to primarily develop its ‘Me Girl’ 3D fashion applications (here’s a link to our 2010 story on the 3D fashion move Frenzoo made) The full press release reproduced for you below. Congrats to CEO (and expat Aussie) Simon Newstead and the team for their ongoing success – it’s no mean feat to keep the momentum going in the application space and they’ve managed it over…

  • Virtual Ability Mental Health Symposium 2012

    Lowell Cremorne
    23 Apr 2012 | 12:51 am
    I received a message today from Alice Krueger (SL:Gentle Heron) at Virtual Ability Inc, about an upcoming symposium. Save April 28 as the date – there’s an amazing array of speakers and topics. You can read the schedule below or check out Virtual Ability’s blog. The full details: Our society too often takes mental health for granted and too frequently stigmatizes people with mental health issues. The Virtual Ability Mental Health Symposium 2012, on Saturday, April 28, offers a variety of perspectives for thinking positively about mental health. Presentations will take place…

  • Federal Virtual Worlds moving beyond Second Life

    Lowell Cremorne
    22 Apr 2012 | 3:52 am
    Several years ago, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration maintained more than a dozen virtual environments for online visitors to explore in Second Life. Now it operates just one. For NOAA and other federal agencies, the focus of virtual world activity has moved beyond Second Life and diversified onto other platforms and gaming engines, according to Eric Hackathorn, a 3D Web designer for NOAA and one of the federal pioneers in virtual worlds. “Virtual worlds are in need of some rebranding,” Hackathorn told Federal Computer Week. “Historically, virtual worlds were…

  • Campus Tour wins US Virtual Worlds Challenge

    Lowell Cremorne
    10 Apr 2012 | 11:20 pm
    Congrats to Andrew Hughes and the team at Designing Digitally for their win in the 2012 Federal Virtual Worlds Challenge (see the full press release below). You can also see our own interview with Andrew from November last year right here.   Designing Digitally, Inc. Wins the 2012 Federal Virtual Worlds Challenge ITS INNOVATIVE VIRTUAL CAMPUS TOUR PRODUCT CAPTURED ACCOLADES FRANKLIN, OHIO – Designing Digitally, Inc. took first place honors in the Familiarization category in the 2012 Federal Virtual Worlds Challenge with its 3D virtual campus tour of the United States Air Force…
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  • My Dear… I’ve Got Sand In My Satin

    Love Trill
    16 May 2012 | 10:32 am
    The dream boat of a  floral dress I am wearing in this post is the latest group gift from Sascha’s Designs.  The group is 50L to join, but there are tons and tons of past group gifts and special members gifts to take advantage of.  I have been in this group for a long time, and I can honestly say the gifts have been fantastic every month!  This dress in particular is especially perfect for dancing as there are no long glitch pants – its just all leg!  I have accessorized this dress with a group gift from Crystal Line and a pair of group gift heels from Felicity, but I have…

  • Earth, Wind, & Fire

    Renee Lowenhart
    15 May 2012 | 9:21 pm
    I’ve been crazy busy this past week or so and haven’t had much time to sneak in SL.  This is a look I’ve been meaning to show for a while now.  The EarthWindFire outfit and Wicked hair are group gifts at EMO-tions.  There are tons of group gifts at EMO-tions, so pick them all up!  The Selena skin is a special MOJO Skin group gift.  The EMO-tions and MOJO Skin groups are free to join and reward members regularly. *EMO-tions: EarthWindFire Outfit (Group – L$0) http://slurl.com/secondlife/Hells%20End/100/177/24 *MOJO Skin: Springhy Skin (Group – L$0)…

  • Who’s A Salty Dog?

