New World Notes: Watch Philip and BK Linden's "Fast, Easy, and Fun" Presentation Here

Sunday, August 01, 2010

Watch Philip and BK Linden's "Fast, Easy, and Fun" Presentation Here

Here's an archive video of Philip Rosedale and Bob Komin giving their "Fast, Easy, and Fun" presentation to Second Life users on July 30th, courtesy the good folks at Treet TV. Set aside an hour to watch/listen. One highlight I didn't notice on Friday: Philip saying that among the company's main priority's now is to improve chat (local and group) by separating it from other server activities -- "It's tragic when that goes wrong". That's good news, because "Greatly improve text chat" is one of my seven steps I suggested to save Second Life. What other highlights leap out to you, oh readers?

Posted on Sunday, August 01, 2010 at 10:21 PM in Linden Lab News & Analysis | Permalink

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Friday I was watching while working (like many people probably were) so I missed some of his statements too. Today I watched again and I noticed that he mentioned that he would like to be able to sail across SL with smooth sim crossings which right now you can do it but its a 50/50 you will crash while attempting it on any given day. yeah I hope they fix that soon. Even walking geez.. it can be hectic at times.

Posted by: Delinda Dyrssen | Sunday, August 01, 2010 at 10:43 PM

Really they need to separate out the groups into two categories - one for owning and controlling access, and the other for social belonging and chat. That would solve a lot of the problems with group chat and a whole host of other things, including the limit on the number of social groups you can join.

Posted by: Hitomi Tiponi | Monday, August 02, 2010 at 01:18 AM

I think sim crossing has improved, though. The other day I parachuted from sim to sim for over three hours (well, it was something to do) and I hardly noticed when I crossed the sim border. I can remember when the world kind of hiccupped whenever you crossed a border. This was much less aparrent on my latest journey across sims.

Viewers. I think the future lies not in a one-viewer-suits-all approach, but in viewers specialized to cater for specific users. For example, people who use SL primarily to make machinima should be able to use a viewer optimized for that purpose.

Posted by: Extropia DaSilva | Monday, August 02, 2010 at 03:35 AM

Optimized machinima browser XD Yum

Posted by: ColeMarie Soleil | Monday, August 02, 2010 at 05:38 AM

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