Oh, dear, that makes me sound like a tit, that blogpost :-) I think there's some *really* interesting stuff going on in SL at the moment (Mario, Kosso, hello!) - but there's a lot of hype around the platform, too; a lot of big companies are going a bit mental about it. I heard someone say the other day that it's because they missed out on the web, web2.0, podcasting, etc, they're all piling in on this microtrend...
What makes it interesting, though, is the mashup stuff; being able to pipe stuff in and out of these spaces easily lets the web act as a kind of connective tissue between them; or a medium (in the petri dish sense). Eg I wonder if someone could create a Warcraft UI addon that showed presence data for Second Life - so you could keep your eye on two existences at once, and show your 'virtual location' in your IM client, for instance? And what are the implications for privacy there? If you're interested in this area, it might be worth having a look at some of the other possible platforms - metaverse http://metaverse.sourceforge.net/ Multiverse http://www.multiverse.net/ Or Croquet http://www.opencroquet.org/ Iamnotacoder, these may be rubbish. I also heartily recommend the #9 podcast from here: the Austin Game Conference round table talk - it's a good debate about where these spaces might go in the long run. http://feeds.feedburner.com/metaversesessions *well, I am a tit occasionally, but in quite a nice affable way. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mr I Forrester Sent: 31 October 2006 15:37 To: BBC Backstage Subject: [backstage] SecondLife mashups are where its at? According to Kim, and I can hardly disagree after seeing the 3D Weather data visualisation [2] I also found this nice post from Knossos [3] about LL (linden scripting language) and how Second Life will move over to MONO (open .net) soon. There still seems to be a reason to learning LSL because you can combine the two now. Anyway, there's some videos linked to Kosso's entry and there certainly worth watching if your into Second Life scripting. Cheers Ian Forrester [1] - http://mildlydiverting.blogspot.com/2006/10/3d-weather-data-visualizatio n-in.html [2] - http://www.secondlifeinsider.com/2006/10/28/3d-weather-data-visualizatio n-in-second-life/ [3] - http://kosso.wordpress.com/2006/10/26/building-reality/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
