A change is as good as a holiday, they say. Seriously, I don't actually know anyone who says this other than myself; though I'm assured that there are some folks out there who do.

With that tragically underutilized platitude in mind, then, last week I posed a question to a spread of well-known virtual environment users (at least to those that I felt would actually respond) and collected the responses.

The question put to the respondents was "What's the single thing that the operators/developers could do to make you feel more satisfied with their virtual environment offering; what thing would help an operator keep you as a customer, or that would make some other operator more appealing than the one or ones you already have?"

Continue reading The Virtual Whirl: Vox virtualis

The Virtual Whirl: Vox virtualis originally appeared on Massively on Sat, 08 May 2010 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Ordinal Malaprop, Second Life's foremost scientific intellect has been hard at work for many weeks analyzing and cataloging Second Life's most intimate workings. In a special report, she has divulged the fruits of her diverse and manifold investigations into the very heart of the grid, so that all her fellows may learn and profit from from these revelations.

Every user should familiarize themselves with these cosmological mechanics, for the value of such learning can in no way be underestimated.

"Knowledge is power" -- Sir Francis Bacon

How does the grid really work? originally appeared on Massively on Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Cel Edman (aka Elout de Kok outside of Second Life) has withdrawn his popular, and free displacement map creation tool Sculptypaint for several days citing piracy of the packs of textures that he sells as the root cause, as well as slow and half-hearted response to DMCA notices by Linden Lab.

While Edman doesn't name specific names of those stealing the texture packs that he sells to fund development and distribution of the popular tool, he does finger one specific group for distributing his commercial products, a group called the Mental Mentors.

Continue reading Second Life tool suspended, author blames Linden Lab's DMCA procedures, mentor piracy

Second Life tool suspended, author blames Linden Lab's DMCA procedures, mentor piracy originally appeared on Massively on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

• 9am - 10am - Avatar as a Personal Brand
  Speakers: Torley Linden, Celebrity Trollop, and Saeya Nyanda
  Moderator: Haver Cole
• 10am - 11am - Open Discussion on Avatar and Brand Identity
• 11am - 12pm - Persona and Identity Transparency in Business
  Speakers: Ordinal Malaprop, Forseti Svarog
• 12pm - 1pm - Open Discussion and Gallery Showing of Avatar Showcase Winners
• 1pm - 2pm - Non-Human Avatars
  Speakers: NeoBokrug Elytis, Kumi Kuhr, Michi Lumin
  Moderator: Adri Saarinen
• 2pm - 3pm - Open Discussion and Gallery Showing of You and Your Avatar photos
• 3pm - 5pm - Wind Down Mixer and Discussions
  Music and entertainment by DJ Doubledown Tandino

The Second Life/Orange Island Identity Summit originally appeared on Massively on Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.