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Xenki: An “In Your Browser Viewer” for OpenSim and Second life (7)
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UgoTrade (4) permalink
The story of Xenki, an in your browser viewer for OpenSim and Second Life (you can download the source on Forge.OpenSimulator), began with a stream of tweets from Dr_Manhattan (Kyle Gomboy, avatar G2 Proto) - power house of the Microsoft Developer Community in OpenSim (see Project Manhattan), and Second Life (see here) - announcing the merging of DirectX and WPF in the .NET 3.51 SP1 release. I was not the only one to notice these ...Shared by Andy Piper (15) Annie Ok (8) dani (23) guttertec (24) Ian Hughes (1) kliger (27) Peter.Stindberg (30)- dani said: And the story goes on. It's dejavu all over again, people building viewers for virtual words - just like the times people were doing that for the real world - when internet was young. History repeats itself and I'm as enthusiastic about it as I can be :P
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Underage Sex in Google’s Lively (19)
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Mashable! (3999) permalink
I’m sorry… will someone please explain human nature to those starry eyed hippies over at Google for me? I’m not sure they read my work over here - or if they read it, they tend to discount it out of hand quite a bit. I just happened to be going through my weekend feed items this early morning - something I usually save for after I’ve had a good night’s sleep and a cup of ...Shared by ali1k (23) Amr Awadallah (34) BostonDave2005 (1) Ch (97) Charles (20) cmm324 (1) danliebke (52) dep (23) Diana (20) Dustin (22) Edo (23) eschnou (15) giacomo (17) Giff (1) HUNG (114) Karen Eliot (12) louisgray (171) Pat (24) Sean Blakey (24)- ali1k said: Google,you have to know that the whole of the Internet is your market!!!
- BostonDave2005 said: Mashable is right on with this article...human nature is the same even in the virtual space.
- eschnou said: "On the Internet, you must imagine all the negative possible uses for your product when you design it for mass consumption."
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11 Virtual Worlds Google’s Lively Better Live Up To (1)
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(Image: A Second Life underwater scene from Masternewmedia.org) Google broke new ground again, sort of. This time, its achievement is called Lively, a Web-based virtual world. From Gamasutra: The application is closely integrated with social networks including Facebook and the OpenSocial standard, with a MySpace integration coming soon. This means that, if a lively user is signed into Facebook, you don’t have to sign in to Google to use the application, which is an approximately ...Shared by Gaz (2)Contribute comment
