Weblog of Sunday 29 June 2008

Doppler is an online tool for frequent business travellers:
http://www.dopplr.com/

Pixar's online library of 3D graphics:
http://graphics.pixar.com/

Philip Rosedale and The Tech Museum's President Peter Friess speak at The Tech Virtual's Summit:
http://thetechvirtual.org/june-4-summit/keynotes-summit-on-digital-democracy-in-exhibit-design

Hosted Gig and Subversion project management:
http://unfuddle.com/

Video about micro-organisms living on us:
http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=dBU6-XK2v54&feature=related

laughingsquid: ok so after using Disqus for a day, I can say that it's not only improved commenting, but increased the amount of comments, plus zero spam

Capital markets don't care about what gets the Valley excited (thanks to Prok):
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/28/business/28venture.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1214733110-lIQhrCc8fUs+tLjr7BC3wg

BlossomsK building a coffee shop inworld:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/tealeaf/124/116/42/?title=MochaDolce%20

I had forgotten all about cakephp:
http://www.cakephp.org/

What is the new Locus Pocus avatar (a rabbit, apparently)?

MPAA Says No Proof Needed in P2P Copyright Infringement Lawsuits:
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/06/mpaa-says-no-pr.html

400 SL Bloggers on Ning:
http://secondlifebloggers.ning.com/

PlurkHUD in SL

Solve protein folding puzzles for science:
http://fold.it/portal/adobe_main

Katharine's Greasemonkey script to modify Plurk page footer:
http://www.plurk.com/p/ta65

Triangles in Javascript:
http://www.uselesspickles.com/triangles/demo.html

Weblog of Thursday 26 June 2008

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Weblog of Wednesday 25 June 2008

Al Kronos tweets: "Can anyone send me direct links to SL client viewer downloads? ie to the AWS S3 links, not the secondlife.com - I'm dodging firewalls!"

iYan replies with this:
http://snurl.com/2nxsg

and this (??):
http://download-secondlife-com.s3.amazonaws.com/SecondLife_1_19_1_4.dmg

"Secret" weblog of Dale Innis:
http://daleinnis.wordpress.com/

Gwyneth Llewelyn thinks LL is dropping Gecko as the in-world browser and using Safari:
http://meta.nuanti.com/

Virtual Greats is marketing celebrity likeness in virtual worlds:
http://www.virtualgreats.com/

Google has launched MapMaker:
http://www.opengeodata.org/?p=307

Rubaiyat becomes member of (mostly-WOW) Science Guild:
http://scienceguild.org/wiki/index.php?title=Scienceguild:Community_Portal

Plurk karma trends for Rheta:
http://plurk.ryanlim.com/?n=rheta

and the unofficial Plurk guide:
http://plurk.ryanlim.com/help

New SL download page is not valid XHTML (this Jira post due to Jacek?):
http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/WEB-674

Digado replurking George Carlin's unlimited bandwidth:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=jCljFYn3zTY

Tenebrous plurks Orange Island "Our World is Changing" Discussion:
http://www.orange-island.com/?page_id=503

Freestyle is a software for Non-Photorealistic Line Drawing rendering from 3D scenes:
http://freestyle.sourceforge.net

Jacek shares SL User Experience mailing list:
https://lists.secondlife.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sl-ux

Weblog of Tuesday 24 June 2008

SLBuzz shows the users who spent the most time in-world:
http://stats.slbuzz.com/

Snapzilla holds more pics that a freebie flickr account.

Windows Tweak Guides:
http://www.tweakguides.com/TGTC.html

At SL5BD I stumbled on the OpenSim display and this tutorial:
http://opensimuser.wordpress.com/2008/06/15/opensim-install-and-configuration-tutorial

Weblog of Monday 23 June 2008

Al Kronos tweets DIY Yahoo resignation letter:
http://yahoorezinr.com/

Sin Trenton tweets another point of view on the AP versus blogger controversy:
http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/06/ap_correct_in_c.html?cid=RSSfeed_IWK_ALL

Personal time tracking with klok:
http://klok.mcgraphix.com/klok/index.htm

Doing business as an avatar:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=318544&intsrc=hm_list

SL Defense Coop:
http://arsvirtua.com/more.php?p=106

Yahoo's MyBlogLog shows who is visiting your sites:
http://www.mybloglog.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyBlogLog

