Archive for April, 2007

Daniel Huebner on Second Life
Monday, April 16th, 2007

Daniel Huebner, director of community affairs at Linden Lab, was Stanford Humanities Lab first guest speaker for its How They Got Game Workshop. Daniel’s current role covers governance, dispute resolution, identity, trust and safety within Second Life. As employee #15 who was brought on board for the June 2003 launch of Second Life his [...]

Design Competitions in Second Life
Saturday, April 14th, 2007

There are a number of design competitions currently running within SL. Three in particular have caught my attention. Two are open to all residents and one is restricted to MIT students.
Chip Poutine mentioned the first Annual Architecture and Design Competition in Second Life being organized by Munich based conceptual artist, architecture and author Stephan Doesinger. [...]

Virtual World Widgets
Thursday, April 12th, 2007

With Cruxy’s Second Life Player, anyone can upload their original media, such as a song or video, to Cruxy and then automatically send a customized virtual widget player to any Second Life avatar. The Cruxy Second Life Player can be passed between avatars in a virtual world in much the same way a web widget [...]