December 2007
49 posts
"Inside the Lab" - Rosedale Podcast - 2007 to 2008
http://s3.amazonaws.com/static-secondlife-com/media/mp3/Inside_the_Lab_Philip_Rosedale_20071207.mp3
Virtual Magic Kingdom online multiplayer game
3924 Players Online Now 12/26/2007 11:00 AM PST OLD News (2005) but timely non the lessThe first true theme park plans a more customized experience for visitors. From: The Orange County Register: Sunday, October 30, 2005 Walt Disney Co. films inspired attractions at the theme parks; now the theme parks have inspired a virtual world. Disney launched a free online multiplayer game this summer...
UCI computer scientist puts Second Life to use for...
From: The Orange County Register: December 17, 2007 Second Life as a simulation tool UC Irvine computer scientist Crista Lopes was happy to do all her work in the real world – until February, that is. Now she also devotes time to programming in the computer-based world Second Life, where she is creating software to control a virtual rapid-transit system called SkyTran. Her software keeps...
It's a Horse Race - Gaia in the lead
11 AM EST (NY) 12/23/2007 Gaia: 49,717 Gaians Online Second Life: Online Now: 38,128 SceneCaster on Facebook: Users:3,386 daily active users 3% of total Over the past year much has been said about avatars and other online Virtual world “environments” competing for a share of the market and revenue stream. Here we look at one of the competition, Gaia Online. Gaia is not an...
Featuring the work of Kisa
Imagine… Flickr Set Browser On Realism and Reconstruction Kisa Naumova
New Windight "Nicholaz Edition" of the Second Life...
A Christmas Present to all of the Second Life community from the now famous and praised Mad Patcher - The “Nicholaz Edition” of the Second Life Viewer Thank you Nicho. Merry Christmas
~News~ Fortune Article - Rosedale Interview
CNN.com - Fortune Technology - December 20, 2007Rosedale says his Second Life virtual world is stronger than ever. Now he vows to make it a “stable public utility.” about time ~wOOt~ More quotes, a new number, and the next “big thing” ”Users this year have transferred about $78 million dollars (US) worth of real currency into or out of the system. And more than three...
WatchGrace McDunnough Musimmersion: Case Study In The Future of Live Music Performances
~twits worth sharing~
poinky there’s something wrong about the Virtual Worlds Management Industry Forecast being published as a standard electronic document (pdf even). 28 minutes ago from web GwynethLlewelyn well, Prokofy’s predictions are quite good actually. about 1 hour ago from im suezanne Twinity, the virtual world from Metaversum, has reflections of avatars in pools of water, requiring you to...
~wOOt~ LSL HTTP Servers
“Kelly Linden has proposed a new solution that practically amounts to a prim having its own little web server.” (quote from DP - see below) Links: JIRA http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SVC-1086 SLGA http://mrtopf.de/blog/secondlife/slga-capabilities-explained-technical/ DP http://deanspants.com/entries/23
RSS Feed you may need more then twitter →
West Coast/Alaska Tsunami Center Products (Experimental RSS Feed) If you watch or syndicate RSS feeds you may want to add a few basic emergency feeds as well for Earthquakes, Fires and Homeland Security. You would not want to be in your own lil Virtual Universe or watching twitters on your phone and miss the fact that the in your real world a Tsunami was coming your way in 5 minutes. An email...
Network hacked by Toaster : Now you can't trust an...
~wOOt~ Man uses networked ‘crazy’ toaster to hack PCBy John Leyden @ www.channelregister.co.uk 18 Dec 2007 “Then gets grilled at hacker fest” “The more paranoid among us have long been wary of the possibility that networked fridges might spontaneously turn off, perhaps after becoming infected with a computer virus, ruining milk in the process. Other networked...
Recommending: Dusan Writer’s Metaverse →
Dwight Schrute III
From: Clear Ink Draxtor Despres of Life4-U TV magazine covers NBC’s “The Office” in Second Life and the WGA strike in this report. -click here for the video Dwight Kurt Schrute III is a fictional character on the NBC’s The Office portrayed by Rainn Wilson. His counterpart in the original UK version of The Office is Gareth Keenan. More can be found on :...
