Sand Castle Studios

Winning Back the Lead: The Battle of (Viewer) Developers to Rebuild Trust

Branding, Community, Second Life, SLCC, social media, Virtual Worlds on August 24th, 2010 10 Comments

In addition to Linden Lab’s official viewer, users can access the virtual world of Second Life through a number of customized third party viewers. This has created much debate as to whether these third party viewers are safe.

Tags: #emeraldgate, #snowstorm, Arabella Steadham, client, Community, Crap Mariner, DDoS, Denial of Service attack, DoS, Emerald, Linden Lab, Paisley Beebe, Philip Rosedale, policy, project snowstorm, Robert Scoble, Scobleizer, Second Life, Second Life Community Convention, secondlife, SL, SLCC, third party viewer, Tonight Life, TOS, TPV, transparency, Treet.tv, viewer, viewer directory, virtual, virtual world

Second Life Community Convention 2010

Significant Changes Announced at SLCC

Business, Community, Education, News Announcements, Second Life, SLCC, Virtual Goods, Virtual Worlds on August 17th, 2010 8 Comments

The 6th annual Second Life Community Convention (SLCC) took place in Boston this past weekend. It was an exciting weekend packed full of Linden Lab announcements as well as a plethora of resident-led discussions and presentations.

Tags: 2nd life, 2ndlife, 3D, 3D modeling, announcement, avatar, beta, display names, Linden Lab, mesh, mesh support, metaverse, open source, Philip Linden, Philip Rosedale, project snowstorm, Second Life Community Convention, secondlife, SLCC, SLCC10, viewer, virtual world, Virtual Worlds