Baba Sucks

Advertising agency BBH (aka Bartle Bogle Hegarty) — whose client roster includes companies like Levis, Vodafone, Johnny Walker, and Sony Ericsson, among others — is setting up shop in the virtual world of Second Life, according to a press release from the company. The agency is being brought in by virtual-world services company Rivers Run Red, who will also have a hand in developing virtual offerings for the company’s client base, it seems. The build (which looks great, based on the pic above) sounds like a full-function SL office installation — complete with avatar receptionists!

Check out the rest over at 3pointD

Don't forget about the machinmal festival tonight at 7pm PST.  moo Money has the details.

He is a funny, funny man. digg

Daniel Terdiman(GreeterDan Godel in Second Life) talks about how there came to be this CNET building in SL

The CNET building in Second Life looks just like the real thing I'm told.

The building stands in Millions Of Us, check it out after the event. 

 Transcripts will be available soon. Eric was quick to the draw with this one. Transcript at ericrice.com

Irving Wladawsky-Berger of IBM met with several colleagues from around the world recently in Second Life. They met for a press briefing to discuss what effects MMOGs and other platforms such as Second Life will have on business.

About two years ago, a study conducted by the IBM Academy of Technology concluded that technologies and capabilities from the gaming world would have a very strong impact on all aspects of IT, and made a number of recommendations for follow-on activities, which we have proceeded to implement. 

To learn what is required in a practical way, we have been using the Second Life platform to conduct a series of experiments, such as holding virtual meetings on a variety of subjects with groups of various sizes.  The meeting participants are represented visually by their individual avatars or personalized icons in the virtual world.  We are very interested in understanding how best to conduct such virtual meetings.  We have learned that many of the visual clues from the physical world should be embraced in the virtual world.  For example, meeting participants should be seated facing each other, as they would normally do in a meeting, and whoever is currently speaking should gesture with his or her arms. 

More at eightbar, which is run by several IBM employees who use Second Life.

I was prompted to write this by Brace Coral, so check her out. 

So, who is Baba? That's hard….

Oldbie? Sure. Genius? That's a given. Totally Sucks? Yup. Why does anyone care? I dunno..

If you read back to the very beginning with my posting habits in the Second Life forums you would see it mostly started with stuff about open sourcing Second Life(login) … My discussions in world between friends(most of them SL super celebs cause I'm FIC )started way before that. I started asking what's wrong with Second Life(login), because we alreayd know what is right .

Why did it all stop suddenly? I didn't lose interest, that is for sure.. I joined libsecondlife . So, libsecondlife? What's that?! Oh, it's hawt h4x … You see we got this library that we are developing that is able to emulate the Second Life protocol. Yeah, so basicly we have the makings of our own Second Life client.

But Baba, isn't that against TOS? Sure, it would be if it wasn't all approved(FETED) and shit by the Lindends.

So, I got this thing going(libsecondlife) with Linden Lab where they are all like "Baba you so cool and sexy" and I've been going with that. Wait til we start emulating their servers.. Someone at Linden Lab might die over that one. You know, that guy nobody likes because he's a fucking idiot. I dunno his name because I never met anyone at Linden Lab like that.

Cool, this is the part where I run out of stuff to say becaus I've just been rambling like a moron for 10 min. I guess some people are better at that than others.

http://www.libsecondlife.org
http://www.URMYDREAMGIRL.com

Yeah that dirty hobag Catherine Omega has moved the LSL wiki to a schnazzy new domain…   LSLwiki.com with 20% more Catherine Omega

Gwyn does it again in her post “Second Life is Web 2.0 more than anything else”, says Castronova.

Who is this Castronova guy? I don't know, but what Gwyn says is more interesting than him anyway.