Weblog of Saturday 26 July 2008

SWFupload is a small JavaScript/Flash library featuring upload capabilities of Flash and accessibility and ease of HTML/CSS:
http://swfupload.org/

Communal Writeboard in SL made by Angrybeth Shortbread (2006):
http://www.3pointd.com/20060823/communal-writeboard-in-second-life/

Jacek on the lost mythos of Second Life:
http://jacek.meratalk.com/2008/07/22/the-lost-mythos-of-second-life/

Weblog of Friday 25 July 2008

Ugo Trade calls for support for OpenSim:
http://www.ugotrade.com/2008/07/23/realizing-the-potential-of-virtual-worlds-why-and-how-to-support-opensim/

Greenbush: a kid's OpenSim project:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7576361@N03/tags/greenbushgrid/show

ArminasX plurks the SpaceNavigator alternative to the mouse:
http://www.3dconnexion.com/3dmouse/spacenavigator.php

Jessyka says:
"It's okay for walking. Depends on my mood. I generally use a SN and mouse combo for moving."

My wordpress blog got spammed by an outfit calling itself Black Hat Boot Camp. Apparent sleazebags, but with fairly interesting articles about buying links and stuff:
http://blackhatbootcamp.com/blog/

Castranova's final paper about price and demand in Arden:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1173642

Weblog of Thursday 24 July 2008

Lessig compares video casting software:
http://lessig.org/blog/2008/07/one_step_until_brilliant_scree.html

Google social graph API for Google profile:
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/07/your-google-profile-suggests-sites-that.html

A social site for "social entrepreneurs":
http://unltdworld.com/

The virtual policy network is a think-tank:
http://www.virtualpolicy.net/

Weblog of Wednesday 23 July 2008

Codie wants someone to check if she is in the Best of SL in-world:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Venezuela%20Angel%20Falls/219/130/27

Rheta starts a huge plurk thread on ARC in SL:
http://www.plurk.com/p/1ldly

Dora the Explorer Fail, from failblog:
http://failblog.org/2008/07/21/dora-the-explorer-fail/

Time Fail:
http://failblog.org/2008/07/21/time-fail/

The SL transaction history program used by Lunette was made by Thickbrick Sleaford.

iYan Writer mentions on his blog the concept of Eternal September, and links to the Wikipedia article (which in turn links to Meatball Wiki!):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

New Citizens Incorporated (NCI) help for SL noobies:
http://world.secondlife.com/place/1a6165d4-aa3b-55fb-2a14-afaa6bd31100

SLURL for Steller's original beanstalk:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Welsh/28/87/21/

Highscalability dot com:
http://highscalability.com/

David Orban organizes iSummit 08 in SL:
http://icommonssummit.org/summit_blog/2008/07/icommons-is-proud-to-announce.html

@rikomatic tweets:
"Darfur Genocide event went well. Lots of moving parts, but all went as planned. Thanks @amoration, @faeriedevilish @rhiannonsl for coming!"

My recent comments

On Dale Innis' post about a party at Indolence:
http://daleinnis.wordpress.com/2008/07/19/still-not-a-party-at-indolence/#comment-87

On Hamlet's re-post about Microsoft in OpenSim:
http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2008/07/when-will-micro.html#comment-123295598

Weblog of Tuesday 22 July 2008

Meekatje plurks Uthango Social Investments:
http://uthango.org/

Codie plurks the SL Tourist Board on Flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/sl_touristboard/

Katharine uses Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) an online storage service offered by Amazon Web Services:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_S3

Weblog of Sunday 10 July 2008

Pavig tweets the new Metaverse Journal forum:
http://www.metaversejournal.com/forum/

The Metaverse Journal is Australian:
http://www.metaversejournal.com/
http://www.metaversejournal.com/about/

Lotta people watching Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog:
http://www.drhorrible.com/

David Orban tweets a book on decluttering:
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/07/18/merlin-mann-reviews.html

