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Transcript of Today’s Technical Town Hall is available

January 9, 2007 by Leave a Comment

Get it right here, but be warned it’s not for the light hearted. There’s bucketfuls of technical discussion around a range of in-world and Linden infrastructure issues.

In a broader sense the key message seems to be that Linden remains frantically busy juggling a lot of balls, and now some balls are being thrown to the open source development community.

Filed Under: Open Source, Virtual Worlds

SLOz Discussion Forum is Live

January 9, 2007 by Leave a Comment

We’ve had a couple of requests, the most recently from Cin to have a discussion board where Australian users of SL can meet / network / debate stuff.

I’ve set up such a board here, and a link to it is on the right sidebar near the links section. It’s a phpBB board which I’ve had a lot of experience in using and works well. You’ll need to register to post. I’m hoping to integrate the forum with this page further in the near future but given no registration is required to post comments here, it’s no a huge issue.

 

Any suggestions on how to make the forum the most useful are welcome!

Filed Under: TMJ Site News, Virtual Worlds

Town Hall tomorrow – open source follow up

January 8, 2007 by Leave a Comment

Corey Linden is holding another Town Hall tomorrow, this time in-world and via the Linden Town Hall Closed Captioning group (last time the Linden repeaters crashed so text was repeated in this group and worked well).

The focus is open source and questions are being taken now if you can’t make it at the time.

Filed Under: General News, Virtual Worlds

Linden Lab Make Second Life Client Open Source

January 8, 2007 by 7 Comments

Update – Linden Lab’s dedicated open source ‘busybody’ says hi here

 

In a major move for Linden Lab, they’ve announced that the Second Life client software code is being released as open source under GNU GPL Level 2.

This throws down the gauntlet to any developer who wants to create content – they have access to the source code. This is likely to cut both ways – there’ll be a lot more people doing bug-spotting for free but also others who’ll be looking for ways to exploit what’s there.

Filed Under: General News, Virtual Worlds

Building bridges over Linden Land?

January 7, 2007 by 16 Comments

A great question was asked to me in-world (hi Medoix) – is it possible to build a bridge over a Linden-owned road? Anyone know of this happening? It would seem there’d be permissions issues but if someone has a solution it’d be a great one to share. Hell, there’s probably a business model in building bridges!

Filed Under: For the new user, Virtual Worlds

New Aussie-titled land on its way

January 6, 2007 by 4 Comments

Whilst doing a fly-around looking for some land I came across a new area which looks like it’s about to be released, and it has an aussie flavour to say the least:

Filed Under: Australian News, Virtual Worlds

SL the future of the internet?

January 5, 2007 by 7 Comments

I ain’t sure – and here’s why – it’s too much of a pain in the arse.

Let’s do a hypothetical: the big four banks decide an SL interface is the way to go for their internet banking and introduce it. I can tell you now, if they continue to offer the current web interface I’ll take it over going through the motions of walking up to a virtual counter to go through a virtual conversation to withdraw funds. It’s a trite example but you get my drift.

I’ve shown SL to a bunch of people between the ages of 25 and 65 and the initial reaction is usually flat to say the least – not because it’s new and involves change, but because the feedback is ‘why would I bother?’.

I’ve even done some work to get a company I know to look at SL and I get the same reaction – it’s not that the technology doesn’t have potential, but that it will extend the time taken to do things. I think there’ll be some bridging technology between Web 2.0 and the SL-type interface before there’s even a remote hope of wide user acceptance…

Thoughts? Thanks to Leyah for inspiring the topic 😉

Filed Under: Op-ed, Virtual Worlds

For the currency exchange buffs amongst us

January 4, 2007 by Leave a Comment

Linden have released further trend information on the Linden exchange rate since 2003. It seems the Linden performs against the US dollar at around the same rate as the NZ dollar. Sorry, I couldn’t resist.

Filed Under: General News, Virtual Worlds

Beach party!

January 3, 2007 by Leave a Comment

In the words of owner Shai Khalifa (from the ACT):

“5 O’Clock Somewhere is a beach and we love to see anyone there who wants to chill out and have a cruisy time. Great for chilling and catching up on the dreaded IMs, low lag beach that comes alive at the drop of a hat with instant parties for no other reason than we can.

There’s a back-beach lagoon to laze in, a cave pool to have a swim or rendesvous in, shops (well 1 at the moment – looking for vendors at the moment) and hidden cuddle spots.

Offshore on the islands is a great Surf beach with Heather Goodliff waves and boards for sale – and a nude beach island – and a great waterfall off a volcano – with a grotto beneath.

And under the volcano is SL’s only underwater club – the Downunder dance and watch the fish swim on the reef and wreck beneath the floor.

So there’s lots to do. You can search on 5 O’Clock and find us.”


Filed Under: Profile, Virtual Worlds

‘Get an Aussie Politician into Second Life’ Poll – need your suggestions now!

January 3, 2007 by 16 Comments

Reuters is reporting that the US Congress will have a presence in SL, and it got me to thinking about the upcoming political cycle in Australia. New South Wales goes to the polls in March and all of Australia is likely to vote in another Federal election before year’s end.

Which politicians (if any) would you like to see make an appearance in SL? We’ll approach the most popular suggestions in real life and ask if they’d be interested in joing SL.

Filed Under: Australian News, Virtual Worlds

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