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ink at least a few people are scared off and never even consider sl because of this what to do a new brand is required with a new and improved reputation and it wouldn t hurt to fix up the points above at the same time so that s what i would consider if i were in charge but alas i am not in charge i m also not dead yet peace to all permalink second life and blogging doldrums sunday january 9 2011 sunday january 09 2011 filed under ideas linden lab prediction 5 comments you may have noticed i haven t posted anything in a while am i dead nope busy maybe less interested um yeah i think so i haven t posted because i simply haven t felt i had anything useful to say sure i could comment on the latest party or event but that s just not meaningful enough for a post for me anyway i was wondering why that is so the fact is sl seems to be slowing down lately in some respects i ve noticed several friends fade away or others tone down their sl existence for reasons unknown many businesses have closed or shrunk i ve been fading a bit too perhaps it s just part of the two year effect it s been over four years for me so far maybe i m overdue and it s not just the sl in world community either linden lab has dropped numerous staffers strangely including most of the management level since the departure of m linden there haven t been any significant strategic moves largely because interim ceo philip really hasn t been playing the role other than perhaps focusing on finding his own replacement indeed when we spoke to philip in person in boston at slcc it was shocking to hear that he hadn t signed into sl for four months i d be surprised if he s been in world very much since that time so now we learn of a new ceo to take over from philip later this january when you think about it it s an excellent time to get fresh leadership in largely clean management ranks stagnant user base poor media reception and of course cranky residents there s no where to go but up i really don t have any idea where new ceo rod humble will take second life but i do know one thing it must be a different place than where it s been current approaches have largely failed in my opinion what you say things are not so bad maybe but when you compare sl s progress opposite many other online services which have grown hugely and continue to grow while sl seems to have plateaued maybe it s the poor scalability or the heavy hardware requirements or perhaps virtual worlds are just too complicated for most people if i was an investor in linden lab i d be seeking a new strategy to protect my investment i d do that by getting a new ceo with fresh ideas they ve already done this once with m linden but as we know that particular strategy failed and they had to start over expect many different things to happen once the new ceo gets settled probably starting later this spring permalink the coral reef it s alive sunday november 7 2010 sunday november 07 2010 filed under building 1 comments i don t know why i haven t written about this but i guess i should tell you about something special i ve worked on a few months ago my team and i have completed construction of a lifelike virtual coral reef on contract from well known sl entrepreneur veritas raymaker veritas if you don t know him is perhaps the most polite person in the known universe he s been putting together a rather interesting series of educational displays on praxis island our build is actually hidden underwater in an air tight platform from which you can observe the coral reef but it s more than that the display is organized into several interactive displays each describing and showing you how coral reefs can be damaged the displays take you through a short sequence explaining the issue in chat as well as demonstrating the effect for you to observe directly the build illustrates several real environmental factors that can affect the health of the world s coral reefs climate change pollution eutrophication over fishing and sedimentation each of these effects are actually in play today in our planet s coral reefs and from the platform you ll be able to see exactly how they affect coral ecosystems there is a separate station for each of the environmental factors each with a dedicated observation bubble through which you can see a lively coral reef complete with colorful corals algae bubbles and some of the most amazingly realistic fish you ll ever see in sl to visit the underwater platform you ll have to teleport to praxis a truly beautiful sim where raymaker has organized a variety of environmental displays follow the paths down to the dock you won t see the reef or the platform as they are completely submerged a the end of the dock you ll see a teleporter that takes you underneath the waves directly to the platform where you can engage the interactive displays start at station one by touching the display and reading the text be sure to look out the observation bubbles to see the coral reef die as the effects take hold the reef build was a team effort made by the new construction division of electric pixels scripting and sculpting was done by the very capable thickbrick sleaford who by the way is available for complex contract scripting work through vermont enterprises design storyline signage and particles was done by myself quality control and testing by haley salomon if you re looking for someone to help you produce an amazing display please consider electric pixels construction division one catch in order to receive the full immersive experience you should turn on particles in your graphics settings and also turn up your sound give it a moment to load especially if you have a less than new pc here s a direct link to the start of the display at a dock near the underwater platform enjoy permalink it s halloween again sunday october 3 2010 sunday october 03 2010 filed under effects halloween 1 comments each year at this time in sl everyone does something special to celebrate halloween i m not sure if it s a secret urge to get back to childhood or a way to take your virtual appearance to the ultimate level but nevertheless everyone will be costumed up things will soon be a lot scarier i make several scary items you might find appropriate to spook up your sl halloween why not drop by electric pixels here are some of my gadgets that are most appropriate for halloween blood spurter an absolutely gross effect that intermittently spurts a realistic stream of blood from your carotid artery use this one only if you re not squeamish the candygiver lets you select a nearby avatar and throw streams of calorie laden chocolate bars at them blood dripper you just finished sawing up your most recent victim and your arms and chest are dripping blood these drippers can be placed anywhere you like to make your axe murdering persona just a bit more real bat hair day tiny bats swarm around your head making you look spooky well maybe not spooky but it s cool anyway it s not hair just bats only bats cloud vampire look up you ll see a vast menacing cloud colored blood red demon breath you exhale a very demonic red breath every seven seconds shiver demon haze be surrounded by a very subtle reddish haze set the mood to evil floorfog vampire equip your dark castle with a very creepy black and blood red ground fog that makes things seem seven times more scary vampirefog take your vampire like red and black fog with you to the dance floor with this scary effect batmaker