This week’s topics include:

• Cloud Party Adds Mesh-Based, Collaborative Building Blocks
• Two Years Later: Is Rod One Of Us?
• Materials Project Viewer Now Available
• Mesh Clothing Deformer Status
• Mainland Griefing 
• Reaching into Second Life with Leap Motion
• Leap Motion needs an open source dev
• Oculus Rift Creators Tout Second Life as Use Case
• Oculus Rift Team Fortress 2 Gameplay Demonstrated
• Fantasy Faire 2013 
• Neva River
• The Garden
• SL10B
• Designing Worlds celebrates the launch of Second Life’s 10th Birthday
• Creatorverse from Linden Lab Now Free on iOS
• Bitcoin price goes on wild ride
• The Drax Files Episode #2

Guests:

Karl Stiefvater (Qarl Fizz, formerly Qarl Linden) is visual effects artist, software developer, and interactive designer extraordinaire.

William Reed Seal-Foss is a 3D artist and virtual world content creator.

Thank you to our sponsors -
Botgirl’s Digital Playground, AngelRED Couture, Kahruvel Design and Virtual Vision 2020

This week’s topics include:

• EA’s botched launch of latest ‘SimCity’ leaves gamers fuming
• EA Patches SimCity and Throws Free Games at Disgruntled Customers
• Gamers confront EA: ‘SimCity’ plays fine offline
• DRM (Digital Rights Management)
• Can content theft really be prevented?
• Linden Lab Quietly Offering 50% Discounts to Select Non-Profit & Educational Groups
• New Social Media Startup Launches, Shuts Down Within 45 Minutes
• SLCC 2011
• Jo Yardley shares Westfries Museum and hopes for SL
• Bitcoin gambling
• MTV’s Catfish is Seeking Second Life Stories
• Botgirl’s Take on Catfish’s Call for Second Life Participants
• The Drax Files: World Makers [Episode 1: Kriss Lehmann]

Guests:

Bernhard Drax (Draxtor Despres) is a musician, new media producer, and machinima journalist.

Karl Stiefvater (Qarl Fizz, formerly Qarl Linden) is visual effects artist, software developer, and interactive designer extraordinaire.

William Reed Seal-Foss is a 3D artist and virtual world content creator.

Thank you to our sponsors -
Botgirl’s Digital Playground, AngelRED Couture, Kahruvel Design and Virtual Vision 2020

This week’s topics include:

• Follow up on comments from last week
• Mesh Deformer Discussion
• Linden Lab Valentine’s Day Gift
• Why are so many SLers unhappy with Linden Lab/Second Life?
• Linden Lab launches Versu
• More on Versu
• Iris Ophelia’s First Impressions of Versu
• Why Linden Lab’s new projects might not succeed
• Second Life creator Linden Lab launches Versu
• Woman with Parkinson’s Reports Significant Physical Recovery After Using Second Life
• How Club One lowers your weight and BP virtually
• Stanfords VR Lab Offers Wild Glimpse of the Future
• How it Feels Through Google Glass
• If I Had Glass
• Oculus Rift
• Hunger in Los Angeles Debuts At Sundance
• Deep Down for PS4
• 300 million dollars out of thin air: Bitcoin turns four and approaches $30 value
• Gambling in Second Life
• Kitely Market
• Amazon to Launch Its Own Virtual Currency Soon
• Twitter Will Decide the Value of Your Tweets
• Create Legends

Guests:

Bernhard Drax (Draxtor Despres) is a musician, new media producer, and machinima journalist.

Karl Stiefvater (Qarl Fizz, formerly Qarl Linden) is visual effects artist, software developer, and interactive designer extraordinaire.

Lexi Zelin is the owner of and designer at AngelRED Couture which offers established and aspiring Second Life clothing creators high quality full permission clothing templates and full perm mesh clothing.

Thank you to our sponsors -
Botgirl’s Digital Playground, AngelRED Couture, & Kahruvel Design

This week’s topics include:

• Nalates’ MetaReality recaps
• Ginsu Linden “Why Second Life Failed”
• Discussion on lag
• Discussion on the first user experience
• More on Dio
• The Virtual Real Estate Market
• Second Life Materials Update
• Materials processing – more sneak peeks
• Buddhism in second life: Anthropologist studies spirituality in virtual reality
• Healing the Inner Child Through Virtual Reality and Avatar Therapy
• Study Suggests Virtual Superhero Behavior Increases Helpful Real Life Behavior
• How Facebook Graph Search might affect Second Life Residents
• How Valve’s Steam Box will reinvent the game console as you know it
• 2013 Superbowl Ads Favor URLs, Hashtags –Not Facebook
• “Because I am not here” Thesis work on four SL artists
• MeTube: August sings Carmen ‘Habanera’

Guests:

Bernhard Drax (Draxtor Despres) is a musician, new media producer, and machinima journalist.

Karl Stiefvater (Qarl Fizz, formerly Qarl Linden) is visual effects artist, software developer, and interactive designer extraordinaire.

Thank you to our sponsors, Botgirl’s Digital Playground & AngelRED Couture

This week’s topics include:

• Comments and thoughts from the previous episode
• Tier Don’t Matter: A Crystal Clear Depiction of Why Second Life Isn’t Growing
• Linden Lab® Introduces dio™
• Linden Lab’s ‘dio’ to Let You Gamify Your Media for Fun and (Eventually) Profit
• Dio beta launched – and it might be more than it seems
• Thoughts on Dio and the Future of Linden Lab
• Linden Lab® Acquires Blocksworld
• Blocksworld – LL’s latest acquistion
• Should Linden Lab Charge SL Users to Keep Excess Inventory?
• SL project news
• Kitely move to offer new marketplace
• Linden Lab’s Experimental SL Viewer With Gesture Control Technology
• Elder Scrolls Online Closed Beta Signups Now Open
• APP WATCH: Vine
• Designing Worlds on Griefing
• One Billion Rising in Second Life
• Flufee on a Meshion – Episode 19: Quo Vadis Fluffalah?
• Goodbye Fluflee thread

Guests:

Bernhard Drax (Draxtor Despres) is a musician, new media producer, and machinima journalist.

Karl Stiefvater (Qarl Fizz, formerly Qarl Linden) is visual effects artist, software developer, and interactive designer extraordinaire.

Thank you to our sponsors, Botgirl’s Identity Circus and Pretty Feet!

