February 2010
45 posts
Metrics, Usage Patterns, and User Demographics |... →
This session will address how to leverage visitor data within Second Life to provide your clients with clear and useful metrics, usage patterns, and user demographics. The importance of understanding…
Datascape: Datascape - 3D and Geospatial... →
Playing around with lynda.com’s cool new iPhone app. It’s like an educational wet dream. …and no, I don’t know what that means.
Second Life launches new innovative browser →
Second Life SL Pro! Keynote Presentation on the version 2.0 client: http://torley.s3.amazonaws.com/temp/SLProKeynote.pdf #secondlife
Second Life 2.0 Client Download: http://secondlife.com/beta-viewer/
RT @building43 Second Life reemerges with new innovative browser http://is.gd/917Ys
Second Life Version 2.0 Client Overview Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5pKGnkcQHo Some fantastic changes! #secondlife
Introduction to Shared Media in Second Life Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mpuop3ub2hs #secondlife
Replaced machinima presentation with agency approved bulleted list. Luckily, I can poop on a slide in the same time it takes to wipe my ars.
Virtual Worlds and Their Effects on Business →
WatchVirtual Worlds and the Climate Service Office
Astonished at the number of “PG” rated sex beds accessible via click through on my welcome message from Linden Homes. Rethinking my decor.
Feds look for their avatars in 3-D -- Government... →
Many agencies have staked out so-called islands on the virtual world Second Life, but now the government wants software to build and host a virtual world of its own for collaboration, training,…
NASA - 3D Sun for the iPhone →
Imagine holding the entire sun in the palm of your hand. Now you can. A new iPhone app developed by NASA-supported programmers delivers a live global view of the sun directly to your cell phone….
I had no idea open source projects could have so much drama. It’s like watching a nerd driven episode of Days of our Lives. *Unsubscribe*
Where oh where oh where is my Linden Home? #secondlife
Thinks that Linden Lab understands the power of Twitter and is a company that rawks.
Realizing that the Linden Lab billing department may be as messed up as our own. Seriously, I have money. Take it!
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WatchBlaise Aguera y Arcas’ background is as multidimensional as the visions he helps create. In the 1990s, he authored patents on both video compression and 3D visualization techniques, and in 2001, he made an influential computational discovery that cast doubt on Gutenberg’s role as the father of movable type.
He also created Seadragon (acquired by Microsoft in 2006), the ...
Dashboard Visualization of Climate Change Data |... →
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration recently announced that it is consolidating its climate change research capabilities into the NOAA Climate Service office. As part of this…
Nominate Boulder, CO for the Google Fiber for Communities (Internet pipelines up to 100x faster) http://ow.ly/1699K (via @shawnsie)
Realizing I’m only a solid Internet connection away from the unemployment line. Must jack in or die!
Eric New word for the day:... →
New word for the day: “Snow-I’m-gonna-die-the-sky-is-falling.” Run away! Run away!
Should I be worried that my division isn’t shown along side the other divisions in NOAA’s new climate service reorganization block diagram?
Just asked by a reporter how I’m dealing with the snow storm. Responded that I’m expecting fewer COB “data calls” from headquarters. I <3 DC
eLab City: A Platform for Academic Research on... →
The eLab City project in Second Life is a laboratory environment for the study of user behavior in virtual worlds. This paper describes the origin and development of the eLab City project, which…
Tom Novak, UC Riverside, “eLab City: A Platform for Academic Research on Virtual Worlds” in JVWR using Maya Realities! http://bit.ly/9uts88
Eric Super Bowl: I'm not sure who is playing, but... →
Super Bowl: I’m not sure who is playing, but I see one team is dressed in black and gold and has what looks like a Boy Scout emblem on their helmets. I liked my college and grew up in Boy Scouts so I…
Second Life World Heritage Sites →
A map of World Heritage Sites created in the virtual world of Second Life. The map is viewable in Google Maps and includes SLurls to teleport to each of the locations.
The information was gathered by New Mexico State University Professory Pete Eidenbach and imported into Google Maps. If you combine this with Virtual Flags and Anthems of the World and our list of 35 Virtual Countries in Second...
RT @govloop: On GovLoop: New Group for Gov 2.0 in Colorado - Colorado Smart Communities http://bit.ly/cxpvgE
Listening to a great talk about the NOAA-N prime satellite given by NASA in Second Life. Glad someone is promoting our stuff! ;-)
Told by a 13 year old that I should sell tickets to NOAA’s virtual islands so that my boss can make money.
Gov 2.0: 5 government sites using Drupal... →
Eric Site-wide emails proclaiming the possibility... →
Site-wide emails proclaiming the possibility of an announcement of a meeting next Tuesday strike me as useless.
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“We are consumed with that which we are nourished.”
– Shakespeare
Can the term “gone wild” be added to any sentence making it more “awesome” like “in bed” for fortune cookies or the phrase “Debbie does?”
Virtual Worlds Overview for the Science Review →
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WatchI encourage you to come over and try the science offered on “Energy” sponsored by the Department of Energy. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Energy/117/132/46 Try smashing into each other as sub-atomic particles, take a tour of a super collider, or look at a variety of DOE resources. Feedback is of course welcome!
In the process, we completed what I believe is the first formal risk analysis and...
*Not* an upgrade… #apple #fail Increases in version numbers should benefit customers! http://yfrog.com/3goamlnj
Department of Energy is open in Second Life! http://slurl.com/secondlife/Energy/117/132/46 “Atom smasher” reel: http://www.vimeo.com/8543512