Linden Lab

Lively: Second Life killer?

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

Google publically launched “Lively” which everyone and her grandmother is comparing to Second Life. This is not the right comparision - Lively is actually far more similar to IMVU than Second Life.
There’s no user generated content. There’s no economy. And while embedding a 3D space on your website is kind of fun and novel, [...]

Group changes in 1.19

Sunday, January 13th, 2008

A few weeks ago a bunch of blogs swarmed the Second Life issue tracker “JIRA” to help pump up the request for more than 25 groups. I’ve been following the traffic on the Second Life developer’s email list, and I thought you might want to read about some of the planned changes to group functionality [...]

Computer security alert: QuickTime flaw

Sunday, December 2nd, 2007

I promise I won’t make a regular habit of posting articles like these, but I felt like this is serious enough to break away from our regular programming.
You probably saw the alert the Lindens put up about the QuickTime security flaw if you’ve logged into Second Life recently, but on Fashion Emergency and some other [...]

SL Voice beta: Drop by and say “Hi!”

Thursday, March 29th, 2007

Linden Lab widened the voice beta yesterday, making it official with this post on the Second Life blog. I downloaded the beta voice enabled viewer last night and after some really annoying problems getting my various hardware components to work correctly — especially the microphone — I finally got all of the issues worked out [...]

The Lindens did a release, and all I got was this lousy viewer…

Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006

Another week, another release. I must admit that I’m actually looking forward to this one, despite the inevitable hiccups, because of the significantly improved in world group functionality. (Seriously, that last link is “Everything you ever wanted to know about groups post 1.12 release.”)
I can now — finally — belong to up to [...]

Texture theft hits Naughty Designs again

Tuesday, July 18th, 2006

I heard on Sunday night that Naughty Designs had been ripped off again by texture thieves. Top left is a photo of Lost’s male skin found in “Renegadez Mall.” The vendor is owned by bad Plasma, who also apparently owns the mall itself. Bottom left is Lost’s original skin texture.
It was a two-fer theft, [...]

Better group functionality in Second Life

Monday, May 22nd, 2006

Frans Charming posted a really comprehensive look at the additional features Linden Labs is adding to groups within Second Life.  I’m one of those avatars constantly battling to keep a group slot open to join this or that designer’s update group. Aside from more group slots overall, one of the nicest  enhancements (certainly one that [...]

Flexiprims coming in 1.9.1?

Tuesday, April 4th, 2006

On April 1st, Garbage Prototype posted an April Fools prank about prim hair that moves, flows, doesnt flick, and “lives”. It was a joke - a very funny one, actually. (OK, I admit that I was fooled too! In my defense, I did uncheck “wear now” though!) Linden Labs is apparently preparing for flexible prim [...]