Video Link from Prokofy Neva
Here is another video: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3os6q_2nd-life-is-still-alive_news The above link was found in Prokofy Neva’s last blog past today, “Predictions for 2008: Linden Lab Won’t Open Source”. A good read and after the boat load of predictions lately I do believe he will be, even with the satire, able to say at year end, “I did it again, got it...
Totalitarian approach to virtual worlds
Clipped from: Christian Renaud’s Weblog Techno-Balkans “During VW2007, one of the efforts announced was the Beijing Cyber Recreation district, an ambitious project to bring together virtual world efforts within China. When I was asked a question about it by a reporter, I switched into engineer mode and started listing the pros and cons of the proposal, including the fact that...
SL on CNBC & NBC News ~Videos
If you missed the program last week or NBC network new broadcasts you can see them here: Second Life Enter Second Life, a vast, virtual world that’s home to 10 million users as well as scores of entrepreneurs and Fortune 500 companies. (more) There are other, older videos of info/newscasts from CNBC and NBC. Interesting how MSN’s Video’s content is all thiers, unlike YouTube and...
Microsoft Visual Studio + World of Warcraft
From: http://channel9.msdn.com Watch this MSN Video re: Visual Studio Shell If you play or write for WoW or write LSL code this should interest you. If you just hate Microsoft it is still good to see what they are doing with WoW and what tools LL is undoubtedly using. The featured WOW open source shell is on CodePlex if you’re curious.
Don't fail to watch "Free" from Architecture + →
Second Life Sweatshop
Calling all Second Lifers - earn Lindens! Hiring workers for our Second Life Sweatshop! Do you want to work on the cutting edge of telematic manufacturing? Do you want to earn Lindens by repeatedly pressing a button? Do you want a small plot of land outside an industrial factory to build a hovel of your very own? Are you available for 2-3 hours a day, from January 17th to January 27th? Jeans are...
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~ Flickr - MyToyCode ~ just fun →
This is just cute and fun, click around. It does nothing, but…….. Found at: mytoycode.com, created by Darren Shaw
Top 10 Naked People on Google Earth
You think that someone cameraing (is that really a word?) into your Second Life is a problem? http://snapshots.slbuzz.com/tag/cameraing Look up and don’t forget to smile.found on: googlesightseeing.com/2006/11/28/ “You’ve all seen the original Google Sightseeing Topless Sunbather already, but did you know that the Hague is in fact completely overrun with naked and semi-naked Dutch...
RT Full Motion Capture for your Avatar →
Today there are a number of ways that Second Life can be improved, from building tools & interoperability with CADD and other tools like Blender, Poser etc, to improving the architecture, scalablity and stability of the datasteam. The Animation area will change greatly as developers create and adopt new ways to animate avatars. We cannot look inside Linden Labs for just the Second Life world...
Slideshow by karrolean
Perle du desert by karrolean When the slideshow opens click original view, she has added music or go to her profile page to see all her shows ~wOOt~
Scope Cleaver's Bartlett House
A creative digital agency from London, has made a Video of the Bartlett House built by Scope Cleaver. The Youtube video is featured today in Architecture + Article about Scope & the house: The Guardian 7/9/2007
What a ~hOOt~
The “girls” at: Mean Girls Guide to SL are great reads, but damn I was saving up for a cube. Then there is http://broadlyoffensive.blogspot.com/ if your ready.
theKonstrukt is for sale
This may be very old news, since there was no date on the web page. Ladies and gentlemen, Due to personal reasons, I must unfortunately put an end to my involvement in theKonstrukt magazine. But, instead of closing it down, I would like it to continue to live, grow, and benefit the Second Life community. I have therefore decided to sell the ownership to anyone who can take it further :) Please...