This week’s topics include:

• Virtual Worlds in the Unforeseeable Future
• Is Amazon Destined to Replace Marketplace and Buy SL?
• Versu: Regency England with murder, ghosts and romance
• How to Stop SL Land Loss: Require Land Ownership to Sell in the SL Marketplace
• Should Linden Lab Coerce Merchants Into Second Life Land Ownership?
• Tier cuts: looking from the Lab’s perspective
• Prim Perfect Poll Results Suggest The Tier Is Too Damn High
• Mesh Deformer Update
• Alchemy and Immortalis
• Second Life user concurrency

Guests:

Karl Stiefvater (Qarl Fizz, formerly Qarl Linden) is visual effects artist, software developer, and interactive designer extraordinaire.

Thank you to our sponsors, Botgirl’s Identity Circus and Pretty Feet!

This week’s topics include:

• Linden Lab announce Second Life available through Amazon
• Tateru’s thoughts on the Amazon offering
• Linden Lab explains removal of Amazon special offer
• Botgirl’s Take on the Amazon Game Category Controversy
• Linden Lab’s Dio and Versu
• Ciaran Laval’s Hopes, Wishes And Forthcoming Improvements
• Virtual Worlds: Is the Dream Over?
• Valve and Xi3 announce in-development Steam-optimized mini PC at CES
• Valve’s Gabe Newell on Steam Box, biometrics, and the future of gaming
• Flufee on a Meshion – Episode 18: It Spread

Guests:

Bernhard Drax (Draxtor Despres) is a musician, new media producer, and machinima journalist.

Karl Stiefvater (Qarl Fizz, formerly Qarl Linden) is visual effects artist, software developer, and interactive designer extraordinaire.

Thank you to our sponsors, Botgirl’s Identity Circus and Pretty Feet!

This week’s topics include:

• Touching on last week’s comments
• Maxwell Graf on creating for Cloud Party vs. Second Life
• Cloud Party Now With Low Lag Standard Mode, Full Effect High Definition Mode
• Patterns
• Damien’s First Impressions Videos
• Minecraft Users’ First Impression Videos
• Patterns First User Experience
• Is the Lab no longer excited about Second Life?
• Designing Worlds special on pathfinding
• Lorca Linden provides data on pathfinding and simulator performance
• What You Might Look Like Playing Videogames Very Soon
• Dan Pink - Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us
• Plea to a “copybotting” Second Life resident
• Supreme Court to Revisit ‘First-Sale’ Copyright Doctrine
• Facebook’s First Ad Campaign
• Coke’s New Campaign
• FATEisland
• Damien’s Halloween Goodies
• Botanical
• Cica Ghost’s Black And White World
• PODCAST AWARDS

Guests:

Damien Fate is a graphic designer, 3D modeler and innovative Second Life enthusiast since 2003.  He is best know as the co-Owner of coldLogic, and the owner of FATEwear, FATEcreate, FATEbecome and Loco Pocos!

Bernhard Drax (Draxtor Despres) is a musician, new media producer, and machinima journalist.

Karl Stiefvater (Qarl Fizz, formerly Qarl Linden) is visual effects artist, software developer, and interactive designer extraordinaire.

Thank you to our sponsors, Botgirl’s Identity Circus and Pretty Feet!

This week’s topics include:

• Draxtor’s Idiot Status
• Virtual Feet Fetish?
• Virtual Greeters vs Mentors
• Jimmy Kimmel – I Told My Kids I Ate All Their Halloween Candy (Video)
• Lag in Second Life
• Minecraft vs. Second Life
• Was Second Life ever cool?
• What role does luck play in success?
• Patterns confirmation email from Linden Lab
• Flufee on a Meshion – Episode 15: Flufee for Resident!

Guests:

Bernhard Drax (Draxtor Despres) is a musician, new media producer, and machinima journalist.

Karl Stiefvater (Qarl Fizz, formerly Qarl Linden) is visual effects artist, software developer, and interactive designer extraordinaire.

Thank you to our sponsors, Botgirl’s Identity Circus and Pretty Feet!

This week’s topics include:

• Yoz Linden Out
• Linden Lab CFO, Malcolm Dunne
• Follow Up on new LL Products
• Minecraft vs SL
• More on the new SL trailer
• Disgruntled Frogs
• Being original, copy-catting, or reinventing the wheel?
• LL’s new products aren’t the end of Second Life
• Update on materials in SL
• SL mesh clothing deformer update
• WELL Users Buy Influential Virtual Community from Corporate Owner — Could Second Life Users Do the Same?
• Another One Rides The Bus! 
• FATEcreate Mesh Template Source Files

Guests:

Bernhard Drax (Draxtor Despres) is a musician, new media producer, and machinima journalist.

Karl Stiefvater (Qarl Fizz, formerly Qarl Linden) is visual effects artist, software developer, and interactive designer extraordinaire.

Thank you to our sponsors, Botgirl’s Identity Circus and Pretty Feet!

This week’s topics include:

• Coming Soon from Linden Lab: Creatorverse and Patterns
• New Linden Lab Product: Day-Glo Minecraft with Physics?
• Are simple games better?
• Second Life redux?
• Is Second Life embarrassing?
• Will or should Patterns subsume Second Life?
• Patterns Could Be the Next Minecraft
• New Second Life Promo Video
• Linden Lab Must Stop Underselling Second Life
• Qarl breaks down the deformer bug

Guests:

Bernhard Drax (Draxtor Despres) is a musician, new media producer, and machinima journalist.

Karl Stiefvater (Qarl Fizz, formerly Qarl Linden) is visual effects artist, software developer, and interactive designer extraordinaire.

Thank you to our sponsors, Botgirl’s Identity Circus and Pretty Feet!

This week’s topics include:

• Linden Lab Announces the Materials Project
• What are normal and specular maps?  How will they add to Second Life?
• Will these additions add more lag or increase the minimum graphic requirements?
• Second Life is Expanding to Steam
• How Will Steam Change Second Life?
• Valve Developments
• Valve’s Source Engine Used in “Deep”
• Why Anyone Who Cares About the Metaverse Needs to Move Beyond Second Life
• Botgirl’s take on the future of the Metaverse: If there has been a failure, it is ours
• More thoughts on the present and future Metaverse
• SL Still Change the World?
• Cloud Party Update
• Mesh Deformer Updates

Guests:

Bernhard Drax (Draxtor Despres) is a musician, new media producer, and machinima journalist.

Karl Stiefvater (Qarl Fizz, formerly Qarl Linden) is visual effects artist, software developer, and interactive designer extraordinaire.

Thank you to our sponsors, Botgirl’s Identity Circus and Pretty Feet!