UgoTrade tweets 30 years of hip hop:
http://annieok.com/tangent/?p=738

People tweeting about using lipsync:
http://www.lipsync-mx.com

Weblog of Monday 23 June 2008

Al Kronos tweets DIY Yahoo resignation letter:
http://yahoorezinr.com

Weblog of Sunday 22 June 2008

Power up the game (save the planet):
http://www.powerupthegame.org/

Blender, a free open source 3D content creation suite:
http://www.blender.org/

Hexagon is subdivision modelling software:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexagon_(software)

Ordinal's SL Twitterbadge:
http://ordinalmalaprop.com/engine/2007/04/19/the-twitterbadge

Mitch Wagner blogs about AP and copyright law:
http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/06/ap_tries_to_sav.html;jsessionid=QTTRQUIDECL3WQSNDLOSKH0CJUNN2JVN

Gwyneth tweets "Mono on the Main Grid":
http://status.secondlifegrid.net/2008/06/20/post130
(But where does she see Mono in this?) And a reminder about what Mono is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_(software)
In other words, a set of software tools (including C# compiler) that provides .NET compatibililty across different operating systems (Windows, Mac, Linux, UNIX, BSD, Solaris).

Crap blows up NPIRL build:
http://firstlife.isfullofcrap.com/2008/06/kaboom_1.html

Jacek runs two instances of Firefox (RL and SL), by making shortcuts with eg: Firefox.exe -no-remote -P "My Profile" - she has different bookmarks in each profile to be able to tell them apart.

Crap tweets "rezzed and confused" podcasts:
http://rezzedandconfused.com/

Rheta tweets Eloh Eliot on the permissions on "Eloh mods":
http://eloheliot.blogspot.com/2008/06/share-alike.html
Eloh's reference to "psd" seems to mean Photoshop files used in her skins:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Photoshop#Features

Running SL from a flash card:
http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2008/06/how-to-run-seco.html

Weblog of Friday 20 June 2008

Ordinal's freebie giver script:
http://ordinalmalaprop.com/wiki/index.php?title=Script:Freebie_giver_with_illustrations

Sin Trenton uses Twittermail:
http://twittermail.com/tweets/twit/MTk5ODg5

Gwyn links to Microsoft plugin for Firefox:
http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2008/06/sweet-plugin-microsoft-cake-20-for-firefox-3

Lunette links to SL things to do:
http://www.slthingstodo.com/

Lunette's list of freebie blogs:
http://evoav.blogspot.com/2008/05/freebie-madness.html

Lots of people playing with Will Wright's trial version of Spore Creature Creator:
http://www.spore.com/trial

David Orban's son made a video of his Spore Creature:
http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=02d0PrfCkCI

Lamasoft archive:
http://www.llamasoftarchive.org

Zoomii on-line bookstore (interface to Amazon):
http://zoomii.com/#home

Computer Help

Debugging Windows

Debug Windows Services:
http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2003/09/02/debuggingsvcs.html

Problems with Trojans

Disable "restore":
http://www.computing.net/answers/windows-me/slow-internet-explorer-execution/44572.html

Computer Help

When I Google "computer help," the first site that pops up is this one:
http://www.computerhope.com/

Weblog of Thursday 19 June 2008

ArminasXsays got relief from SL freezing up by tossing out the entire SL config/prefs folder and starting over.

iAlja yet another person using Ping:
http://ping.fm/

New default avatars:
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Default_Avatar_Designers

Botgirl's series on the impact of immersion on emotional processes:
http://botgirl.blogspot.com/2008/06/part-three-of-series-formerly-known-as.html

Green phones using openspime:
http://www.openspime.com/2008/06/18/green-phones-are-coming

Reddit goes open source:
http://laughingsquid.com/reddit-goes-open-source-releases-code-to-public

Wikipedia article about Reddit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddit

Mobile sensors:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/mobile_sensors.php

Codeswarm organic software visualization:
http://vis.cs.ucdavis.edu/~ogawa/codeswarm

Le blog des managers 2.0:
http://b-r-ent.com/news/les-prix-intraverse-et-intrablog-2008-avec-philip-rosedale-fondateur-de-second-life-et-linden-lab

Mitch reviews FF3:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/browsers/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=0YFMHX4RR5NEWQSNDLPSKH0CJUNN2JVN?articleID=208700365

Missions set by Passively Multiple Online Games:
http://pmog.com/missions

CSS Zen Garden:
http://csszengarden.com/?cssfile=/213/213.css&page=0

Weblog of Wednesday 18 June 2008

BlossomsK needs friends at stumbleupon:
http://blossomsk.stumbleupon.com/

SecondLife inworld search thingies:
http://secondlife.com/app/search/search.php?hl=en&q=codebastard&s=All
http://islab.org/slsearch

Codie's new sim is called Rouge.

