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Weekend Whimsy

March 7, 2008 by Leave a Comment

1. A Place To Be

2. Kozo Imako – Boat Ride

3. “Pretty Fly For a Draenei” – World of Warcraft Music Video

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Minimising background noise in voice chat in Second Life

March 7, 2008 by Leave a Comment

Linden Lab are discussing the issue of background noise and voice chat in their ‘Knowledge Base Article of the Week’ feature.

I’m hopeful this will become a popular article as like most people, I’ve had some astoundingly bad experiences with other people’s background noise. How about you?

Filed Under: For the new user, General News, Virtual Worlds Tagged With: ,

Linux Second Life Client goes beta

March 6, 2008 by Leave a Comment

Linden Lab have announced the availability of a beta-version of its client for Linux users.

There’s a dedicated bunch of Australian Linux users in Second Life and it’d be a fair guess they’re a little excited by this announcement. If you’re a Linux user, post a comment on your experiences with the beta. Good luck!

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The taxonomy of virtual worlds

March 5, 2008 by Leave a Comment

If you’ve always wondered what the difference between a MUD, MOO, MMOG, game world and virtual world is, then you’ll find this post on Terra Nova a godsend.

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Second Life release series of micro-video tutorials

March 5, 2008 by 2 Comments

Linden Lab’s Torley Linden continues to pump out video tutorials for new and seasoned Second Life users alike. This week he’s provided thirteen short videos:

1. What is a prim?
2. What does “rez” mean?
3. Using your mouse’s scroll wheel
4. Toggling Property Lines
5. Organising windows & menus
6. Chat bar shortcuts
7. Linking prims
8. Opening edit tools
9. Wearing attachments
10. Editing attachments
11. Opening the debug menus
12. Advanced movement controls
13. Zoom In & Out

These would be particularly useful for a new Second Life user not wanting to navigate the maze that’s Linden Lab’s support portal.

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Gary Gygax dead at 69

March 5, 2008 by Leave a Comment

Gary Gygax co-created Dungeons and Dragons, the paper-based virtual world and precursor to pretty much everything online of the same genre. All the details here.

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A year ago on The Metaverse Journal

March 4, 2008 by Leave a Comment

We interviewed in-world counsellors Transcend and Tranquil Wellman.

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Chris Collins redux – some things haven’t changed

March 4, 2008 by Leave a Comment

A little over a year ago we interviewed expatriate Aussie and senior Linden Lab employee, Chris Collins.

TechCrunch’s Duncan Riley did an an interview with Collins in November 2007, and now Brad Howarth has done so in the Sydney Morning Herald / Age.

Chris is an affable guy. He’s also a guy who said in May 2007 that Australian-based Second Life servers would occur “real soon now”. That’s a promise a lot of people are still waiting on to be fulfilled.

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Linden Lab seeks Australia-based Product Operations Engineer

March 4, 2008 by Leave a Comment

Linden Lab today announced they’re looking for a higher end operations engineer from Australia. If you’ve got what it takes, apply here.

It’ll be interesting to see if this is the start of some slow Australian growth in personnel.

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Cisco’s Second Life launch for network processor

March 4, 2008 by Leave a Comment

If you’re one of those people who get excited by networking hardware, then you may be interested in Cisco’s upcoming launch in Second Life of its latest network processor, Quantum.

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Cisco are not surprisingly being coy about the technical details of the processor prior to the launch – suffice it to say the in-world build has a walk-through area that contains the word exabyte.

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The event is being held on the 4th March at 10am PST (5th March, 5am AEDT) with musical acts and the launch itself. I’d love to hear from any Australians excited enough to attend at that time…

Check it out in-world.

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