    Love Trill
    15 May 2012 | 10:47 am
    I found some really fun stuff today to share with you!! First, the outfit that I am wearing is called Sammy Jo and is made by Barbie Bitch.  It includes the very sexy short laced corset dress in aqua, gartered lace trimmed stockings and matching heeled boots.  This is the “This is Totally Me” hunt prize at Barbie Bitch and after locating the pink star icon in store, this outfit is yours too! The skin I am wearing is the latest group gift at JeSyLiLo and it’s quite pretty with it’s frosted lips and black lined eyes. My hair is not free, but close!  This is…

  • Spring Flowers & Fae Wedges

    Love Trill
    14 May 2012 | 10:45 am
    /me blinks and tries to see through my Monday morning eyes…  Wow, this was a fantastic group gift and subscribo gift weekend.  Everyone must love their Mommies, because Mother’s Day sure put the designers of SL in a generous mood Yesterday, Pixel Mode Subscribo members were sent the Fae Wedges in Faded as a free gift!  This gift is not available for redelivery, but if you are not a current subscriber – you should really get on it as they send out gifts once in a while and they are always fantastic!  I love these shoes so much, I have them in other colours The Spring…

  • Happy Mother’s Day!

    Love Trill
    13 May 2012 | 11:20 pm
    Hope all you Moms out there today had a fantastic RL day!  I am just peeking online for a few moments, taking a break from doting and being doted on lol to share a new group gift from Belleza and a fantastic hunt item too. First, the Lily V2 Medium skin is available for group members at Belleza!  It has an adorable springy makeup theme that is perfect for this time of year.  The group is 250L to join. The Madison Skirt in grey and the Poet Shirt in rose is the hunt prize you will be gifted with once you find the “This Is Totally Me” hunt icon which is a pink star at Sassy!
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  • What my lovely new mesh rail car looks like

    Prokofy Neva
    14 May 2012 | 6:30 pm
    What my lovely new mesh rail car looks like with message telling me "no rail here go to Tulliptree" Visit Sandbox Decorus (117, 27, 29) Posted via email from Prokofy's posterous

  • This is In Fact Where You Get Your Premium Gift

    Prokofy Neva
    14 May 2012 | 6:28 pm
    This is In Fact Where You Get Your Premium Gift Check this out! Visit Sandbox Decorus (87, 24, 60) Posted via email from Prokofy's posterous

  • Ravenglass Realm Beach

    Prokofy Neva
    12 May 2012 | 9:23 pm
    Ravenglass Realm Beach Check this out! Visit Ravenglass Realm (23, 159, 26) Posted via email from Prokofy's posterous

  • "An Emporium of Edge-Cases" and Ginsu's Super-Sad But Off-Point Posts

    Prokofy Neva
    12 May 2012 | 3:50 am
    While I was thinking of the legendary founders of Second Life like Mitch Kapor, I recalled Ginsu Linden (Gene Yoon), who wrote these supersad posts here and here calling Second Life a failure, and falling on his sword and blaming...

  • Where Has Mitch Kapor Been All of Our Second Lives?

    Prokofy Neva
    12 May 2012 | 1:14 am
    Mitch Kapor's avatar in Second Life. Screenshot by Fleep Tuque. Over on my other blog Wired State, I have an article Who Was Really Behind the Anti-SOPA Campaign? Not the Grassroots but the Astroturf Machines of Mitch Kapor. I think...
 
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    JUICYBOMB Second Life Fashion Blog

  • Mayfly Eyes, Liquid Light

    Gogo
    15 May 2012 | 5:28 pm
    Back when mesh eyes were new to the grid, I blogged the Mayfly (Deep Sky Eyes) mesh eyes, and they still remain one of my favorite mesh eyes. The textures from Mayfly are so realistic and the eyes comes with four different Whites choices, is scripted to re-size and also includes the texture eyes, if [...]

  • Nzuri, The Pay It Forward Project

    Gogo
    14 May 2012 | 4:31 pm
    After yesterday, I was tempted to write about how saddened and disheartened I am by fellow bloggers who I thought would support honest reviews cos that’s what we owe our readers. I can understand people criticizing my word choice sometimes, or suggesting that I might be more tactful, but did not expect that so many advocated [...]

