An interesting morning, with Linden Lab CEO Rod Humble and myself being invited to appear on the Kyle and Jackie O show. For Australian readers, you've probably heard about Kyle Sandilands in particular, so I went into the interview with eyes wide open on how balanced the interview would be. As expected it was a predictable angle, paraphrased as "Hey, look at those freaky … [Read more...] about Rod Humble (and I) talk SL on Australian radio about Second Life
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Surfing the virtual world hype
Riding the hype wave of a new technology with a “world-first” isn’t exactly unusual. We’ve seen this a lot with Second Life, right? But there’s actually other, more interesting lessons to be learned. Firstly, the newspapers and magazines don’t really check if you’re first, so if you want you can just copy what someone else is doing. This happened a whole heck of a lot. If … [Read more...] about Surfing the virtual world hype
Virtual sex brings ’em in
Over the past few days Second Life has reached a new peak concurrency of more than 76 thousand. The reason being cited is recent stories on a divorce resulting from virtual adultery. It's not suprising and it's backed up by an Australian Second Life resident who spends a significant amount of time mentoring new users. In a brief discussion with him this afternoon he confirmed … [Read more...] about Virtual sex brings ’em in
Shadows on the wall, mimes in the street
"… their avatars were less coy. While flesh and blood reporters and photographers banged on the door of the couple's homes, virtual ones were trying to doorstep …" " … one of the South West staff who "controlled" Meggy, " … our characters started chatting and it was different. … Amy's character was much more confident in the game than she was in real life."" " … his … [Read more...] about Shadows on the wall, mimes in the street
Second Life – on the wane for aussies?
Asher Moses from the Sydney Morning Herald has run a story titled 'Few lives left for Second Life'. It's based on research undertaken by the Queensland University of Technology's Kim MacKenzie, who's completing her honours thesis on Second Life and business. The research findings aren't surprising in a lot of respects - there are significant areas of Second Life that are ghost … [Read more...] about Second Life – on the wane for aussies?