Distracted.
Distracted.
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…
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: [youtube]flkgNn50k14[/youtube]
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…