As an ageing resident of Second Life I am happy to see this stat “The median age is about 33. The older you are, the more likely you are to continue using SL.” written by Giff of Electric Sheep via Corey at Linden
“In any 7-day period, about 15% of residents write code. The monthly total is equivalent to the amount of code in MS Office.”
Monthly Archives: August 2006
Sometimes We’re So American
You don’t get many places that are much more English than Hursley village, with the little post office, family butchers, pub and church. Even the IBM offices are nicely hidden behind trees. There are always little things inside Hursley, however, that remind you that we’re definitely part of a US company. Last week these little stickers appeared in the toilets across the site.
Rest Room? Since when did anyone this side of Greenland ever use the term “Rest Room”. 🙂
CBS go all second life
This CBS article is crisp and captures some of the main points. It also features Philip Rosedale getting to say “Yes we just call the FBI” when asked about the hackers and griefers in Second Life.
I now have a little sarcastic saying everytime we see some mainstream media refering to all things metaverse. “Yeah but there’s probably nothing in it”. The SL part with the anchor man was created by the electric sheep company.
Linden Labs now have a consolidated blog and new exploit reporting process
Linden Labs have combined their official Second Life blogs to this one
The most recent post is one about the new feature to let residents report exploits, or hacking opportunites directly through the Second Life client. Hence removing the pressure and problems of people sometimes posting the exploit on a public forum in order to get it sorted out.
This is an interesting extension of the principle of the residents policing the behaviour and looks of individuals, as an exploit may have been discovered but not actually used by anyone.
Anyway, one for all interested parties to add to their RSS reader lists.