Microsoft oggling OpenSim:
http://secondlife.reuters.com/stories/2008/07/18/microsoft-eyes-integration-between-opensim-and-windows-live-id/

Weblog of Saturday 19 July 2008

Dusan Writer does a long post criticising the multitude of new Virtual Worlds:
http://dusanwriter.com/?p=733

NWN post on RL politics in the metaverse:
http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2008/07/can-you-talk-re.html

ArminasX analyses Codie's Rouge opening:
http://www.secondeffects.com/2008/07/rouge-analysis.html

Your dog missed you:
http://ihasahotdog.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/funny-dog-pictures-your-dog-missed-you.jpg

Create PDF documents free (you can also use OpenOffice):
http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp
http://www.pdfforge.org/products/pdfcreator
http://www.primopdf.com/

Maybe I should join the SL Bloggers ning:
http://secondlifebloggers.ning.com/

WordPress Theme Park:
http://wpthemepark.com/themes/blossom

Passpack, to pack up your passwords:
http://www.sciencetext.com/packing-up-passwords.html

See also:
http://www.roboform.com/

Sendables by JibJab:
http://sendables.jibjab.com/sendables/1191/time_for_some_campaignin#/teaser/376

Weblog of Friday 18 July 2008

Some thoughts on virtual world experiences and open source software

Electric Sheep launches Webflock, an application for private-label virtual experiences, for Online Marketing and Web Publishers:
http://www.electricsheepcompany.com/webflock

Next question: where is the open-source browser-based virtual world application? Prokofy would ask, why do entitlement-happy opensourceniks want everything to be free? Answer: because we feel that no one should be prevented from making and using an open-source tool if they want to.

The open-source tools are admittedly often difficult to use, with inadequate user support systems, or incompletely developped. Maybe that's the price to pay for their being free. Thus there is a time and place for both free open-source software and purchased propriety software.

Back to the daily weblog:

laughingsquid tweets a hosted help desk service:
http://www.zendesk.com/
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/zendesk_saas_help_desk.php

Ugo Trade tweets the next Metaverse Meetup (in meatspace, NY) about SL-OS interoperability:
http://gamedev.meetup.com/153/calendar/8359764/

Ebon Fisher comments: "and I thought the universal portal between all worlds was love." See Ebon's Nervepool:
http://nervepool.net/

and especially these pages:
http://nervepool.net/hyperhive/HIVE_home.html
http://nervepool.net/go.html

Summize has become "search.twitter":
http://search.twitter.com/

Poinky tweets an IEEE article about Machinima:
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/jul08/6383

where I learn it is formed of "machine" + "cinema" - thus it should be "Machinema".

Mitch Wagner writes about the Free Software Foundation criticism of the iPhone:
http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/07/opensource_advo.html?cid=RSSfeed_IWK_ALL

Dusan's SL interface contest finalists:
http://dusanwriter.com/?p=662

Poinky posts about chat-room type virtual worlds:
http://really.blogs.xerox.com/2008/07/18/im-in-ur-browser-chatting-in-3d/

Weblog of Wednesday 16 July 2008

Daden launches a SL browser:
http://www.daden.co.uk/

Pavig's review of Daden browser:
http://npirl.blogspot.com/2008/07/finally-full-web-browser-for-second.html

Dale Innis on owning things in virtual worlds:
http://daleinnis.wordpress.com/2008/07/15/owning-stuff-wow-sl-owners-and-holders/

Exporting SL objects as paper models (by way of ogle and blender):
http://exporttoworld.plugimi.com/index.php

How to take back your time:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/management/trends/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=205901242

Pavig tweets LL to offer OpenSim value-added services:
http://secondlife.reuters.com/stories/2008/07/11/interview-linden-prepares-for-an-opensim-future/

Reuters article about CentralGrid (from last January):
http://secondlife.reuters.com/stories/2008/01/25/opensim-worlds-lure-second-lifes-outcasts/