  • Pixel Mode Fail

    Gogo
    13 May 2012 | 12:22 am
    A couple of weeks ago, pictures of Tya Fallingbridge’s T Town was previewed all over Flickr and Plurk, so I thought I would go check it out today. To my surprise, I am banned from the region! I mentioned this to my friend, who went to make sure the sim was not just closed to [...]

  • Gogo’s new Logitech M570 Wireless Trackball

    Gogo
    12 May 2012 | 7:49 pm
    I’ve been updating less frequently this week cos I’ve been super busy, and also, my old mouse was giving me major hand cramps! It was small and uncomfortable, so I splurged on a new Logitech M570 Wireless Trackball mouse! This is my first mouse with a trackball, so I’m still getting use to it, but [...]

  • FaMESHed

    Gogo
    10 May 2012 | 9:07 pm
    FaMESHed is a new monthly event that focuses on mesh items, and the first cycle is out now! I like events with some new designers involved, and there are definitely a few here that are not involved in any other events. I try to mix-and-match mesh items with non-mesh, but I only noticed this while [...]
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    Koinup: Second Life Places

  • Waters Edge

    15 May 2012 | 9:27 am
    http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Waters%20Edge/128/128/0

  • Angels

    13 May 2012 | 5:59 pm
    http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Angels/128/128/0

  • St Leviathans College

    13 May 2012 | 5:36 pm
    http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/St%20Leviathans%20College/128/128/0

  • Mizithra

    12 May 2012 | 7:45 pm
    http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Mizithra/128/128/0

  • Pullman

    12 May 2012 | 5:14 pm
    http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Pullman/128/128/0
 
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    EveryJoe » Play

  • Mint Julep Margarita

    Stephen Kersey
    4 May 2012 | 7:28 pm
    Tomorrow is the Kentucky Derby and Cinco de Mayo — two reasons to party on one day. If you are looking for a cocktail that covers you for both events, the Food Network/Cooking Channel has you covered with the Mint Julep Margarita. Mint Julep Margarita This recipe yields one large drink. Ingredients: 2 limes, each cut into 16 pieces 2 teaspoons superfine sugar 10 fresh mint leaves 2 ounces bourbon 1 ounce orange liqueur 1/4 cup seltzer Directions: Place the limes in a cocktail shaker. Sprinkle with the sugar and add the mint leaves. Muddle well, making sure the juice is really extracted…

  • Cinco de Mayo Margaritas

    Kori Ellis
    4 May 2012 | 7:18 pm
    Are you throwing a big bash for Cinco de Mayo tomorrow? Set up your bar with a variety of margarita recipes. From the classic margarita to the watermelon margarita, your guests will love these refreshing cocktails created with Cointreau. Classic Margarita Ingredients: 1 oz Cointreau 2 oz tequila 3/4 oz Fresh lime juice Directions: Shake and strain into a salt rimmed margarita glass Garnish: Lime slice Glass: Margarita glass The Cointreau MargaDita Ingredients: 1.5 oz Cointreau 1.5 oz Silver Tequila 1 oz Fresh Lime Juice 1/2 oz Monin Rose Syrup 1 pinch Chipotle Spice Directions: Shake over ice…

  • Summer Sips: Memorial Day Cocktail Recipes

    Kori Ellis
    25 Apr 2012 | 8:19 pm
    Memorial Day Weekend marks the official start of the summer social season. Whether you are hosting a family BBQ, cocktail party or day-time soiree, delicious drinks are a key aspect of any great warm weather event. Here are five fresh cocktails to make over Memorial Day Weekend plus some cool glassware to serve them in from Mary Elizabeth Arts. Tel Aviv Summer 1 oz. Vodka .5 oz. Tequila .5 oz. Cachaca .5 oz. lemon juice Splash of red grapefruit juice Lemongrass Spear for garnish Ciroc Cherry Blossom 1.25 oz. Ciroc Vodka .75 oz. pomegranate liqueur .75 oz. lemon juice .5 oz. simple syrup June…

