Weblog of Thursday 14 August 2008

Plurkers use feedburner to know their blog subscription rate - it works with blogger.

Dandellion asks if people prefer SLEX or OnRez? For buying or selling?

Digado tweets Rivers Run Red, a development company for Google Lively spaces:
http://riversrunred.com/company/home/

Dog peeves:
http://www.snootypaws.com.au/blog/index.php/ten-peeves-that-dogs-have-about-humans/

Poinky tweets Virtual Worlds Research Tools:
http://www.slideshare.net/storygeek/virtual-worlds-research-tools/
seems to be little real meaning in the last 5 or 6 slides though.

Harper Beresford recommends this site for fun stuff:
http://www.k10k.net/

Bacn (pronounced "bacon") is not quite spam:
http://www.bacn2.com/

Prok tweets the death of humdog:
http://ceteri.blogspot.com/2008/08/shared-memory-humdog.html

Dandellion plurks Botgirl on immersion and emergence:
http://botgirl.blogspot.com/2008/08/spectatorship-immersion-and-emergence.html

Weblog of Wednesday 13 August 2008

Al Kronos tweets a 1994 article explaining http and the internet:
http://tomayko.com/writings/rest-to-my-wife

focusing in particular on REST:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_State_Transfer

Pavig tweets Chandler, calling it a Mitch Kapor project:
http://chandlerproject.org/

and Twingly, an RSS search engine:
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/twingly-search-and-awesome-screensaver/

and server-side 3D graphics rendering:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/09/otoy-developing-server-side-3d-rendering-technology/

more of the above, about something called LivePlace:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/11/liveplace-to-launch-photo-realistic-virtual-world-rendered-in-the-cloud/

The latter said to be a fake:
http://www.adamfrisby.com/blog/2008/08/oh-look-vapourware/

OpenGL3 is disappointing:
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/11/2135259

Disqus 2 is out:
http://blog.disqus.net/2008/08/12/introducing-the-new-disqus/

Dusan announces SL UI winners (Rheta, Jacek and Roy Cassini, in that order):
http://dusanwriter.com/?p=803

The lab of ArminasX:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caso%20Milo/237/108/131

Linden Lab rejects Jacek's patch:
http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-8056

Dandellion shares the ultimate plurk guide:
http://freelanceswitch.com/working/social-media-communication-and-conversation-for-freelancers-and-web-workers/

Codie says this is the best plurk:
http://www.plurk.com/p/2bazu

Dandellion plurks a site to share links - and share the revenues that result:
http://vimu.com/

as explained here:
http://vimu.com/faq/#14

Vint blogs about SL instant messaging (SLim):
http://www.vintfalken.com/slim-a-second-life-light-instant-messaging/

Pavig cites Citrix Xenapp as a typical server-side application:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrix_Presentation_Server

New Spore prototypes:
http://www.spore.com/comm/prototypes

My tinyurls

Tinyurls to my posts on Virtual Jungle:

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
The Road to Illich: http://tinyurl.com/5f9fdd

Weblog of Monday 11 August 2008

Moggs doing research on where to find men's hair in SL (just in case...).

Tenebrous makes a Wordle:
http://i37.tinypic.com/24yzdd4.png

using this site (but you also need Java?):
http://wordle.net/create

and here's what he gets with Katharine's blog:
http://i36.tinypic.com/2zyldfb.png

Katharine blogs Ajaxlife for iPhone:
http://blog.ajaxlife.net/2008/08/iphones/

and gets blogged by Hamlet:
http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2008/08/ajaxlife-now-fo.html

Zha working on an OGP (Open Grid Protocol) patch:
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Pyogp

Digado continues about clients versus browser plugins:
http://digado.nl/client-versus-browser-part-ii.html

Sin uses ordinal 's Caledon On Sea 86,176,27 Blogger email function to send notes from inworld to Evernote: copy a line from a chat, send to Evernote from inworld.

Ugo Trade says Rezzable is on "Open Grid", but on which one?

Security attacks use linking to false Youtube site and downloading fake Flash video viewer:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7543014.stm

Dusan's photos of notable features from UI contest:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/13768013@N05/

A colleague sent me this:
http://producten.hema.nl/

Weblog of Sunday 10 August 2008

Prok suggests the Lindens read this blog post on Edge Cases:
http://www.blueflavor.com/blog/2008/feb/11/edge-cases-are-the-root-of-all/

Ugo Trade interviews Avi Bar-Zeev about browser-based virtual worlds:
http://www.ugotrade.com/2008/08/08/will-the-future-of-virtual-worlds-be-in-the-browser-interview-with-avi-bar-zeev/

Hamlet on Xenki, which runs SL and OpenSim in a browser:
http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2008/08/introducing-xen.html

Al Kronos wishes Squeezebox would coordinate with Reciva (internet radio):
https://www.reciva.com/

Crap creates his profile on Wikia:
http://secondlife.wikia.com/wiki/Crap_Mariner

Ugo Trade tweets Avi's table about brower-based VWs:
http://www.realityprime.com/articles/some-definitions

iYan tweets the Cuddlefish Junction opening:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Dynamism/47/99/4

Dandellion on virtual pregnancy:
http://metaverse.acidzen.org/2008/virtual-pregnancy

Prim touch coordinates are coming:
http://gwynethllewelyn.net/2008/08/09/a-touching-event/

Draxtor makes a video about Manpower in SL:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p39sWkiKnR8

Peacefest at Turtle Island:
http://slpeacefest.wordpress.com

Weblog of Thursday 07 August 2008

Techcrunch on feedburner:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/02/one-year-later-feedburner-gains-google-server-power

Sin Trenton tweets tiktrac:
http://tiktrac.com

Squid (re)tweets the Internet Memes timeline:
http://www.dipity.com/user/tatercakes/timeline/Internet_Memes

Al Kronos comparing Magicbox to Squeezebox.