Searching in archinect.com for "Second Life"
archinect.com Search Results 34 Result(s) for “Second Life” Title/Excerpt Date Posted 1 architecture et inconscient technologique For three days, the Georgia Tech antenna in Paris organizes a series of lectures and events…11/13/07 6:18 2 Teaching Architecture in Second Life Terry Beaubois had a problem when he was offered a position teaching architecture at...
Get Your Own SIM
A big ~wOOt~ goes to Bettina Tizzy and http://npirl.blogspot.com/ She posted to npril Wednesday, November 21, 2007 and I missed it untill now.Get your *own* grid! Thomtrance O’Toole provides step-by-step instructions for OpenSim + binary executable Here it is: How to instructions to building your own alpha version of the Open Sim Server: http://happyclamisland.org/npirl/npirlOpenSim.aspx...
Another Clip from NPIRL
Wednesday, December 12, 2007Bizarre and very NPIRL ways to beef up traffic numbers? digg_url="http://npirl.blogspot.com/2007/12/bizarre-and-very-npirl-ways-to-beef-up.html"; digg_skin="compact";Hobo King Orhalla Zander just TP’ed me to a poorly made, untextured prim skybox. Inside were 9 avatars in various states of Ruth, all members of the Blue Bay Beach Club and all apparently...
Test - Clipped from http://www.electronista.com
This a test of tumbler html Cut and Paste - (Hopefuilly not seen as copyright infringement) They have a RSS feed, so if I posted using that it would be OK? need to get a better handle on the IP rules for feeds and mixing-republishing. Anyone out there seeing this, Feel free to comment. Wednesday, December 12th Next Windows to get multi-touch Microsoft’s next version of Windows will support...
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Second Life Meets Real Life →
Written by Paul Levinson 12/12/2007 “Selling books from Soft Edge book shop, however, feels more like being in a real bookstore than IMing from a Web page with my books. The other night I was standing in front of my shop — or more accurately, my avatar, PaulLevinson Freenote, was. Another avatar was walking by, and stopped to look at my most recent novel, The Plot to Save...
Nicholaz is Back ~wOOt~ →
If you don’t know about The Niholaz Viewers, or Nicho well, know one thing “ Second Life - Best of the Best Awards” go not only to builders, photographers and artists. clipped from his Blog: Ass-tachments should be fixed! Yay!! :-D I have a version which is high on JIRA votes. As mentioned recently, I did attempt to fix the avatar attachments and as far as I can tell I have...
Porn is Someone's IP, Penthouse Buys & YouTube...
Hot off the press/email rss feed from: MercuryNews - Good Morning Silicon Valley Article Launched: 12/12/2007 02:39:02 PM PST “On one front, the proliferation of free, pirated video clips on the Net has highlighted the obvious — a five-minute helping of porn is often, how shall we say, sufficient to the need where a two-hour feature presentation would be overkill. That led major...
Second Life Events Today - Education →
This is the SL web site filtered. Wish it had an RSS feed
Blohhud.com →
Residents in SL wearing the blogHUD post by simply typing: /9 your message here done! To create a longer post, you need to create a notecard in your inventory, type what you want to say then save it. Then drag and drop it from your inventory to the blogHUD. It will then read the contents of the notecard and prompt you for a title to this post. NB: TEXT ONLY notecards please. No embedded...
We named the site ~w00t~ you ask why? →
definition: w00t (interjection)expressing joy (it could be after a triumph, or for no reason at all); similar in use to the word “yay” Merriam-Webster’s #1 Word of the Year for 2007 based on votes from visitors to their web site: We considered naming this lil blog site “cruft” popularized by 37 Signals’ front man Jason Fried to describe software elements that...
First ~w00t~ Post ---- Just Testing & Playing
The cool thing is being in SL, going to My profile’s web tab, getting ~w00t~ and then picking twitter, to twit or popping the tumbler editor up to just note a quick item. For some reason it is easier then opening my browser while in SL and appears less resource intensive. Below is just a test to see if clicking the picture works in my SL profile’s web tab. NOPE ~GRR~ but I must say I...