Recent Comments:
Not so much to do with us
Massively
Aug 25th 2008 2:16PM "in the last hundred years"? This has been the news model all the way back to cave paintings...
Second Life shutters orientation islands
Massively
Aug 11th 2008 8:45PM I found the most recent incarnation of the OIs bewildering, and that was as a veteran. (I quite liked the Melting Dots style ones they A/B tested awhile back, which had a clear path for the early stages, followed by a space to try things out, but I gather those didn't do any better from a retention standpoint.) I'm not sure dumping people onto a somewhat revamped Help Island is really an improvement; if that were the final plan, I'd be extremely concerned. As a stopgap... you could do worse.
Calling all cultures? Not any more
Massively
Jun 4th 2008 12:56PM "I think what LL is saying that since its a PG event with Teens from the Teen Grid"
Oh, come now; now you're just making stuff up. There's supposed to be a seperate celebration on the Teen Grid; the twain are NOT meeting for this.
Microsoft's historic first
Massively
Apr 25th 2008 1:31PM "The other possibility is that the historical part is that it's Microsoft's first time doing such a thing in Second Life -- in which case the statement isn't actively false, only highly misleading."
I'm not averse to poking fun at Microsoft or clueless marketing claims in general, but in this case I think it's pretty clear that this is the intended meaning.
Dwell On It: Malaprop-riate
Massively
Apr 14th 2008 5:04AM For those who have not yet had the pleasure, I would refer you to Ordinal Malaprop's journal:
http://ordinalmalaprop.com/engine/
And the Caledon Wiki:
http://www.caledonwiki.com/index.php?title=Main_Page
Linden Lab lowers prices, estate owners rebel
Massively
Apr 10th 2008 12:30PM Before you get [i]too[/i] excited, it should be noted that you need to own an ordinary island in order to buy an Openspace region.
Second Life's best viewer ceases development. The "mad patcher" has had it.
Massively
Apr 7th 2008 9:19AM Nicholaz addressed the question of why he wouldn't accept a job with Linden Lab five months ago, in this entry:
http://nicholaz-beresford.blogspot.com/2007/11/jayrs-questions.html
I'd been hoping against hope that he'd fix 1.19 the way he did 1.18, but I certainly understand why he's had enough. Alas.
Linden Lab asserts control of names and images
Massively
Mar 25th 2008 2:10PM While the increased scrutiny may end up putting the kibosh on many of the fine T-shirts and mugs I sell -- which might not be terrible, considering that I've been losing money on the shop -- I'd have to say that this isn't really a policy change. Honest. Take a look at their policy from last year:
http://web.archive.org/web/20070306120714/secondlife.com/corporate/trademark/
(And particularly the links therein to
http://web.archive.org/web/20070306104641/secondlife.com/corporate/trademark/usage.php
and
http://web.archive.org/web/20070225163953/secondlife.com/corporate/trademark/faq.php )
Note, for example: "If you want to include all or part of a Linden trademark in a domain name, you have to receive written permission from Linden."
About the only difference I can see in this announcement -- aside from clearer guidelines about acceptable uses -- is that they're now explicitly claiming the abbreviation "SL" (and the new "inSL") as a trademark. (Previously, it may or may not have been covered by "among others" in their list of trademarks.) I suspect the horse is too far out of the barn for that one, but I've been wrong before.
