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Chris Norse

Loud Arrogant Redneck

Join date: 1 Oct 2006

Posts: 5,735

01-29-2010 17:11

From: Nika Talaj

Jack Linden just sent "Philip" a friend request.

Or is that "Jack"?

*facepalms*
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OOOO maybe you two can get together and plot a coup to overthrow M.

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Nika Talaj

now you see her ...

Join date: 2 Jan 2007

Posts: 5,449

01-29-2010 17:19

AHA! Philip Linden (on AU) is no more!

Long live Philip Linden!

And Spartacus! Him TOO!

Sling Trebuchet

Deleted User

Join date: 20 Jan 2007

Posts: 4,548

01-29-2010 17:20

From: Brenda Connolly

I'm going to sign up as PrimSaver Linden

You could make a fortune selling low-prim furniture to avatars in other virtual worlds.
Places like WOW are an untapped market for this - for some reason.

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Veritable Quandry

Meddling kid.

Join date: 23 May 2008

Posts: 519

01-29-2010 17:31

Some of the other VWs have applications to pull profile information into the AU accounts. I would not be surprised if that gets sorted pretty quick: I know the code exists, just needs to get applied here. Once that is done we can at least be assured when a person is using a legit SL profile.

Ann Otoole

Registered User

Join date: 22 May 2007

Posts: 867

01-29-2010 17:33

The "I Hate" feature is pretty cool. Nothing like introduction of such a negative emotion into social networking.

Ceera Murakami

Texture Artist / Builder

Join date: 9 Sep 2005

Posts: 7,750

01-29-2010 17:33

From: Nika Talaj

AHA! Philip Linden (on AU) is no more!

Long live Philip Linden!

And Spartacus! Him TOO!

Of course, now, if the REAL Phillip Linden (is there such a thing, any more?) wants an AU account, he'll have to go begging to their support desk to reactivate the name for him.

Awwwww.

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SuezanneC Baskerville

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Posts: 14,229

01-29-2010 17:51

I'm not a lawyer, or a qualified amateur, and I haven't read the SL branding rules in the last few minutes so my memory of what they are is not fresh enough to work from, and I don't feel like reading them again at the moment, so I'm not going to offer an opinion.

I will say that I have a forum, not at AU, called Second Life, and I have a wiki called Second Life Users Guide, which I've had since 2006, and I've not had any contact from Linden Lab about it.

I may other sites which use "Second Life" in their titles. If I do, I don't remember them.

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Innula Zenovka

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Join date: 20 Jun 2007

Posts: 1,825

01-29-2010 19:25

http://www.avatarsunited.com/avatars/innula-zenovka-second-life

Imnotgoing Sideways

Can't outlaw cute! =^-^=

Join date: 17 Nov 2007

Posts: 4,694

01-29-2010 19:32

A friend just found something interesting. (^_^)

My page: http://www.avatarsunited.com/avatars/imnotgoing-sideways

Her page: http://www.avatarsunited.com/avatars/immy

It's going to take a bit, but, she probably could duplicate me 95% at this moment. (=_=)y

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Sylvia Trilling

Flying Tribe

Join date: 2 Oct 2006

Posts: 1,117

01-29-2010 19:36

From: Nika Talaj

No. I just registered as Philip Linden.

Kid you not.

Everybody, you probably have 3 days to register as the Linden of your choice.

I SO wanted to friend a Philip Linden imposter. "He" doesn't come up in search. Am I missing something?

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Wynochee LeShelle

Polykontexturalist

Join date: 3 Feb 2007

Posts: 658

01-29-2010 19:48

Slowly they're surrounding us with more and more time-eating monsters. Nom nom nom...

Dashboard/flog, Facething, the monumental-chickadee globewide mumbling sphere named twitter, AUauauauau...

If I would join all this, I could open an rl-office and hire 4 Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, just to have some time to do something inworld and even then it would eat my time and concentration, energy and enthusiasm, because I would have to notice what my clercs reporting to me from the different mumbling spheres.

So, no, I will not step into the trap.

Ann Otoole

Registered User

Join date: 22 May 2007

Posts: 867

01-29-2010 20:08

I think I see the ban hammer monster lurching towards babylon.

SuezanneC Baskerville

Forums Rock!

Join date: 22 Dec 2003

Posts: 14,229

01-29-2010 20:18

Are the avatar names Avatars United not required to be unique?

Or is Immy's example using some tricks with character sets or some other trick?

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Void Singer

Int vSelf = Sing(void);

Join date: 24 Sep 2005

Posts: 6,973

01-29-2010 20:20

From: Argent Stonecutter

http://www.avatarsunited.com/avatars/argent-stonecutter

curious, are all "friends" manually added?

