The NYT has reported on the demise on Google’s 3D metaverse product, Lively.
In my work as creative director, I do a fair amount of projects in Second Life, so I know where the hype ends and ROI begins. It took only a few minutes to determine that Lively had a very limited shelf life. Their [...]
Wherever people gather there is the chance for humanity to impart itself upon those gathered.
We should expect no less from Second Life.
In a garden pavilion on an island, I sat with an assortment of human beings – one clad as a teddy bear wearing a Santa hat, another as a brazen vixen, a blue man, [...]
CNBC ran a story on Second Life and how SL is creating a new economy much in the way eBay has. One woman profiled is on track to make over $80,000 in US dollars this year from the sales of her clothing line in Second Life. Her initial investment was a tad over $500.
The video [...]
In recent months, Second Life has been criticized heavily on several fronts. Most of these criticisms focus on client-side bugs, grid outages and the ever present “griefers.” I began working for AOL at the dawn of time (well, the early 90’s) and watched AOL grow, grow some more, and then grow faster than capacity could [...]