This week’s topics include:

• Second Life Usage Surpasses 2 Billion Hours
• Rod Humble Asks for Suggestions
• SL first user experience from a noob’s perspective
• We are not the Customers the Lab Wants
• Cloud Party Usage and Growth Seems to Plateau
• Exodus nightly builds
• Curio/Gala Update
• Curio/Gala IndieGoGo
• Hair Fair
• Botgirl on “Inside the Avatar Studio”

Guests

Geenz Spad is the graphics guy for the Exodus Viewer. He is also responsible for the slick shiny Rubber Infusions range of avatar modifications.

Ash Qin is Exodus’ Linux developer, he also provides various viewer related documentation and server related stuff! Ash also owns and runs the popular Sci-Fi sim Deshima.

Corey Persing is a new Second Life user.

Karl Stiefvater (Qarl Fizz, formerly Qarl Linden) is visual effects artist, software developer, and interactive designer extraordinaire.

Thank you to our sponsors, Botgirl’s Identity Circus and Pretty Feet!

This week’s topics include:

• AvaCon declines SLCC 2012
• Music Jams
• Second Life Stalkers and Psychos
• Curio Legal Situation
• Vaki’s Talk: Copyright in Virtual Worlds and Social Media
• One Voice Directory
• Content Improvement Group Transcript
• Nalates’ Content Improvement Summary
• The Mesh Deformer Consensus
• Qarl’s update on his mesh deformer
• Is ‘Patterns’ Linden Lab’s Upcoming New Product?
• New 3D Sandbox Game Like Minecraft & Little Big Planet, Code-Named Patterns
• Philip Rosedale: The Media Is Wrong, Second Life Didn’t Fail
• RFL
• SL’s Pic of the Day
• Penny’s Town Walk

Guests

Salome Strangelove is a well known Second Life resident who co-wrote one of SL’s earliest and most popular fashion shopping blogs, Linden Lifestyles from 2006-2009.  She now writes a well respected and insightful information and opinion blog, Salome Says, among other things.

Karl Stiefvater (Qarl Fizz, formerly Qarl Linden) is visual effects artist, software developer, and interactive designer extraordinaire.

Thank you to our sponsors, Botgirl’s Identity Circus and Pretty Feet!

This week’s topics include:

• Follow Up from Last Week (deformer update, new user group)
• Content Creation Improvement Informal User Group – July 3rd, 2012 Meeting
• Content Creation Improvement Informal User Group
• Is mesh clothing killing fashion in Second Life?
• New Second Life projects the Lab is working on
• Hamlet deems it “The War on Lag”
• Cloud Party Now Offering Private Islands
• CP vs SL Land Offerings
• Relay for Life 2012 in SL soon
• 100 Words 100 Stories For RFL
• Charlie Stross’s Halting State
• This is Not a Game
• Botanical
• Gala Phoenix Legal Situation
• Update from Gala

Guests:

Saffia Widdershins is a well known Second Life user, community leader, and blogger.  She is best known as Owner and CEO of Prim Perfect Publications, publisher and editor of Prim Perfect Magazine and as a co-host of the Treet.tv show Designing Worlds.

Timothy Jackson (Maxwell Graf) is a 3D artist and content creator who has been blending traditional and digital media since 1983.  He is best known in the virtual world for his Rustica SIMs and furniture.

Bernhard Drax (Draxtor Despres) is a musician, new media producer, and machinima journalist.

Thank you to our sponsors, Botgirl’s Identity Circus and Pretty Feet!

This week’s topics include:

• RedPoly Mesh Clothing Deformer
• Avastar Plugin
• Update on qarl’s Deformer
• Mesh Deformer Limits
• Content Creation Improvement Informal User Group
• How Second Life Lost Its ‘Old Frontier Feel’
• 7 Things You Need to Know About Cloud Party
• Not Yet a Party But Soon?
• Facebook Knows What You’re Doing (Even If You Don’t)
• Design Gearz
• Starstruck SL
• Content Creation Improvement Informal User Group
• The status of qarl’s deformer and what happens now

Guests:

Cyclic Gearz is a avid Second Life user and content.  She is best known as the owner of Starstruck SL where she sells furniture and houses.  She is also an active plurker.

Geenz Spad is the graphics guy for the Exodus Viewer. He is also responsible for the slick shiny Rubber Infusions range of avatar modifications.

Karl Stiefvater (Qarl Fizz, formerly Qarl Linden) is visual effects artist, software developer, and interactive designer extraordinaire.

Thank you to our sponsors, Botgirl’s Identity Circus and Pretty Feet!

This week we’re live from SL9B as we reflect on how far SL9B has come, past birthdays, the future of Second Life, if Cloud Party is the next big thing, and more!

This week’s topics include:

• It’s SL9B!
• Fun stuff at SL9B
• Reflecting on past birthdays
• Is Second Life a “disruptive innovation” as Mitch Kapor declared at SL5B?
• A community of wackadoodles?
• Emotional bandwidth
• Qarl’s Deformer Update from SL9B
• Cloud Party
• Is Cloud Party the next big thing?
• Botgirl’s Thoughts:  Why Linden Lab Should Buy Cloud Party
• Will Burn’s Thoughts on Cloud Party
• Bob Komin Leaving Linden Lab
• Update on Gez Linden
• Virtual Vision 2020

Guests:

Saffia Widdershins (brief appearance providing an SL9B update) is a well known Second Life user, community leader, and blogger.  She is best known as Owner and CEO of Prim Perfect Publications, publisher and editor of Prim Perfect Magazine and as a co-host of the Treet.tv show Designing Worlds.

Karl Stiefvater (Qarl Fizz, formerly Qarl Linden) is visual effects artist, software developer, and interactive designer extraordinaire.

Thank you to our sponsors, Botgirl’s Identity Circus and Pretty Feet!

Held in the SL9B AUDITORIUM:
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/DreamSeeker%20SL9B%20Negen/70/5

This week’s topics include:

• More info on Dio
• Gez Linden Leaves Linden Lab
• SL9B Update
• SL9B Flickr Group
• MetaReality LIVE at SL9B - Thursday (21st) 1pm SLT!
• Tech Turnarounds
• Is the desktop dead?
• Apple’s WWDC
• Mesh Deformer Update
• Shed me no tiers
• The New Application Botgirl Would Love
• New Web to Avatar Motion Capture System from Japan
• The Habbo incident
• Shaker
• Facebook, ‘Likes’ Become Ads
• Kinect’s Emotional Ads
• How I Met Yoko Ono in Second Life
• Eclectic Apparel

Guests:

Eclectic Wingtips is a avid Second Life user and virtual clothing designer since 2008.  She is best known as the owner of Eclectic Apparel.  She is also an active plurker.

Saffia Widdershins (brief appearance providing an SL9B update) is a well known Second Life user, community leader, and blogger.  She is best known as Owner and CEO of Prim Perfect Publications, publisher and editor of Prim Perfect Magazine and as a co-host of the Treet.tv show Designing Worlds.

