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"Second Life is dead" unless you can actually read - Eloise's thoughts and fancies - 0 views

eloisepasteur.net/...index.php Second Life Nielsen usage statistics blog
shared by Eloise Pasteur on 08 May 09 - Cached
  • The Nielsen people record actual minutes using various "sites" across 180,000+ US-homes. Second Life comes out at 760 minutes per week (that's over 12 hours), or over 1h 45 minutes per day... (wimps - I'd be an outlier around the 2500 minutes per week mark!). Amongst its users (comparing to other user-minutes per week) this makes it more popular than even the 800lb gorilla of World of Warcraft (653 minutes per week).
  • What does it all mean? Well, it might mean Second Life is a niche market, but it's a fiercely loyal niche market that really, really gets it - and this gives Linden Lab a reasonably solid (hard numbers are impossible to come by) income stream and around that a reasonable likelihood of continuing to provide its service.
  • Comparing it to social media sites the difference is even more extreme - Facebook does the best at 84 minutes per week: that's 11% of the time that Second Life users spend. Twitter weighs in at about an hour a week on average. Stephen Fry is much bigger in his usage I'm sure, but the averages are up there for easy comparison.
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  • Signing up to Second Life is more like taking someone who has basically no computer experience and saying "learn the internet" - there are lots of steps along the way, moments that are critical to whether they will continue or not, but there are lots of skills to go from seeing your first web-page to signing up to a forum, RSSing a blog or two, generating a web-page with HTML, CSS and jquery... and that's the challenge of learning Second Life.
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IBM Research | IBM Research | virtualworlds | IBM Virtual World Guidelines - 0 views

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shared by Nergiz Kern on 05 May 09 - Cached
  • Nergiz Kern on 05 May 09
     
    IBM Research IBM Research: IBM Virtual World Guidelines
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Enough Reasons to Redesign - Web Design Blog - WickedInnovations.com - 0 views

www.wickedinnovations.com/blog reasons to redesign redesigning web design site
shared by Wicked Innovations on 17 Jul 08 - Cached
  • Wicked Innovations on 17 Jul 08
     
    Redesigning a website can easily be done especially if you don't have anything to do at all. But come to think of it, the consequences of your action may affect your website in a drastic manner. It can go down the search engine rankings or it can also aff
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http://static-secondlife-com.s3.amazonaws.com/downloads/Second_Life_Quickstart.pdf - 0 views

static-secondlife-com.s3.amazonaws.com/...Second_Life_Quickstart.pdf secondlifie quickstart guide tutorial
shared by Nergiz Kern on 19 Apr 09 - No Cached
  • Nergiz Kern on 19 Apr 09
     
    Second Life Quick Start Guide
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Engagement in Second Life (no, not the wedding kind) - Second Life Grid - Second Life B... - 0 views

blogs.secondlife.com/...d-life-no-not-the-wedding-kind virtualenvironment virtualenvironments virtualworlds digitalidentity
shared by Nergiz Kern on 14 Apr 09 - No Cached
  • Nergiz Kern on 14 Apr 09
     
    Virtual Worlds and (digital) identity; influence on self-esteem...
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Autoplay System upgraded - Eloise's thoughts and fancies - 0 views

eloisepasteur.net/...index.php Second Life products blog screen presentation
shared by Eloise Pasteur on 01 Apr 09 - Cached
  • The autoplay system that I produce has just been upgraded in the light of some feedback. To the existing system I have added two features: Access control - determine who can touch the player and start it running. It defaults to all, but can be set to group only or owner only Pause controls - you can either pause indefinitely or for a fixed time. Either pause can be overridden by an authorised person touching the display
  • Because the old system is copy, no transfer I can only upgrade if you catch me online at a convenient time (i.e. not when I'm teaching or otherwise occupied) and I can come and see your system. Once I've seen that, I will happily replace it with the new system. If you want to buy this new, it is for sale in all the usual places (in my picks), and via XStreetSL and Apez - you can find links at my products index page.
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Discover the Spencer's Second Life Island | Exhibitions | Spencer Museum of Art - 0 views

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shared by Kerry J on 31 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Kerry J on 31 Mar 09
     
    The Spencer's island (search "Spencer Museum of Art" in-world) is a changing exhibition in itself. Drawing on topics explored in the real-life museum's exhibitions, international trans-disciplinary artist Stacey Fox designs and builds the island to expand upon the current exhibition.
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Multi-buffered (double buffer) Slide Presentation Script for Second Life | eBremer - 0 views

www.ebremer.com/doublebufferslidescriptforsl secondlife events presentations howto
shared by Kerry J on 31 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Kerry J on 31 Mar 09
     
    I've been to a few presentations in Second Life and most displays seem to be the same --- PowerPoint presentations that have been converted to images and then uploaded to SL, loaded into a prim, and then a script that loads image by image (slide by slide) onto one of the faces of the "screen" prim. However, as each slide is loaded, it is obvious that the textures takes a moment to download to a client.I've written a script that eliminates this "flicker/lag" issue by implementing a "double buffering" technique.
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Maya Realities - 0 views

www.mayarealities.com secondlife statistics tools data maya metrics vwbpe
shared by Kerry J on 30 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Kerry J on 30 Mar 09
     
    stats for your SL sim
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Instructor Career Course Outline - 0 views

docs.google.com/View vwbpe SL SecondLife second-life virtualworlds education
shared by Kerry J on 30 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Kerry J on 30 Mar 09
     
    Catherine Dutton, Instructional Coordinator, Instructional Support Services, Texas Woman's University This was a fantastic session that covered a topic near and dear to my heart - how to arm educators with the skills they need to get started in virtual worlds. Catherine shared what she learned from a course she helped to develop for her university. Developed October 2007 - Last session completed November 2008
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VWBPE_Conference_Realism_Non-Realism_Transcript(pdf and doc) - Folder Shared from Box.n... - 0 views

www.box.net/j3cmc13mpp vwbpe SecondLife SL virtualworlds
shared by Kerry J on 30 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Kerry J on 30 Mar 09
     
    It was in April 2008 when our Head of the Department asked us to develop specifications of our department's presence in Second Life. We searched for literature sources but the key papers or pointers came from our very generous colleagues on the SLED List. The papers, particularly, Jennings and Collins, 2007, offered useful insights in terms of how the learning spaces in Second Life are designed but there weren't any papers or reports that captured experiences of students, educators and designers Or any guidelines - eg do's and dont's of how learning spaces should be designed… So the question that we started with in our research is: How should 3D learning spaces be designed for learner engagement?
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lg3d-wonderland: Project Wonderland - 0 views

lg3d-wonderland.dev.java.net/index.html wonderland Sun virtualworlds
shared by Kerry J on 29 Mar 09 - No Cached
  • Kerry J on 29 Mar 09
     
    Project Wonderland is a 100% Java and open source toolkit for creating collaborative 3D virtual worlds. Within those worlds, users can communicate with high-fidelity, immersive audio, share live desktop applications and documents and conduct real business. Wonderland is completely extensible; developers and graphic artists can extend its functionality to create entire new worlds and new features in existing worlds.
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Community Gateway - Second Life Wiki - 0 views

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shared by Nergiz Kern on 27 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Nergiz Kern on 27 Mar 09
     
    Second Life Community Gateways
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