Even taking on a man's top hat is little compared to the massive extent that conventional gender is reinforced in Second Life.
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Saturday, 27 December 2008
Clearly defined gender identity is the unspoke Law of SL
Even taking on a man's top hat is little compared to the massive extent that conventional gender is reinforced in Second Life.
Friday, 26 December 2008
Thursday, 25 December 2008
Friday, 19 December 2008
Official Second Life Blog: Community Gateway Program
About a year ago, we began to experiment with alternatives to the usual Second Life registration pathway, which we call the Community Gateway program. The program is designed to provide a customized initial entry experience for new Residents based on their choice of preferred language or particular interests.Official Second Life Blog
An important objective of the Community Gateway program is to give Residents a choice of registration options and initial locations, with the goal of enabling program members to attract new Residents and grow their communities. Members are committed to supporting and engaging new Residents, and their efforts are evaluated based on their success in attracting new registrations and the length of time those registrants engage in Second Life.
Today, we have 22 members of the Community Gateway program–14 non-English language specific Community Gateways including Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish. The remaining members simply offer a unique experience, some created by businesses as a portal for a web community and others created by passionate individuals or groups bringing in like-minded people who share their interests.
Overall, we are pleased with how well this program is working. On average, Residents arriving inworld through a Community Gateway become actively engaged in Second Life. So, as we redesign the Second Life registration and initial user experience, we’re planning to add additional program members to expand the range of initial community experiences for new users. If starting a Community Gateway is of interest to you, watch for an upcoming blog post with more information on how to get involved.
If you’re a Second Life Resident, you may have already discovered some of these locations for the chance to practice a language, visit a foreign city, or just engage with a friendly community and participate in interesting events.
Here is the current list of Community Gateway members and where to find them (sorted by language then alphabetically):
English:
Anshe’s Dreamland - Welcome Passage/63/63/27
Avatar Island - Avatar Island/92/130/23
Azure Islands - Azure Islands Welcome/118/182/59
Big Pond - Pondessa/125/164/31
Dublin in SL - Dublin/234/146/25
Orientation Station - Scholar/112/87/26
Portuguese (Brazil):
Mainland Brasil - MLBR Copacabana /227/104/39
German:
Frankfurt - FFH LAND/127/4/25
New Berlin - New Berlin/193/184/31
Vienna Freebies - Wien/90/130/28
French
France Pittoresque - Seychelles/48/89/21
Gaia - Gaia/141/82/27
Italian:
ISN Virtual Worlds - Italy Orientation/46/140/26
Spanish:
MundoSL - SecondMind /101/138/241
Spanish Orientation Island - Spanish Orientation/61/137/35
Dutch:
NL 0031 - DNBmedia/142/232/24/
Japanese:
MagSL Net - Nozomi/128/128/22
VirtualWorld Walker (Meltingdots) - Walker Orientation/119/102/44
Mobile Factory - MobileFactory/128/86/2
Korean:
Sera Korea - Sera%20Korea%2015/35/232/32
Chinese:
3Immersions - Lenovo 133/129/28
Ansche’s Dreamland - Welcome Passage/63/63/27
We encourage Residents new and experienced to visit these Community Gateways. We hope you enjoy exploring these interesting communities.
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Saturday, 13 December 2008
Friday, 12 December 2008
Wednesday, 3 December 2008
FORA.tv Online Personas
Online social networking sites are now among the most popular web sites on the internet. Facebook is the seventh most trafficked site in the U.S., and millions of young trendsetters have made MySpace and Second Life the most disruptive forces to hit pop culture since MTV. LinkedIn is at the forefront of an emerging networking frontier focused on business and boasting a network of more than 7 million professionals. In a world of IMers, bloggers, podcasters, burners, P2P buccaneers, mashup artists and phonecam paparazzi, people have entirely new ways of expressing and reinventing themselves, and fact can blend with fiction. The founders of the most successful and innovative web sites allowing people to interact, trade, meet and network will explore how their sites are evolving to keep up with the future of online networking.FORA.tv
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