Understanding Virtual Worlds

SL Quirkyness in Meatspace

By admin ⋅ June 26, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Thank goodness meatspace doesn’t suffer from the same buggy afflictions often encountered on the Second Life grid. If it did it would certainly be as humorous as this video spotted on YouTube:

Find Voice Enabled Parcels in SL

By admin ⋅ June 15, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

The Voicemap is available now at secondlife.com and allows you to see which areas have the voice feature enabled. There are a number of locations already and more are added each day. One thing that caught my attention about this map is that it is using the Google API.

SL Framework for Drupal

By admin ⋅ April 29, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

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.

Learn a Second Language in Second Life

By admin ⋅ March 30, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

LanguageLab.com is now open for beta testing. Students will be able to sign up for language classes that meet entirely in Second Life. Classes are small, generally 6 to 8 students, and run for 50 minutes. Events are larger scale learning experiences that allow students the opportunity to practice their new language in realistic settings, [...]

Twitter Through Imified

By admin ⋅ March 21, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

It is now possible to send Tweets to Twitter through the Imified service. Why would you want to do this? Maybe the Twitter chat bot is down and the Imified chat bot is up. Or maybe just to keep your options open? Imified is a handy tool and it is great to see its functionality [...]

Philip Rosedale at The Long Now Foundation

By admin ⋅ March 14, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

On 30 November 2006 Philip Rosedale spoke to The Long Now Foundation about Second Life. As a talk given by the CEO of the growing virtual world it is an interesting to hear his overview of what has and is happening, but more than that it is fascinating to watch him. During this talk Philip [...]

AIO Fall 2007 Business Communication Class in SL

By admin ⋅ March 11, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

The Art Institute Online has announced that they will be offering a Business Communication class in Second Life for the Fall 2007 semester. Their in-world island, AI Pittsburgh, will be open to the public soon. More here, and on YouTube (below).

TwitterBox HUD

By admin ⋅ March 9, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

There is a Twitter HUD available for Second Life. Ordinal Malaprop developed it and is making it available for free in-world. You can read more about the HUD at the web site. If you have never Twittered before or have no idea what I”m talking about you can see what it is all about at [...]

The Future Doesn’t Stop at a 3D Web

By admin ⋅ March 5, 2007 ⋅ 2 comments

CoolCat blogger Vicki Davis posted a few of her thoughts on SL and education and the implications for learning with the advent of a 3D web that is getting attention here and here. While she builds a heroic argument for why 3D worlds are important for the future of education, I believe this idea needs [...]

My Second Life: The Album

By admin ⋅ February 24, 2007 ⋅ One comment

I received a tip the other day via my last.fm account about an album titled My Second Life, by Niko Donburi. Reminiscent of the stylings of Weird Al Yankovic, Donburi parodies the highs and lows of life on the SL grid. Residents and Unverifieds alike can appreciate songs like Second Life (That’s Where I Want [...]

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