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The Real Truth About Second Life’s Number of User Accounts

Gwyneth Llewelyn — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 09:49:45 +0000

More observant readers might have noticed that the image in this article dates back from the summer of… 2010. That’s right, it’s 15 years old! And back then, this author already warned: the known number of Second Life resident accounts is overinflated, simply because there are so many ‘bots around, wrecking havoc by pretending to be human.

Now, the truth is finally revealed: indeed, as we have been saying all along, we can create our own AI ‘digital clones’, training them as our own selves, and having them roam the grid, flawlessly pretending to be us.

The technology is known as “Second You” and the following YouTube video shows how it works in practice:

It’s possible that, back in 2010, this was still an emergent technology, but, today, it’s been developed to perfection.

Bitcoin, Shmitcoin…

Gwyneth Llewelyn — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 18:20:21 +0000

This author is a complete ignorant in all things crypto, so bear with us if we say something very stupid, but we’ve seen all of this happening before with Internet-based money.

The date was January 2008.

The place was the virtual world of Second Life.

The event was banning unlicensed banking and related financial operations.

At that time, speculators were having fun trading on the many exchanges that offered ‘Linden Dollars’ (game tokens used in the virtual world to acquire products and services) for fiat currency, and vice-versa. We would see charts and graphs that looked pretty much how crypto looks today — the difference was the order of magnitude: transactions with Linden Dollars are measured in millions of US$, crypto trades in billions and beyond.

We saw the same scams, the same fraudulent schemes, the same greedy opportunists who would defend the most outrageous ‘companies’ (most of which weren’t even legally registered anywhere…), only to have everything crash. This tiny bubble lasted in Second Life for perhaps three years or so.

Satoshi Nakamoto put up his Bitcoin.org site in August 2008.

Coincidence?…

Disclaimer: This author had previously posted a similar text as a comment on Medium.

Facebook creates new Virtual World company?

Gwyneth Llewelyn — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 12:21:50 +0000

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? Will this behemoth of agglomerated companies manage to fulfil the dreams of those who have read too much William Gibson and watched the Matrix way too often?

Or is it just a marketing stunt, to make sure Facebook shares remain up while facing dwindling returns from ads? Will Zuckerberg drop everything as soon as Facebook’s shares are steady again?

What will eccentric and insane investors like Richard Branson, Larry Ellison, Paul Allen, John McAfee, or even Elon Musk do about this? (Jeff Bezos is just laughing out loud…)

Linden Lab to release web-based viewer

Gwyneth Llewelyn — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 21:33:44 +0000

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 prediction that became truth, eleven years later. Or rather nine, because this project is already two years old as I type this update. It was not made by Linden Lab; however, they promote it, via their Second Life Premium Plus subscription — allowing Premium Plussers to get ‘special access’ to SpeedLight.

Oh, and it’s not just Web. Of course it also runs on Android and iOS.

Philip Rosedale will not continue as CEO

Gwyneth Llewelyn — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:33:59 +0000

Disappointing 20 millions of fans, Philip will announce that he is leaving Linden Lab… again.

Although they should have learned the lesson with M Linden, the new CEO will be someone who has no clue about Second Life, never logged in long enough to have a feeling of what it’s all about, never established communications with the residents, and even has little or no clue about the issues in SL. He will, of course, understand a lot about F&A.