Posts tagged dusan-writer 
The Virtual Whirl: Community guide to Virtual Worlds
Welcome to The Virtual Whirl, a new weekly Massively column covering virtual environments generally. The term 'virtual world' is slowly seeing less use, being supplanted by the more general 'virtual environment', but the world term still has a fair bit of life left in it. Virtual environments ...
Linden Lab, then and now: Tools, policy, self-perception and anthropology
During 2005, sociocultural anthropologist Thomas Malaby performed an ethnographic study at Linden Lab. Not of Second Life and its users, per se, but of Linden Lab itself, as a key component in the collective structure in and around Second Life. Malaby found an organization whose actions, functions, ...
Second Life grid protocol leaks avatar locations?
According to Dusan Writer, the Instant Messaging portion of the Second Life grid network protocols contains location information about every avatar who sends an IM to you. It's been known for some time that the fields designed to encapsulate that information were present (though only the estate ...
Lab's teasing 'placeholer': Xbox, PS3, iPhone?
Dusan Writer has spotted an HTML comment in the source for search.secondlife.com which says "<!-- placeholer page for XBOX, PS3, and iPhone versions of client when they launch next real soon now -->" Definitely quite the tease. Certainly, Second Life can be made to run on a PS3 (and there's at ...
Contest for newbie viewer UI
Dusan Writer has decided to put his money where his mouth is and hold a competition for UI designs for a newbie-viewer, offering a total L$800,000 prize-money for the top three designs. You don't need to be a coder to participate. This is about designs, so mock-up images are what's required. If ...
