SL on the Beeb

After Linden Labs announced that they’re making the Second Life Viewer open source (just the viewer, not the internal workings of SL itself) it’s great fun to watch a bit of advance speculation. The BBC’s Click! site has a very good feature on Second Life focusing on the recent troubles with Grey Goo and CopyBot. It’s dated 15 December, so there’s an amusing moment in the video interview where Mike Butcher speculates about the potential open sourcing of SL, and Jim Purbrick of Linden Labs gives nothing away.

Who knows, perhaps a lightweight, user-friendly SL interface will come along one day?

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Peuplade

For a long time I’ve been interested in this kind of site which provides an informational and social overlay on a physical space. Facebook and other campus sites do this for universities and colleges. But what about the rest of us? Peuplade is a neighbourhood- based social networking site for Paris. It looks very promising. I’d join if it were in London, but hélas we don’t have one. Then again, I’m in exactly the demographic that has adopted it in Paris, according to the BBC.

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