Posts Tagged with ‘second-life’

Even Google makes mistakes from time to time and its own virtual reality Lively seems to be one of such mistakes. Today Google’s team working on Lively has admitted the mistake and announced the decision to shut Lively down explaining that the company needs to focus on its core lines of business - search, ads, and applications.
Lively definitely was a short-time experiment for Google: the internet giant launched its own tool for users to create 3D virtual worlds (”rooms”) only [...]

Second Life has reported financial results of the third quarter describing it as “a very strong quarter in Second Life with significant growth in land, user hours and the inworld economy”. What’s more, Linden Labs even mentioned that this September was unusually good for the Second Life virtual economy performance - despite the financial crisis in the real world.
In fact, growth was everywhere in the virtual reality: users spent 45% more time inworld compared to the same period last year [...]

There’s an interesting announcement on the blog of Second Life, probably still the best-known and the most popular virtual reality project. Today the team is announcing Linden Prize, a contest with the $10,000 in prize money to be paid to a member or a team of Second Life residents for the most innovative inworld project that will improve real lives outside of the virtual world.
The applications are accepted starting today so if you already have an inworld project that you [...]

We've all seen the successes of Barack Obama's campaign fundraising and the mainstream media coverage of microlending services like Kiva, but there are tons of other places on the Web where social media is being utilized for more grassroots efforts.
One of the most visible efforts in this regard has to be the Frozen Pea Fund . In less than six months, the idea begun by Susan Reynolds and Connie Reece after Reynolds' cancer diagnosis has spread through Twitter, ooVoo, and [...]

Almost a year and a half ago, Colbert Low posted here on Profy that the future of the Web would be 3D applications, or virtual worlds, with Second Life leading the pack. It's amazing to me that so much could have changed in such a short amount of time.
Today it was announced EA Land, which was formerly called The Sims Online and rebranded only a short time ago, will be shuttering before the end of summer. The Sims Online was [...]

I may be exaggerating just a bit with my headline, but the U.S. Government is so determined to catch terrorists anywhere they are hiding out that they have plans to develop a system for identifying “abnormal” behavior in online virtual worlds like World of Warcraft.
The project has been codenamed Reynard, which I can only assume is after the mythical trickster Reynard. I'm not sure whether they mean the name to imply that the intelligence folks would be tricking the terrorists [...]

SXSW begins this coming Friday, 7 March, and it will mark the first anniversary of Twitter's explosion on the scene. This past weekend, Twitter was down again, but this time, it was a planned outage to prep the servers for the predicted hammering of their system when SXSW convenes. Of course, you can always continue on Tweeting from the web or your IM client, but an entire cottage industry has sprung up around Twitter since SXSW '07, giving you tons [...]

It's amazing anyone has the courage to even venture online these days. From web sites to virtual worlds, we are being told to fear those tubes at every turn.
Google went on the terror offensive this past weekend with the fearmongering, releasing a report that told us it isn't just porn sites that may want to install malware on your machine. According to the study, however, it probably isn't intentional on the part of the site owners, who are being hacked [...]

Before I begin detailing the latest travesty in high-speed highway robbery, I need to disclose that I have been a Time Warner high-speed customer since they first did a beta program in my area. I remained loyal even when DSL arrived, for far less money than what I pay for my high-speed cable connection. And I've encouraged countless others to ditch their dial-up to move to Time Warner's services.
Hopefully, my long history as an evangelist of their services will explain [...]