Welcome to our new site + M Linden @ MMIF

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Warm welcome to Pop Art Labs new domain. Finally we managed to move all our content and can begin PALs next level of growth here.

In many ways I have enjoyed Linden Labs moves lately. Yesterday they beta released their new 2.0 viewer and to me it’s plain eyecandy. Especially the new media app that allows html on a prim – will have significant impact on how we adopt and develop virtual worlds in the future. As a collaborative tool in organizations, edu and libraries it has a huge, yet unseen, potential.

And yes, there are issues in new viewer. I would like see further integration of events from secondlife.com event calender into the viewer. When a new user enters there should be an easy pop-up window at the right sidebar that showcases the most important events going on right now – as it does on secondlife.com. This feature would allow new users to find all the cool stuff in just a few clicks.


[Mark Kingdon aka M Linden enter the MMIF festival theater (and yes I am no good as a photographer).]

Ok next the lab also aired new initiative Supporting the Arts in Second Life. Which makes me think few days back when the MMIF Festival took place (MaMachinima International Festival). This event was infact indirectly supported by the lab since they sponsored the event with 4 sims allowing MMIF to host a 200+ audience for the 7 hours screenings of best machinima.

Chantal Harvey who headed the festival informed me more than 800 avatars attended the festival. Add the Malburns Writer live webstreaming to at least 3-4 websites must have generated thousands of views and the event was even set up as mixed reality live in Amsterdam RL too. All to say I hope we’ll see more lab supported events like this in the future and maybe it can grow out of the new Supporting the Arts initiative. I hope so. It is a cool (and cheap) way for the lab to showcase how wonderful creativity can be fostered inworld and the huge value such events have.

Next, the Lab recently opened Linden homes to premium accounts. Very nice move again although I never have enough time for the housey stuff due to too much work but still I enjoy my new Linden home since I haven’t rezzed my old house since I opened Pop Art Lab and dedicated all the prims there to music related activities. Now I have a home when I need peace!

Lastly, I will end this post by telling how wonderful it was to see Mark Kingdon aka M Linden show up last Saturday during the MMIF festival. Not only the pleasure I had by seeing head of the lab in “person” (well I met him for real in San Francisco once) but also the fact he stood right there surrounded by the beautiful Pop Art Lab designed theatre. And I couldn’t stop bidding him welcome in IM and we even had a short chat! Ty Mark was wonderful and so glad you showed up and liked what you saw.

So yet again warm welcome to the brand new Pop Art Lab site and all the wonderful stuff Linden Lab currently set up. We can’t wait to bring more eyecandy and music into Second Life. Now we have passed MMIF, launched this new site and next step is the grand opening of our new PAL sim plus new episodes of Pop Vox music TV.

See you soon!