The much heralded launching of the first Second Life national community happened this Monday, April 23, and Brazilians are getting ready to their outposts in a custom tropicalized virtual environment. The novelty is attracting the attention of users as Linden Labs makes its first attempt to scale and customize the environment to host non-English speaking cultures — and markets. The initiative is the result of the partnership with the local Kaizen Games, which has been announced as a Second Life Global Provider and part of the SL Grid. Bloggers are reporting.

Parece que finalmente a espera acabou. Não há mais notícias sobre prorrogação ou novos avisos de atraso. O Second Life Brasil vai mesmo ser inaugurado, oficialmente, nesta segunda-feira (23/04) com a abertura ao público da maioria de suas 23 ilhas temáticas, ambientadas nas grandes capitais brasileiras. No entanto, a Ilha KGBR03, considerada uma ilha de ‘instrução’, já se encontra aberta para visitação pública, contando com diversos residentes veteranos contratados para auxiliar os novos residentes brasileiros a interagirem no metaverso.
Second Life Brasil estréia finalmente nesta segunda-feira - Mundo Linden

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The word is out on the web: blogs are celebrating their 10th anniversary. And although blogging about blogging is something bloggers do all the time, the remembrance offers the opportunity for new raps around the beloved theme. The thread started from an April 1st Dave Winer’s post where he praises the decade long course of his ‘Scripting News‘, but the paternity attribution is not undisputed. The Lusophone blogosphere catches the wave by sending out new perspectives on the issue and honoring the date as an important collective achievement.

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