i check in with SharesPost on occasion to see how they are currently valuing Linden Lab’s private capital stock. lately it’s been pretty flat but i missed a may 16th “Research Update” (probably because i haven’t looked in the last two weeks) =p the research report is created by Candlestick Advisors who also evaluates companies like [...]

first things first – it’s Queen Victoria’s birthday – a time to reflect over how much better off the world was when the sun never set on the British Empire. we’ve never forgotten that in Canada and love being in the Commonwealth. but . . . that’s easier for us to do because we don’t [...]

facebook had it’s IPO last week and one big reason they are worth so much is because of you, not them. the demographics (dems) are what make facebook worth so much and those demographics are metrics about you! what a way to seperate the human being from the dollar eh? you are an account, an account [...]

over on Hypergrid Business i saw a link to a legal firm that has started a blog dealing with legal issues specific to virtual worlds and video games. video games are often big money and involve a much larger community, so it’s natural to expect legal issues. as virtual worlds continue to grow, we will [...]

Eros Deus is an active virtual world resident who also shares his trials and tribulations online. one such post, my ishihara test results, showed an interesting intersection of the real world with the virtual Eros discusses being a mutant, okay well not a mutant like a zombie, the challenge of having a mutated green pigment which [...]

last week i was tasked with making a waste-to-energy plant and as with most thing i build, i like to let the idea roll around in my head for a few days. i already had a head start with a great illustration of the major parts that i need to include (thanks to ecomaine). i [...]

i like the power and portability of Portable Apps. from Open Office to Gimp and Blender to Sudoku sim-on-a-stick is, of course, one of my favourites but i also use portable chrome like mad. one reason is that i can carry around my bookmarks and allow for autofill and passwords to be saved (don’t lose [...]

on may 24th, 2009 i made myself a commitment to publish at least one blog post a day without missing any days that will be three years ago next week – phew! we haven’t missed a single day and have averaged 1.333 posts per day (1459 posts in 1089 days – wow, that means we could take [...]

3D printing is cool and becoming more affordable . . . kind of you can pre-order a Cubify printer, which does nylon 3D printing like downtown Boston below, for $1,299 with cartridges that are $50 each. i don’t know how long a cartridge lasts but some ink cartridges are more expensive! 3D printing can print all [...]

some people like to take a break and explore being anything they want to be – from blue flying bears to little beavers to pink-haired winged emo wannabes to robots, others like to share their music and play for VW concerts and clubs, some like to create fantasy lives with wild houses, flying machines, and [...]

Linden Lab makes serious scratch with an estimated $5.86 million USD per month from private and mainland tiers (from Tyche Shepherd’s Grid Survey). add to that membership dues, Linden Exchange fees, and even texture upload fees – back in 2008 they were making $90,000 USD a month just on those uploads! how much of an [...]

a handful of people have tried to create a Mac version of sim-on-a-stick but have run into various impasses. i even tried, which is laughable because i might have a total of 20 minutes Mac experience, and came across an issue when trying to get MAMP running MAMP is Mac, Apache, MySQL, and PHP and [...]

on Mondays (and most mornings) i take a look at my Yahoo reader (an RSS reader like Google) and this morning i read soror Nishi’s friday post Obama Admits Earth is Round…. it’s a fun look at current news events and places them in their rightful context of pretty much being absurd and that we [...]

the other day we gave a tour of some of our virtual world science activities and usually a visitor likes what they see and “understand” how OpenSim stuff is created the understand part is something i bet everyone in our community can identify with whenever you have been in a situation where you are explaining what [...]

i know sim-on-a-stick can run on a Mac but only from others telling me so. it’s one thing for me to say “hey, sim-on-a-stick will run with Parallels on a Mac” and a different thing to read directly about someone who actually does run sim-on-a-stick on a Mac enter Dot Macchi and an article about actually getting [...]