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