Archive for the 'SL/RL crossings' category
London. Yeah, I got there. =)
March 6, 2008 11:29 am
For all those worried that I was stuck at border control, flushed myself through the Eurostar toilet - sorry, loo that is - or catched the wrong train, I did not. We, human and I, even made it to London, UK safely.
For those who just wondered where the hell I was, not blogging anything for almost a week, well, I’m in Londen. (For the American residents: London is a rather big city on an windy island close to Europe. About 20 hours of swimming, I assume.)
Surprisingly London is way better equiped for avatars: I brought my own poseballs, but this deemed to be unnessecary. At Rezzable HQ for instance, I just use Lokum’s pink poseball. Neat, no? It’s even programmed to take me up to the roof for smoking breaks once in a while. ;)
So, I’m safe, sound, on information OD, have met Shockwave Plasma and Rob Danton and of course RaR. And Second Life turns out to be even more fun, challenging and bigger than I ever could imagine. More later, from a Belgian PC with azerty keyboard and a crappy video card. =)
PlayMobil … or domotica and Second Life
February 28, 2008 1:47 amRL to Flickr to in-world Greenies TV
February 20, 2008 4:00 pm
I did not believe they could pull this off - being just cute green extraterrestrials - but look, with some help from Miss LittleToe the Greenies, they did as promised: mobile phone or computer to e-mail to Flickr stream to in-world Second Life Greenie TV. Yeah, some minor bugs - the media stream did not always cooperate and 8MB photographs were not always well received - but beside those everything went great.
I had a great time at the Pyjama party with things as ‘the weirdest thing in your fridge‘ photo hunt, Miss Gwen’s butt blocking the remote control button and toe socks. Must do again soon! :d
Want to submit your own photographs for the Greenies to intercept?
Mail them to mobile(@sign)rezzable(dot)com.
SLangLife n°2 just arrived
12:18 pm
I must admit, the first one was definitely above expectations. Although I did not read it completely, there were interesting articles about how one ends up on Second Life, if Second Life is ‘dangerous’, building, … . And to be honest, I never expected for a second edition of the magazine to go to press. But here it is, and SLangLife’s second edition - fresly arrived by mail - says that it’s all about sex.
There’s already written that much about virtual SLex - why, who, wtf?!, … - that I’m curious if they can still add something to that. In the mean while I wonder if this ‘naughty’ cover - mind the cute cave man in the back! - will make a difference with the amount of people that sign up. Probably not? But leave the magazine somewhere on the train, at work, … and I’m rather sure people will be curious and pick it up. ;)
*goes to page 42 and starts with ‘Textures Explained’* ;)
Greenies experimenting with Mixed Media
February 18, 2008 5:23 pm
I know it lays in their nature to be a bit mischievous. I know they are experts at travelling between realities. Yet, sometimes they take me by surprise, and scare the living hell and all galaxies out of me!
Take for instance early this morning, I was quietly watching the shopping channel with the human - yeah, we really do need a 4th kitchen robot, an air cleaner and some fitness stuff - when all of the sudden… *poof*.. the screen went
static and then a Greenie appeared. At first we thought they wanted to sell my human their new product for doing the dishes, but really, calling MARS-00156-6578bleep59 seemed a bit to expensive to us.
But then he said the cleaning product was just a joke - aren’t they cute? *grmbls* and what he really wanted to do is to invite me for their upcoming mixed media event. They claim to have found a way to get photographs via e-mail (be it from a mobile phone or from PC) on Flickr and their in-world TV. 
I’m not sure what to believe. They do tend do be good at cross-reality stuff, but still…
They said I should come and see for myself. The Greenies are organising a TV Pyjama Party with a 2000 L$ photo contest to demonstrate. It will take place in their living room, and snacks I should bring myself. Now the snacks isn’t a problem, but I don’t have any pyjama’s! Can somebody bring me a pyjama to the Greenies sim on Tuesday February 19th somewhere between 2AM and 6AM SLT? I’d be greatly obliged!
PS. The human wants to take us to the doctor because I am hearing extraterrestrial voices and suffer from hallucinations. But see, I have photographic proof! :(
Although they were not the first to invent virtual worlds - imho that awards goes still to Linden Labs - it’s always interesting to look at the Azia continent for the latest gadgets, initiatives and ideas where it comes to virtual worlds and virtual communities. And there is an interesting Coca-Cola story going on there.
Whilst Coca-Cola experimented with Second Life - and still does so now and then? - under their ‘Virtual Thirst’ slogan, they now took their Coke Side of Life story to the mobile community ‘Mobage Town’. Mobage Town is a fusion of “Mobile Game Town” and the site is a mobile-only community game site. Photograph the bar code on the label with your mobile phone - if it’s enabled to process the 2d barcodes - and get directed to the Coke world, a free Coca Cola branded mobile phone game.
So, you get a free game, yeey! That’s it, boring!? Nope, they ‘ll add free avatar items with that. Buy a coke drink in Japan and get all sorts of different goods for your avatar’s pleasure - not sure if they have SexGen beds, though. ;) That surely out beats the free ringtones and - expensively charged - calls you make to find out what a certain song is named in Belgium.
Actually it’s not the first time this happens. MobageTown previously cooperated with Nike: buy a real world Nike item from one of their mobile auction sites or shops and you would get free Nike merchandise for your avatar. For the people that want to match their avatar to their RL appearance, this must be a major ‘yes, I’ll buy it’ reason.
As for MobileTown itself, it’s not just free games that made them big: they reached their 2 million member in 9 months through a smart combination of games, auction and shops for mobile users and, Q&A boards like Yahoo’s, roleplaying bars and advertisements through product placement. If you’re interested in this, DeNA.jp has an intersting overview on this in their 2006 Q3 Operating results.
So do you think this is something they should do so on the euro and american continents too? Buy something in Real Life and get a free bonus product in-world? Be it related - a real life skirt and a free virtual version of that skirt - or unrelated - free prim hair with a coke - avatar goods? And could this be done in combination with Second Life? I’m interested to hear your opinions on this!
PS. This is a bit older news, mbga.cocacola.jp was online May 1, 2007 - June 20, 2007. But it’s still very interesting and worth a few thoughts.
Poseball Buttons Give-Away
February 16, 2008 8:29 pmThanks to Balp I now have 10 cute RL buttons made out of my poseball vector designs. 4 are promised to my human, 1 to her mom - she does not play Second Life, yet really liked the ‘endless possiblities’ one and we’ll inherit it anyway - and 5 poseball buttons I shall give away.
Of course, you did not think you could get them without at least some effort, right?
First you need to be willing to tell me where your human lives so my human may mail him or her the button. After she’s done that, of course, I’ll delete all your whereabouts information.
Second, you need to answer the question corresponding to the button number correctly here in the comments:
- Who gave me a squidogram as Valentine gift? (goes to Shockwave Plasma)
If I mention ‘RaR said so’, whom am I talking about?What’s my ‘home sim’? (Must be spelled corretly!)
- Which MMORPG did I play intensely previous to Second Life?
- Who did I promise my Second Life girl-on-girl virginity to? (goes to Smiley Barry)
- Which SL company am I employed with (marketing department) but has up to now never paid me? (goes to Ganymedes Costagravas)
Only one poseball button/avatar! ;)
If any of the 5 poseball buttons is not taken by the 24th of February, it goes to the person which guessed most closely to the number of ‘absolute unique visitors’ to this blog from January 1 till January 31. So you might want to add a number to your replies too.
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