Jacek on early adopters and SL patriots (with comment by Gwyn):
http://jacek.meratalk.com/2008/06/18/early-adopters-pessimists-and-patriots

Louis Gray on 5 stages of early adopter behaviour:
http://www.louisgray.com/live/2008/06/five-stages-of-early-adopter-behavior.html

Virgle (Virgin plus Google) and the open-source planet Mars:
http://www.google.com/virgle

Prokofy on the permission system and Saijanai's JIRA:
http://secondthoughts.typepad.com/second_thoughts/2008/06/how-they-sign-y.html

Field Guide to Firefox 3:
http://www.dria.org/wordpress/archives/2008/06/12/655

Set Firefox 3 to launch gmail:
http://lifehacker.com/392287/set-firefox-3-to-launch-gmail-for-mailto-links

Speed testing the web browsers:
http://lifehacker.com/396048/speed-testing-the-latest-web-browsers

Weblog of Tuesday 17 June 2008

Faerie plurks about her post-gender article:
http://www.plurk.com/p/fa4e

Faerie's article on SL as a Post-Gender Society:
http://cala-sl.blogspot.com/2008/06/second-life-is-post-gender-environment.html

OpenSpime launches developer network:
http://www.byetman.com/2008/06/16/openspime-launches-developer-network

OpenSpime Google group:
http://groups.google.com/group/openspime

Final Firefox 3:
http://lifehacker.com/396042/final-firefox-3-state-of-the-add+ons-report

Al Kronos talking about CSD and Wok, the latter turns out to be Web of Knowledge:
http://www.fkf.mpg.de/ivs/Databases_for_MPG.html

In this context: "Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) is a numerical crystallographic database for small organic molecules and proteins."

Launch the ISI Web of Knowledge
http://newface.newisiknowledge.com/

Reuters seems to own ISI Wok (and nowhere is it shown what "ISI" stands for):
http://www.isiwebofknowledge.com/

Schedule an event with Doodle:
http://www.doodle.ch/main.html;jsessionid=08F9479B6307918EFF034D50FC7014F2.prim1

Al Kronos points to "Search read items in Google reader":
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/06/search-read-items-in-google-reader.html

Weblog of Monday 16 June 2008

Ordinal pays to use MindMeister:
http://www.mindmeister.com

Ordinal reports that Linden are deleting content involved in DMCA disputes:
http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/MISC-1278

Al Kronos using a Mediawiki addon for FF to use with FF2. FriendFeed?

OpenSpime developer network:
http://developer.openspime.com

More of my comments

On Al Kronos post about Message in a Bottle:
https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7151616810519208803&postID=561896884173709715

On Botgirl post about Open Source Grids:
http://botgirl.blogspot.com/2008/06/botgirl-on-road-protect-your-virtual.html?showComment=1213264740000#c974956295640586583

Weblog of Saturday 14 June 2008

Rheta Shan says there is a HUD gizmo that lets you see when other avatars are in-world.

Sin Trenton uses GoogleReader under Firefox.

Al Kronos refers to alternative SL registration sites such as CyberExtruder and Orientation Station:
http://www.cyberextruder.com
http://www.slnn.com/index.php?SCREEN=article&about=orientation-station-opens
http://metaversed.com/09-may-2007/orientation-station-aims-replace-second-life-entry-points

Otenth suggests SLnamewatch:
http://slnamewatch.com

Al Kronos comments on a post about Project Wonderland:
http://blogs.sun.com/socialandmore/entry/project_wonderland_first_impressions_looking

Metaverse connections is a FIC group.

Jamie Palisades uses gtalk with jabber.

Digado testing Ping.fm:
http://ping.fm

Mitch Wagner looking for information about Adaptive Blue:
http://www.adaptiveblue.com

Saijanai Kuhn posts link to OpenSim and CentralGrid group IMs:
https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/MISC-1277

Sin Trenton switching from Pownce to Jaiku as Twitter backup.

