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There's been a lot of talk flying around SL, some of you may have heard, about a plan to provide options to better link your avatar with your RL stuff. Today the information came out. Fortunately it should quell a lot of the fears about people being forced to reveal and link their avatar with their real selves. It is an option only, total anonymity is still in place for those who desire that, too.
https://blogs.secondlife.com/community/features/blog/2010/01/29/avatars-unite
LL has acquired a company called Avatars Unite. M Linden:"Avatars United lets you make some of those connections that I'm talking about above. It's a great site. Check it out and add me, T Linden, and others to your friend list. As you do, you'll start to build an activity feed (similar to Facebook or Twitter) that keeps you in closer touch with the people you're connected to in Second Life. This is one of the most exciting things about the acquisition, this ability to reach my friends more easily, with more interesting information (and photos!), and in a more meaningful way. As we go, we'll be adding to these capabilities -- and because Avatars United provides developer APIs, anyone else can add to these capabilites as well."
It also makes it clear that people who do not wish to reveal RL info, do not have to, and nothing will change.
Also just an LL FYI: For premium account members, starting Feb 17th you will be able to own, as part of your account, a free 512 in themed communities.
https://blogs.secondlife.com/community/land/blog/2010/01/25/linden-homes-to-launch-february-17th
I went and checked these out. They are pretty cool, though seem a bit crowded close together. I think they are making some mods on that, it just went through a Beta. They are supposed to be working on more themes, too. Right now there's a large area of modern homes with lots of windows (nice), a "campground" feel area of sims with A-frames, a weird group of sims with Hobbit-like houses, a oriental-themed group of sims, and...the last one was odd, tiny castles with purple doors lol
My understanding is they're still working on more areas and expanding it further, right now it looks like at least 50 sims. So if you don't have a home and are premium account you might want to look at them. They're not open yet but they're sending out emails 2/17 letting people know how to claim their homes. The house itself uses up 0 allotted prims so then you get the usual 117 I believe.
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I'm totally going to get the hobbit house  |
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| lol last night Katia, Han and I went and checked out all the areas. We decided Gunner should be involved in management of the Hobbitville sims. |
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