  • Video: Frog Sitting Like a Person

    Stephen Kersey
    23 Apr 2012 | 12:24 am
    The next time you order frog legs, you should probably think of this YouTube video first. After watching it, I doubt you will be able to nibble on frog legs the same. How could you eat something that is so … human? In the video below, you will see a frog sitting like a person. The frog is sitting on a wood bench with his legs dangling over the side. As the cameraman films the frog, the animal doesn’t move. Instead, it just sits there looking like an average Joe. Here is the frog sitting like a person video: Post from: EveryJoe

  • Video: Girl Sent Flying By Plane

    Stephen Kersey
    19 Apr 2012 | 6:24 am
    Apparently, some people don’t understand that warning signs have a purpose. In the video below, watch as a group of people decide to try to stand up to the power of a jet engine … and fail. As it turned out, the lady was lucky not to be killed by her own stupidity. In Sint Maarten at the Princess Juliana International Airport, the planes take off right next to a beach. For fun, sometimes people try to hang onto the fence to see if they are stronger the the jet engine. It can be exhilarating … but it’s also very dangerous. In the video below, people begin to scatter…
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    Hiperia3D News

  • 173 Organized, partial and mirrored expressions for V4

    6 May 2012 | 4:30 pm
    Emma Alvarez is now a top seller at Renderosity. She has just released this product there. Only through next 15th, Caelis 173 Organized Expressions, new on the marketplace, at 30% off. Now, in addition to partial expressions, also mirrored... *** CLICK THE TITLE AND READ THE FULL STORY ***

  • 591 Poses For M4

    17 Apr 2012 | 12:32 am
    Check this new product in Renderosity marketplace. Only through next Tuesday 24, Homme 591 Organized Poses For M4, new on the marketplace, at 30% off. A pack of 591 poses for M4, including full body poses and partial poses for head and neck,... *** CLICK THE TITLE AND READ THE FULL STORY ***

  • Aenigma 93 Organized Expressions For Poser / DS

    24 Mar 2012 | 4:01 am
    I have released this product for Renderosity with my wife Emma Alvarez. Only through next Tuesday 27, Aenigma 93 Organized Expressions, new on the marketplace, at 27% off. They are full face and partial expressions. As the name says, it's a pack... *** CLICK THE TITLE AND READ THE FULL STORY ***

  • Poser Debut FREE TODAY ONLY

    21 Mar 2012 | 11:18 am
    Hurry! Just for today, Poser Debut is free at Content Paradise. Poser Debut is the lesser edition of Poser, very recommendable for those that did not use Poser before. Now it’s free for just 1 day if you download it now. p7u8b3g4e9n5w1z0 *** CLICK THE TITLE AND READ THE FULL STORY ***

  • Zoner Photo Studio 14 FREE

    28 Feb 2012 | 11:55 am
    One of the greatest free photo managers is now even better. Three months after releasing its flagship -Zoner Photo Studio 14 PRO, there is now a free edition of this all-in-one solution for all camera users. It is based on groundbreaking technologies... *** CLICK THE TITLE AND READ THE FULL STORY ***
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    Gwyn's Home

  • Towards a National OpenSimulator Grid

    Gwyneth Llewelyn
    23 Apr 2012 | 7:25 pm
    A bit over a month ago, Andabata Mandelbrot, addressing a Portuguese-speaking audience, launched an interesting challenge: let national OpenSim grid operators join forces together into a single OpenSim grid. Simple as that.It shouldn’t come as a surprise for OpenSim users and operators. After all, isn’t “joining forces” what OpenSim is good at? I mean the ability to HyperGrid across grids, which works more and more flawlessly as time goes by and newer versions are released. These days, it’s so easy to get some clothes on one grid, then move to another, buy some…

  • Working for free for Linden Lab’s blog

    Gwyneth Llewelyn
    10 Feb 2012 | 10:42 am
    Neufreistadt. Where not all content was done for free.By the time you’re reading this, it’s old news: Linden Lab, in an unexpected twist of sudden inspiration, called for bloggers to submit articles to their own official blog.Unless you’re an avid participant on the LL forums, you might have missed that completely. Fortunately, thanks to people like Chesnut Rau, the message quickly spread among the SLogosphere. And if there is a common trend among all the articles, it’s that bloggers are completely against the idea.(...)Read the rest of Working for free for Linden…