From: Brenda Connolly

I wouldn't be surprised if Wally had no idea this was coming..it would be consistent with past action.

and why "conversation mangers" don't last long in LL... they're public targets with no support from within... you can't manage anything if you don't have the damn information.

From: Ceera Murakami

Oh, look at that... To get them to DELETE my account, they require "sending an email to [email]info@avatarsunited.com[/email] specifying your name, user-name, email address and telephone number." Which means that to get my account WIPED, I have to provide MORE information than I provided to sign up? No. They are NOT getting my real name or my phone number for their data mining. I'll just abandon the account, and never use it again.

that's a bad sign to be sure...

From: Kara Spengler

An African or a European swallow?

as I remember it, they use pigeons in Africa...
http://gizmodo.com/5356365/bird-beats-broadband-pigeon-flies-4gbs-faster-than-south-african-dsl

PS the original question about the coconut? the logical first question is how much does the coconut weigh?

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Brenda Connolly

Un United Avatar

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01-29-2010 20:35

A LL Communication/Conversation Manager is the equivalent to a newly minted 2nd Lieutenant in Vietnam.......a very short lifespan.

You guys be careful over there...it's evil I tell you. It will suck your soul right out of you. It will turn all you geeks into blithering idiots in not time.

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Scylla Rhiadra

Gentle is Human

Join date: 11 Oct 2008

Posts: 4,427

01-29-2010 20:35

Oh the things they should be doing to this app so that it becomes really useful . . .

1) A direct and necessary link between SL names and AU names, so that we are not being impersonated by someone else.

2) A way to send AU invites out to people on your SL friends

3) A way to relatively seamlessly access AU in-world (which presumably will require an upgrade of the SL browser?)

4) A way to link in-world groups to AU groups

5) Some of the functionality of the current SL dashboard would be nice . . .

6) A way to message people from one's friends list (ONLY!) in-world from inside AU, or send group notices from an AU group to its SL counterpart.

7) A link to Xstreet of some sort?

And other stuff a few people have mentioned, or will undoubtedly come up with.

What I DON'T think is really need is a lot of the kind of crap that currently clogs FB's arteries: "applications" that allow you to send martinis to your friends, or quizes, or garbage like that. I don't need to be able to play "Tiny Empires" in AU.

I like the blog application . . . it has some potential if it is more fully developed.

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Nika Talaj

now you see her ...

Join date: 2 Jan 2007

Posts: 5,449

01-29-2010 20:38

From: Sylvia Trilling

Am I missing something?

He's dead, Jim!

Scylla Rhiadra

Gentle is Human

Join date: 11 Oct 2008

Posts: 4,427

01-29-2010 20:42

From: Brenda Connolly

A LL Communication/Conversation Manager is the equivalent to a newly minted 2nd Lieutenant in Vietnam.......a very short lifespan.

I hope you're wrong. That would be rather sad.

From: Brenda Connolly

You guys be careful over there...it's evil I tell you. It will suck your soul right out of you. It will turn all you geeks into blithering idiots in not time.

Unless the focus of this app is upon the interface WITH SL, it will indeed become just a monumental waste of time. I really hope they are going to build some special functionality into it: otherwise, it's an anemic FB with cartoons.

Interesting . . . something that they may want to change. I notice that we can interact directly with people on the Teen Grid here. And that a few of the kids on the TG are using RL pics for their avatars.

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Scylla Rhiadra

Milla Janick

Empress Of The Universe

Join date: 2 Jan 2008

Posts: 3,075

01-29-2010 20:48

From: Brenda Connolly

It will turn all you geeks into blithering idiots in not time.

That'll be a short trip.

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Imnotgoing Sideways

Can't outlaw cute! =^-^=

Join date: 17 Nov 2007

Posts: 4,694

01-29-2010 20:50

From: Brenda Connolly

...It will turn all you geeks into blithering idiots in not time.

If that's the case... Will I be turned into a geek? (^_^)y

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Jig Chippewa

Fine Young Cannibal

Join date: 30 Oct 2006

Posts: 5,150

01-29-2010 21:03

Dont understand this at all but sounds liek a glorified facebook from sweden. I wont take the bait.

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Kenbro Utu

Registered User

Join date: 26 Sep 2006

Posts: 483

01-29-2010 21:14

Am always saying my avatar needs more of a social life, so I took the bait.

http://www.avatarsunited.com/avatars/kenbro-utu

Rocketman Raymaker

Registered User

Join date: 4 Feb 2007

Posts: 530

01-29-2010 21:15

Looking at the achievements page has got me wondering:

How long until someone creates an SL achievements app?