Otenth Paderborn debunks Torley:
http://otenth.homefries.org/2008/06/13/what-a-load-of-crap

Weblog of Friday 13 June 2008

ZenCart open-source on-line store:
http://www.zencart.com

Jjacek reports that unicorns are real:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/06/080612-AP-unicorn-photo.html

Weblog of Thursday 12 June 2008

Botgirl advising registering your avatar's name on the OS grids:
http://botgirl.blogspot.com/2008/06/botgirl-on-road-protect-your-virtual.html

iAlja recommends this tool to create Web 2.0 identity card:
http://www.retaggr.com

Rikomatic excited about AMD plugging "Playing 4 Keeps":
http://innovation.amd.com/learn

David Orban points to "RepRap achieves replication":
http://blog.reprap.org/2008/06/reprap-achieves-replication.html

Searching from the address bar:
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/06/searching-from-address-bar.html

Tenebrous posts cool Media hack:
http://tinyurl.com/2kxv82

Rik points to 3D SL model of how SL works:
http://www.rikomatic.com/blog/2008/06/neat-3d-model-o.html

Orban tweets Innovation 24/7:
http://innovation.top-ix.org/programma/langswitch_lang/en

Rubaiyat tweets World of World of Warcraft:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Rw8gE3lnpLQ

Mitch Wagner uses YubNub.

YungSang's bookmarklet to plurk:
http://blog.yungsang.com/2008/06/08/bookmarklet-to-plurk

Rheta using Dapper to spruce up website:
http://www.dapper.net

Weblog of Wednesday 11 June 2008

Website about managing windowns startup:
http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_index.htm

Importing Google earth into Second Life:
http://digitalurban.blogspot.com/2008/06/google-maps-imagery-and-3d-cities-in.html

Weblog of Tuesday 10 June 2008

Clever Zebra publishing profiles of visitors to their sim:
http://dusanwriter.com/?p=573

Clever Zebra is using the Mechanized Life program:
http://www.mechanizedlife.com/wiki/index.php/Products

Last March, Gwyneth posted about Content Theft and Avatar Rights:
http://gwynethllewelyn.net/2008/03/10/content-theft-avatar-rights-and-the-riaa

Studying MS Windows

Last Friday I was looking for a Windows Task Manager that would give more info than the standard one, and found this:
http://www.neuber.com/taskmanager/index.html

I was surprised to see all sorts of programs running that I had never opened during the current session.

Today to go further and started with the Wikipedia article on Microsoft Windows:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows

My immediate interest is in preventing the automatic startup of unnecessary programs, so I looked at the Windows Startup Process:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Startup_Process

For Windows NT it says:
"There are several programs that let the user control which programs automatically start when a Windows NT system logs on, including StartU, OSAM: Autorun Manager and Autoruns."

The StartU link is broken. "OSAM: Autorun Manager" is here:
http://www.online-solutions.ru/en/osam_autorun_manager.php

I downloaded and installed this, but it seems difficult to use.

"Autoruns" is available on the TechNet website:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx

The above page notably says:
"Autoruns goes way beyond the MSConfig utility bundled with Windows Me and XP."

Weblog of Monday 09 June 2008

Ugo Trade says Holodec is "cool":
http://physorg.com/news131807820.html

Mal Burns moves his Metaworld review to Mogulus:
http://www.mogulus.com/metaworld

Virtual Artists Alliance Blog
http://virtualartistsalliance.blogspot.com/2008/06/diversity.html

Dusan Writer on "Cracks in the Open" (meaning OpenSim):
http://dusanwriter.com/?p=569

Mal Burns' Second Arts blog:
http://malburns.wordpress.com

Rubaiyat links to Eddo Stern in relation to the Portal, Wormhole, Flythrough
http://eddostern.com


Continuing the Jabber sage (see yesterday's post for the beginning)

At work on my lunch break, I now try PSI:
http://psi-im.org

I try to register with livejournal.com, but nothing happens. The firewall must be blocking it.

I then download Pandion:
http://www.pandion.be/download

I try to connect with livejournal.com, and it is blocked again. But in the window that opens, it has a cell to enter the http of a proxy. This may be the way to go...