Karl Stiefvater (Qarl Fizz, formerly Qarl Linden) is visual effects artist, software developer, and interactive designer extraordinaire.

Thank you to our sponsors, Botgirl’s Identity Circus and Pretty Feet!

This week’s topics include:

• Answering questions from last week
• What would a new Second Life look/fuction like?
• Would users really switch?
• What we want to change/fix/add?
• Could they be connected?
• Content theft and DMCA process
• SL Advanced tools capability used for griefing
• A closer look at Pathfinding
• Mesh Deformer Update
• Three months (or so) with the LEA
• SL9B Updates from Saffia
• Bee, a New Interactive Novella from Linden Lab’s Dio-Developer Emily Short
• Blue Mars Mobile update
• E3 -> ZombiU, SmartGlass, Watch Dogs, Hawken, SimCity and more!
• DayZ
• Airtime
• 6.5 Million Encrypted LinkedIn Passwords Leaked Online
• Mainit’s Baustein store on Marketplace
• Strawberry Singh Events Post

Guests:

Mainit Hellman is a Second Life user and content creator since 2008.  He is best known in the virtual world as the owner of Baustein where you can find his low prim, but detailed prefabs, furniture, and outdoor accessories.  He is also the co-owner of ExperiMENTAL Studios and an active plurker.

Saffia Widdershins (brief appearance providing an SL9B update) is a well known Second Life user, community leader, andblogger.  She is best known as Owner and CEO of Prim Perfect Publications, publisher and editor of Prim Perfect Magazine and as a co-host of the Treet.tv show Designing Worlds.

Karl Stiefvater (Qarl Fizz, formerly Qarl Linden) is visual effects artist, software developer, and interactive designer extraordinaire.

Thank you to our sponsors, Botgirl’s Identity Circus and Pretty Feet!

This week’s topics include:

• IEEE Virtual World Standard Working Group
• Why standards?
• Interconnecting/interoperable grids?
• Across the Metaverse: from Second Life to OpenSim
• Why did Linden Lab step back from the hypergrid?
• How will TPV polices regarding shared experiences and Havok effect SL & other grids?
• Graphics vs. hardware concerns
• Euclideon Engine
• Fix it or rebuild it?  Linden Lab or someone else?
• Linden Lab trademarks DIO
• Mobile is the future?
• Did Facebook Kill Virtual Worlds?
• First User Experience
• Mesh Clothing Deformer and Standard Sizing Debate/Update
• When will the mesh clothing deformer be completed?
• Will you need an alpha layer with the mesh clothing deformer?
• Economical mesh - rendering choices vs. polygons
• 3D Virtual Worlds and the Metaverse Current Status and Future Possibilities
• Will Burns’ Blog
• MetaverseStandards.org
• Exodus Viewer now has nightly builds
• Rustica in the Marketplace
• Fameshed
• SL9B Angel of Death
• The 1920s Berlin Project 3rd anniversary

Guests:

Will Burns (Aeonix Aeon) is a virtual environment specialist with over 15 years experience.  He was a contributor to the Solipsis Decentralized Metaverse and the Metaverse Roadmap and is currently the Vice Chair for the IEEE Virtual World Standard Group.

Timothy Jackson (Maxwell Graf) is a 3D artist and content creator who has been blending traditional and digital media since 1983.  He is best known in the virtual world for his Rustica SIMs and furniture.

Geenz Spad is the graphics guy for the Exodus Viewer. He is also responsible for the slick shiny Rubber Infusions range of avatar modifications. Geenz works hard to bring brilliant rendering features and improvements to Exodus, adding an additional layer of visual “wow” for users, making Exodus ideal for photographers looking for an extra degree of control in their viewer.

Karl Stiefvater (Qarl Fizz, formerly Qarl Linden) is visual effects artist, software developer, and interactive designer extraordinaire.

Thank you to our sponsors, Botgirl’s Identity Circus and Pretty Feet!

This week’s topics include:

• Linden Lab Needs Samples to Test Mesh Deformer — Or May Not Incorporate It 
• More on Oz Linden’s Call for Assistance
• Oz Linden Responds!
• Tateru Asks for Twenty Words or Less
• SecondLife.com Domain Expires and Then Is Only Renewed for One Year?
• Oskar Linden talks about the recent hardware failure at Linden Lab
• What If Rod Was One Of Us?
• Philip Version
• Are Tablets the Breakthrough Virtual Worlds Need?
• Google Reportedly Investing $30 Million in Machinima.com
• Sesame Street Goes Virtual
• Baby Thinks A Magazine Is an iPad That Does Not Work
• IBM Art of Data
• Qarl’s Class
• Pinterest Announces Attribution Tool Feature For Flickr, YouTube And More
• Elder Scrolls Online
• More on the Mesh Clothing Deformer
• Building the Mesh Clothing Deformer to Ruth vs. Standard Sizing
• How the Deformer Will Effect Existing Mesh Clothing
• Happy Rez Day Berry!
• Ask SecondLie – Issue #1

Guests:

Valiant Westland is a well known Second Life user who has been involved with the platform in one way or another since 2005.  He brings with him 20+ years of IT planning experience and is a two term Elected Official.  In addition, he is an avid user of social media where you can find him on Twitter, Plurk and Facebook.  You can also read more of his thoughts on the SL Revolution blog.

Karl Stiefvater (Qarl Fizz, formerly Qarl Linden) is visual effects artist, software developer, and interactive designer extraordinaire.

Thank you to our sponsors, Botgirl’s Identity Circus and Pretty Feet!

This week’s topics include:

• Bold and Radical Changes to Second Life
• What do you think SL needs?
• Why are some educators leaving SL?
• Second Life Outages
• Starter Homes Controversy
• Giant Avatars
• Qarl’s Update on the Mesh Clothing Deformer
• Land Impact Changes
• Harvard, MIT to Offer Free Online Classes
• Rather Than Pay Off Yahoo, Facebook Built A Fortress 1,400 Patents Strong
• Ask SecondLie
• Tweenk.me
• Virtual Hotel Chelsea’s Anniversary
• Discount Six Flags Tickets to Support The Seeing Eye

Guests:

Laurence Simon (Crap Mariner) is a well known and outspoken Second Life resident.  He can often be found on one of his well know region islands: Edloe, Harbour, Nowhereville, Piper Point, Watermoon Breeze, Corbenic, and Marylis.   In addition to producing his own podcast, he has been a strong advocate and promoter of community podcasts and musicians.   Crap is also very active in social media sites such as twitter, flickr, and youtube.

