Archive for March 24th, 2008
Monday, March 24th, 2008
SLGA: Linden Lab releases Capabilities Server as Open Source (technical)Linden Lab released their capabilities server under an MIT license yesterday. It is written in Python and available as part of the mulib package (trac view here) which was released as Open Source earlier.The capabilities server is one of the core modules needed for the Second […]
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
Seattle Social Media Club: Virtual Worlds in the New Year
At 6:30 PM on January 31st I will be participating in a panel discussion at the Seattle Social Media Club. The topic will be Virtual Worlds in the New Year and you are welcome to attend. The meeting will take place at the Seattle office […]
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
Meet me at Orange!Orange, the mobile brand of the France Telecom Group is holding a panel tonight about the Impact of Rules and Protocols on Behaviour (in Second Life). I am part of the panel together with Michi Lumin from Luskwook and Meja Milosz from the Mare Mare Research Centre in Second Life.It starts at […]
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
Links for Sunday, February 3, 2008
Wall Street Journal: The World’s Hottest Chili - “The peppers yielded a reading of 1,041,427 SHUs, twice that of the California red savina pepper, the previous record-holder. An SHU is the amount of dilution needed before the chili is undetectable. A drop of bhut jolokia extract needs a million drops […]
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
slscout.com: A New Social Networking Site for SL Residents
Filed under: News
slscout.com is the latest SL-focused social networking site, and it’s got all the right elements: embedded videos, forums, etc. Even better, they’re holding a contest right now wherein users can post their favorite photos, have them rated by other users, and possibly win the First […]
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
SecondCast #48 - Dirty Jew [updated]The SecondCasters talk about the holiday week — Walker explains why Hanukkah is like camping chairs and everyone talks about what Santa brought them. The group gets down to business and talks about the “grandparents playing Wii” phenomenon, Pontiac’s Motorati events, the launch […]
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
SecondCast #51 - Hot Like Me The ‘Casters discuss reflective functionality in the new First Look viewer (demonstration), The L-Word launch in SL, land prices, RL winter weather birds, Smokin Aces, and the very un-Second Life (but Web 2.0 relevant) music search website, Midomi.com, which allows users to sing or […]
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
New Second Life viewer release candidate
Filed under: News, Updates
Linden Lab has released a new Second Life viewer release candidate, specifically, 1.18.4(RC2). This fixes a number of issues with since the last release. There’s a list of those changes below the fold.
The viewer is available from the optional downloads page as […]
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
Sammamish Snow 2008
For the last couple of days the Seattle-area weather forecasters have been predicting a big snow storm and until this morning I didn’t believe them. Saturday came and went with no snow. On Sunday we got hit by ahail storm that left 1/2″ of hail on the ground which quickly melted away. But […]
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
SecondCast #48 - Dirty Jew [updated]The SecondCasters talk about the holiday week — Walker explains why Hanukkah is like camping chairs and everyone talks about what Santa brought them. The group gets down to business and talks about the “grandparents playing Wii” phenomenon, Pontiac’s Motorati events, the launch […]
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