Jabber Epilogue

Added on Tuesday 10 Juin: I finally got PSI connected to Livejournal Monday evening at home. First it is necessary to be logged in to Livejournal: I may have forgot to do this during certain trials. And then you have to click on the right little icone in a drop-down menu, which I may have failed to notice. But this morning when I try to do this at work, it never connects: the firewall gets in the way. I need a proxy.


Back to todays weblog:

Second Life HUD for FriendFeed:
http://pastebin.ca/1041757

Clever Zebra's list of Virtual Reality platforms:
http://www.mixedrealities.com/?p=227

Blog of KZero virtual world consultancy:
http://www.kzero.co.uk/blog

KZero Chart of all Virtual Worlds:
http://www.kzero.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/virtual-world-numbers-q2-2008.jpg

Prokofy cites Bezroukof "A Second Look at the Cathedral and the Bazaar":
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue4_12/bezroukov

Google's virtual world developments:
http://dusanwriter.com/?p=562

Weblog of Sunday 08 June 2008

Linden distributes freebies to everyone's inventory:
http://sl4nowt.wordpress.com/2008/06/07/the-silently-delivered-freebies

My Jabber fiasco

Mal Burns' SL Edu-Blog on LiveJournal:
http://malburns.livejournal.com/136293.html

Mal Burns profile on LiveJournal:
http://malburns.livejournal.com/profile

Looking at the LiveJournal profile of Mal Burns, I see I could IM him using Jabber.

Instructions for using Jabber chat on LiveJournal:
http://www.livejournal.com/chat

I download Miranda Jabber Client:
http://www.miranda-im.org

Which in turn requires download of OpenSSL:
http://www.slproweb.com/products/Win32OpenSSL.html

The Miranda installation process for some reason requires registration for ICQ chat:
http://chat.icq.com/icqchat

I end up with Danton's page on ICQ chat:
http://www.icq.com/people/about_me.php?uin=460249671

The Miranda menu shows Jabber, but won't open it. And ICQ is not a Jabber client. I go back to the list of recommended Jabber Clients on the Livejournal Talk page and decide to try Pidgin:
http://www.pidgin.im

I install Pidgin without noticing that Jabber is NOT one of the systems that Pidgin can work with. So next I try Gizmo LJ Talk:
http://www.livejournal.com/chat/download

But then when I try to entre my screen name, dantonsideways@livejournal.com turns out to be one character too long to fit in the window! Sheesh, they coulda told me there was a limit. So that is screwed too!

So I use Google to find a list of Jabber Clients:
http://www.jabber.org/clients

At the top of the list is Psi, which I installed once, but disinstalled because it would always open when my computer did, and I couldn't unset that.

to be continued...

Weblog of Saturday 07 June 2008

New paper on paths to recognition of virtual property:
http://virtuallyblind.com/2008/06/06/gould-virtual-property

Mal Burns points to Pachube, real-time feeds for objects:
http://pachube.com/feeds/outputs

David Orban recommends Schismatrix by Bruce Sterling.

Second Friends Tweeter:
http://artfossett.blogspot.com/2008/05/second-friends-tweeter-now-available.html

Arcadia Asylum Recovery Group:
http://slfix.com/?p=371

Cheap virtual servers in France:
http://www.ovh.com/fr/particulier/produits/offres_rps.xml#

Weblog of Friday 06 June 2008

Digado points to a "clientless" virtual world plateform:
http://www.alternativaplatform.com/en

The Russian-made Alternativa3D browser (3D-engine) is based on Adobe Flash Plugin:
http://www.alternativaplatform.com/en/alternativa3d

They are also working on the Alternativa Core server system:
http://www.alternativaplatform.com/en/alternativacore

A paper (in French) on the 3D web by a firm called Concept SL:
http://www.conceptsl.com/papers

The Arch website discusses reflexive architecture:
http://archsl.wordpress.com/2007/08/21/more-reflexive-architecture-resources

Dusan Writer posts about MMO widgets as collaborative tools:
http://dusanwriter.com/?p=516

The above post quotes Deepak Ramachandran of New Paradigm, as follows:
“One popular widget tells you which of the people in your guild is under the most threat. This technology doesn’t exist in $200 billion enterprises – but it exists in this game. How many corporations do we see doing that?”