  • Paying content creators with micropayments

    Gwyneth Llewelyn
    6 Feb 2012 | 5:55 am
    A few years ago, I wrote about models to pay for content creators in this age where everybody wants to share content for free — except for the entertainment industry, of course, that seems to look upon 2012 as the year to come down with a legal jackhammer on top of anyone doing something that can be remotely called “piracy” or “content theft”, even if the Internet is destroyed in the process. Back then, I left the question open on how exactly to achieve that.Two years later, I pursued this same topic, by showing how Second Life®’s economy model, based on…

  • SOPA/PIPA revisited

    Gwyneth Llewelyn
    22 Jan 2012 | 7:04 pm
    Well, the breaking news is that the US Senate has postponed the voting on PIPA. This should give everybody a good reason involved to think twice on this whole issue.I was replying to Prokofy Neva’s pro-SOPA article but unfortunately his setup tends to eat up my long-winded comments (it’s not his fault — I blame it on the technology). His argumentation is based on a few reasonable assumptions. Second Life creators, exposed to piracy (via CopyBot and similar technologies), should be actually happy with legislation that protects their work even further. This is quite a legitimate…

  • SOPA will backfire

    Gwyneth Llewelyn
    14 Jan 2012 | 11:54 am
    Click here to view the embedded video.While discussing SOPA with Moon Adamant, after reading this nice article from the WordPress gang, we came to the following conclusion: are legislators so stupid as not to foresee that all this will backfire?Imagine that I’m ruthless Zuckerberg, the kind of guy who kills the animals he eats, and face being threatened to have Facebook shut down by Disney and Sony Entertainment and Warner Bros because some silly user — out of his 800 million users — just posted a link to pirated content from the entertainment industry giants. What will Zuckerberg…
 
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    Architecture +

  • Trimble Aquires Sketchup from Google

    10 May 2012 | 10:44 am
    SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 26, 2012—Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire SketchUp®, one of the most popular 3D modeling tools in the world, from Google (NASDAQ: GOOG). The transaction is expected to close in the second quarter of 2012, subject to customary closing conditions and expiration of the waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act. While financial terms are not being dhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifisclosed the transaction is not expected to be material to 2012 earnings per…

  • ESRI & City Engine

    10 May 2012 | 6:56 am
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    22 Mar 2012 | 8:24 am
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    9 Mar 2012 | 8:24 pm
    Interview with Oz LindenJessica Lyon, from the Phoenix - Firestorm developers, sits down with Oz Linden for a wide-ranging interview about Linden Lab policies for all Third-Party-Viewer developers. Thanks to Jessica and Oz for taking the time and making a big effort to get the right information out to residents about policy changes.via: http://treet.tv/shows/specials/episodes/firestorm-07mar12Bookmark this:

  • Model Cities

    4 Feb 2012 | 6:18 pm
    Scale model of the city of Saint-Omer.PARIS—When defending his realm, Louis XIV not only thought big, but he also worked in visionary 3D. In 1668, his war minister, the Marquis de Louvois, commissioned a large relief map of the port city of Dunkirk to be used in planning the city's fortifications. Others followed—huge exact-scale models of frontier cities and their surroundings—hills, gullies, rivers, forests, villages, roads, farms—that might sustain an enemy siege. The royal collection of scale-model cities grew under Louis XV, Louis XVI and both Napoleons, until modern warfare,…
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    Second Life Roleplay

  • Avoiding Conflict in Role Play

    Salvatore Otoro
    12 May 2012 | 11:32 am
    Ophidia and Domino spar Any type of role play can eventually lead to conflict that will be not neccesarily be IC but OOC.  Learning how to manage these conflicts is needed if you plan to continue the role play with these individuals.  If the problems are not resolved, they could fester until they spill into IC situations or the role play will no longer be fun.  Conflicts with other players in the role play should never become OOC conflict.  Besides affecting your role play, it affects the play of all the others as well. Today I stumbled upon this forum posting that explains clearly How to…

  • SCRUPLZ April/May issue is out

    Salvatore Otoro
    2 May 2012 | 3:39 pm
    Scruplz Cover Issue 23 Don’t miss the latest issue of SCRUPLZ featuring my review of the new vampire RP sim Venexia.

