We have always been suspicious of ‘voice’ in Second Life®. As the ‘Lab pursues its mysterious and opaque agenda of entangling us deeper and further into this collective hallucination, it seems that others, fighting for keeping the dominance in the Viewer Wars, have taken an unprecedented misstep: they will shut
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Reddit went public — becoming publicly traded, that is — and this means making more money to raise their market valuation. Under the new management, all their content will be sold to third parties, such as in the deal with Google which will allow them to use Reddit’s content for
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Where the author points out a very strange coincidence about the speculative bubble around Bitcoin.
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Recently, the mainstream media have been increasing the pace of news articles related to UFOs (or, how the U.S. military forces call them now: UAPs — unidentified aerial phenomena), and in a recent interview to former President Barack Obama to The Late Late Show (as reported by CNN), it seems
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It is always very suspect when one has a Flickr album called ‘Secret Projects’. Only the Enlightened will have any idea what this is all about; surely, however, the truth behind this shall be revealed in due time.
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Linden Lab was bought by E Corp… whoops, sorry, I meant by some private investors specialising in investing in ‘conservatively run companies with strong free cash flow, proven management, and a platform we believe can add value to the global economic community‘. Interesting turn of events. Do we also live
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There is a rumour being spread by some residents close to Linden Lab employees (‘anonymous sources’) that the whole point of Sansar was not to create a new virtual world and pull residents out of the obsolete and impossible-to-maintain Second Life. After all, this would make no sense: the whole
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Is Facebook not stopping with virtual world acquisitions? After buying Oculus VR, Linden Lab, High Fidelity, will they add Kitely and others to a new company, separately run by Cory Ondrejka and John Carmack, and joining together any developer who is not already working for Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, Apple, or Google?
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Ten years have passed since the conspiracy started. But now, more than ever, it goes deeper and deeper. These days, we do not know any more who manipulates the Lindens and for what purposes. Content creators still make fortunes: from US$2-4,000 a month for a “small” merchant, to the peak
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It’s not just Tipodean that is doing a Web-based SL viewer. Linden Lab is also experimenting with the same technology. While they admitted that this was “just an experiment”, they are redefining the whole concept, and will launch a WebGL-based viewer later this year. Update (October 2022) Well, well. Another
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