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/

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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