  • Fantasy Faire 2012: In Darkness and In Light

    Salvatore Otoro
    28 Apr 2012 | 1:01 pm
    Fantasy Faire 2012 is still going strong and it all ends this Sunday.  Not only are you donating to a great cause with every purchase of a donation item but there are events, a hunt, and other activities around the nine sims. Today  Lourdes and I will be sharing this post.  She’ll be discussing the fashion side of it on her blog LourdesDenimore.com while I will show you the role play side of it. I present to you all the HUDs from Solarium, sponsor of the Shifting Sands sim at Fantasy Faire 2012.   Solarium sells HUDSs of all kinds for role play.  They are not only good for weapons…

  • Fantasy Faire 2012 Is Here

    Salvatore Otoro
    25 Apr 2012 | 12:48 am
    Stretching Out At the Mayan temple Fantasy Faire 2012 started with a bang, literally.  Before it had opened it had already raised over 1 Million L$.  That is the power of Relay for Life and the reason that so much time is taken to put together this fair.  It’s all for a great cause and every donation counts. Lourdes and I are covering Fantasy Faire 2012 as we did last year and we are cross-linking to our blogs.  You can see her Fantasy Faire blog post here.  There are so many great items available that you might go broke halfway through the 9 different sims.  Yes, the items are…

  • Fantasy Faire 2012 Mini Preview

    Salvatore Otoro
    20 Apr 2012 | 10:41 pm
    Fantasy Faire 2012 In little less than 16 hours, Fantasy Faire 2012 will open to the public and I assure you that you will be simply amazed at what lies in store for you.  Not only are there lots of great items to purchase but the builds are simply some of the best work I’ve seen in Second Life.  Enjoy these glimpses of what you can see for yourself starting tomorrow at 12 noon SLT. Lets not forget that we do this to raise money for Relay For Life which donates the funds to the American Cancer Society.  So far, over 1 million Lindens have been raised and the faire has yet to…
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    Designing Digitally, Inc.

  • The Gamification of Learning and Instruction: Game-based Methods and Strategies for Training and Education - By Karl Kapp

    admin
    14 May 2012 | 9:46 am
    Designing Digitally, Inc. would like to congratulate one of the most influential writers in our e-learning, serious games, and virtual world industry today. Karl Kapp has done it again with his new book titled The Gamification of Learning and Instruction: Game-based Methods and Strategies for Training and Education. This book is the ultimate guide to explaining how and why to gamify your learning for government agencies and corporate clients. In the book Kapp explains the fundamentals of how to create effective gamified learning. Organizations often think they are creating gamification with…

  • Vermont DMV Sees 35% Increase in passing permit exams

    admin
    3 May 2012 | 3:58 pm
    At Designing Digitally, Inc. we strive to ensure that the developments we create will provide a positive return on investment to the clients that we serve. Often times the ROI takes awhile to come to fruition, but regardless of time the ROI continues to be positive for each client that we work with. This cannot be anymore true for the State of Vermont DMV’s online permit drivers course. Designing Digitally, Inc. built the Vermont DMV drivers course in 2010 and it has now been live for a year and a half. The stats are in from this effort and it is apparent that by choosing Designing…

  • President Obama Directs White House Office to Study the Education & Skills Development Potential of Video Gaming

    elizabeth
    27 Apr 2012 | 9:39 am
    We were pretty excited when we learned about the initiative being pursued at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy by Constance Steinkuehler, a senior policy analyst there with several advanced degrees who has received her orders directly from President Obama himself. It seems our President is aware that entire generations are now growing up schooled in the use of video gaming, and that there is much potential for using the medium for education and training. Or, as Mr. Obama said himself to Tech Boston Academy students in March of 2011, “I want you guys to be stuck on…