Rubaiyat tweets a project about collaboration between defense lawyers and SL architects (!?):
http://defense-coop.org/

Interesting ZdNet post about Plurk:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/feeds/?p=149

Plurkshops:
http://plurkshops.com/
http://www.plurkaholics.com/category/plurkshops/

Tenebrous starts a word-association thread on plurk:
http://www.plurk.com/p/1f0yi

Muppets doing Mahna Mahna (third version):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YevYBsShxNs

Mah Na Mah Na - Links added after 16 July 2008:

The first Sesame Street version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYJuKX2j-Cw&NR=1

The second version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp3f5xzmbGc&feature=related

Wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mah_N%C3%A0_Mah_N%C3%A0

Muppet Wiki:
http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Mahna_Mahna_%28song%29http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Mahna_Mahna_(character)
http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Bip_Bippadotta

Weblog of Tuesday 15 July 2008

Scratch for SL (S4SL) allows you to create LSL scripts by assembling simple colorful shapes:
http://www.massively.com/2008/07/14/tools-of-the-trade-scratch-for-sl/

Beejive for IM on upper-end mobile phones:
http://www.beejive.com/

Rikomatic blogs IslamOnline Island in SL:
http://www.rikomatic.com/blog/2008/07/going-on-a-virt.html

Virtual Greats creates web celebrities and virtual goods:
http://virtualgreats.com/

Hamlet on Lively as a SL foyer:
http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2008/07/will-googles-li.html

Get Satisfaction from LL (the pages take forever to open, hardly very satisfying...):
http://getsatisfaction.com/secondlife

Get Satisfaction, people-powered customer service:
http://getsatisfaction.com/

Twitter acquires Summize:
http://blog.twitter.com/2008/07/finding-perfect-match.html

Weblog of Monday 14 July 2008

I should look at SLNN more often:
http://www.slnn.com/index.php

Pick up your email from any computer:
http://mail2web.com/

Karma trends, a plurk bot to graph karma over time:
http://www.plurk.com/user/karma_trends

Jacek talking about Duck Typing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_typing

Weblog of Sunday 13 July 2008

Al Kronos using still another virtual world:
http://www.justleapin.com/

Pavig's photo on Evernote of sl/lively cross world panel:
http://www.evernote.com/pub/paviglok/sldev#48b1adee-5754-4d77-937e-d995d1a57870

Pavig tweets "ANGEL Learning Announces Second Life Integration Project with San Jose State University School of Library and Information Science":
http://www.angellearning.com/media/news/2008-07-10.html

Tigerlily's very long post about a SL business drama, with lots of comments:
http://callatropia.wordpress.com/2008/06/26/some-things-i-need-to-say/

Newsweek article about Twitter, Tumblr and Posterous:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/145216

Slashdot thread about Lively (is there an article also?):
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/09/1210218&from=rss

Deja Vu, SL speech recognition tool:
http://www.secondlifeprofessionals.com/en/?q=node/12

Deja Vu provided by SL Professionals (a Czech group, apparently:
http://www.secondlifeprofessionals.com/
http://www.secondlifeprofessionals.com/en/

Weblog of Saturday 12 July 2008

Rooms on Lively:
Ugo Trade:
http://embed.lively.com/iframe?rid=144946701023175904
Linden Lab:
http://embed.lively.com/iframe?rid=1024337222374851925
Tree Tops:
http://embed.lively.com/iframe?rid=-5475660557878759417

Standard Lively address format:
http://embed.lively.com/iframe?rid=x

Note: I've listed these room addresses here because it seems to work better to link to them like this, rather than using the Lively room list pages.

