Links for Saturday, January 19, 2008
Got Ads? Why You Should Learn MapReduce and BigTable - “The data is out there, and paradigms like map / reduce are how it’s gonna be dissected. So if you want to work in the consumer web, with billions of users doing stuff every day, leaving data tracks, you should […]
My New Home Office
As part of some recent home renovations, I was able to convert a room on the first floor of my home from its former use as an exercise room into a home office of my very own. For the last 10 years I’ve shared an office upstairs with my wife and kids. […]
Just purchased two lots for investment/project purposes in the Kasba sim. Nice rocky hillsidesposted by Kidd Newchurch on Kasba using a blogHUD : [blogHUD permalink]
New World Tableau: AM Radio In The Faraway, by IsoldeIsolde Flamand created this breathtaking portrait of AM Radio standing in his masterwork, the lifegiving wheatfields of The Faraway. (Direct SLURL to The Faraway in this link.) "I loved the way that his breath steams in the early morning of…SLHamlet
Google releases Contacts Data APIYou might have noticed the unfortunate mechanism of retrieving your Google Mail contacts by site asking your for your Google username and password. Apparently this is on of the nightmare of every person just a little into security, aren’t you not just able to retrieve the Google addressbook but also have […]
Farewell, Second Life Insider
Filed under: News, SL Insider Business
Those of you who follow me on Twitter have heard me refer to this announcement: I will no longer be writing for SLI. As Lead Blogger, and one of the remaining founding members (along with Aimee), I’ve found writing for you all to be one of the […]
Second Life Grid Architecture Working Group Meeting 2Today the second meeting of the Second Life Grid Architecture Working Group happened. This group (of which I am part of and which is open to everybody to participate) is working on protocol to interconnect Second Life Grids. The outcome of the group’s effort will be a document […]
Our Individual RoleDo you know what that’s a picture of? It depicts the 426,000 cell phones that are retired in the US every day. Here is the detail:And here is the project:Statistics can feel abstract and anesthetizing, making it difficult to connect with and make meaning of 3.6 million SUV sales in one year, for […]
Getting started in LSL scripting in Second LifeHello and welcome to “Getting started in LSL scripting”. LSL stands for “Linden Scripting Language” and is used to script the objects you will encounter and make in Second Life.WHO THIS TUTORIAL IS FOR:This tutorial is intended for those who have never programmed before, Second Life or […]
Nexeus Fatale: DJ For a Cause
Filed under: News, Events, Odds and Ends, Arts and Culture, Live Performance
Nexeus Fatale, DJ Extraordinaire, has hit upon a great way to give back to the community. His ‘DJ For a Cause’ mission is to donate his DJ services to anyone, individual or organization, who fits the requirements: Their event […]
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