Links for Saturday, December 29, 2007
Todd Harrison: Things I’ve Learned - “Take the high road. It s less crowded and boasts a much better view.“USA Spending: API Documentation - “USAspending.gov is pleased to announce the availability of its data in an Application Programming Interface (API).“Kirkland Weblog: Kirkland, Take “The Plunge” With Me! - […]
Today in Second Life - Wednesday 31 October, 2007
Filed under: Odds and Ends
Today in Second Life we had:
32,528 new signups bringing us to 10,585,610 signups total.
A peak concurrency of 50,872 at 3:30PM, and a minimum concurrency of 27,105 at 1:05AM. Median concurrency for the day was 39,968.
The Grid Stability […]
My vision for Open Social NetworksImagine a time when social networks are not merely data silos anymore for the purpose of showing the right ads to people.Imagine a time when social networks will be all over and every website will in fact be part of the big social network we call the internet.Imagine a time […]
IBM Announces Last-Minute Tennis Fashion Contest with L$250,000 Grand PrizeRik Riel just passed along this very, very, very late announcement from IBM’s Second Life group, for an SL fashion contest to promote its sponsorship of the Australian Open, which is being broadcast on one of their islands. (Direct teleport…SLHamlet
User Rights on Social Networks?This post actually mixes up some of the things I attended or read the last 2 days. One thing was a discussion happening yesterday in Second Life about what Rights avatars should have. There is also the “Declaration of the Rights of Avatars” by Raph Koster (in which he quotes Jacob […]
What is the future of Content Management Systems related to Social NetworksThere is no doubt that social networks are on the rise. No Web2.0 site is actually not having their own community. No wonder, is Web2.0 about two things: people (and their relationships) and content.But there is another phenomenon: Conversations. The authors of Cluetrain Manifesto […]
Warren EllisIf you don’t know who Warren Ellis is, you need to find out - simply put, he’s one of the best writers on the planet in any format he touches. And now he’s going to be writing a news columns from Second Life!
I’m going to miss Second Life Insider
Filed under: News, SL Insider Business
I’d been a reader of Second Life Insider for quite some time when I heard that Akela Talamasca was looking for me. I couldn’t quite understand why he’d want ME to write for this blog. I’m still not sure what he saw in me, […]