Webcasts from the MIT Media Lab

There are links on Bob Sutor’s blog to the webcasts from the Virtual Worlds: Where Business, Society, Technology & Policy Converge Conference, presented by IBM and the MIT Media Lab in June of this year. There are some interesting thoughts on how virtual worlds will change how we think of identity in the future.
While digging […]

FlickrSLiDR for Your Site

FlickrSLiDR, a little app by Paul Stamatiou, enables you to create sets of Flickr photos to place on your web site - like this:

Created with Paul’s flickrSLiDR.
Don’t forget to check the Creative Commons license before you use images from other users before you do.

SL Framework for Drupal

Looks like a Drupal Second Life Framework will be released in the near future. The release is dependent on the release of the web site (and web app) of the company which sponsored the development. Framework by 2bits.

Exploring the World of Kaneva

Yesterday I met up with Rich Weil, Director of Community Relations for the World of Kaneva, for a guided tour. He was wonderful and showed me around while he talked a little about what is happening in Kaneva now, as well as what is ahead.

Touring Kaneva

What - Kaneva is an online virtual world (currently in live beta) where participants can create a free account and download client software to log into the world. It is not a game, it is a virtual, social world - like Second Life, Active Worlds or There.com. When you create an account a space on Kaneva’s community web site is also created for you that operates similarly to MySpace.
Where - My initial foray into Kaneva was unaccompanied and I missed a lot of what was happening - having no idea where to go. Upon logging in I found myself at the mall, the default location for everyone’s first visit to the world. In the mall you can buy clothes, shoes, and a few other things to further customize your avatar. Things that you purchase are stored in your inventory until you are ready to use them. Although there are plenty of people who are happy to chat with you in the mall there are other places to visit too - this was the piece I was missing.

Rich showed me how to search for hangouts and people and use the Travel button to get to places I find (like teleporting in SL). Now Kaneva was beginning to feel much larger…

Ogoglio

Came across this project on 3pedia (another interesting resource). The premise of Ogoglio is this, “Many people now start their careers with a deep understanding of cooperative 3D communities like World of Warcraft, but when they enter the workplace they are handed email and a shared calendar and are expected to teach themselves how to […]

Video Tutorials

Claudia Linden has pointed out that there are a number of video tutorials available on the SL wiki. I had forgotten about the wiki and am glad to see it is getting some attention. If you have one of your own, why not add it?

Today OpenID, Tomorrow …?

I have an OpenID and use it wherever possible - though it isn’t always
that much. In fact, I’m surprised that the boom of Web2.0 applications
has not seen wider adoption of identity management mechanisms.
Today CommonCraft posted some concise thoughts on OpenID and what wide adoption would mean for online communities. Two projections for the future really […]