Aimee Weber is the name of the avatar of one of Second Life’s best known clothes designers. She (or the person behind her) is, I believe, one of the thousand or so people who now earn their full-time living in SL. Today I saw an article on New World Notes pointing out that she is the first person to apply for a US registered trademark on her Second Life name.
In the past few days there has been a spate of announcements by businesses of one sort and another to the effect that they are opening branches in Second Life. This has given “residents” something to do while Second Life crashes and burns, and generally acts as though it has been bound, drugged and beaten.
BoingBoing have published a link to a WP theme that Cory Doctorow has called “endlessly fascinating and deliciously pointless”.
Boston.com posted an article on Tuesday 19 April 2005 which looked at the reason the open source software movement has been successful. The reason, it argues, is because it taps into the power of user innovation.
3D is better than 2D because people are not frogs. That is something that Jakob Nielsen wrote in November 1998, and I still think almost everything he wrote is valid today.