Weblog of Friday 11 July 2008

Pavig tweets Expo3D virtual world targetting corporate users:
http://expo3d.com/

Vivaty, another virtual world embedded in the browser:
http://www.vivaty.com/

Ugo Trade's Lively address:
http://embed.lively.com/iframe?rid=144946701023175904

Wufoo hosted form service:
http://wufoo.com/

Blog post about animation overides such as ZHAO, HUDDLES or Wet Ikon:
http://slfashionnotices.wordpress.com/2007/07/26/making-a-custom-ao-using-zhao-or-huddles/

Katharine tried to set up on OpenSim server at sim.ajaxlife.net. She suspects the machine running it is far too slow.

Lunette thinks splurk from PlurkHud did not work.

Browsershots to test your web page in different browsers:
https://browsershots.org/

Googlefight presents Second Life vs Lively:
http://googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=second+life&word2=lively
Gwyneth's tinyurl for this: http://ping.fm/pvcRs

Codie plurkovates a list of favorite sims:
http://www.plurk.com/p/18bau

Metabolt an advanced version of SLeek:
http://www.metabolt.net/

For future reference, tinyurls to my blog posts:
Tour of OS grids: http://tinyurl.com/3wclkx
Alternate SL viewers: http://tinyurl.com/3lb8k5
Danton goes OS: http://tinyurl.com/5ckofw
Micro-Ode to Proko-Fly: http://tinyurl.com/4bffkr
CDS election update: http://tinyurl.com/6y9ntu

Weblog of Thursday 10 July 2008

epredator on the legal implications of using browsers embedded in virtual worlds:
http://eightbar.co.uk/2008/07/06/explaining-why-some-old-approaches-wont-work/

Linden Lab page on their Open Grid Public Beta:
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Open_Grid_Public_Beta

Weblog of Wednesday 09 July 2008

Lively is Google's new virtual world:
http://www.lively.com/html/landing.html
iYan says Lively is browser-based, and Lordfly says there is no content creation, just catalog stuff.

Controversial TechCrunch post about Lively:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/08/google-launches-virtual-world-called-lively/

laughingsquid using Foxmarks to sync Firefox bookmarks between multiple computers.

bit.ly an alternative to tinyurl:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/bitly_alternative_to_tinyurl.php

Ugo Trade on the IBM - Linden Lab teleport and interoperability protocols:
http://www.ugotrade.com/2008/07/08/ibm-linden-lab-launch-protocols-for-virtual-world-interoperability/

Weblog of Tuesday 08 July 2008

iYan visiting Locos Pocos sim:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Loco%20Pocos%20Island/183/149/140

Freebie marketing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razor_and_blades_business_model

Vint Falken asks what software to put on a new Acer:
http://www.vintfalken.com/confirming-rumours-its-a-boy-errr-acer/

Euler Quaternion Pro:
http://www.geocities.com/mak2000sw/eulerquatpro.html

Prok criticizes Nexeus for launching an open source project called Avaverse:
http://www.nexeusfatale.com/journal/announcing-the-avaverse/#comment-10481

Bettina Tizzie's proposal for a Creative Commons attribution function in the SL viewer:
http://npirl.blogspot.com/2008/06/dear-m-linden-please-help-content.html

Ugo Trade adds OpenSim to Virtual Worlds timeline on Dipity:
http://www.dipity.com/user/xantherus/timeline/Virtual_Worlds

NPR blog about developing features for the NPR website:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/inside/

laughingsquid: "Hellotxt.com & Ping.fm will allow me to simultaneously post to both Twitter & Identi.ca"

360desktop:
http://www.360desktop.com/

Pachube to share real-time data, including from a Second Life installation:
http://www.pachube.com/

GrandCentral, a new way to use the phone:
http://www.grandcentral.com/

SL metrics on Google Docs:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pxbDc4B2FH974Gfq2Uj6PPQ&gid=2

The human mirror (using twins):
http://improveverywhere.com/2008/07/06/human-mirror/

IBM - Linden Lab operability announcement:
http://blog.secondlife.com/2008/07/08/ibm-linden-lab-interoperability-announcement/
Why do they this is the first time an avatar has teleported from one virtual world to another? Zha Ewry announced having done this a month ago.

