This week we discuss the Second Life first user experience, Premium destinations, Direct Delivery in SL, FFL blogging, Pinterest, cool new apps and more!
This week’s topics include:
- New Destination Islands
- Student’s First SL User Experience
- Penny Arcade Pokes Fun at the SL Signup Avatars
- Rule 34
- Passing Thoughts on High Poly Mesh
- Wilderness — Second Life’s Newest Premium Destination
- Direct Delivery Launches
- Problems with Direct Delivery
- Free Direct Delivery Linden Bear
- Plurk Discussion on Direct Delivery and Group Management Ideas
- The Issues about Blogging Charity Events
- Hamlet Asks About Pinterest
- How To Use Pinterest
- Zombies, Run
- Hamlet’s Post on Zombies, Run
- Pinterest Spammer Tells All
- Is Draxtor a Spammer?
- Did SXSW Show That We’re Headed for a Burst of a Bubble in Social Media/Apps?
- Highlight App: Creepy or Cool?
- Dead Social
- Adobe Announces Unity Partnership
- PBS Shifts in Time Slots Hurt Series of Films
- Taking Action: PBS Needs Independents
- Dog Bless You
Guests:
Bernhard Drax (Draxtor Despres) is a musician, new media producer, and machinima journalist.
Karl Stiefvater (Qarl Fizz, formerly Qarl Linden) is visual effects artist, software developer, and interactive designer extraordinaire.
Thank you to our sponsor, Pretty Feet!
Since I have been identified as a spammer I may as well: the dear friend I helped to get into SL the other day is talented fashion designer Nicole Gade – her website is http://nicolegade.de/ & if you want to help her get acquainted to our world, please befriend and encourage [not SPAM] her – https://my.secondlife.com/nicolegade
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Now on to sending random IM’s to SLers and liking my own status on FB [thank you Gianna
Listened with my wackadoodle-tinted glasses on.
Taking notes… writing reactions… tap tap tap… hitting Control-A… Delete…
Time for lunch.
-ls/cm
Booo… you’re not even going to take on Draxtor’s use of social media?!?!
ja ja ja – encourage him to bully me……flashback to high school – a chubby Drax ridiculed by a blond gal & a dude with green glasses….
Draxtor, I counted at least 7 times your @draxtor account promoted the latest Fluffy episode on twitter alone. Then, add in all the promotions from other accounts and social networks. Don’t you think that qualifies you as a spammer?
@Catherine – I think of it more of a drinking game than Spamming now.
-ls/cm
Catherine just like the guy who sends out the Viagra email to millions of people every hour I do feel an intense sense of pride in what our team does with comedy machinima in SL and want to share the labor of love as widely as possible. But seriously: when we release a new vid [be it Flufee or more serious reportage] I IM each person on my SL friendlist directly. The ensuing conversations are a big part of my social interaction in SL & they are quite wonderful! I spend hours sending out the message ["hey friends, a new vid is in the house and we are proud of it!"] and many more receiving feedback, suggestions, ideas & general “hey how are you – what have you been up to?” – conversation re-starters. Marvelous really! As far as Twitter goes – I am not at all up to speed as to how the rules are on there. Maybe you can point me to a document of conduct/etiquette? I do want to learn and fit in you know so I can bring the balance between tweeting comcast hate, tea party news and Fluffmeister goodness in line with what is socially acceptable! I am not sure how spam is defined but I would want to challenge that Viagra guy – is he getting daily feedback and thank-you-for-sharing-gosh-almost-missed-that-one and requests to help out/donate product/do a cameo on the show? Not sure! So my suggestion: unfollow me on Twitter [benefit: you won't see the annoying convos about social justice] and befriend me in SL [benefit: we can have real conversations - I don't bite...too hard anyway]
People need to start paying attention to their Draw Weight for Avatars. This is the old Avatar Rendering Cost (ARC). This will tell the users if the items they are wearing is causing lag. If you ask me, Clothing or anything you were should have a Display Cost. Every items now has a display cost, and this should be just as important as prim count or land impact.
I’ve been to Wilderness, but I didn’t see any animated animals, except the pathfinding yak. I will go back and give a deeper critism later. I went there the first 2 days, and I liked it very much, accept the animals not moving.