Avatar Social Network for MMOers Gets Major Update

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Avatar Social Network for MMOers Gets Major Update

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is a service connecting users of SL, OpenSim, and other MMOs, and while it's been around since at least 2013 (pretty sure I even have an account buried in my email somewhere),

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 recently, so it might be worth checking out again. The biggest update (as the screencap above suggests) seems to be a focus less on avatar profiles per se, and more on the images they create. (Reminds me a bit of the

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.) Flickr already has

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, so that's a competitive challenge there, but then again Flickr (or for that matter, Plurk, another popular hangout for SLers) have limitations of their own.

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that ASN's Terms of Service makes some pretty broad claims on the content users upload to it, which is ironic, since Second Life's own ToS also

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. The social network's owner, Arkad Baxton, makes a case for his ToS in that thread:

What it means is basically states that the content posted on the website may for example appear in PR products as you can clearly see that in Strawberry’s work above. Members’ names, posts do appear in that video and by accepting our TOS those members gave their consent to such. If you continue reading our TOS just a little longer you can see that content of ownership is NOT whatsoever being taken away from it’s rightful owner: “By posting, uploading, inputting, providing or submitting your Submission you warrant and represent that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to your Submission as described in this section including, without limitation, all the rights necessary for you to provide, post, upload, input or submit the Submissions.”

... which is more or less Linden Lab's motive for its own draconian ToS claims. (Along with lessening the chance of frivolous lawsuits going to trial.) Anyway,

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