Snowglobe 1.2 Release Candidate is now ready for download. The release was yesterday with many new features and bug fixes. DOWNLOAD NOW
Below is a list of features new to Snowglobe 1.2, added since Snowglobe 1.1
- New features
- Bug fixes:
SNOW-112[c] http map textures are corrupted
I think Snowglobe rocks!
Linden Lab announced yesterday on the Official Second Life Blog, that the KB has been moved to the new Second Life Wiki home (Knowlege Base) and that the migration phrase has now been completed. CLICK HERE to visit the new KB wiki. Thanks to the Doc Team for their hard work they have put into this over recent months. :D
It’s official: Our Knowledge Base (KB) has been moved to the Second Life Wiki! Now that our massive migration is complete, we can offer several tremendous, hands-on benefits to improve your knowledge-seeking and knowledge-sharing experience, including:
- Direct linking–at long last! The link you see is what you copy and paste to share helpful articles with others. It’s that simple.|
- Unified help resource! When the KB and the Wiki existed in two different places, some were confused over where to look for help. Viva la unification! Now there’s just one place to find everything you need.
- Link hotlist integration! Have a few articles that you refer to over and over again? Take a few minutes to make a Wiki page, link to those on-Wiki pages, and then share it with others with similar needs.
- Robust internationalization! The Wiki is already used by numerous volunteers to provide translated versions of KB articles. Multibyte character encoding support, which our previous system didn’t have, means that languages like Japanese and others with extended characters will be retained as intended.
- Accelerated article revision time! The team effort makes updates a breeze. Not only does wikifying the KB make it easier for us to release content updates, but you can also review articles for even faster dissemination of information. Heck, if you spot a mistake, you can correct it in minutes or even seconds.
What do you think of the new Second Life Knowlege Base ?
Philip Rosedale (Philip Linden) announced yesterday on the Official Second Life Blog his Next Chapter, that he will be starting a new company and that he will no longer be working full-time at Linden Lab anymore. Philip Rosedale will still be a chariman of Linden Lab and he will still do media conferences about Second Life. M Linden (Mark Kindon) became the new CEO of Linden Lab about one year and a half ago when Philip Linden stepped down as CEO.
I’m starting a new company, and wanted to let you know.
I will still be chairman, as I have been since leaving the job as CEO. The change is that I’m not going to be working full-time at Linden Lab anymore (some of you might have thought I wasn’t still there, but actually I have been!). I’ll still be doing the same outbound and media type things as before – talking about Second Life, etc.
We’re now at a place where I feel really comfortable that Second Life and Linden Lab are OK without me being here day to day anymore.
M (and others) have also managed to hire a bunch of diverse, smart, passionate people who I feel can very capably lead the company.
And as for all of you – the people all over the world who have built Second Life – you all feel very near and dear to me, and I want you to be a part of this next adventure. I can’t say enough, or say thank you enough, about the experience that has been watching Second Life come to life. On a personal level, it has deeply changed me. I am a different and better person, in part through the experience of being in Second Life with all of you. So anyway… I’ll keep you posted, as I get things more sorted out
I wish Philip good luck on his new adventures. So I guess now the full attention is now pointing towards M Linden to carry us through into the distant future of Second Life. This was a big shock to many and I really do admire what Philip has done over recent years and of course bring us Second Life. But with all things everything has to end sometime and move on at some point.
Second Life Knowledge Base Wiki
Over the past week or so Linden Lab (Documentation Team) have been working around the clock transferring articles from the old KB to the new Second Life knowledge base wiki. Earlier in the year the Documenation Team set up the KB2Wiki project which involved testing the Wiki and reviewing pages. Success!
Our mission: Test the Wiki as the new home of the KB so you get more accurate information, easier.
Summary: We’re testing using this Second Life Wiki as the new home of the Second Life Knowledge Base (KB for short) by moving a small selection of Beginners’ articles into the Wiki. Our ultimate goal is to unify the KB with the Wiki, two of the main places you might go for Second Life help. Together, we can improve the accuracy, completeness, and range of information available to all Residents — and make all of this information easier to find and use!
The Documentation Team have apparently important all KB articles and are now working on cleanup/organization phrase of the process. I love the new Second Life Knowlege Base wiki, easier to search for things and looks great visually etc.
This Wiki is our new home, so pardon us while the dust settles.
Welcome to the Knowlege Base, the official source for Second Life help & related information.
