Lee’s Second Life - “Finding the key”

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed (you can even subscribe via email!). Thanks for visiting!Greg Verdino, chief strategy officer at social media consulting agency Crayon, argues corporate brands should integrate social media and community capabilities rather than simply creating branded spaces. For instance, he pointed to successful [...]

I’m wondering if anyone knows how to solve a particular problem I have:
I want to track avatars that I might send to a business, and then track any transactions that avatar might make.
Anyone?
Technorati Tags: development, secondlife, second life, SL, lee hopkins

Messenger Press, one of our local papers, interviewed me last week for a feature story on Second Life.
Since they don’t post their feature stories on their website, I took a scan of it.
After much playing around, I’ve got a pdf (510k), which prints out as 2xA4 pages. Page scale = ‘none’ will get [...]

Snippets of news:

Second Life guide for newcomers - says Katicus Sparrow: “Ariane Brodie gives examples and links of what to do after you figure out good skin, hair and clothes, including teleport scripts, camera controls, jewelry creation and attachment scripts”
Life in the Metaverse - interesting blog by the aforementioned Ariane
Wagner James Au (WJA) discussed how [...]

I’ve created a wiki to manage my research project, particularly the outputs.
You are very welcome to pop along and add your ten cents’ worth as you see fit, however be aware that you can only add ‘thread comments’, not edit or create actual pages.
I’m afraid that such powers must rest with select members of the [...]

It had to happen. Rather than paying ’sitters’ L$5/hr to camp out at your place to make it look busy, you can now buy avatars that sit there for free.
Okay, perhaps that’s slightly confusing. But for L$477 you can purchase five different male avatars — clerk, salesman, guard, visitor, manager — and have them [...]

Not the grid of ‘Google Grid’ fame, nor the Grid of Second Life fame, but The Grid at Cern.
Apparently, the Cern version of online connectivity could allow 10Gbps performance — which would be nice because I’m trying to build a new office for myself today in Second Life and the lag is horrendous!
Technorati Tags: cern, [...]

Call me slow, but I only just came across this — a roadmap for where the internet is going in the next 20 years.
Sure, some of it is fanciful, but when you consider who the authors and editors are, you get a sense that this may well be what will happen (cataclysmic events not withstanding).
Co-Authors: [...]

The wonderful and wondrous Madge Hoekstra in Denmark constantly surprises me with little tidbits about SL tools and tips that fly under my radar. I am eternally in her debt!
Here’s some of her best:

SL-focused blogs (apart from the ones in my sidebar): Ross Dawson, Dedric Mauriac (the creator of some truly wonderful SL tools), David [...]

Full-size, updated version here.
Hat tip to the fabulous Greg Verdino who also, in another post, replays some pearls of wisdom that dropped from the mouths of some pretty clued-up folks — for example:
“If what you want to do in the virtual world can be done on the web, it can probably be done better on [...]