{"id":218,"date":"2006-07-07T12:36:42","date_gmt":"2006-07-07T12:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/wordp\/?p=218"},"modified":"2006-07-07T12:36:42","modified_gmt":"2006-07-07T12:36:42","slug":"oops-there-goes-my-second-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/?p=218","title":{"rendered":"Oops, there goes my second life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is it just me or does the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Linden_Scripting_Languag\">Linden Script Language<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.secondlife.com\">Second Life<\/a> in general remind them of the Oop! company and programming tool in Douglas Coupland&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0060987049\/002-6549532-6224029?v=glance&#038;n=283155\">Microserfs<\/a> book? It&#8217;s just a thought but having had a look at second life I&#8217;m impressed by it&#8217;s technology and capability but it&#8217;s still a bit <i>&#8220;geeky&#8221;<\/i>. Interacting with virtual life objects using an OO scripting language is wonderful in theory but it needs some good UI building tools I suppose. Still, this digital microcosm is hugely successful at the moment with an economy alledgedly worth millions of dollars. Let&#8217;s not think about the liquidity issues just yet.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Second_Life.png\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gaisan.com\/blogs\/archives\/Second_Life.png\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it just me or does the Linden Script Language and Second Life in general remind them of the Oop! company and programming tool in Douglas Coupland&#8217;s Microserfs book? It&#8217;s just a thought but having had a look at second life I&#8217;m impressed by it&#8217;s technology and capability but it&#8217;s still a bit &#8220;geeky&#8221;. Interacting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}