Comments on: Second Life Takes Aim at Skype http://gigaom.com/2009/05/19/second-life-takes-aim-at-skype/ Sat, 25 May 2013 19:14:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Two Worlds http://gigaom.com/2009/05/19/second-life-takes-aim-at-skype/#comment-211326 Wed, 27 May 2009 16:34:03 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=50623#comment-211326 Hey, I noticed you are a “contributing” writer on this blog. So…if I understand correctly your position on GigaOm is basically this:

“Yo, Hamlet, we need someone to do a writeup on some new development with that Second Life thingy that you used to work for those people for, so…uh…send something our way and we’ll, I dunno, toss twenty bucks your way, how does that sound? Oh yeah, and also you can continue to kiss a$$ in order to get that coveted ‘staff writer/real job’ position you’ve been jockeying for.”

Also Deadpan, that isn’t a bug, that is an awesome “suprise feature”. Nothing’s funnier than teleporting out just in time to avoid some dick’s orbiter gun, then hear “D*mn it…he got away…”.

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]]> By: Tom http://gigaom.com/2009/05/19/second-life-takes-aim-at-skype/#comment-211323 Wed, 20 May 2009 19:58:55 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=50623#comment-211323 Wolf -
Second Life users log 36M user hours per month. 1 Billion voice minutes per month is 16.6M voice hours/month. That’s 40% of the time with their voice channel active.

]]> By: Tom http://gigaom.com/2009/05/19/second-life-takes-aim-at-skype/#comment-211322 Wed, 20 May 2009 19:55:16 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=50623#comment-211322 Actually part of the Second Life announcement about voice is the formal beta of SLim – the IM client for Second Life.

You have to have a second life account, but the beta of the SLim application is here:
http://www.secondlife.com/slim

]]> By: Marty Longstreet http://gigaom.com/2009/05/19/second-life-takes-aim-at-skype/#comment-211321 Wed, 20 May 2009 16:25:05 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=50623#comment-211321 I find voice in SL to be better than any conference call I have ever been on. The phone numbers are a nice addition.

]]> By: Deadpan http://gigaom.com/2009/05/19/second-life-takes-aim-at-skype/#comment-211320 Wed, 20 May 2009 16:02:18 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=50623#comment-211320 I hope they fix the ‘soul delay’ bug where, after teleporting, your voice locus is where you tp’d from.

“Okay, I’ll see you folks later”
*Tele-porte!*
“Man, what a bunch of [colorful expletives deleted]”
“Uh…. us bunch of [colorful expletives deleted] can still hear you!”
“[expletive deleted]“

]]> By: Erbo http://gigaom.com/2009/05/19/second-life-takes-aim-at-skype/#comment-211319 Wed, 20 May 2009 15:42:47 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=50623#comment-211319 Yep, count me and a number of my friends among the Skype-using crowd. We got used to using it before SL added voice support, and we just stuck with it. As a side bonus, when we switch between SL and EVE Online (where many of us fly together as part of the same player corporation), we don’t lose our voice connection.

]]> By: Heiner Wolf http://gigaom.com/2009/05/19/second-life-takes-aim-at-skype/#comment-211318 Wed, 20 May 2009 11:26:40 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=50623#comment-211318 15 billion minutes per year is a bit much for 750 k active and 70 k day’s average users. This would mean, that they talk all the time while inworld. Details at http://blog.wolfspelz.de/2009/05/second-life-generates-15-billion.html

]]> By: Wagner James Au http://gigaom.com/2009/05/19/second-life-takes-aim-at-skype/#comment-211317 Wed, 20 May 2009 07:51:03 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=50623#comment-211317 Yep, Vixox is their partner on this.

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