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Nika Talaj

now you see her ...

Join date: 2 Jan 2007

Posts: 5,449

01-29-2010 22:10

What is everyone doing with all the friend requests from avatars you've never heard of? I don't have this problem on facebook ...

tristan Eliot

Say What?!

Join date: 30 Oct 2005

Posts: 494

01-29-2010 22:20

Never had an interest in social networking, real or virtual. I remember (and hated) the friendship web from the dead Sims Online, that would show everyone all your friends and all their friends and so on. I never saw the point to that except for people who really had way to much time on their hands and just had to be in everyone elses business.

But back on topic... My fear about this new aquisition is that some brilliant residents in the augmentationist camp will pervert it into a Match.com for SL. That the virtual will, naturally in their eyes. be replaced with the actual and those of us not willing to use SL as a dating ad will be labeled as having something to hide. Well i do have something to hide. It is my privacy.

Let's see what can of worms LL has unleashed on the community. It will be interesting to see how this gets abused.

How does this improve my Secondlife? Is it just another distraction so I forget about all the issues still unresolved with SL?

LL acquires avatar social network Avatars United
Chris Norse Loud Arrogant Redneck Join date: 1 Oct 2006 Posts: 5,735	01-29-2010 17:11 From: Nika Talaj Jack Linden just sent "Philip" a friend request. Or is that "Jack"? facepalms . OOOO maybe you two can get together and plot a coup to overthrow M. _____________________ I'm going to pick a fight William Wallace, Braveheart “Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind” Douglas MacArthur FULL
Nika Talaj now you see her ... Join date: 2 Jan 2007 Posts: 5,449	01-29-2010 17:19 AHA! Philip Linden (on AU) is no more! Long live Philip Linden! And Spartacus! Him TOO!
Sling Trebuchet Deleted User Join date: 20 Jan 2007 Posts: 4,548	01-29-2010 17:20 From: Brenda Connolly I'm going to sign up as PrimSaver Linden You could make a fortune selling low-prim furniture to avatars in other virtual worlds. Places like WOW are an untapped market for this - for some reason. _____________________ Maggie: We give our residents a lot of tools, to build, create, and manage their lands and objects. That flexibility also requires people to exercise judgment about when things should be used. http://www.ace-exchange.com/home/story/BDVR/589
Veritable Quandry Meddling kid. Join date: 23 May 2008 Posts: 519	01-29-2010 17:31 Some of the other VWs have applications to pull profile information into the AU accounts. I would not be surprised if that gets sorted pretty quick: I know the code exists, just needs to get applied here. Once that is done we can at least be assured when a person is using a legit SL profile.
Ann Otoole Registered User Join date: 22 May 2007 Posts: 867	01-29-2010 17:33 The "I Hate" feature is pretty cool. Nothing like introduction of such a negative emotion into social networking.
Ceera Murakami Texture Artist / Builder Join date: 9 Sep 2005 Posts: 7,750	01-29-2010 17:33 From: Nika Talaj AHA! Philip Linden (on AU) is no more! Long live Philip Linden! And Spartacus! Him TOO! Of course, now, if the REAL Phillip Linden (is there such a thing, any more?) wants an AU account, he'll have to go begging to their support desk to reactivate the name for him. Awwwww. _____________________ Sorry, LL won't let me tell you where I sell my textures and where I offer my services as a sim builder. Ask me in-world.
SuezanneC Baskerville Forums Rock! Join date: 22 Dec 2003 Posts: 14,229	01-29-2010 17:51 I'm not a lawyer, or a qualified amateur, and I haven't read the SL branding rules in the last few minutes so my memory of what they are is not fresh enough to work from, and I don't feel like reading them again at the moment, so I'm not going to offer an opinion. I will say that I have a forum, not at AU, called Second Life, and I have a wiki called Second Life Users Guide, which I've had since 2006, and I've not had any contact from Linden Lab about it. I may other sites which use "Second Life" in their titles. If I do, I don't remember them. _____________________ - So long to these forums, the vBulletin forums that used to be at forums.secondlife.com. I will miss them. I can be found on the web by searching for "SuezanneC Baskerville", or go to http://www.google.com/profiles/suezanne - http://lindenlab.tribe.net/ created on 11/19/03. Members: Ben, Catherine, Colin, Cory, Dan, Doug, Jim, Philip, Phoenix, Richard, Robin, and Ryan -
Innula Zenovka Registered User Join date: 20 Jun 2007 Posts: 1,825	01-29-2010 19:25 http://www.avatarsunited.com/avatars/innula-zenovka-second-life
