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Several months after Bonnie Bots brought enormous Sturm und Drang to the Second Life community, Linden Lab has added tools for landowners to block bots from their property — and posted a warning to collectors of Second Life user data like, well, Bonnie Bots. The updated tool is "deny_bots", and as that suggests, when the…
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Above: A single Second Life fashion item with nearly 50,000 triangles (Courtesy Penny Patton) Longtime SLer and professional game artist Penny Patton recently bought a Second Life shirt and then saw something that shocked her. That one mesh item (see above) had nearly 50,000 triangles. As a point of comparison, characters in AAA console games…
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Linden Lab just announced a new pricing deal that's great if you're a landowner, but something of a hard pill if you transact in Linden Dollars quite a bit: In recognition of our upcoming 20th anniversary, we are making additional changes to land ownership to enable Second Life communities – great and small: Dropping the…
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Here's the latest update to Bonnie Bots, the data-hoovering bots which collect publicly available Second Life user information and publish it to the web: The website no longer has the Avatar Search function, a feature which caused the most controversy and contention among the SL community. This removal comes after the Bonnie Bots team had…
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Pictured: Tyche with one of her data-collecting bots As we watch the controversy over Bonnie Bots roil in angry comments across the Second Life media ecosystem, I've been curious about a mysterious discrepancy: Grid Survey has been using bots to collect and display Second Life sim and user data for well over 10 years. Run…
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Last night I teleported to a cozy patio with a firepit on a tiny asteroid to talk with the team of Bonnie Bots, the little Second Life user data website causing enormous controversy across the Second Life community. Since the imbroglio flared up, they have updated the site's homepage with this disclosure: Information about…
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Above: Patch Linden (speaking) with some of the Bonnie Bots dev team (photo courtesy Bonnie Belle) Most everyone involved with Second Life has been avidly talking for days about BonnieBots, a new website tracking genuine Second Life activity, with many SLers enthusing over the depth and value of this data, and others alleging rampant…
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Above: A Bonnie bot, tirelessly on bot patrol There's been lots of interesting conversation and debate spurred by my post on BonnieBots, the new website tracking genuine Second Life activity. While Bonnie's bots don't violate any Linden Lab policy that I'm aware of, the sheer amount of information that both her avatar and web-based bots…
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Most active sims in Second Life as of 1:30pm PT BonnieBots is a new website tracking genuine Second Life activity, and the homepage is an incredibly useful guide for finding SL sims with real, active users — as opposed to traffic bots used by many sim owners to artificially appear popular. "The biggest complaint we…
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Above: Lobby Cam in Steam/Unreal. See below for the SL version Lobby Cam by Bryn Oh is a free new game experience on Steam, and like the name suggests, it's actually created by famed Second Life artist Bryn Oh. Since publishing it to Steam last Friday, it's garnered 7,2000 downloads — quite a lot, for…
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