Reuters and C|Net in Second Life 30
An anonymous reader writes "Reuters is opening a news bureau in the simulation game Second Life, and C|Net is following suit. Both companies are joining a race by corporate name brands to take part in the hottest virtual world on the Internet. Starting on Wednesday, Reuters plans to begin publishing text, photo and video news from the outside world for Second Life members and news of Second Life for real world readers who visit a Reuters news site at: http://secondlife.reuters.com/"
hmmm what's next? (Score:3, Funny)
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The same guys that give you the third degree and have you fill out a 3 page form when you try to buy just one battery? I had one of those refuse to sell me something because the fake zip code I gave for the zip code question was not a real code.
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Which is why I learned to avoid Radio Shack and go to other stores that do not interrogate customers for even the smallest cash purchase. That's the free market.
Secondlife is the new hype machine (Score:5, Insightful)
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It also seems to be rather vulnerable to game killing griefing. I tried to start an account but the service was suffering "rolling grid resets" and object spamming all weekend. I just gave up.
-matthew
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Hottest virtual world on the Internet? (Score:2, Insightful)
WoW is certainly a hot item, but it doesn't need a news outlet to let the outside world know what's going on.
Obligatory: So did you see the South Park episode?
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Re:Hottest virtual world on the Internet? (Score:4, Insightful)
The downside is that you have a lot of less-talented people creating the world, so much of what you see is crap. But there's still plenty of good stuff, and just because someone isn't that great at creating doesn't mean they shouldn't be given the opportunity to try, or to share what they've made.
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And most of the stuff you buy / create / sell either aids social interactions (wow! humping avatars!) or pay-for-play gambling.
There's just a whole lot of nothing besides chat and selling non-tangible items for the "cool" factor alone.
That and they allowed their credit card database to be raided and then refused to remove my personal information from their servers until the standard 90-day culling period had passed. Bast
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Re:Hottest virtual world on the Internet? (Score:4, Informative)
"Create" is a pretty damn broad term, and in SL it encompasses a whole lot. Modelling, texturing, scripting, and bringing all of that together to create objects, buildings, landscapes, etc.
90% of what happens in real life really boils down to social interactions. Why should a "virtual world" be any different. Humans are social creatures.
The whole credit card thing sounds pretty crappy though. Bastards.
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That said, it'll be interesting to see if all of these companies can actually draw users to 2L. Another thing I'm interested to see is whether advertising companies will force Linden Labs to clean up the metaverse. AFAIK there seems to be a lot of 2L that centers around good ol' machinima pr0n.
News of the outside world (Score:3, Insightful)
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But then you could just play the game in a window and tab over to a web browser to read C|Net a whole heck of a lot faster.
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Seriously, can we get a poll? (Score:5, Insightful)
Not trying to have a troll, saying it sucks, or trying to issue some lame diktat that there "shouldn't" be Second Life stories here. I just genuinely wonder if the frequency of SL stories actually tallies with the level of interest/participation in SL amongst
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Yeah, I know I'm on slashdot and therefore a geek and therefore in no position to be bashing a virtual world as lame. Which I why I was careful to say that wasn't my intention. I have read Snowcrash and I know exactly what you mean. "In concept it sounds cool" - that's my opinion too, and yet I've never actually gone and tried it. And given t
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It has the possibility of growing into far more than it is now. Maybe even of growing into the massive virtual worlds that cyberpunk has used so often. Currently, it is a little clunky and lag happens, but any new technology starts that way (look at the model T). If SL is it, THE BEGINNING, then it will be very interesting to have been there from nearly the start, to have watched it all develop.
Something will
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IIRC the # players was just under 700000 when I joined in July, it's over 800000 now, and at this rate will probably hit a million by late November.
It appeals to a different demographic than WoW. there's a lot of artistic folks, art majors, people who do jewelry or fashion related stuff in real life, 2D and 3D modeling folks. There's no grind or worrying to have to keep up with guildmates level wise so plenty of
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I toyed about a bit. It was meh. I lost interest after a half-hour and haven't returned. Can't see what value I'd find in it. Wasn't overly entertaining, didn't learn much, didn't see much potential for anything more than simply wasting time.
If SL were truly the hot damnedest thing to ever h
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