With respect to the above, Tao Takashi links to the pyogp project "which soon might have a basic agent domain implementation and has a login script already" (ogp = open grid protocols):
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Pyogp

Hamster kiss:
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/funny-pictures-hamster-kiss-glass.jpg

Weblog of Sunday 06 July 2008

Pavig tweets the Second Life Pros blog:
http://www.secondlifepros.com/

which has a post about the Yoowalk no-download virtual world for browsing the web:
http://www.secondlifepros.com/yoowalk-a-virtual-world-to-surf-the-web-in-3d/

The Profilactic aggregetor supports 186 social sites:
http://www.profilactic.com/

Gwyneth tweets the locos pocos website:
http://locopocos.com/

Another video by the makers of ROFLMAO:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5q3TG5yCG0&feature=PlayList&p=D25046A07D0637B6&index=0

Lots of people referring to identi.ca:
http://identi.ca/

Tateru posts about Katharine knocking Lindens' handling of the teen grid:
http://www.massively.com/2008/07/04/ghetto-grid-katharine-berry-slams-labs-negligence/

Vint Falken posts about nominees for Linden Lab Innovation Awards:
http://www.vintfalken.com/linden-lab-innovation-awards-looking-for-nominees/

NPIRL posts about Codie's Rouge sim:
http://npirl.blogspot.com/2008/07/rouge-codered-bastard-becomes-even.html

News about Mitch's announcement in a comment on the Rezzable blog:
http://rezzable.com/poll/some-big-announcement-july-7-sl-the-big-news-end-sl5b-announced-mitch-kapur-will-be#comment-583
From the official SL blog: "Mitch’s announcement will be about a new program that recognizes the achievements of Residents in making Second Life a disruptive technology platform."

Mal Burns' new website:
http://malburnsannex.blogspot.com/

Weblog of Saturday 05 July 2008

Pavig tweets Journal of Virtual World Research website with meaty pdf's:
http://jvwresearch.org/

Rezzable charging to use their sims:
http://slambling.blogspot.com/2008/07/rezzable-introduces-pay-to-use-service.html

What's impression about the Fail Blog is the number of comments, and the way they nestle with "comment on this comment":
http://failblog.org/2008/07/02/microsoft-fail/
The site seems to have something to do with icanhascheeseburger, which explains why there are so many visitors.

Tweetdeck assembles a twitter database on the local hard drive:
http://www.tweetdeck.com/beta/

Weblog of Thursday 03 July 2008

Rezzable guesses about LL profits:
http://rezzable.com/blog/rightasrain-rimbaud/random-guesses-about-ll-profits

Vint Cerf says the internet is "broken":
http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/07/vint_cerf_the_i.html
Specifically, he thinks there is not enough competition among broadband service providers. Most users have a choice between their local telephone company or their local cable company, and two competitors is not enough to forestall monopolistic practices.

AlKronos tweets: "Having a look at the SL RegAPI wiki, since I'm getting a lot whinges from people struggling to hack thru to worksafe registration sites "

How to send notecards to friends using a notecard giver:
http://www.plurk.com/p/xktf

ROFLMAO:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEWgs6YQR9A

The truth about Jonathan Coulton:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBfR6wYnGZI

Weblog of Wednesday 02 July 2008

Mozilla to release Weave 2.0:
http://labs.mozilla.com/2008/06/weave-scheduled-downtime

The future of the kill switch:
http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securitymatters/2008/06/securitymatters_0626
Dale Innis on a law that would ban the general purpose computer:
http://www.davidchess.com/words/log.20020503.html#20020504

Platform studies:
http://www.platformstudies.com/

Weblog of Tuesday 01 July 2008

Plurk tutorial:
http://reviewshowtos.com/how-to/social/plurk/plurking-help-the-complete-plurk-how-to-guide-for-plurkers-old-and-plurks-noobs-to/2008/06/04/