libsecondlife 0.3 Released
Yes, another libsecondlife release! This one is much better than the 0.2 release. We have full working inventory and full CAPS/LLSD support and a lot of other new features and bug fixes.
Check out the release notes, or download the source
2 commentsOpen Source at SL4B
The Second Life 4th Birthday event is coming up soon. The event is schedualed for June 23rd-June 30th. Check out the SL4B Portal on the Second Life wiki for more information on the planning of this event.
I’ve volunteered to take up the open source display at the event. The open source display will show how open source has influenced Second Life and how Second Life has influenced and inspired open source projects. So far the display will include libsecondlife, OpenSL [2], OpenSim, and other information about Linden Lab’s use of open source software(eg. Mono, Mozilla Gecko, Squid, Linux, MySQL)
Anyone interested in helping out with the open source display is encouraged to contact me at baba@libsecondlife.org or IM Baba Yamamoto in Second Life.
If you want to help out with other aspects of the SL4B Event contact SignpostMarv Martin in Second Life.
1 commentWhat you say?!
Gwyneth Llewellyn once again stands on top of the Internet to claim WIN.
You may have heard the latest wag from the valley, purporting that Second Life is some sort of Pyramid scheme. This all came from a blog post by Capitalism 2.0 author Randolph Harrison entitled, “SecondLife: Revolutionary Virtual Market or Ponzi Scheme?”
Excerpt from Gwyn’s winning comment,
No commentsIt would be rather obvious for me (and I do well know that sometimes common sense does not apply to economics, but…) that if you’re willing to enter a small exchange which only has, oh, perhaps, 5 million L$ to offer, an offer of a “few million L$” (you mention US$10k, or about 3 million L$) would certainly make the market collapse… and give you an awful rate of exchange in return.
I fail to understand the point. This is the expected behaviour on an open exchange — or at least it was, when I had my economics classes. Where exactly am I missing the point?
To recap:
Linden Lab is operating a “rigged” exchange, since it’s “an open auction”, and “doesn’t work well for big trades”. To make “big trades”, you tend to suggest to go to the tiny private exchanges instead, but then complain that the market collapses due to your flooding of L$ there… and, as a conclusion:
it suddenly dawned upon me.
This game was just a pyramid scheme.
I’m baffled on how you start adding apples to oranges and suddenly the result comes out in onions. However, I blame my own ignorance. Probably, this makes sense to an economist. For the layperson, however, your experiences in trading on the LindeX and on the small, private exchanges, do only reflect how a market behaves, and the conclusion that “Second Life is a pyramid scheme” doesn’t follow. At all.
Reseve your seat!!
It’s starting to get crowded now.. moo Money and Eddy Stryker are here now. It’s almost a party ;0 Check out the bot(squat)!!
Pooley Stage: Camping for Cory
