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del.icio.us second life resource links for 2006-09-29

CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) : Sep 29, 2006 12:28am

• 13 Ways Business Are Using Second Life
  Second Life is a complex virtual world making a lot of news lately, but just what can it be used for. Here are some used real businesses are finding for Second Life:
  (tags: business secondlife)
• IN THE GRID: A walk through a ‘living book,’ with novelist JC Hutchins
  with JC Hutchins so active in the grid himself, it seemed only natural to him to have a book release party in SL as well, which is coming up this Saturday evening, September 23rd.
  (tags: podcast secondlife library reading book writing publishing literature community)
• Presidential hopeful campaigns in Second Life
  On the heels of the U.S. Federal Government’s foray into Second Life, one of the top contenders for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination has ventured into the virtual world.
  (tags: politics secondlife news virtual_worlds)
• Visit with Aura Lily
  I finally got a chance to visit Aura Lily’s ancient Egypt sim in Second Life.
  (tags: education history)
• Virtual online worlds | Living a Second Life | Economist.com
  ncreasing numbers use Second Life for things that are quite serious. They form support groups for cancer survivors. They rehearse responses to earthquakes and terrorist attacks. They build Buddhist retreats and meditate.
  (tags: secondlife business education community news simulation research creativity)
• Second Life Ecosystem Working Group
  The goal was to create a dynamic environment, consisting of independent, goal seeking agents whose interactions would emulate a real world ecosystem… a simple scheme of common protocols for interspecies interactions which facilitates the integration of
  (tags: scripting secondlife programming avatars)
• My Virtual World: Tutorial: Take Two
  I will attempt to take you through the steps I use to make a modelling photo for a portfolio.
  (tags: secondlife avatars howto fashion)
• httpdb
  provides free, persistant, off-site storage for LSL Scripts via
  llHTTPRequest. You can store up to 250kb of data in the form of key/value
  pairs, and read or write the data from any script.
  (tags: secondlife scripting programming interactivity web)
• Clickable Culture - AIM and ‘Second Life’ Unofficially Bridged
  The SLAIM Proxy facilitates communication between AIM’s chatspace and Second Life’s virtual reality.
  (tags: secondlife programming interactivity communication chat)

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