thick just a touch from you creates a massive cloud of dangerous bats for 60m nearby watch out onfire brighten up your halloween event by lighting yourself on fire and that s not all there s many more of these very different and well behaved particle effects be sure to try out the demonstrations at electric pixels when you visit hint they re near the coffin permalink viewers viewers viewers a way out of this mess sunday september 5 2010 sunday september 05 2010 filed under ideas linden lab viewer 10 comments readers may have noticed controversies and discussions over second life viewer software in recent weeks and months in some cases scandal in others too much change still others are simply inoperable in many situations a constant question is which viewer should i use there have been many answers as many as there are viewers clearly there s lots of opinions and few are satisfied meanwhile new users continue to have challenges learning the environment let s face it sl and 3d worlds are quite a different experience and it takes time for people to get accustomed to using them linden lab knows this since we ve observed them trying to address that problem by deploying the controversial viewer 2 0 viewer 2 0 seems to work for some and yet not for others why is this so i ve thought this for a long time now and i ll say it again there are two different audiences making use of viewers first there s the new residents who are frequently confused by the complexity of the interface give up and never return and the experienced existing residents who yearn for more function to customize or simplify their sophisticated virtual existence here s the problem we ve been having all along we re trying to service two entirely different audiences with a single viewer hence linden lab creates viewer 2 0 which includes features designed to simplify life for new residents while still trying to address the needs of experienced residents in my opinion it didn t go nearly far enough in the simplicity direction for new residents in the opinion of many long time residents viewer 2 0 confused their operations and made their complex virtual lives more difficult viewer 2 0 missed the mark for both audiences while viewer 2 0 marginally improved the experience for new residents it was rejected by a great many experienced residents a vast number of whom fled to use a variety of third party viewers unfortunately one of the major third party viewers ran into issues and many residents now scramble to find an alternate viewer and many of them wouldn t consider linden lab s viewer 2 0 i ve seen situations like this before many times in real life and a good solution approach is to realize the root cause and directly address it in this case the root cause of viewer difficulties is that there are two audiences that have very different requirements thus the answer is quite simple we need two viewers one greatly simplified suitable for stark newbies devoid of advanced and confusing features and the other a more complex viewer filled with all the features one could imagine of course the challenge will be that linden lab is able to muster resources only sufficient to support one viewer right now their efforts try to do it all for everyone addressing both audiences but in fact doing so in a less than optimal manner here s my proposal to make life a lot easier for everyone linden lab should abandon development of the advanced viewer entirely and leave it to evolve independently by third parties through open source approaches publish and maintain a secure specification for accessing the grid and the underlying open source code and let others do the job of building advanced viewers this has worked in the world of web browsers and many other environments why not here too to some extent we ve already seen this happening albeit somewhat placed in shadow by linden lab s highly visible viewer 2 0 often selected by residents simply because linden lab made it but imagine how well these third party viewers could advance if they weren t competing against linden lab s viewers meanwhile linden lab could then focus efforts on a truly simplified viewer specifically designed for new residents one that could actually achieve the vision of five minutes and you re in that really has no chance of happening in viewer 2 0 consider how well they might do if they didn t have to worry about including all the features required by existing residents new users could graduate to one of the more advanced viewers when they feel confident enough to do so let s make things simpler for everyone linden lab desperately needs a simplified viewer residents want and have proven they can make an advanced viewer for me two viewers is the obvious solution what do you think permalink the emerald implosion monday august 23 2010 monday august 23 2010 filed under linden lab viewer 4 comments if you ve been reading any sl blogs lately you ve probably come across the incredible events surrounding the famous or infamous emerald viewer resignations reformations scandals possible criminal acts and other mayhem ensued throughout the week i m not going to detail any of that stuff it s been well covered elsewhere instead i am going to bring forward my thoughts on how it came to this there s definitely reasons why this week s implosion occurred and why it may not happen again all these events are connected at a very high level but let s start at the beginning we have a certain company linden lab who market a very unusual product second life this product is amazing but it is also a very complex thing to deal with in fact it s so complex that no one really knows how it should be set up the product sl is so complex that while it is amazing relatively few people from the public are able to manage to successfully use it and stay using it everyone uses the standard viewer through which everyone experiences the product advanced sl residents grow to want more from the viewer as they ve managed to learn many things about the environment well beyond the basics but they re frustrated because they have only one option the lab recognizes this need and responds by open sourcing the viewer code they hope that the community will adopt the freely available viewer code to develop the advanced features that it wants while leaving the lab to put their limited resources against other problems and ventures the lab focuses on growth they believe that to attract more residents they need to somehow simplify the experience so that it doesn t scare people away indeed the survival rate for new signups is abysmally low perhaps as low as 1 one of their simplification strategies is a less complex viewer they begin a project to develop this new simplified viewer several groups adopt the open sourced viewer code and begin tinkering some happen to be professional or near professional developers but others are not hackers and griefers also take a stab at making their own viewers sometimes for nefarious purposes a variety of viewer options emerge all with differing features support release schedules and reliability some residents try them and begin to have opinions on their favorites usually based on their particular needs one third party viewer tpv emerald becomes somewhat more popular than others perhaps based on its frequent release of interesting and unusual features this viewer is in fact the opposite of the lab s work it s a complex viewer including more features not fewer but these features are well received by ma...