Second Life in Dutch magazine

For those (Dutchspoken) interested, the current issue of Emerce.nl has Second Life on the cover because of a nice article about commerce and marketing in SL.

http://www.emerce.nl

I happen to know more Dutch mags will spend some attention to SL, so you better all start to learn our language pretty soon hehe.

Boz.

De Nieuwe Reporter (www.denieuwereporter.nl) is supposed to have an article about Second Life on their site sometime this week as well.

My Dutch is really rusty these days; I better brush up!

Edited to add: I just checked their site, and they are running a four part series on SL, with three of the articles already posted. They make for very interesting reading.

The Emerce article, as processed through Babelfish:



Second life fans angrily on Flickr

15 June 2006 - [email=Remco@emerce.nl?subject=Reactie op: Second Life fans boos op Flickr]Remco Tomesen[/email]
A group fans of virtual world Second life is on photograph site Flickr angry. The popular photograph site does not show, as it happens, a large number of screenshots from Second life publicly. Some bloggers are furious. I hate Flickr, sound the title of one of the blogpostings concerning this subject.

Wired speak concerning a collision of online worlds. The discussion twists a rule of Flickr which says that only part of the not-photographic material placed by accounthouder limits, like for example screenshot, publicly to see is.

“The uploaden of not-photographic blades are no problem,” say to mede-oprichter Stewart Butterfield van Flickr against Wired. “But all those blades will not be visible for public.” Reason for that is according to Butterfield that people who introduce zoekopdracht in Flickr in search its to photograph’s and not to different blades.

One of the criticasters Kary Boan, are whom on web-unwieldly Yada Yada report do of a e-mail wisseling with Flickr. “I have been disappointed in Flickr and understand the policy.” The protest of the Second life follows community on similar protests a half year suffered of artists who discovered that their ‘geuploade’ illustrations got ‘’ the tag NIPSA (Not in Public site Areas).

The anger of some ‘inhabitants’ of Second life concerning the rule of Flickr seems for a buitenstaander exaggerated. Protests at the same time its also an indication of the value which the virtual world Second life represented in the lives of an increasing number of people. For them is Flickr an important component of the daily work - or privéleven.

How large are Second life? And what happens there in this virtual world? The coverstory in papers version of Emerce, which ends up tomorrow, give answer on these questions. At this moment the virtual world 200,000 has inhabitants. End 2007 must be that there according to vice-president David Fleck van Second life two millions. These inhabitants do (nearly) everything what happens also in the physical world. That means that Second life have their own economy, in which écht money are spent and are deserved.

Arrgh, I understood at least 25% of that. >.<

(Babelfish baaad!)

Yeah, it would really be better to get someone who is fluent in both English and Dutch to translate.

Sounds like they're pissed at Flickr policies, with just a mention of what SL itself is in the last pargraph :/

The article translated was a website article only (about flickr).

I was mentioning the coverstory which is a very comprehensive story about marketing and economy in SL.

When you look at the page now you will see the correct issue on the screen, however, the article isn't online (only the intro). I have the magazine with the article, and I will be happy to translate it, but it's a lot and will take me some time. Need to ask the editors if they are ok with me putting it here.

Boz.

Flickr is putting screenshots in the non-public category as they aren't straight photos - which caused the controversy that is talked about in that article.

Second Life fans angry at Flickr

15 juni 2006 - By Remco Tomesen
A group of fans of the virtual world Second Life is angry with photosite Flickr. The popular photosite refuses to publically show a large number of screen shots from Second Life. Some bloggers zijn furious. "I hate Flickr', it the title of one of the blog postings about this subject.

Wired talks of a clash of online worlds. The discussion is based on a Flickr rule that states that only a limited number of the non photographic material posted by an account holder, like a screen shot, is available for public viewing.

“Uploading non photographic images is no problem,” says co-founder Stewart Butterfield of Flickr in response to Wired. “But not all those images will be visible for the public.” The reason according to Butterfield is that people who enter a search query in Flickr are looking for photographs and not for other kinds of images.

One of the critisizers is Kary Boan, who on her weblog Yada Yadareports about an email correspondence with Flickr. “I am disappointed in Flickr and do not understand the policy behind it.” The protest of the Second Life community follows similar protests 6 months ago of artists who discovered that their uploaded illustrations were tagged NIPSA (Not In Public Site Areas).

The anger of some residents of Second Life about Flickr's rule seems exaggerated for an outsider. At the same time protests are also an indication of the value of the virtual world Second Life in the lives of a growing number of people. For them Flickr is an important part of their daily work or private life.

How big is Second Life ? And what happens in this virtual world ? The coverstory in the paper version of Emerce, which is in the stores tomorrow, answers these questions. At this time the virtual world has 200.000 inhabitants. By the end of 2007, according to vice president David Fleck, that number will be 2 million. These residents are doing ( almost ) anything that happens in the physical world. That means that Second life has its own economy in which real money is spent and earned.