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Sun entering virtual worlds market, maybe aiming at educators?

Massively

Feb 25th 2008 6:36PM I got a demo in November at the Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin about Project Wonderland. It has some nice features like being able to share your application on your computer (e.g. Word) with others in the virtual space (sort of like an application texture if you want) or have video conferenceing in there (and you can control the camera from within the world). And yes, it's all Java.

But I think it's not really a grid but one server hosting a set of rooms. Thus it has it's limitations but because of that also some advantages like you don't have to worry too much about content theft.

Add to that that you can only create content outside the system it's not really encouraging creativity like SL does. It also does not seem to open to me in terms of interoperability as it's only that server.

What would IMHO be more useful would be if they would work with Linden Lab on their grid interoperability project. You already have a growing community around OpenSim etc. and this is because SL is a community driven project in itself. With having single servers like in Wonderland you will not really have a community though.

Thus it might be nice for isolated applications like an intranet application but then again the interoperability project from Linden Lab also has that as one of their goals (and you can actually run your own opensim already if you want to).

I am not really convinced by Wonderland although they seem to push it these days (also with NMC).

eBay Island Found!

Second Life Insider

Jun 17th 2007 4:15PM Well, EBay did something already in SL (at least some employees) as you can see here:

http://www.podtech.net/scobleshow/technology/1471/ebay-demo-expo-second-life-prototype

Town hall a disaster

Second Life Insider

May 3rd 2007 5:30PM What I wonder more is why people do not use the office hours more. From what I heard of the townhall via our "group repeater" Gwyneth (because nobody else got the messages) nothing really new was said. Nothing at least which hasn't been mentioned in some office hour (especially with Zero and Kelly).

So I'd suggest that people go there, too :)

But agreed, Townhalls could be done better especially in terms of repeaters and the like. If only one person would be able to run some script which relays the text that would help a lot.
(maybe additionally to the group IMs so that at least one way of relaying is hopefully working).

Fitting the Pieces Together

Second Life Insider

Apr 27th 2007 9:25PM So Robin just told me that it's unlikely to be released today as they don't like updates on fridays.

She wasn't sure if it will be in the monday release (if there is one) but of course we all do hope it is (she wanted to ask Joe but he was on the phone.. why do they still have phones?)

Weekend would be great though to play with it.



Fitting the Pieces Together

Second Life Insider

Apr 27th 2007 2:12PM Well, today or on monday he said ;-)

I also wrote another blog post after reading the wiki and what it might mean. Actually it might mean that these things are not that easy to create.

And I think the ones in the picture might be possible with rev1 already. I think that these are just 1 prim.

We will find out soon I guess.

A Possible Breakthrough: Merging Geometry?

Second Life Insider

Apr 27th 2007 11:50AM More info came today from Qarl Linden, check it out on my blog:

http://taotakashi.wordpress.com/2007/04/27/and-the-secret-revealed-sculpties-coming-to-second-life/

Technical Town Hall marred by technical problems

Second Life Insider

Dec 21st 2006 4:16AM Hm, I don't think scripts were on. I think I can remember ot have seen the noscript icon while I was there. At least in my sim corner.

The Economist covers SL

Second Life Insider

Oct 1st 2006 5:28PM Oh, they wrote about it before. I once noted it in this blog entry:

http://taotakashi.wordpress.com/2006/04/23/just-one-day-in-my-second-life/#more-17

It was in a special about all sorts of new media stuff like blogs, podcasts and so on and how it affects old media organisations and how they try to deal with it. SL had some box where it was explained what it was.

And as I am just back from vacation and 3 issues of The Economist are waiting for me I will pick that one now to read how they followup on that :)

Super Linden Blog

Second Life Insider

Aug 1st 2006 10:08AM Hey, and when you use http://worldofsl.com then you don't even need to check all the other SL related blogs for updates as it aggregates all of them into one big list ;-)

(ok, there might be missing some but I hope you tell me!)

BTW, the forum announcements seem not to be incorporated in that Linden Blog. That would be cool of course. And the problem with that RSS feed is that it needs authentication and thus I also cannot syndicate this on worldofsl.com

But maybe this can be changed at some point.

Besides I think more people will be added to that Super Linden Blog over time.

Eureka! So THAT'S what new photographs are for...

Second Life Insider

Jul 28th 2006 10:16AM Well, I found that out but as you experienced yourself, it's not easy to get (I read about it in the release notes actually).
And this is a usability issue then and contradicts IMHO somewhat what they wanted to achieve (and do newbies know what's happening when they hit the keys by accident and everything freezes?).

For me personally, I don't need that full preview anyway. I do my angle settings before that and the fullscreen preview just adds some additional time for making a photo for me (esp. when I didn't catch the right moment it's a bit annoying to first click the close button and then again make a shot. Before that I simply could have used the hotkey again and see if it's ok now. At least I'd like to have ESC and ENTER active).

Well, I can live with it but for me it was definitely more useable before the change. Maybe they could make that preview optional or something like that.