Karl Stiefvater (Qarl Fizz, formerly Qarl Linden) is visual effects artist, software developer, and interactive designer extraordinaire.

Thank you to our sponsors, Botgirl’s Identity Circus and Pretty Feet!

This week we discuss Linden Lab’s decision to not be involved with SL9B, the status of the Mesh Clothing Deformer, Tupac’s Coachella Hologram and more!

This week’s topics include:

• Linden Lab Won’t Host Any Events for SL’s 9th Anniversary
• Tateru’s Experience Planning/Organizing SL3B
• Tateru’s Call to Action
• Crap’s The Solution For Land For SL9B
• Crap’s Roundup of His and Other’s Thoughts on SL9B
• Botgirl’s Full SL9B Fuck You Parody Song
• Maxwell Graf’s thoughts on standard sizing in SL
• Qarl Updates Us on the Mesh Deformer
• Raising the Height Limit
• Face Recognition Could Catch Bad Avatars
• Spoiler alert: Your TV will be hacked
• Tupac Coachella Hologram
• Tupac Hologram Wasn’t a Hologram
• Hatsune Miku: Japanese HOLOGRAPH Plays Sold Out Concerts
• The Matthew Show
• Chouchou
• Duran Duran
• Happy Birthday David (New Trailer for Prometheus Viral)
• AOL sells more than 800 patents and 300 licenses to Microsoft in $1 billion+ cash deal
• In Facebook Deal, Board Was All But Out of Picture
• Facebook Targets May 17th For IPO Date
• Colleges Use Pinterest to Reach Out
• Rejected By VCs, Pebble Watch Raises $3.8M on Kickstarter
• Flufee on a Meshion Episode 13 – 美香の箱 [Mika's Box]
• Chouchou「neverland」
• Adorable Seeing Eye Puppies Unwrapping the Auction Items!

Bernhard Drax (Draxtor Despres) is a musician, new media producer, and machinima journalist.

Karl Stiefvater (Qarl Fizz, formerly Qarl Linden) is visual effects artist, software developer, and interactive designer extraordinaire.

Thank you to our sponsors, Botgirl’s Identity Circus and Pretty Feet!

This week’s topics include:

• New Linden Policy May Hurt Viewer Development
• NEW SPONSOR – Botgirl’s Identity Circus!
• Video and Thoughts on Identity
• Blue Mars Mobile
• Air Wings Free iPhone Game
• Botgirl’s (Blue Mars Mobile?) Video
• Video Demo of Blue Mars Lite: How to Visit Virtual Linden Lab
• Second Life is Just a Video Game?
• Limit the Player
• Marketplace and Direct Delivery Update
• Virtual Currency Exchange First Meta Closes $466,000 Funding Round
• Why Scientists Are Fooling Animals With Virtual Reality
• Facebook Buys Instagram for $1 Billion
• The Daily Show – Social Networth
• Paper: the next great iPad app
• Evernote & Pinterest just had a baby: Enter the new Springpad
• George Zimmerman Charged: How Journalists Used Twitter to Cover the Story
• Wear Gray for a Day

Guests:

Bernhard Drax (Draxtor Despres) is a musician, new media producer, and machinima journalist.

Karl Stiefvater (Qarl Fizz, formerly Qarl Linden) is visual effects artist, software developer, and interactive designer extraordinaire.

Thank you to our sponsors, Botgirl’s Identity Circus and Pretty Feet!

This week’s topics include:

• Why Is Pinterest So Addictive?
• 13 ‘Pinteresting’ Facts About Pinterest Users
• Pinterest User Trends
• Pinterest Users Will Actually Buy The Things They Find
• Jo Yardley’s Suggested Second Life Tutorial
• Recreating Traditional Learning Spaces in Virtual Worlds
• Gianna’s Virtual Bathtub
• Maintaining Illusion
• In What Ways Does SL Cause You Stress?
• Plurkers Tell What Stresses Them Out
• Second Life Helps Reduce Stress
• House of Fox Designer’s Death Causes Controversy
• Jared’s Family Speaks Out
• Farewell to SecondLie and Supporting RFL
• Linden Lab Hiring
• Project Glass

Guests:

Bernhard Drax (Draxtor Despres) is a musician, new media producer, and machinima journalist.

Karl Stiefvater (Qarl Fizz, formerly Qarl Linden) is visual effects artist, software developer, and interactive designer extraordinaire.

Thank you to our sponsor, Pretty Feet!

This week’s topics include:

• New Destination Islands
• Student’s First SL User Experience
• Penny Arcade Pokes Fun at the SL Signup Avatars
• Rule 34
• Passing Thoughts on High Poly Mesh
• Wilderness — Second Life’s Newest Premium Destination
• Direct Delivery Launches
• Problems with Direct Delivery
• Free Direct Delivery Linden Bear
• Plurk Discussion on Direct Delivery and Group Management Ideas
• The Issues about Blogging Charity Events
• Hamlet Asks About Pinterest
• How To Use Pinterest
• Zombies, Run
• Hamlet’s Post on Zombies, Run
• Pinterest Spammer Tells All
• Is Draxtor a Spammer?
• Did SXSW Show That We’re Headed for a Burst of a Bubble in Social Media/Apps?
• Highlight App: Creepy or Cool?
• Dead Social
• Adobe Announces Unity Partnership
• PBS Shifts in Time Slots Hurt Series of Films
• Taking Action: PBS Needs Independents
• Dog Bless You

Guests:

Bernhard Drax (Draxtor Despres) is a musician, new media producer, and machinima journalist.

Karl Stiefvater (Qarl Fizz, formerly Qarl Linden) is visual effects artist, software developer, and interactive designer extraordinaire.

Thank you to our sponsor, Pretty Feet!

This week’s topics include:

• Chesnut’s a Wackadoodle
• Botgirl’s Wackadoodle game
• Qarl explains his Wackadoodle comments
• Nalates’ Rebuttal to Second Life Failing
• They Don’t Care
• The Lessons of Lucasfilm’s Habitat
• Our Relationship with Linden Lab
• Direct Delivery and Received Items Folder
• Pam Broviak’s Suggested Management Structure
• Advanced Experience Tools Preview
• Linden Lab: “The Weirder The Better”
• Where Linden Lab First Went Wrong With Second Life 
• I Promise Philip
• Bitcoin Theft
• VWBPE
• Maxwell Graf’s Rustica on Marketplace

Guests:

Bernhard Drax (Draxtor Despres) is a musician, new media producer, and machinima journalist.

Karl Stiefvater (Qarl Fizz, formerly Qarl Linden) is visual effects artist, software developer, and interactive designer extraordinaire.

