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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
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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Banish the gacha
It’s hard to say this because I know it’s a very popular practice in SL economy right now, but I’m sick of the gacha overdose we’re currently experimenting in this virtual world. There is no single event in which at least a few participating stores offer their products using that seductive shopping modality, and I’m…