Jokay and I knocking back a few tequilas

We’re at this bar on Middletown. It’s not too bad, but I wouldn’t want to upset the muppet barman! I think the head of one of his customers who didn’t pay is in the prim box on the bar!
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links for 2007-04-26

• Alternatives To Second Life – Uber Edition « Second Life Games
  Good overview of alternatives to Second Life based on the three key features of Second Life – User-generated content, users own IP of their creations and an in-world economy with real money transfer.
  (tags: virtualworlds secondlife metaverse mylinkblog)
• Reuters/Second Life » Gartner sees 80 % virtual world penetration by 2011
  “Tech consultancy Gartner, whose “Hype Cycle” has been used to gauge Second Life adoption, thinks that 80 percent of active Internet users will be in non-gaming virtual worlds like Second Life by the end of 2011 – a huge increase from current levels.”
  (tags: virtualworlds secondlife metaverse research mylinkblog)
• Wikitecture 2.0: Designing the Architecture of Architectural Design Collaboration. « Studio Wikitecture
  “Real Life Architects in Second Life will be conducting a ‘Wikitecture’ experiment on Architecture Island in Second Life over the next month to determine just how feasible a collaborative approach in design might be in the architectural profession.”
  (tags: 3d virtualworlds secondlife collaboration wikis web2.0 mylinkblog)

links for 2007-04-22

• Media Machines – Virtual worlds, metaverse, Web 3D – tools and services, X3D
  “Flux Player™ 2.0 lets you see the Web in 3D and play with virtual scenes, worlds, avatars, gadgets and games in a standard browser.” & “Try authoring 3D content and worlds in the free new Flux Studio™ 2.0.”
  (tags: 3d virtualworlds web3d mylinkblog)
• Many Eyes
  “View your data, ask questions, and share your discoveries. Harness the collective intelligence of the net for insight and analysis.”
  (tags: visualisation mylinkblog)
• Second Life – “First Great Land Rush of Second Life, 2007” – Architectural Competition
  “The aims … are to expose many peoples of many disciplines to the Second Life environment, offer them the opportunity to create a personal or public space within this environment while attempting to both define a new architectural vernacular.”
  (tags: secondlife virtualworlds mylinkblog)
• AsiaOne Digital – Second Life: Game to play along
  “Holding classes in Second Life also lets the students reach out to the rest of the world through attending lectures by professionals and through socialising with the other residents of the virtual world.”
  (tags: secondlife virtualworlds education elearning)
• MyCyberTwin – Let Your Personality Shine Online
  AI programmable bot that answers questions about you. Great idea, but these things still suck and have a way to go before they are usable.
  (tags: artificial intelligence)
• 5min – Life Videopedia
  “5min is a place to find short video solutions for every practical question and is also a place for people who want to share their knowledge.”
  (tags: elearning howto learning video tutorial mylinkblog)

links for 2007-04-15

• SGVTribune.com – Children learning in a virtual world (Whyville)
  “…a world where kids do much of what adults do – with the idea that they are learning practical skills in the grown-up world at play. While a large amount of time is taken up chatting with friends, they also save money for land and build houses…”
  (tags: virtualworlds 3d secondlife education learning mylinkblog)
• VastPark – Showcase your interactive 3D skills
  Web-based tool for creating interactive 3D environments.
  (tags: virtualworlds 3d mylinkblog)
• Getting in Touch: Virtual Maps for the Blind: Scientific American
  “The three-dimensional maps use force fields to represent walls and roads…” How hard would it be to implement something like this in Second Life or Google Earth, since the models are already there?
  (tags: virtualworlds secondlife 3d augmentation interface maps visualisation mylinkblog)
• Off Course-On Target: Coming Soon to a Desktop Near You: Massive Amounts of 3D for the Masses
  Article about the coming mass personalisation of the design and fabrication of physical objects.
  (tags: 3d fabrication mylinkblog)

links for 2007-04-04

• Pelican Crossing – Blink 3D
  “Pelican Crossing is the developer of Blink 3D™, the complete system for creating and viewing rich interactive and animated multi-user 3D environments that can be published and viewed on the Web or locally.”
  (tags: virtualworlds metaverse 3d mmog mylinkblog)
• Second Life To Transform Internet, Browser Tech By 2017 – Technology News by InformationWeek
  “First off, the industry will have to get rid of HTTP, a longtime communication protocol that enables Web browsing. It’s simply outlived its usefulness, she said. Actually, she said it lived out its usefulness a while ago…”
  (tags: secondlife virtualworlds metaverse internet mylinkblog)
• welcome to the Virtual Terrain Project
  “The goal of VTP is to foster the creation of tools for easily constructing any part of the real world in interactive, 3D digital form.”
  (tags: 3d virtualworlds software visualisation mylinkblog)
• Microsoft lays out plans for Virtual Earth | News.blog | CNET News.com
  “…lots of discussions about how we’re going to start merging online games out of Virtual Earth…and taking commerce into 3D…. 370 million users of instant messaging, and MSN is considering merging those users with Virtual Earth…”
  (tags: virtualworlds visualisation maps metaverse 3d mylinkblog)
• Images: Virtual Earth 3D marries maps, search | CNET News.com
  “Microsoft’s Virtual Earth 3D… allows advertisers to buy banner ads that float above buildings in photorealistic environments… downloads into a browser, melds together Virtual Earth’s 3D features and Microsoft map and local search.”
  (tags: virtualworlds 3d maps mylinkblog)