Secondlife.com facelift

Yesterday we talked about There.com, Lively and Second Life. Today, SecondLife announced that the team is testing a new home page this week.

Hah. They were scared about my previous article. I knew it! I just knew it! :-)

There.com - another virtual 3D world

I have notice an ad with there.com on it and an invitation to join this virtual There community.

Obviously, I have made a little research and I have found that the website is quite old, starting back in December 24, 1997 as The Anonymizer, a free proxy website (surf the web anonymously-like website), an anonymous point of access for all of you who cannot visit different websites from work. Yeah, something like hidemyass.com :-)

What happend with there.com in the last 11 years?

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After 6 months, Google is shutting down Lively

I have never use Google Lively. Actually, I have heard about it today when Google announced that the service will be interrupted on December 31.

Yeah, I know, shame on me ;). As far as I understand it is something like Second Life.

Google Lively

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In the very heart of a financial crisis, U.S. citizens spend on video games and hardware!

Living a global financial and economic crisis is not a secret anymore. Banks are falling down, prices are growing, the global buy-power is falling also mostly because people are saving money instead of spending.

There is no business field affected but…

… gaming industry! Yeah, sounds a little bit incredible isn’t it? Seems to me that US population is staying inside the house and play games!

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Second Life flirt turns into First Life divorce

Since November 13th, when British couple Amy Taylor (Laura Skye) and David Pollard (Dave Barmy) set to divorce after wife finds her husband’s alter-ego chatting affectionately with a woman in the virtual world (guardian.co.uk), the blogosphere wrote tones of articles about this (BlogSearch).

Amy Taylor (Laura Skye) and David Pollard (Dave Barmy)