Pavig tweets new blender version
http://www.blendernation.com/2008/08/05/blender-247-rc1-available-to-download
http://identi.ca/tag/linuxworld

Weblog of Wednesday 06 August 2008

Pavig tweets Kevin Kelly on the next 5000 days of the web:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/kevin_kelly_on_the_next_5_000_days_of_the_web.html

and Plasma Pong:
http://playthisthing.com/plasma-pong

Al Kronos is on the Twine beta (a semantic-web site):
http://www.twine.com

Digado explains how Lively uses Flash:
http://digado.nl/are-client-based-worlds-being-replaced.html

Random accounts deleted from twitter:
http://getsatisfaction.com/twitter/topics/account_deleted_banned_with_no_reasoning

Dusan plurks prim baby bazooka:
http://sldiscoveries.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/baby-bazooka.jpg

The Best of SL:
http://www.thebosl.com

Arminasx finds netvibes to be the fastest way to skim RSS.

Dandellion has embeded plurk widget on her blog.

iYan plurks Mal's Metaverse Week in Review on Operator11:
http://lite.weblin.com/?http://operator11.com/shows/4091

ArmminasX plurks Nika's Second Homes:
http://secondhomes.wordpress.com

Rik tweets video tour of 50 VWs:
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=0CijdlYOSPc

and another similar video:
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=wMOqI3hH9Gs

LL blog on the future of the Mainland:
http://blog.secondlife.com/2008/08/05/the-future-of-the-second-life-mainland

Poinky tweets social media gender gap article:
http://www.iabc.com/cwb/archive/2008/0808/PointofView.htm

Gwyneth tweets .sl domain names:
https://www.nic.sl/domain

Weblog of Tuesday 05 August 2008

Maracas gives Tenebrous a link about robots that think people taste like bacon:
http://majikthise.typepad.com/majikthise_/2006/10/robots_think_pe.html

Weblog of Monday 04 August 2008

Long Zha Ewry post of protocols, software, trust and virtual worlds:
http://zhaewry.wordpress.com/2008/08/01/protocol-software-trust-and-worlds/

Grace on the Stanford Prison Experiment and SL:
http://phasinggrace.blogspot.com/2008/08/stanford-prison-experiment-and-our.html

Pavig tweets an EFF sponsored test to see if you ISP is interfering with your internet:
http://www.eff.org/testyourisp/switzerland

Also from Pavig, neat wave image:
http://vorpal.us/img/waveofthefuture.jpg

Rik tweets about tethering your pc to your iPhone, which seems to mean you can use the phone number for a computer internet connection:
http://gizmodo.com/5032248/how-to-tether-your-iphone-with-netshare

Pavig tweets Lively vs IMVU vs SL:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=%22lively%22%2C+%22second+life%22%2C+%22imvu%22&ctab=0&geo=all&date=mtd&sort=4

Comcast acquires Plaxo (whatever that was):
http://www.plaxo.com

Katharine says del.icioi.us moved to delicious.com?

Codie (also) is using ZHAO (whatever that is).

Weblog of Sunday 03 August 2008

Dakota's shared Google items:
http://www.google.com/reader/shared/13418282095375417306

Then she said change it to this:
http://www.google.co.uk/reader/shared/16927801312977376159?hl=en

iYan plurks Gartner's denial of vw prediction:
http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/07/vbusiness-expo.html?cid=124575300#comment-124575300

Lekdawg's lost zombies hits 2000 members:
http://www.lostzombies.com/

Dandellion's SL quotes page:
http://metaverse.acidzen.org/memorable-quotes

Plurk CSS instructions:
http://www.plurk.com/stylingHelp

Katharine's fixed collapsible plurk dashboard:
http://katharineberry.co.uk/plurk-dashboard-collapsible.user.js

Madame Maracas uses MediaMonkey to organize her music and stuff:
http://www.mediamonkey.com/

Vint on the SL UI contest:
http://www.vintfalken.com/the-second-life-user-interface-design-contest/

Weblog of Saturday 02 August 2008

Pavig tweets a lesson about fair use using Disney material:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJn_jC4FNDo

Also from Pavig, the virtual museum of computers:
http://www.esi.uclm.es/museo/index_en.html

David Orban: "Best Talk at iSummit '08 was Hiroaki Kitano, Director of Sony Computer Science Labs about 'Opensource Pharma'."

Jeremy Kemp tweets Yahoo design patterns library:
http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns

Crap tweets rolling teardrops in SL:
http://firstlife.isfullofcrap.com/2008/07/_and_the_whole_grid_cried_with.html

Weblog of Friday 01 August 2008

Another reference to Scratch for SL (S4SL), a graphical programming language for interactive objects in SL:
http://web.mit.edu/~eric_r/Public/S4SL

Pavig tweets rezzable blog about what enterprises need in SL:
http://rezzable.com/blog/rightasrain-rimbaud/what-enterprises-need-sl-maybe

Pavig tweets trailer for Japanese Cyworld:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEup7KYcO5Y