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Massively giving away two top-end Razer mousing surfaces!
Massively
Oct 6th 2008 10:49AM Usually about 3 hours. More on a weekend or if I'm under a lot of stress.
The Daily Grind: Read and understood
Massively
Sep 16th 2008 9:46AM Nope, don't read 'em, don't scan 'em. Yes, I feel a twinge about agreeing to something I haven't read, and about saying I've read something I haven't.
But in the end, I take the same fatalistic approach that recursive and dandellion have.
Hands on: The Second Life SLim client is here
Massively
Sep 3rd 2008 8:47PM And now http://secondlife.com/SLim/ is gone. Good riddance. I thought it said (a few hours ago, when I downloaded the whole shebang at work) that voice did not yet work. FAIL. Of course, none of the instructions on the page matched what actually happened when I ran the two apps.
I was able to IM someone not on my friends list, who may have been in SLim at the time. This was before my friends list loaded. I was later able to IM with an alt (on my friends list) running the trunk viewer on the same machine. But neither SLim nor the trunk showed correct presence, and it took a couple tries for the IM to go through. I had a successful conversation with me once it went through, however.
I also went to the help menu and was sent to the Vivox Connector help pages, which were of no help, of course.
Linden Lab staff gagged? Unable to post to official blog
Massively
Aug 27th 2008 10:22AM My first thought on seeing Torley's personal blog post was "about time for changes in communication policy." But it does seem extreme to totally cut off communications in the process of improving them. My optimistic self hopes someone with some sense proposed a good, solid communications policy (with, oh, I dunno, scheduling, accountability, standards, editing) and the Linden Taoists are up in arms about it, holding it back, but shortly we'll see a much improved set of communications feeds.
But sadly, my guess is that it's just more of the same: bad planning, bad execution, and extremely bad communication, both internally and externally.
What Second Life means to me
Massively
Aug 25th 2008 7:57PM So, let's get this straight: Linden Research, Inc., is preparing a promotional video about their only product, to be shown in public in 10-12 days, and they haven't yet publicly invited this input from customers? Oh, yeah, right, that'll be some video.
Will it be thrown together at the last minute, or is the request for customer input just customer manipulation with little actual effect on the final video?
Peering Inside: The Second Life year in review (part 10)
Massively
Jun 23rd 2008 7:23PM Thank you for a fine review of the past year. Brava!
Massively's Age of Conan launch day giveaway
Massively
May 20th 2008 8:47AM I'm relatively inexperienced in MMOs but am active in SL, and I'm always curious about what cutting-edge virtual environments (games or not) are like.
Second Life Daily News
Massively
Mar 19th 2008 10:51AM I love the photos on your news roundups. Is there any way to identify where they were taken? Sometimes I really want to go visit.
