Vint Falken's Page

Only days ago, the SL Blogosphere was buzzing with rumours about SLim, a Second Life (lightweight?) IM client, after Tateru Nino got news on a trademark filing for ‘SLim’ by Linden Lab. Now, SLNN reports that it is not a ‘maybe’ but a ’soon’, for SLim. They quote Joe Linden saying: ‘it will be in [...]

Miss Rheta, can I haz three kisses? Errr… I mean… last night, at Metanomics, a long time of waiting and anticipation finally ended, as Dusan Writer officially announced the three winners for the Second Life User Interface Design Contest. In reversed* order: th place to Miss Rheta Shan, for an incredible re-design from the Second Life [...]

Virtual Worlds Timeline on Dipity - Timeline gathering the ‘milestones’ for virtual worlds. Birth (and end?) date of different virtual worlds, important corporate decisions, open source initiatives, … . Feel free to contribute, it appears. Reuters/Second Life - Linden Lab’s cloak and dagger job ad - I wonder, can you even get ‘The candidate must either [...]

The human

Great overview of 50+ virtual worlds (although I only count 43 ;)) current open (or in beta) by Gary Hayes for Personalizemedia.com. This video collection of machinima and stills from different virtual worlds, is a perfect overview of what Second Life’s competitors look like. By following Gary Hayes’ ‘2008 Metaverse Tour’ you can (quickly) visit [...]