UPDATE: From Linden Lab : “We are planning to release Second Life 1.12.3 on Wednesday, 25 October 2006. The grid will be closed from 7:00 AM PDT/SLT to 12:00 PM PDT/SLT, and you will need to upgrade to the newest version to login afterwards. “
This WILL include the Web tab on profiles!
Soon, on Second Life, you will be able to view small web pages in a small browser window on people’s profiles. This is what blogHUD users will be able to put on theirs once this cool feature is released from the Preview Grid. (this is a work in progress)
BlogHUD users will also be able to customise the feeds and image slideshows (see the small snapzilla link). Existing blogHUD users can try going to http://my.bloghud.com/yoursecondlifename/profile
Bring on the MASH!! (http://my.bloghud.com/kozfarina/profile/
Javascript and Ajax seem well supported in this small embedded Mozilla browser window. Flash too – but with no buttons! Also, secondlife:// urls for instant teleportation are not active yet. I hope they fix that.
Wow! How did I miss that? Yesterday I saw the article in Wired which talked about the “Must-have Gadgets in SL” but totally managed to miss the mention of the blogHUD there! Excellent news!
Wired have a great build in Second Life, by Millions of Us, featuring a huge circuit board which you walk around. I was going to do that! Argh! Doctoe and I have always seen circuit boards like little cities.
Maybe I’ll do another SL news screen for the Wired RSS headlines? Hmmm…
Second Life really is an exciting world full of new opportunities and adventures. If you are good to it – it will be good to you and you’ll get so much more out of it. I have seen alot of newbies rolling around since the 1million registrants mark. I remember when I didn’t know how to do the simplest of things, then someone actually helped me. Showed me around. Sent me off on my way. It was great. I did hang around to help a few people when I did the ‘Descendants of Ruth‘ video – people not knowing how to get out, or fly etc. Bless ‘em
Also today, check out moo Money’s (that’s a Second Life name, folks) first entry to her machinima video podcast, which should get updated during her first ever trip to MOO YORK CITY!
We’ll be following her exploits over at secondlife.podcast.com and in-world around the ‘The RSS Platform’
podcast.com are proud to be sponsoring machinima mad, moo Money at this years Machinima Festival in New York – november 4th & 5th 2006
We’re strong supporters of this new ‘metizen medium’ and the great work that moo does supporting the machinima community while producing some great educational and entertaining work herself at Alt-Zoom Studios.
We hope to follow her trip and time at the festival, where she should be holding a workshop for budding machinimists to learn from., by her podcast feed via secondlife.podcast.com and varoius in world and real world pictures and posts she’s able to make.
We should be able to aggregate and mash all that up together to a page which we’ll post nearer the time.
On the day that Second Life reached the 1 million residents mark, the interest has apparently seen around 50,000 new signups already today! I decided to get an alt and record the arrivals on one of the Orientation islands. This one is island number 32 for arrivals!
As you can see, everyone starts off as a female! People also see this strange (sometimes gender-bending) transition from a plain female avatar to their own customised version (it can be quite amusing).
The name of this avatar is ‘Ruth’. She is an early basic model from Fractal Designs’Curious Labs’e-frontier’s 3d character designing and animating software called Poser, which many people use to create the .bvh animation files which get embedded into ‘poseballs’ in Second Life. She is the basic form of every avatar in SL.
So, welcome!! ‘Descendants Of Ruth’!
I think that could be a great name for a band in Second Life.
I just read about an expo billed as a ‘Virtual International Podcasting Expo’. The details are here.
When I read this, I thought ‘ooo, in Second Life?’ – but apparently not. The site seems extremely vague about the hows and whatnot of this ’3-D Virtual Expo’ but looking at one of the pages here, it looks like a web-based habbo hotel-type thing.
They appear to have a pretty good (and long!) lineup of speakers. It will be interesting to see what happens and how it all works.
There could be all sorts of reasons why they do not choose Second Life to do this, but I think they could do it there too, to an extent. I get the feeling it’s jumping on the bandwagon a bit, but if it’s good for podcasting and it helps people learn, then that’s good enough for me.
Dory Devlin, Yahoo! Tech’s ‘The Mom’ has a post here about Second Life, since hearing of ‘Adam Reuters’ (Adam Pasick) being ‘embedded’ as a journalist in Second Life for Reuters – they have a dedicated site at http://secondlife.reuters.com. There’s a hearty discussion thread building on Dory’s post! Lots of ‘I don’t get it’ posts and lots of ‘I make money!’ posts.
It’s an interesting discussion – and one which will have to be addressed soon, whether we like it or not. I heard about a year or so ago of someone who was trying to go through his taxes and wanted to deal with the money he was being paid to look after someone’s character in a different game. His accountant and the taxman had no idea what to do, so shrugged and ignored it.
I think it’s bound to change. But I wonder how the various global tax offices decide to deal with it. There will probably be virtual tax havens you could log in from, to avoid paying. We’ll see. What about if Linden move all their servers offshore? How about Sealand? That’s a ‘very Second Life’ place
In the next week or so, we’ll hit the 1 million users mark in Second Life. (Currently stands at 983,621) That will be a big day which will no doubt garner headlines all over the world – then more users will come – and more money will be exchanged – etc, etc…
Doctoe Schnook and I (Koz Farina) hope to start a podcast purely about Second Life soon. Stay tuned!
Also, secondlife:// urls for instant teleportation are not active yet. I hope they fix that.
