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Archive for August 23rd, 2006

What If You Could Chat Real Time in Any Language?

CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) : Aug 23, 2006 12:07pm

Shall we chat in different languages? This is now something that can be done in Second Life. If you are in Second Life, you know that the primary communication channel is the text chat area (and if you have been on the internet for more than a few years, you know that this is a communication mode from the 1980s or older). But a more than significant number of SL residents are not native speakers of English, and we are sure a ... more » »

KNMC Hits The Airwaves!

CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) : Aug 23, 2006 12:07am

We have a new audio service from NMC Campus... an in-world radio station. Okay, it is not really a radio station, but we are using a new way to provide audio content from or about NMC Campus. Tuning your itunes or Windows Media Player to KNMC at http://www.nmc.org/sl/knmc.pls will connect you to a selected audio stream coming from our satellite. For example, currently playing is Larry Pixel's presentation from the SLCC Convention, which just a few minutes ago replaces the recorded ... more » »