Huge list of problems announced by Linden Lab on the Second Life blog. Last weeks’ software update, that creates the virtual world on users’ computers caused many problems and left users unable to access the system. Obviously, this effects Second Life’s economy and Linden Lab’s future as a viable business.
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Second Life is still collapsing and why big companies might abandon that world
Published December 6th, 2006 in Technology. 0 Comments
Why Second Life is collapsing and Lidnen Lab can not do anything about it
Published December 6th, 2006 in Technology. 1 Comment“Second Life”, the online virtual community, is experiencing an amazing growth of subscribers, almost doubling every two months. In the beginning of 2006 there were 100,000 subscribers, by October 2006 it reached 1 million and two months later, December 2006 it is about to reach 2 million subscribers. This rate increased dramatically the last two [...]
How to build a Second Life universe and make it successful and profitable
Published December 5th, 2006 in Technology. 0 CommentsSecond Life is in the news today (Tuesday December 5th, 2006) due to a series of problems that it had because of its popularity. This is the recipe of success: Hardware: The world of Second Life is create by many small worlds all linked to similar neighbouring worlds. Each server can host up to 4 [...]
Amazon prints on demand and takes competition out of business
Published December 5th, 2006 in Technology. 1 CommentAmazon is expanding it’s services on the books-on-demand market in order to increase revenue by eliminating out-of-print commercial titles. Already Amazon has a huge digital archive of books that is uses at its “Search Inside the Book” technology and very well established partnerships with publishers. This gives Amazon two significant advantages against its competitors: Bookmark [...]
Server market changes, competitors receive Microsoft code
Published December 4th, 2006 in Technology. 0 CommentsOn Thursday 23rd of November 2006, Microsoft avoided an immediate daily penalty of up to $3.8 million when it submitted 8500 pages of documentation of Windows server APIs to the European Commission antitrust department only hours before the latest deadline. Commission lawyers, potential licenses and Neil Barrett, a British computer professor and Microsoft’s monitoring trustee, [...]