Imnotgoing Sideways Can't outlaw cute! =^-^= Join date: 17 Nov 2007 Posts: 4,694	01-29-2010 19:32 A friend just found something interesting. (^_^) My page: http://www.avatarsunited.com/avatars/imnotgoing-sideways Her page: http://www.avatarsunited.com/avatars/immy It's going to take a bit, but, she probably could duplicate me 95% at this moment. (=_=)y _____________________ Somewhere in this world; there is someone having some good clean fun doing the one thing you hate the most. (^_^)y http://slurl.com/secondlife/Ferguson/54/237/94
Sylvia Trilling Flying Tribe Join date: 2 Oct 2006 Posts: 1,117	01-29-2010 19:36 From: Nika Talaj No. I just registered as Philip Linden. Kid you not. Everybody, you probably have 3 days to register as the Linden of your choice. I SO wanted to friend a Philip Linden imposter. "He" doesn't come up in search. Am I missing something? _____________________ http://www.throughlinedesign.com/
Wynochee LeShelle Polykontexturalist Join date: 3 Feb 2007 Posts: 658	01-29-2010 19:48 Slowly they're surrounding us with more and more time-eating monsters. Nom nom nom... Dashboard/flog, Facething, the monumental-chickadee globewide mumbling sphere named twitter, AUauauauau... If I would join all this, I could open an rl-office and hire 4 Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, just to have some time to do something inworld and even then it would eat my time and concentration, energy and enthusiasm, because I would have to notice what my clercs reporting to me from the different mumbling spheres. So, no, I will not step into the trap.
Ann Otoole Registered User Join date: 22 May 2007 Posts: 867	01-29-2010 20:08 I think I see the ban hammer monster lurching towards babylon.
SuezanneC Baskerville Forums Rock! Join date: 22 Dec 2003 Posts: 14,229	01-29-2010 20:18 Are the avatar names Avatars United not required to be unique? Or is Immy's example using some tricks with character sets or some other trick? _____________________ - So long to these forums, the vBulletin forums that used to be at forums.secondlife.com. I will miss them. I can be found on the web by searching for "SuezanneC Baskerville", or go to http://www.google.com/profiles/suezanne - http://lindenlab.tribe.net/ created on 11/19/03. Members: Ben, Catherine, Colin, Cory, Dan, Doug, Jim, Philip, Phoenix, Richard, Robin, and Ryan -
Void Singer Int vSelf = Sing(void); Join date: 24 Sep 2005 Posts: 6,973	01-29-2010 20:20 From: Argent Stonecutter http://www.avatarsunited.com/avatars/argent-stonecutter curious, are all "friends" manually added? From: Brenda Connolly I wouldn't be surprised if Wally had no idea this was coming..it would be consistent with past action. and why "conversation mangers" don't last long in LL... they're public targets with no support from within... you can't manage anything if you don't have the damn information. From: Ceera Murakami Oh, look at that... To get them to DELETE my account, they require "sending an email to [email]info@avatarsunited.com[/email] specifying your name, user-name, email address and telephone number." Which means that to get my account WIPED, I have to provide MORE information than I provided to sign up? No. They are NOT getting my real name or my phone number for their data mining. I'll just abandon the account, and never use it again. that's a bad sign to be sure... From: Kara Spengler An African or a European swallow? as I remember it, they use pigeons in Africa... http://gizmodo.com/5356365/bird-beats-broadband-pigeon-flies-4gbs-faster-than-south-african-dsl PS the original question about the coconut? the logical first question is how much does the coconut weigh? _____________________ \| \| . "Cat-Like Typing Detected" \| . This post may contain errors in logic, spelling, and \| . grammar known to the SL populace to cause confusion \| \| - Please Use PHP tags when posting scripts/code, Thanks. \| - Can't See PHP or URL Tags Correctly? Check Out This Link... \| -
Brenda Connolly Un United Avatar Join date: 10 Jan 2007 Posts: 25,000	01-29-2010 20:35 A LL Communication/Conversation Manager is the equivalent to a newly minted 2nd Lieutenant in Vietnam.......a very short lifespan. You guys be careful over there...it's evil I tell you. It will suck your soul right out of you. It will turn all you geeks into blithering idiots in not time. _____________________ Don't you ever try to look behind my eyes. You don't want to know what they have seen. http://brenda-connolly.blogspot.com
