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