  • Get Gamified! - Gamify your E-learning

    admin
    18 Apr 2012 | 2:31 pm
    Gamified may not be a word that you use in everyday conversation, but if you are planning on offering e-learning modules or game based training then it should be one that you learn. Gamifying is basically the process of enhancing online learning experiences by turning the presentation of material from a standard text or PowerPoint type of presentation into a more engaging, interactive immersive experience. This can be through the use of 2D or 3D simulations, serious games, alternative reality games and scenario based training. Designing Digitally, Inc. specializes in gamification of…

  • Designing Digitally, Inc. Wins the 2012 Federal Virtual Worlds Challenge

    admin
    11 Apr 2012 | 9:25 am
    ITS INNOVATIVE VIRTUAL CAMPUS TOUR PRODUCT CAPTURED ACCOLADES FRANKLIN, OHIO – Designing Digitally, Inc. took first place honors in the Familiarization category in the 2012 Federal Virtual Worlds Challenge with its 3D virtual campus tour of the United States Air Force Academy. The Ohio-based tech firm used its 3D Virtual Campus Tours product to create a virtual replica of the campus that the Air Force Academy now uses for recruitment purposes. Designing Digitally, Inc.’s submission for the challenge was two-part. The first featured the first generation product the Air Force…
 
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    Pooky Amsterdam's Blog

  • Vector Inspectors - Public Service Announcement

    Pooky Amsterdam
    2 May 2012 | 11:29 am
    Vector Inspector School Assembly ProgramMachinima and real-time animation is an art form and more, it is a great storytelling genre. The ability to screen capture what is in a virtual 360 degree environment makes a lot possible for us as film and video makers. Using the Second Life engine as our animation platform means we utilize every nuance we can to craft our films. Public Safety and Health concerns are also our concerns, as parents and citizens.We have just finished working on a project which is our first Public Service Announcement (PSA) for the San Gabriel Valley Mosquito Vector…

  • Merv Griffen of The Internet

    Pooky Amsterdam
    17 Apr 2012 | 8:24 am
    If the Technology didn’t exist, the moment would have created it. OnTheAir.com is on that wavelength. This is viewer call in with web cam application programming that gives us the chance to host shows with audience participation. In some ways it is like call in radio except radio doesn't need Hair, Lighting and Makeup. Being an avatar working in a virtual world, with camera ready features doesn't need that either. Log In Viewer Entertainment is something that resonates pretty deep with me, Second Life has given me a tremendous opportunity which might just be ready to port, so I'm going to…

  • Slenquiring minds want to know...

    Pooky Amsterdam
    21 Mar 2012 | 2:00 pm
    The Second Life Enquirer interviewed me recently! As an admirer of the publication, for their insight and forthright reporting on things we need to know, I was really proud to be in this -Please have a read and feel free to comment -This is a stunning platform and moment in time for those of us who are digital to our virtual bones!http://www.slenquirer.com/2012/03/spotlight-on-pooky-amsterdam-ceo-of.html

  • Second Life & the FPS (First Person Story)

    Pooky Amsterdam
    28 Jan 2012 | 8:03 am
    The $10 million Qualcomm XPrize  is for a“Star Trek like” medical tricorder. Would this have occurred without Star Trek?  Though I am not sure to the answer, I do know that science fiction is where new invention inspires reality.  Science fiction has storytelling at its core, we have utilized these stories and the gadgets within for templates of the future.Writers of Science Fiction have been able to tap some stream of consciousness to come, in the incredibly rich veins of creation they mine and bring forth. Amongst those in the public are the scientists, who have an…