Scylla Rhiadra Gentle is Human Join date: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 4,427	01-29-2010 20:35 Oh the things they should be doing to this app so that it becomes really useful . . . 1) A direct and necessary link between SL names and AU names, so that we are not being impersonated by someone else. 2) A way to send AU invites out to people on your SL friends 3) A way to relatively seamlessly access AU in-world (which presumably will require an upgrade of the SL browser?) 4) A way to link in-world groups to AU groups 5) Some of the functionality of the current SL dashboard would be nice . . . 6) A way to message people from one's friends list (ONLY!) in-world from inside AU, or send group notices from an AU group to its SL counterpart. 7) A link to Xstreet of some sort? And other stuff a few people have mentioned, or will undoubtedly come up with. What I DON'T think is really need is a lot of the kind of crap that currently clogs FB's arteries: "applications" that allow you to send martinis to your friends, or quizes, or garbage like that. I don't need to be able to play "Tiny Empires" in AU. I like the blog application . . . it has some potential if it is more fully developed. _____________________ Scylla Rhiadra
Nika Talaj now you see her ... Join date: 2 Jan 2007 Posts: 5,449	01-29-2010 20:38 From: Sylvia Trilling Am I missing something? He's dead, Jim!
Scylla Rhiadra Gentle is Human Join date: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 4,427	01-29-2010 20:42 From: Brenda Connolly A LL Communication/Conversation Manager is the equivalent to a newly minted 2nd Lieutenant in Vietnam.......a very short lifespan. I hope you're wrong. That would be rather sad. From: Brenda Connolly You guys be careful over there...it's evil I tell you. It will suck your soul right out of you. It will turn all you geeks into blithering idiots in not time. Unless the focus of this app is upon the interface WITH SL, it will indeed become just a monumental waste of time. I really hope they are going to build some special functionality into it: otherwise, it's an anemic FB with cartoons. Interesting . . . something that they may want to change. I notice that we can interact directly with people on the Teen Grid here. And that a few of the kids on the TG are using RL pics for their avatars. _____________________ Scylla Rhiadra
Milla Janick Empress Of The Universe Join date: 2 Jan 2008 Posts: 3,075	01-29-2010 20:48 From: Brenda Connolly It will turn all you geeks into blithering idiots in not time. That'll be a short trip. _____________________ http://www.avatarsunited.com/avatars/milla-janick All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in rain...
Imnotgoing Sideways Can't outlaw cute! =^-^= Join date: 17 Nov 2007 Posts: 4,694	01-29-2010 20:50 From: Brenda Connolly ...It will turn all you geeks into blithering idiots in not time. If that's the case... Will I be turned into a geek? (^_^)y _____________________ Somewhere in this world; there is someone having some good clean fun doing the one thing you hate the most. (^_^)y http://slurl.com/secondlife/Ferguson/54/237/94
Jig Chippewa Fine Young Cannibal Join date: 30 Oct 2006 Posts: 5,150	01-29-2010 21:03 Dont understand this at all but sounds liek a glorified facebook from sweden. I wont take the bait. _____________________ Fine Young Cannibal
Kenbro Utu Registered User Join date: 26 Sep 2006 Posts: 483	01-29-2010 21:14 Am always saying my avatar needs more of a social life, so I took the bait. http://www.avatarsunited.com/avatars/kenbro-utu
Rocketman Raymaker Registered User Join date: 4 Feb 2007 Posts: 530	01-29-2010 21:15 Looking at the achievements page has got me wondering: How long until someone creates an SL achievements app? _____________________ "Proud member of the anti-ginko busy body committee"
Nika Talaj now you see her ... Join date: 2 Jan 2007 Posts: 5,449	01-29-2010 22:10 What is everyone doing with all the friend requests from avatars you've never heard of? I don't have this problem on facebook ...
tristan Eliot Say What?! Join date: 30 Oct 2005 Posts: 494	01-29-2010 22:20 Never had an interest in social networking, real or virtual. I remember (and hated) the friendship web from the dead Sims Online, that would show everyone all your friends and all their friends and so on. I never saw the point to that except for people who really had way to much time on their hands and just had to be in everyone elses business. But back on topic... My fear about this new aquisition is that some brilliant residents in the augmentationist camp will pervert it into a Match.com for SL. That the virtual will, naturally in their eyes. be replaced with the actual and those of us not willing to use SL as a dating ad will be labeled as having something to hide. Well i do have something to hide. It is my privacy. Let's see what can of worms LL has unleashed on the community. It will be interesting to see how this gets abused. How does this improve my Secondlife? Is it just another distraction so I forget about all the issues still unresolved with SL?

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