First SL Product - Smart RSS Reader

We released our first Second Life product today - our smart RSS reader. It uses a proxy on our server to read RSS, RDF and ATOM, and then send into SL only the titles for display. The user in SL can then ask to read a particular story by any unique keyword. Put it on at L$100. Will be interesting to see how it sells. Also signed up to SLExchange and SLBoutique, the two main SL e-commerce sites which let you sell in-world and on-the-web.

Just finishing off the display screen, should have that selling by early next week.

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Second Life Dreaming

I dreamt of Second Life for the first time last night. Obviously spending too much time in-world! (that and counting the prims on every real thing I see!)

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Google Mail

I made the switch to Google Mail today. What joy. What with the cottage and doing more work on the laptop I was getting fed up with having all the mail in Outlook on the PC upstairs. That and all the spam. I got Huma from Robitron to invite me in (thanks Huma) and its wonderful.

As an AJAX app its so much slicker than most web apps. Almost all the functions you want are where you expect them - except Reply which is stuffed down the bottom. The use of tags instead of folders works well. Spam filtering is very effective, and yes, I can now use any of my computers to do my mail - will make life so much easier. There's even an in-built chat system for other GoogleMail users. And the real icing on the cake is the mobile access using the SPV's browser - it works like a dream, a well designed mobile interface makes it all so easy.

I'm now tempted by the Google Calendar if I can get it to sync with the Palm, then I can junk Outlook totally.

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Better Life

YouTube - Better Life

This video is actually awesome - particularly as I'm mulling over ideas for a Second Life interface for visually impaired users. SL Machinima at its best.

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Economist article on Second Life

Virtual online worlds | Living a Second Life | Economist.com

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Brumcon/Brum2600

Brum 2600

So that explains why the Bullring branch of Borders stocks 2600. Good to know that phreaking culture is alive and well in Birmingham.

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Broadband in the Peak District

Got broadband into the cottage today. 2MBPS unlimited from Tiscali. Working within 5 mins of opening the box, very straight forward. Next step is to replace their modem with a WiFi ADSL router.

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