Friday, August 27, 2010

Updates

The Lindens are making a little update to the veiwer soon. We will be getting Display names over our avies. I think it'll be great but with all new things comes some bad too. Will griefters use this to bother us? I'm sure yes is the answer to that. But you can always check thier profiles to make sure who is who.

The following quote is taken from the Second Life (TM) Wiki found here:

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Display_Names

" Why is Linden Lab introducing the Display Name feature now?

Growing the SL Resident-base is a business objective that we're deeply committed to and we hope that you'll also benefit from that growth. We're also exploring ways to attract new Residents by making their registration and first-hour experiences in Second Life more compelling. We have long known that selecting a Second Life name is one of the biggest hurdles in the new Resident registration process; it is a common reason why potential new Residents abandon registration and it has consistently received very low ratings in new Resident surveys. The freedom to choose an avatar name in Second Life is something that many Residents have been wanting for a long time and it took some time to develop a feature that gave you as much flexibility as possible. This feature is an important step on our social media strategy that will ultimately allow you to connect your inworld identity to other social networks, on an opt-in basis. Again, Display Names and eventually, the connection to social networks, is all about choice. "

I'm kinda looking forward to this and have been thinking of names and identities.
If I ever dj, then I can use it then. I'll use it for role playing times too.
If you have any problems with this, then here's the Jira:
http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SVC-6194

Another change that the Lindens are doing will be to merge the teen grid to the main grid. Only the ages of 16 and 17 will be apart of the merge. The rest of the underage teens will have to be cut from SL all together. Only the PG areas will be open for the underage. No other grid that I know of had a underage grid.
There may be ways of getting to the adult and mature areas that are out there.


What ever changes the Lindens are doing will pave the way for other grids to follow.

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

My blog turns 3 yrs old

Not my birthday, my blog's birthday.

Three years ago I started to blog my fun times in second life (TM) and have had so much fun doing it. Through good times and bad I've made note of all things great and small. Looking back, I can see now some posts I wish I hadn't posted and some I wish I made better. There's always room for improvement and growth.

With that said, I have made my blog a better look and will continue to do so as time goes on. I have now moved onto three other grids and will blog about those soon as well. With my blog I will try to show the many other grids that exists in the Meta verse. I’m like a virtual reporter letting everyone know of this different means of social networking.

Not to worry though as I will still be in SL most of the time. In fact I’ll be posting a few things in the coming days and weeks on my own in world fun.

There’s always more fun to be had.

Happy birthday to you blog and happy party to all my readers. My we have many more years to have fun.