Though it was announced recently that they would be doing beta testing for future marketplace deploys on the beta grid (Aditi), in the wake of the debacle that took place back in September (STILL NOT COMPLETELY FIXED, FOLKS), apparently that's not...
While other ongoing stories are still.ongoing, four weeks ago the much awaited release of Mesh to the full Second Life grid happened. Until mesh is more widely adopted, people might look a little strange out there on the grid.
None of the accounts which have clearly violated post RedZone TOS changes have been pulled from the grid. The JLU say that this statement by Soft Linden exonerates them, as they are obviously not banned from the grid, so it had to come from someone...
I started the week thinking I'd wind up writing about the release of Mesh to the full Second Life grid (which happened on Tuesday) and what that could potentially mean for the future of of the platform.
Though RedZone itself is gone from the grid, other systems that claim to do "not quite" what RZ did are still available, under the guise of being security systems that are not much more than snake oil.
The information it's currently using is not generally accurate, as it seems to be coming from a test environmnent (possibly the beta grid, Aditi) and so if yours isn't current, don't sweat it- they're still putting it together.
While search is scheduled to be revamped, the other big news, announced on May 31 was the promised timeline for the introduction of Mesh to the live Second Life grid. In 2007, a new kind of object was allowed on the Second Life grid, called...
RedZone is still gone from the grid (and if for some reason I've just lost you, feel free to readup) and so are the accounts of its creator. Policing the Marketplace, Oh- And The Grid, Too For example, yes, the Lab did remove RedZone and its...
The cost of a full sim in Second Life is $295 USD a month -- far, far more expensive than it is on any other virtual world grid. But the notion that a new, improved inventory system in general is starting to roll out onto the grid is great news...
But because this feature was created and rolled out at the expense of other problems that need to be fixed on the grid. It should be noted that most of this argument doesn't work very well, as the team for fixing say, grid crossings are not the...
On Wednesday night, long after office hours, there was a FULL rolling restart of the *entire* Second Life grid, which was not a scheduled maintenance. Knights of Mars was a 'bounty for hire' group in SL, that claimed for a fee (which had to be paid...
This problem is tearing the grid apart. It's because of that idealism that the rules about privacy in Second Life, while extant, were not particularly clear or specific. It is because of that idealism, perhaps, that Second Life is facing the...
With teens being allowed on the grid, the risk of false positives and the potential for abuse and exploitation (which has also been proven repeatedly) was simply far too much for the Lab to take on. In addition, they set about trying to find ways...
He's also mistaken in his notion that this is about Green Zone users vs.the rest of the grid, and critically so. Or did we forget about the whole Teen Grid merger so soon? On Tuesday at approximately 4:15 PM ET, the JIRA regarding RedZone was...
In the past week, the issue of privacy -- how it's maintained, stolen, disseminated, put up for sale, and ignored -- has caused something akin to open warfare across the Second Life grid, pitting content creators, consumers, and coders against one...
In theory, they are all within two years of being able to access the entire grid anyway and don't seem to be in a particular rush to jump that gate. I know.the Teen Grid finally (albeit a bit later than originally scheduled) merged with the main grid.
Yeah yeah, I know that I was supposed to talk about the Teen Grid this week but the teens will still be here next week and I have news! A few months ago, in preparation for what was supposed to be the release of mesh to the grid, I reluctantly made...
In fact this was indeed done in mid November, and we've been seeing a fair number of single named folk walking around the grid. So in addition to performance issues, customer service issues, economic issues, and the implications of the closure of...
Though the Lab delicately danced around the reasons why they decided to make these changes by saying 'it has become clear that some Residents are interested in pursuing certain 'Adult' activities in Second Life that others would rather not...
As I've mentioned before, we're headed towards a more monetized grid in 2011, and advertising via web would certainly be an important part of that plan. Last week, just before press time (such as it is) the news broke about Skylight, a browser...
