Substandard Living Podcast

Wrap your head around that for a minute :-)

I found this video on the Second Life Herald.

Passing it on to you. Direct link.

I posted the video of this over on my other blog at http://JeremyVaught.com, check it out yo!

Jane Calvert in Second Life, Jean-Ann Mills in real life, both of whom work for the Electric Sheep Company, was on Fox’ The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet this morning.

Jean-Ann says she was told the clip will be posted later today, I’m assuming it will be posted at http://mandjshow.com.

Below is a screenshot I took.

Catch the my Flickr set here.

Have you seen this? Or am I the only one in the dark?

It appears there is an opengl browser created by someone at Linden Lab in preparation for web on a prim. Of course was released almost a year and a half ago. [enter web on a prim slam here]

Anyway, I’m shocked this is the first I heard about it.

Found at govtech.net, The Conference Board will hold its first virtual meeting in Second Life. The Conference Board is a global business research and membership organization.

Holding meetings in Second Life or any other virtual world is not new news, what is interesting is that, among others, Clay Shirky will be presenting. Clay Shirky has been very vocal about aspects of Second Life, especially how Linden Labs counts how many residents there are.

Welcome back to Second Life, Clay.

For some more information on the conference itself, the article says:

“This is the first Conference Board meeting that is a true hybrid between ‘real life’ and the reality of ‘virtual worlds,’” said Roche. “By having half of the meeting in Second Life, we will be joined by experts from as far away as Finland, Japan, Malaysia, Scotland, Germany, Chile, and France.

“These “remote” participants in the meeting will be presenting both videos and slides presentations within the virtual facility. All participants worldwide will be linked together via a telephone teleconferencing system.

“This unique meeting will feature business strategy, innovation, marketing, legal, and technology leaders.”

Is this for real?

Check it out on youtube.

It is pretty funny… but can’t be real. If it is real, it wasn’t don’t in the U.S.

Anyone?

I haven’t used it much, but another stab at search in Second Life has been announced. search.sheeplabs.com. Brought to you by Christian from the Electric Sheep Company.

First saw it on a mortgage website, and then another, and finally on cnn’s website. You can click these link for much more information, but I’ll say that this is interesting to me ‘cuz this is a company looking to do actual business in a virtual world, and has a legitimate chance of doing just that.

I’ll be there! I didn’t go to SXSW because I had to do the Dean Koontz event and I and because it is so long.

The other reason I’m really looking forward to going to New York for this is because of the metaverse meetup that will be the following weekend. I’ve heard the legend of Jerry Paffendorf’s meetups, and looking forward to experiencing it myself.

If you are going to be there, look me up, I look forward to chatting with you. If you can’t find me, call my mobile: 623.670.2365. Leave a message and I’ll call you back or just txt me.

btw,my employer, the Electric Sheep Company, is the primary sponsor of this conference.

I heard a rumor that LL is considering charging sims that are not under the new price plan, to have voice enabled. So basically if you pay $195 in tier for a private sim, you may have to pay for something that the more expensive sims, and the mainland will get.

This is wrong on a number of levels. 1st, I’m very much against nickel and diming your customers. Especially when the actual cost of the sim will not go up at all due to voice.

Next, if LL is so Libertarian in the way they handle Second Life, then creating premium sims is a move away from this stance. Especially when it favors their own mainland, which, last time I checked, nothing of significance is happening on the mainland, it is all happening on private sims. And if you want to charge more for servers as you did, fine, you make the move just like you did. You say, “from this point forward, the new price for a private sim is this and the tier is this.” But then you don’t go back and artificially try to get the previous sims up to the new price point.

I call bull on you LL, and I hope that you come down on the side of right on this one.