There Will Never Be Another SL

[Cristiano]

Interesting article about Second Life:

There Will Never Be Another Second Life

The virtual world, a strange cross between Burning Man and Neal Stephenson’s metaverse, marks its 20th anniversary with no true corporate competitor in sight.

www.theatlantic.com

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

To this day, the Second Life application resembles a massively multiplayer online game welded to a 3-D-graphics editor duct-taped to a social network crammed into an ancient television remote with infinite buttons.

 

[Soen Eber]

I've already used up my free Atlantic views; can anyone summarize?

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

I've already used up my free Atlantic views; can anyone summarize?

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[GoblinCampFollower]

The utopian paradox even extends into how Second Life was developed by employees at Linden Lab. Under the idealistic direction of Rosedale and his CTO, Cory Ondrejka, the start-up operated with a no-managers, “choose your own work” policy, cheekily dubbed the “Tao of Linden.” Their creativity thus unleashed, Linden developers wound up adding a farrago of persnickety features to the product with little unifying direction that might create a seamless, user-friendly experience.

This explains A LOT, lol.

 

[Noodles]

> ChatGPT on an SL Bot

Time to dig out my Kobun avatars again and get them hooked up.

 

[WolfEyes]

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Anyone have an Evernote link?

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

Interesting article about Second Life:

There Will Never Be Another Second Life

The virtual world, a strange cross between Burning Man and Neal Stephenson’s metaverse, marks its 20th anniversary with no true corporate competitor in sight.

www.theatlantic.com

Ahh, Hamlet Au got an article published by the Atlantic.

 

[Free]

Ahh, Hamlet Au got an article published by the Atlantic.

A sentence in and he's already talking about ChatGPT and how AI is already merged in Second Life. Hamlet, never change...

 

[Cristiano]

Ahh, Hamlet Au got an article published by the Atlantic.

I need to look more carefully - I never would have shared it if I had noticed

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

I need to look more carefully - I never would have shared it if I had noticed

is there some sort of inside reference I'm not getting? lol.

 

[Essence Lumin]

is there some sort of inside reference I'm not getting? lol.

I don't know exactly what Cris is referring to but Hamlet Au has been publishing his blog about Second Life, New World Notes, from 2003 to present.

 

[WolfEyes]

I need to look more carefully - I never would have shared it if I had noticed

I can't read it anyway. Paywall.

 

[WolfEyes]

is there some sort of inside reference I'm not getting? lol.

Hamlet used to work for LL. They fired him. Google it.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

Hamlet used to work for LL. They fired him. Google it.

I googled him and found a few things, but nothing around him being fired or why... I wonder if that story was taken down?

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

I'm not for certain if he was fired, or just let go because LL didn't think they needed an embedded journalist in a Tom Wolfe suit working directly for them because they decided to leave the in-world reporting to the Residents. Either way, I think I have pretty much the same opinion of him as Free does, and most everyone else does.

meaning lots of eye-rolling.

 

[WolfEyes]

I googled him and found a few things, but nothing around him being fired or why... I wonder if that story was taken down?

I wasn't being serious with the "fired" part. Hamlet parted ways with LL in 2006 because of disagreements with LL. There used to be a few articles about it but they've likely either been buried by time or the blogs/websites no longer exist. (Things really do not last forever on the internet.)

Guess I forgot because I actually started using Second Life as a Linden Lab contractor in 2003.

Ten Years Ago Today, Hamlet Au Was Born to Leave Hamlet Linden Behind

I was wandering around in virtual Casablanca late last night, when someone named "CuriousAboutSL" (yes) reminded me of an important milestone: My Hamlet Au avatar is exactly 10 years old today. (See screencap above.) Guess I forgot because I actually...

nwn.blogs.com

 

[WolfEyes]

I'm not for certain if he was fired, or just let go because LL didn't think they needed an embedded journalist in a Tom Wolfe suit working directly for them because they decided to leave the in-world reporting to the Residents. Either way, I think I have pretty much the same opinion of him as Free does, and most everyone else does.

meaning lots of eye-rolling.

It was neither since he was a contractor and not actually employed by LL.

My opinion of him isn't nearly as high as everyone else's.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

I googled him and found a few things, but nothing around him being fired or why... I wonder if that story was taken down?

You're voyaging into the seas of really old SL drama.

 

[Soen Eber]

He's a bit of a lightweight but nothing aweful; just puffery