Weblog of Thursday 05 June 2008

Madame Maracas blog post about plurk and twitter:
http://madamemaracas.wordpress.com/2008/06/03/twitter-plurk-and-other-social-media-online

Mitch Wagner "still" using Goosh:
http://goosh.org

Grace McDonnough points to using robots in Second Life:
http://second-life-training.ahg.com/second%20life%20simulations%20using%20robot%20avatars.htm

Sin Trenton points to article on IM in the workplace:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-06/osu-imp060308.php

@vanelsas posts about scaling down social software:
http://vanelsas.wordpress.com/2008/06/04/why-noise-will-be-tackled-by-scaling-down-the-social-media-conversation

Rheta Shan using Chatterbox, of which there seem to be several, and which seem to be a form of "shoutbox":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoutbox

Doug Randal's teleportation between Second Life and OpenSim with RealXtend:
http://www.rexdeveloper.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=34

Mitch Wagner's interview with Twitter CEO:
http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/06/twitter_ceo_jac.html?cid=RSSfeed_IWK_TWITTER

Mitch Wagner is Ziggy Figaro in SL.

Amul builds SL milk factory on sim "India."

Rustica furniture store.

800,000 Linden viewer contest:
http://dusanwriter.com/?p=557

Weblog of Wednesday 04 June 2008

Rikomatic likes the new skin of the gamesforchange website:
http://gamesforchange.org

Dale Innis comments on Peter Quirk's post about multi-dimensional visualization in SL:
http://peterquirk.wordpress.com/2008/06/02/multi-dimensional-visualization-in-second-life

Mal Burns point to a post about choosing to be fat in Second Life:
http://marissaracecourse.com/2008/06/03/you-mean-you-chose-to-be-fat-body-image-in-a-virtual-world

Nebadon's weird website:
http://nebadon2025.com

All the Twitter users seem to be trying Plurk as an alternative.

iYan points to Slovenian startup applying semantic technologies to blogging:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/andraz_tori_zemanta_interview.php

Keho wiki for research on Presence in virtual worlds:
http://keho.pbwiki.com

Ugo Trade points to Second Life on mobile phone:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9958201-7.html?tag=nefd.top

Second Life on mobile phone offered by Vollee:
http://www.vollee.com

Mitch Wagner says Multiverse offers a reduced-bandwidth mobile-phone viewer.

Lesbian Pirates from Outer Space:
http://www.drunkduck.com/I_Was_Kidnapped_By_Lesbian_Pirates_From_Outer_Space/index.php?p=186423

Metaversatility is a virtual world development company:
http://www.metaversatility.com

Weblog of Tuesday 03 June 2008

Old Arrington post from October 2006. Crayon claims to be first company to be launched in Second Life:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/22/crayon-claims-to-be-first-secondlife-company

I found this on Digg. When I logged in today, none of my 10 friends of Digg have done anything recently. To search for Digg articles about Second Life, type it as one word: SecondLife.

Crayon seems to be still around:
http://www.crayonville.com

Jjacek fargling plurk:
http://www.plurk.com/user/jjacek

David Orban sees that Facebook is going open source:
http://www.techmeme.com/search/query?q=facebook+open+source&wm=false

Orban also reading the IEEE report on the Singularity:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/singularity

iYan recommends social profile tool:
http://www.forrester.com/Groundswell/profile_tool.html

ker2x_ discovers the unofficial Google shell:
http://goosh.org

Multiverse virtual world development platform:
http://www.multiverse.net

Ted Castronova switches from Multiverse to Neverwinter Nights:
http://terranova.blogs.com/terra_nova/2007/10/arden-slows-dow.html

Neverwinter Nights has user created content and free (?) server downloads:
http://nwn.bioware.com/builders

Microsoft launch in Second Life:
http://blogs.msdn.com/zainnab/archive/2008/04/13/heroes-happen-here-launch-in-second-life-april-26th-2008.aspx

Weblog of Monday 20 June 2008

Al Kronos on ExitReality:
http://slambling.blogspot.com/2008/05/are-you-going-to-exitreality.html

Sin Trenton uses Twibble.

Isfullofcrap is using weblin lite:
http://lite.weblin.com

Digado finds sounds on findsounds.com

Rubaiyat launced own sim and connected to it: "Connected 3 ruthies over network to opensim pretty easy, can't build tho."

Chestnet Rau working on Shengri La.

Weblog of Sunday 01 June 2008

The Second Life Client-Viewer: A Case Study in Using Open Source:
http://ausweb.scu.edu.au/aw08/papers/refereed/deshpande/paper.html