  • Cartoonification

    Pooky Amsterdam
    2 Jan 2012 | 8:14 am
    Word - Up is the part of The 1st Question where our esteemed panel contributes to the lexicon with their own originals. Taking off on a new buzzword, next year's trending word, (as I see it) provided the title for a recent article in MediaPost. Cartoonification – New Trend 2012Science and technology are intertwined with animation and magic.In 1936, Walt Disney patented the Art of Animation - using the Multiplane Camera in a way that allowed animators to reuse backgrounds and other unchanged portions of an animated film. This improved the quality of the finished film as well as cut time and…
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    AVENUE Magazine

  • Homme Styles :: AVENUE Magazine April 2012

    30 Apr 2012 | 1:14 pm
    "Colour Me Bad"Edge of Style | Page 112Boe Cortes "Cadeau Lumineux"AVENUE Homme | Page 128Cade Nansen Read the full issue online at issuu.com/avenue For regular in-world updates, please join AVENUE Magazine Readers group. Click here to read more from AVENUE

  • Femme Styles :: AVENUE Magazine April 2012

    30 Apr 2012 | 1:08 pm
    "Fables"miStyle | Page 46Miaa Rebane "La Boheme"Trendspotting | Page 56Dantelicia Ethaniel "le couleur influence"Fashion Forward | Page 68Diconay Boa "Springing with Color"Blogspot | Page 104Absinthe Read the full issue online at issuu.com/avenue For regular in-world updates, please join AVENUE Magazine Readers group. Click here to read more from AVENUE

  • AVENUE Magazine April 2012 Exclusive - Zanze

    28 Apr 2012 | 7:13 pm
     AVENUE Magazine is proud to introduce ZanzE, the newest hot spot to hit the grid. ZanzE is ready for it's debut as a picturesque sim which features everything from a shopping district, runway, photographic services and club.Check out this up close and personal interview with ZanzE owner Zzoie Zee, as she takes the grid by storm. Read it online issuu.com/avenue Click here to read more from AVENUE

  • Rejuvenation :: AVENUE Magazine April 2012

    26 Apr 2012 | 1:30 pm
    "Boudoir's Rejuvination"Cover Story | Page 34Written by: Jesika ContepomiPhotography by: Kallisto DestinyAVENUE revisits the design house of Boudoir by sisters Vitabela Dubrovna and Precious Restless.  Oh, how the world of fashion has changed for these sisters since our last cover interview in November of 2010.  As stated before, few designers in Second Life® can boast designing success in both worlds. Boudoir happens to be one of the few that can not only boast this, but they have the published success in both worlds to show for it. "Redefining Sexy"Fashion Icon | Page 78Writer:…

  • AVENUE Magazine April 2012

    18 Apr 2012 | 7:50 pm
    Spring is a time of rebirth, join AVENUE as we let the colors of spring awaken our inner creativity.Cover Story | BoudoirFashion Icon | Eboni KhanFeature Designer | House of FoxModel of the Month | Vikeejeah XevionDJ of the Month | Summer DeadlightFeatured Artist | Alan BradyWishing you a colorful and vibrant April. Spring forth with style and passion! Read it online @ issuu.com/avenue For regular in-world updates, please join AVENUE Magazine Readers group. Click here to read more from AVENUE
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    Hypergrid Business

  • Shakeups on the hypergrid

    Maria Korolov
    15 May 2012 | 9:26 pm
    There was a lot of turmoil on the hypergrid this past month, as many smaller grids disappeared, and OSGrid did [...]

  • Five tips for better provenance

    Maria Korolov
    11 May 2012 | 7:13 pm
    If you work in Second Life, you don’t have to worry about provenance. The Lindens take care of it with [...]

  • 7 ways to bootstrap a VW business

    Maria Korolov
    7 May 2012 | 11:36 pm
    There’s an old saying that 90 percent of new businesses fail within a year, and they fail because of a [...]

  • Should virtual environments be realistic?

    Chris Collins
    7 May 2012 | 2:23 pm
    I have been involved with education in virtual worlds for several years now, and at discussions and conferences I often [...]

  • English learning grid launched

    Maria Korolov
    7 May 2012 | 12:12 pm
    An English teacher based in southern China has launched an OpenSim grid for English students. Currently, over 100 of his [...]
 
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