Thank you to our sponsor, Pretty Feet!

This week’s topics include:

• Responding to Last Week’s Comments
• Not All Critics are Bad
• The Virtual False Dilemma
• Linden Lab Must Stop Underselling Second Life
• Esbee and Charlar Layed Off
• Linden Lab No Longer Publishing Economy Reports
• Why Linden Lab No Longer Reporting SL Stats Might Be a Good Idea
• Rod Humble’s Decision on Last Names
• AlexHayden’s Letter to Rodvik
• Who Really Controls Second Life?
• Draxtor’s Youtube Channel
• The Seeing Eye

Guests:

Bernhard Drax (Draxtor Despres) is a musician, new media producer, and machinima journalist.

Karl Stiefvater (Qarl Fizz, formerly Qarl Linden) is visual effects artist, software developer, and interactive designer extraordinaire.

Thank you to our sponsor, Pretty Feet!

This week’s topics include:

• How the Updated Policy on Third Party Viewers Will Effect Second Life
• Breaking “true online status”
• Problems with “the old” Linden Lab
• Third Party Viewer (TPV) coders don’t appear to presently contribute code to LL
• Were Viewer/Client tags really causing a problem?
• Confusion as to what is a “shared experience”
• Balancing open source
• Why do we even want open source?
• Why create this policy now?
• How these new clauses might effect the mesh clothing deformer project
• Past history
• Saffia’s post on Prim Perfect “They Don’t Know About Us”
• Listening and communicating
• Botgirl’s Take on Why Linden Lab is Investing in New Products Instead of Second Life
• Are the Lindens afraid of tackling the big engineering challenges?
• How a negative attitude might be hurting your business
• Valentine’s and Superflufee
• March Mesh Madness
• Epoch Legend Fair
• Mix + Mesh

Guests:

Bernhard Drax (Draxtor Despres) is a musician, new media producer, and machinima journalist.

Karl Stiefvater (Qarl Fizz, formerly Qarl Linden) is visual effects artist, software developer, and interactive designer extraordinaire.

Thank you to our sponsor, Pretty Feet!

This week’s topics include:

• Pathfinding Experiments Being Conducted in Second Life
• Honour McMillan’s experience with pathfinding in SL
• Loki Elliot’s pathfinding tests
• Nalates’ update on SL animation changes
• Linden Lab Acquires Game Studio LittleTextPeople
• About Galatea
• Play Galatea
• SL is Barbies meets Legos?
• Rod Humble Drops Hints About Linden’s New Projects
• OpenSim’s Top Grid To Purge 50%+ Regions Due to Inactivity
• A Second Look at Second Life
• SL’s Spaceflight Museum Returned to the Grid
• Responding to last week’s comments
• First Kickstarter Project to Raise $2 Million
• Project Avatar
• Mobile Internet devices will outnumber humans this year
• Why Most People Say They’re Addicted to the Internet
• Websites Can Now Block Pinning
• Social Networks Can’t Be Forced to Monitor/Filter to Prevent Infringement
• Google’s New Privacy Policy
• Flufee on a Meshion – Episode 11: Ladies Men
• MMM12 Early Entry Press Application
• Joshua Bell in the DC subway

Guests:

William Reed Seal-Foss (Reed Steamroller) is a 3D artist and virtual world content creator for Sand Castle Studios, LLC.

Bernhard Drax (Draxtor Despres) is a musician, new media producer, and machinima journalist.

Karl Stiefvater (Qarl Fizz, formerly Qarl Linden) is visual effects artist, software developer, and interactive designer extraordinaire.

Thank you to our sponsor, Pretty Feet!

This week’s topics include:

• Responding to last week’s comments
• Why Linden Lab never followed through with connected grids
• Digital Rights Management
• Midnight Rant 3 – Metareality Podcast and OpenSim
• Credit card thieves attack Opensim 
• Ron Blechner says Platforms aren’t limiting, people are
• A landmark ruling on virtual goods
• Linden Lab seeks bloggers
• Chesnut Rau’s thoughts LL says “Calling All Bloggers”
• Linden Lab’s response to the blogger backlash
• The Future of Linden homes
• Flight limit
• Valentine’s Day Linden Lab fail
• Why my third grader loves Second Life
• Mobile’s effect on relationships
• MMOs and virtual worlds effect on marriages
• Can Treating Your Life As a Game Make You a Better Person?
• On the Media
• Spirit by Claudia222 Jewell
• [JK] – Gecko Avatar
• Granny Gecko
• coldLogic

Guests:

William Reed Seal-Foss (Reed Steamroller) is a 3D artist and virtual world content creator for Sand Castle Studios, LLC.

Bernhard Drax (Draxtor Despres) is a musician, new media producer, and machinima journalist.

Thank you to our sponsor, Pretty Feet!

This week’s topics include:

• John Lester’s history with virtual worlds
• The “epiphany moment”
• Casual games like Farmville
• “Cow Clicker”
• The Terminal Man
• Marketing Second Life
• Gor
• Reaction Grid
• Hypergrid protocol
• Hypergrid Adventurers Club
• Does Opensim needs it’s own viewer?
• Kokua Imprudence Viewers: Where to Now?
• Digital Rights Management in virtual worlds
• The False Ideals of the Web
• Bismarck’s Voice Among Restored Edison Records
• How to find interesting things in virtual worlds
• Second Life’s original first user experience (the corral and Pony Linden)
• Hyperica
• Pathfinder’s Jibe World
• Pathfinder’s Blog
• Reaction Grid
• Draxtor’s Cartoon Flip Cam Test

Guests:

John “Pathfinder” Lester is an expert in the educational use of virtual worlds and 3d simulations.   His background is in neuroscience research and medical education, and he previously worked at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital creating online medical education and patient support communities while exploring the underlying neuroscience behind how people communicate and collaborate effectively.  From 2005-2010, John worked at Linden Lab, where he led the development of the education and healthcare markets while evangelizing the innovative use of virtual worlds in research, training and distance education.  John is currently the Chief Learning Officer at ReactionGrid Inc., helping clients develop new systems for immersive learning using web and mobile-based virtual world platforms.

William Reed Seal-Foss (Reed Steamroller) is a 3D artist and virtual world content creator for Sand Castle Studios, LLC.

Bernhard Drax (Draxtor Despres) is a musician, new media producer, and machinima journalist.

Karl Stiefvater (Qarl Fizz, formerly Qarl Linden) is visual effects artist, software developer, and interactive designer extraordinaire.

Thank you to our sponsor, Pretty Feet!

