You don't see nearly the amount of coverage of Second Life (or as we call it in these parts, PlayStation Home's creepy, aggressively pornographic uncle) these days as you used to, and BBC did a little digging to find out why. Their discovery? Well, not to put too fine a point on it, but Second Life sucks. It's overly complicated to control, it's full of some truly horrific human beings, there are many better social networking hubs and (perhaps most importantly) companies that sunk a bunch of money into it rarely got their investments back. What the BBC seems to be implying is that Second Life was largely a media-created phenomenon, with journalists and public figures so smitten by the idea of a virtual world, no one stopped to notice that it was a wretched hive of scum and villainy. Besides, everybody knows that HiPiHi is where it's at. BBC asks: What happened to Second Life? originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read |...
- C. K. Sample III
"Over 300 works by deceased sci-fi artist Peter Elson have been scanned and put online. Above: his magnificent art for the Kim Stanley Robinson titles: The Martians (Elson's last work); Red Mars; Green Mars; Blue Mars. Elson died of a heart attack painting a mural for Butlins."
- Greg GuitarBuster
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@ActuallyNPH activeworlds.com 3d virtual reality using 2 bots and a tourist & 2 bots trying to pick up each other for fun times at home - http://twitter.com/justin2...
Моему сайту уже 3 года, счетчик Li.ru стоит там уже больше 2.5 лет. За все это время меня очень интересовало, что это за пункты такие - переходы "с каталогов и рейтингов" (сайт зарегистрирован в ЯК, Рамблер Топ 100, переходы есть, но цифры там почти всегда были нулями, хотя два раза я там видел один ресурс среднего по качеству содержания, вроде Cybertown, откуда были переходы), а также "adwords". Последнее начал использовать несколько дней назад, думал, что это отслеживание переходов с рекламы. Видимо, это не так, раз счетчик в переходах показывает рекламу, как клик с "googleads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/ads". Так вот, это "баг или фича"? remu Долгов: "У меня нет задачи победить Яндекс". Интервью umkalive Долгов: "У меня нет задачи победить Яндекс". Интервью remu Долгов: "У меня нет задачи победить Яндекс". Интервью Gamer Групповые страдания !Alter Ego Групповые страдания
I have some experience with it, being the person who made the linked set of pictures. That set is old. Twinity has grown and improved a great deal since then. There's a Twinity person on friendfeed, his name is Andrew Peters. http://friendfeed.com/aplink
- SuezanneC Baskerville
@SCB Btw this is not your real name is it? If so it's tres tres cool :)
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
@SCB and what is your overall impression about it? Worth spending some time for me to investigate? It appears that you are very active in these avatar worlds.
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
Anyone wanting first hand knowledge of the current virtual world scene should try Twinity. It doesn't take a lot of time to check it out. Twinity has tie-ins to the real world as part of it's design, and has builds of parts of several real cities, one being Berlin. Those who can handle using a program with either a Chinese interface or an only partially translated into English interface...
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- SuezanneC Baskerville
@SCB Interesting. That does sound quite interesting. I shall definitely check it out. Thanks for your detailed write-up!
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
