This week there's been a flurry of activity by a number of Australian Second Life residents on ABC Island this week. That activity has led to the establishment of a blog and forum, both called 'Auntie's Avatars'. It's early days with not a lot of content but hopefully it'll enhance the already active in-world community that already exists on ABC Island. … [Read more...] about Auntie’s Avatars
Australian News
Virtual Combat Expo
Apollo Case is an Australian Second Life Resident who owns Armory Island, one of the more popular haunts for avatars who like their weapons. He recently sent me some information on the 3rd Annual Combat Expo coming up in May this year. Apollo is touting the expo as focusing on anything to do with virtual combat - “We want to help in-world creators raise their corporate … [Read more...] about Virtual Combat Expo
A year ago on The Metaverse Journal
We interviewed Gary Hayes (SL: Gary Hazlitt) about his involvement with the Telstra and ABC presences in Second Life, and a whole lot more. … [Read more...] about A year ago on The Metaverse Journal
Episode 1 of TMJ Podcast
It's taken a while but I'm proud to announce that first edition of the Metaverse Journal Podcast is now available: [display_podcast] We're working on being listed in the podcast directory of iTunes but in the meantime, you can subscribe to the podcast RSS feed here. As Jovin very handily says in the comments below, pasting the link into iTunes ('Advanced' menu - 'Subscribe to … [Read more...] about Episode 1 of TMJ Podcast
VastServer announced
VastPark is continuing its steady journey to open beta, with the company claiming a successful stress test of its servers. Additionally, they've also announced VastServer: "Similar to a web server, VastServer serves up IMML, an XML based Virtual Web equivalent to HTML. It acts as the message rely between all the users on the site so they can interact with each other and see … [Read more...] about VastServer announced