This week’s topics include:

• Last names returning to Second Life
• Are last really an important issue?
• Why didn’t we get Display Names right the first time?
• How can we improve testing/feedback of new features?
• “Community titles” & how will it be different then past ratings?
• Linden Lab’s simple inventory project viewer
• Uncanny Valley
• Storytelling and the ‘Uncanny Valley’
• Do cartoons and therefore cartoon looking avatars signal us to play/participate?
• Does the “Uncanny Valley” effect contribute to why people dislike Second Life?
• Mesh clothing and the “Uncanny Valley”
• Nalates vs. Drax
• Second Life Love Notes
• New Second Life product coming?
• Ballet Pixelle
• Facebook IPO
• Is Facebook advertising effective?
• Google+ Hangouts
• Google+ allows pseudonyms, sort of
• Skyrim Creator Kit
• Frank Schätzing’s Limit

Guests:

Bernhard Drax (Draxtor Despres) is a musician, new media producer, and machinima journalist.

Karl Stiefvater (Qarl Fizz, formerly Qarl Linden) is visual effects artist, software developer, and interactive designer extraordinaire.

Thank you to our sponsor, Pretty Feet!

This week’s topics include:

• Introduction to the team
• Why make another viewer for Second Life?
• Second Life graphics versus other rendering engines?
• Why do so many people hate Second Life?
• Current vampire ads and underselling Second Life
• What Second Life is capable of even without post processing
• Graphics (high end computer) vs. performance (low end computer)
• An explanation of deferred rendering
• Why do users hate Viewer 2 & 3 and want to hang on to Viewer 1.23?
• How is Viewer 3 better?
• Exodus and shareable graphics settings
• Linden Lab phasing out 1.23
• How 1.23 based viewers (like Phoenix) negatively impact performance and hurt SL
• How do we know the Exodus viewer is safe (not containing malicious software)?
• Combat features of Exodus (custom crosshairs, smooth zoom, threat detection, etc)
• Visual improvements and features of Exodus
• Credit for all features
• TORLEY VISION!!
• Upcoming (amazing!) features
• Should Linden Lab be doing these types of upgrades themselves?
• Donate to Exodus!
• Suggestion forums
• Full list of current features
• Qarl revolutionizes mesh “attachments”
• Why Exodus isn’t on the TPV directory
• Tilt shift photography
• Qarl’s mesh deformer update
• Linden Lab’s simple inventory project viewer
• Login2Life at FIPA
• The Hills Have Eggs
• Flufee on a Meshion – Episode 10: Paws to the Wall!
• coldLogic’s store opening and contest

Guests:

The Exodus Team are developers of the Exodus viewer, a specialized third party Second Life viewer geared towards gamers and visual artists based the Viewer 3 series and packed with useful features to enhance the experience of Second Life.

• Clix Diesel is the voice of Exodus Viewer. He leads the project and brings it all together. He also leads the Second Life military, Ark, and strives to bring the best possible combat viewer experience to everyone that engages in player versus player activities in Second Life.
• Ash Qin is Exodus’ Linux developer, he also provides various viewer related documentation and server related stuff! Ash also owns and runs the popular Sci-Fi sim Deshima. He is a great motivator and constantly pushes for perfection with his superb administration.
• Geenz Spad is Exodus’ graphics guy. He is also responsible for the slick shiny Rubber Infusions range of avatar modifications. Geenz works hard to bring brilliant rendering features and improvements to Exodus, adding an additional layer of visual “wow” for users, making Exodus ideal for photographers looking for an extra degree of control in their viewer.
• Ayamo Nozaki (not present on the podcast) is the lead developer for Exodus. Responsible for most of the combat functions that make Exodus stand out. He is a Second Life combatant with a understanding of what the community wants and expects from a viewer specially made for competitive play in Second Life.

William Reed Seal-Foss (Reed Steamroller) is a 3D artist and virtual world content creator for Sand Castle Studios, LLC.

Bernhard Drax (Draxtor Despres) is a musician, new media producer, and machinima journalist.

Karl Stiefvater (Qarl Fizz, formerly Qarl Linden) is visual effects artist, software developer, and interactive designer extraordinaire.

Thank you to our sponsor, Pretty Feet!

This week’s topics include:

• New Sponsor - PRETTY FEET!
• SOPA & performers in Second Life
• Linden Lab not coming out against SOPA
• Do community leaders have an obligation to announce when/why they are leaving SL?
• Why do people leave Second Life?
• Why Virtual Worlds (like Second Life) Have More Value Than Twitter & Facebook
• Rod Humble on Australian Radio
• Direct Delivery Beta
• Qarl’s code rejected, Qarl’s response, LL’s response
• Pathfinder’s “Railing Against the Gods”
• The Apple Factory
• Flashback: Terrorism in SL [2007]?
• Mayfly Mesh Eyes
• Hunger in Los Angeles Debuts At Sundance

Guests:

William Reed Seal-Foss (Reed Steamroller) is a 3D artist and virtual world content creator for Sand Castle Studios, LLC.

Bernhard Drax (Draxtor Despres) is a musician, new media producer, and machinima journalist.

Karl Stiefvater (Qarl Fizz, formerly Qarl Linden) is visual effects artist, software developer, and interactive designer extraordinaire.

Thank you to our sponsor, Pretty Feet!

This week’s topics include:

• Survey Results
• Qarl, Qarl, Qarl, Qarl
• Mesh Clothing Deformer JIRA
• Viewer 1.23 Removed
• Bryn Oh’s Update on Immersiva
• Should Linden Lab Help Artists Who Lose Their Patrons?
• Are Their No “Deep Rooted” Lindens Left?
• LEA Land Grants
• Are SIMS in SL Prohibitively Expensive?
• Robbie Dingo’s “Watch The World” 
• What Happened is Dusan Writer?
• Tipodean’s SL/Opensim to Unity 3D
• Pictures of Before/After Porting to Unity
• SL Does Have Mass Appeal
• Arch Virtual Predictions for 2012
• Ron Blechner Wants Us to Stop Using “Real World”
• Kinect Coming to Windows
• Jeffrey Ventrella on Virtual Body Language
• SOPA
• Flashback: Linden Lab Town Hall Meeting in SL 2007
• AvaHearts

Guests:

William Reed Seal-Foss (Reed Steamroller) is a 3D artist and virtual world content creator for Sand Castle Studios, LLC.

Bernhard Drax (Draxtor Despres) is a musician, new media producer, and machinima journalist.

Karl Stiefvater (Qarl Fizz, formerly Qarl Linden) is visual effects artist, software developer, and interactive designer extraordinaire.

