Dutch Law Firm Faasen Fasten onto Second Life
With thousands of islands to choose from in the virtual world of Second Life, you would think finding something new would be easy. Not so. Most islands are either given over to resident plots or are blocked to ramblers — or sometimes, both. Tonight I, once again, spent ages trawling for something I thought sufficiently worthy of blogging — and eventually I think I found it.
It may come as no surprise to regular readers of my personal blog to hear that this is another Dutch site, this time belonging to Faasen & Partners. According to the notecard supplied, “Faasen & Partners is a fast-growing young law firm and civil law notaries office in The Netherlands with offices in Amsterdam and Rotterdam. We have a specialization in corporate and employment law and distinguish ourselves from other law firms by our entrepreneurial way of thinking.”
I’ve not visited many law firms in Second Life but I guess their sites are likely to have the same facilities as most other company sites. Certainly all the features one would expect are here: a movie about the company; an auditorium for presentations; a number of areas for formal meetings and some informal chat zones. Oh, and of course a freebie: here in the form of a scuba diving kit, which makes a nice change from T-shirts.
The site is split into three main islands. One contains »the main office« block, while the others house the auditorium and an information portal (for want of a better word), with links to relevant pages of the company Web site. Yachts cruise between the islands, giving you infomation in both Dutch and English about the company and its presence.
The build does not appear to come from any of the big companies as far as I can tell. However, the build quality is excellent, with fine use of textures giving a highly polished, professional result. Whether this experiment will pay off for the company, only time will tell. However, it seems to be a trait of the Dutch to take chances and get in among the early adopters. I have to say, I was very impressed with it.
Aleister Kronos appears by kind permission of Ambling in Second Life.
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This one was spotted several weeks ago at this blog. But then again, it wasn’t open. Checked last week, still wasn’t open, now you beat me to it, isn’t fair ;)
Veejay, stop complaining… :) Enough scoops to come i would say. What do u think about the build btw?
VeeJ - it’s only half a scoop if it’s still closed.
Besides, you have blogged about half the Netherlands now - so leave some room for us other bloggers.
PS: Am I to assume that this build is the work of Lost in the Magic Forest? It would explain the quality of the 3D look & feel.
As far as I know, it is not. Mr. VanBrugh is part of the Forresters and he has a habit of sending me press releases when one of their builds goes live ;)
Thanks Aleister for the compliment, this time (but only this time) I will have to pass the compliment to one of our respected collegues. And Veejay, knowing you just looooove scoops I ofcourse want to give you all possible opportunities of having one. Believe me, more news to come!
I believe it’s not build by the Forresters but DNBmedia?
Come along now… someone must own up to this build?! :-)
http://www.secondlife.nl/… Look at the banner of DNBmedia upon the site!
And finally…
Yes - it is DNBmedia: http://www.dnbmedia.com/secondlife_projecten/
The link also identifies some builds I’ve not not seen before.
Of course it is DNBmedia, i’ve never seen a building of this quility made by Lost in the Magic Forrest.. www.DNBmedia.com is one of the biggest SL-developers in Europe and created sims for companies as: ABN AMRO en Randstad..
Did you also check the underwater tubes that connect the 3 islands?
Hi Hillelujah
No! I didn’t spot the tubes - I must go take a look! :-)
thanks guys!! it is indeed built by DNBmedia…
There is a new island from dnbmedia, called testlife. go check it out!!! high quality graphics and a cool and free paintball game!