xeriko's attic

Looking the Second Life metaverse through the eyes of reality

  • Blogger application

    Blogger application

    If I were to fill a blogger application these days, for whatever store or event that comes along regularly asking for advertising time, I think it would probably turn out to be something like this: Your SL User Name: Xeriko Melnik Your Blog URL: http://blog.xeriko.net/ Your Flickr Feed URL: My flickr… hmm… Sorry, I don’t have an active…

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  • Expiration date

    Expiration date

    The version of Second Life we’re using today has an expiration date. Sometime in 2016, as Linden Labs new CEO has recently revealed, it will be replaced by its succeeding virtual incarnation, already popularly known as Second Life 2.0 in the blogosphere. Since the first one launched in the summer of 2003, let’s think SL2 might be available…

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  • Quality of (second) life

    Quality of (second) life

    Plurk, a micro-blogging service widely used by Second Life residents, is more known for the self-praising and occasional drama spurs than for its rational adult conversations. Yet, this morning, Kriss Lehmann, owner of Botanical garden store, started an interesting discussion, advising fellow creators to slow down their participation in SL events for the sake of…

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