This week’s topics include:

• Our first LIVE show
• Please take our MetaReality Survey
• Qarl’s mesh clothing deformer (video & code)
• Exodus Viewer
• Strawberry Singh’s Exodus Post/Tutorial
• Ginsu Linden’s post about the SL team’s failure
• Ginsu Linden’s Finest Hour (snarky response)
• My response to the Lindens, past & present
• The Lessons of Lucasfilm’s Habitat
• Adopt a Linden
• Sim closings and discounts
• Charity fraud
• Second Life makes us smarter
• Male dominated game industry
• Maxwell Graf’s free mesh arrow to-the-knee, with sound

Guests:

Bernhard Drax (Draxtor Despres) is a musician, new media producer, and machinima journalist.

Arabella is long time internet user (25+ yrs), futurist, dreamer, and avid virtual world enthusiast.

This week, as the year comes to an end, we reflect on 2011 and speculate what 2012 might hold.

This week’s topics include:

Guests:

William Reed Seal-Foss (Reed Steamroller) is a 3D artist and virtual world content creator for Sand Castle Studios, LLC.

Bernhard Drax (Draxtor Despres) is a musician, new media producer, and machinima journalist.

Karl Stiefvater (Qarl Fizz, formerly Qarl Linden) is visual effects artist, software developer, and interactive designer extraordinaire.

• pick Gianna’s brain?
• debate with Draxtor?
• ask Qarl about his Linden days or the mesh deformer?
• be cursed out by Reed?

Then come join us LIVE this Saturday December 31st at 10am SLT/PST in the virtual world of Second Life as we discuss the big stories from 2011 and what we might expect in 2012.

This week’s topics include:

Guests:

William Reed Seal-Foss (Reed Steamroller) is a 3D artist and virtual world content creator for Sand Castle Studios, LLC.

Bernhard Drax (Draxtor Despres) is a musician, new media producer, and machinima journalist.

This week’s topics include:

• Marketplace Leads to Less In-world Shopping?
• What Happened to the Sandbox (SL Newsletter)?
• Second Life Still Can’t Compete With Game Engines? Can It Ever? Does It Need To?
• The Big Picture/Solving The Big Issue
• Last Names for SL Avatars Returning
• Parkinson’s Law of Triviality (bicycle-shed example)
• “Your World. Your Imagination” Slogan Returns
• The Quality of Second Life Promotional Ads/Videos
• Mesh Clothing Deformer Update
• Virtual Faux Fox Fur
• Frank Ambrose Leaves Linden Lab
• Social-Sharing Trends
• OnLive Cloud Streaming Coming to Tablets & Smartphones

Guests:

William Reed Seal-Foss (Reed Steamroller) is a 3D artist and virtual world content creator for Sand Castle Studios, LLC.

Bernhard Drax (Draxtor Despres) is a musician, new media producer, and machinima journalist.

Karl Stiefvater (Qarl Fizz, formerly Qarl Linden) is visual effects artist, software developer, and interactive designer extraordinaire.

This week’s topics include:

• Giving Thanks
• Nalates’ Review
• Ciaran Laval Covers Our Press
• Mesh Clothing Deformer Updates
• Pooky’s response to Chip & Dan’s Failure Claims
• Culture Shifts and the Power of Virtual Worlds
• Kim Linden Leaves the Lab
• SL an Addiction for the Depressed?
• The Online Disinhibition Effect
• Nowhere To Go, But Up
• Xiola Linden as Community Rep
• Linden Realms is Open
• LEA Land Grant’s Awarded

Guests:

William Reed Seal-Foss (Reed Steamroller) is a 3D artist and virtual world content creator for Sand Castle Studios, LLC.

Bernhard Drax (Draxtor Despres) is a musician, new media producer, and machinima journalist.

Karl Stiefvater (Qarl Fizz, formerly Qarl Linden) is visual effects artist, software developer, and interactive designer extraordinaire.

This week’s topics include:

• Will Wright’s New Startup & Game
• Google Lab Experiments
• Where is Torley?
• Ginsu Responds to the “Failure of SL”
• What Would Second Life Need to Do in Order to be Considered a Success?
• Is Second Life’s “Failure” Due to an Absence of Imagination?
• Do Graphics Trump Everything?
• Skyrim More of a Virtual World
• Philip Rosedale Disses Second Life?
• Is the Mesh Deformer Project Stalled Due Waiting on the Lindens?
• Discarded Linden Lab Projects
• Creator Claims Linden Lab Stole Her Game
• New Linden Helpers
• Dale Innis Fires Back
• Zynga Threatens Employees
• A Lesson in Social Media
• Machinima Expo
• Qarl Gives an Update on the Status of the Mesh Deformer Project

Guests:

William Reed Seal-Foss (Reed Steamroller) is a 3D artist and virtual world content creator for Sand Castle Studios, LLC.

Bernhard Drax (Draxtor Despres) is a musician, new media producer, and machinima journalist.

Karl Stiefvater (Qarl Fizz, formerly Qarl Linden) is visual effects artist, software developer, and interactive designer extraordinaire.

This week’s topics include:

• How Will Wright Will Influence the Future of Second Life & Linden Lab
• Rod Humble Encourages Experimentation
• Dan Pink - Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
• New Linden Lab Created Game for Premium Users
• From the Game Dev Trenches
• Lego Universe to Close
• The Myth of Second Life’s Failure to Go Big
• The Mobile Debate
• National Emergency Alert System Test
• Adobe ceases development on mobile Flash, refocuses on HTML5
• November Updates, New UI Goes Live
• Charlar Linden’s update on the Second Life mesh clothing deformer
• Qarl’s big announcement about his mesh clothing deformer
• Second Life Winds Up In FBI Gang Intelligence Dossier
• Avatar Repertory Theater
• Fearless Nation PTSD Event

Guests:

William Reed Seal-Foss (Reed Steamroller) is a 3D artist and virtual world content creator for Sand Castle Studios, LLC.

Bernhard Drax (Draxtor Despres) is a musician, new media producer, and machinima journalist.

Karl Stiefvater (Qarl Fizz, formerly Qarl Linden) is visual effects artist, software developer, and interactive designer extraordinaire.

This week’s topics include:

• Update on the mesh clothing deformer project from qarl
• Rod Humble on the BBC
• New World Notes changes
• Glitch
• Coffee & Power in the news
• Allthis
• Kinect hack brings real time animations to SL
• New support Linden
• Sand Castle Studios project to be featured at Sundance (more on this soon!)
• Draxtor responds to a listeners comment

Guests:

Bernhard Drax (Draxtor Despres) is a musician, new media producer, and machinima journalist.

Karl Stiefvater (Qarl Fizz, formerly Qarl Linden) is visual effects artist, software developer, and interactive designer extraordinaire.