Thursday, 14 September 2006

Torley Linden's Blog

Torley's Second Life & techno music Blog

Rank #1 in the SL Power Top 10


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Power Elite of SL

The Power Elite of Second Life, Part II - Kotaku

Beats the West Midlands Power 100!


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SLC - SL Chatbots

Managed to get Halo into SL. Very easy in the end. Just wrote an XML template for her to pick up on the web end, and then an LSL script to parse the XML being returned by the REST call. Added a few extra SL side functions like Say, Whisper, Channel, Be Quiet. Will also add some SL specific patterns to pick up on things like her location, who she's speaking too etc. Will be equally easy to get Charlotte and Lillian in.

The Nabaztag link is working very well. It's reporting probably half a dozen people a day coming into the office or up to the demo suite. The next step would be to get Halo to talk to them as they come in as well.

Between the RSS stuff and the chatbots there could be some real opportunities here.


Typing this just had a thought - would be good to be able to blog from within SL. And if only I can work out how to display text on a prim. Could do it at a prim per word I suppose. Perhaps some sort of scrolling display?


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Wednesday, 13 September 2006

Blind Date

Features : Radar Online

What happens when two lonely hotbots get their wires crossed? Ikea's Anna talks to the US Armies SgtStar (or rather is jointly interviewed with him).


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Gapminder - World Development Dynamic Graphic

The Gapminder World 2006, beta

Cracking data visualisation tool. Just watch Southern Africa and Former USSR states buck the development trend.

The main Gapminder site is worth checking out too.


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wikiHow

wikiHow - The How-To Manual That Anyone Can Write or Edit

Nice idea, particularly with all the DIY I'm doing at moment at the cottage.


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