The Knowledge Base contains articles that are quality-reviewed by Linden Lab and Resident Reviewers. The Wiki has long-thrived as Resident-powered help, and it stands to benefit from documentation which wields the dual advantages of being: (1) officially approved by Linden Lab while at the same time (2) is updated quicker by having more eyes on editable content.
When you first visit the new Second Life Knowlege Base it will show the following things;
Documentation Team Links
Questions:
Recently I’ve discovered there used to be 6 tabs (March 2009) for Showcase but now there seems to be 7 (September/October 2009). Some main categories have been renamed and some have been replaced with new ones. I really love spending time exploring these exciting locations and the showcase tab really does have alot to offer everyone. Before the Showcase tab was the old popular places tab where it showed a list of places with a traffic count for each.
The Showcase tab in SEARCH displays popular best inworld locations of interest to exisitng and new residents of Second Life. You will see a list of interesting and cool places to visit in Second Life. This is AWESOME! :D
These are spots that have been identified by Linden Research as interesting places to visit. Showcase is split up into 7 category tabs: All, Arts & Recreation, Educationa & Nonprofit, Business & Enterprise, Help & Learn, Music and Hot Spots. Click on a blue landmark link then it will show information and a picture about that landmark in Second Life on the left. Click on Teleport to visit that cool showcase attraction. :)
SEARCH > SHOWCASE!
Try it out for yourself and have fun!
Originally Posted by Wynochee LeShelleBlue said that these forums will be merged, and that they’ll have the same layouts as the SL website and XStreet. All the same style…An announcement about this will come within a week.He’s moved some of the major critics of the SL website to the development team.That’s the news!
New details released that the Second Life Forums will be merged and that it will be the same layout (style) of the new SL website and XStreet SL. From whats been said recently there will be a announcement within a week. So it will be all new and improved very soon.
There have been alot of new changes this year already including the new Second Life Blog, Second Life website, SL Dashboard, SL Answers and next in the pipe line is SL Forums. Most residents love the new changes where the others don’t like the new changes at all. In the near future we can expect new changes to the Second Life user-interface and the new installation layout including additional new changes to the new user experience. We will have to wait and see! :D
My blog metrics So far…
This month’s stats for (September 2009)
Top posts this month on my blog
Other Stats
SL September Highlights & Popular Stories
Upcoming in October 2009
If I’ve missed something, please comment. It’s been a very busy and interesting month for September 2009 in SL. :D
Tyche Shepherd reports on storing Second Life Incident Reports and she has published many awesome graphs of her findings on sluniverse.com called what did the naughty people do?. There is alot of interesting data and information in this thread. It’s worth checking out.
There is an Official LL Incident Report page on the SL website which displays the top 25 recent disciplinary actions taken by the in-world Goverance Team. Don’t forget to go to the Help menu and Choose Report Abuse to report incidents etc always!
In total I now have data which seems complete from 7th Jun 2007 up to the current time, at the moment this comes to 21, 665 published incidents.
Firstly I should point out published Incident Reports are only those AR’s which have been resolved and where a warning or suspension has been made. It doesn’t seem to cover bans or suspensions due to account issues or the other strange reasons Lindens use to suspend people.They also cover Teen Grid as well as the Main Grid.
Big fall in published incident reports at the beginning of this year.
There are 91 unique types of violations in total, the most common was Community Standard: Assault, Scripted Objects which covers 3654 incidents
Very little suprises with Public Help Islands, Sandboxes and Info-bubs dominating the list, with No Specific Region being the most common. Help Island Public hosts over 4% of all published incidents.
52% of published incidents result in a Warning, the rest in a suspension of 1 to 14 days.
There were only 2 published copyright infringement violations which resulted in a ban of 14 days (there were 17 in total across the period)
I must stress that these figures are only the Published Incident Reports, people say there are plenty of resolved AR’s which don’t make the Blotter and they certainly don’t include any bans which do occur or suspensions for other reasons (account issues, activity which triggers money laundering detection etc) so it’s difficult to draw concrete conclusions about the whole AR process from them .
Great job, interesting stats. :)
Now over to you, what do you think about the graph data ?
SL Breaking News
Official Statement from the Orange Team, CLICK HERE
This Wednesday, September 23, from 4-5pm SLT, Philip Linden and T Linden will be participating in a mixed-reality panel discussion, titled, Second Life: The Largest User-Generated Virtual Goods Economy in the World. As the season opener of Metanomics, the event will be broadcast by TREET.TV and will be accessible inworld and on the web. We hope you’ll join us!
Will you be attending ?
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