Comments | taper: Second Life mapping and popularity

taper

Second Life mapping and popularity

Apr 12, 2007 10:51

I've been playing recently with the Second Life Mapping API-the tool that Linden Lab provides that lets you put Second Life's in-world map on webpages-and had some success in making a basic map utility with it.

And since I'm a Apple Developer Connection member, I got a preview version of Dashcode, the in-house Dashboard Widget development tool ( Read more... )

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chocorisu April 12 2007, 23:05:24 UTC

That's awesome! I didn't realise there were even 2500 active accounts on Second Life, let alone using Macs.

taper April 12 2007, 23:53:25 UTC

3622!

According to the webpage there's some 30k users on right now; I had thought they only got that high on weekends. Ah, expansionist worlds.

ronbar April 13 2007, 00:56:04 UTC

Cool that people are using your widget! Not cool that you attempted to blame the machine for your currency conversion error. The machines will have their vengeance.

Is Second Life fun at all? I tried to run the Linux client and it crashed my entire machine, not just X. Google Earth and every single GL xscreensaver hack work just fine on this machine, and I use Google Earth a lot.

If it's fun and the Linux SecondLife client stays in alpha interminably, I might consider building a Windows partition again, but I'm leery of connecting it to the Internet ever since my XP SP 2 partition was infected with some kind of spyware or something.

taper April 13 2007, 19:12:47 UTC

Actually it was the currency conversion program on my Treo -- the keyboard will sometimes not-- debounce? The same key twice in a row not registering. So I hit 00 but only got 0, so it _is_ the machine's fault. But I make it up to the treo by taking it dancing later.

I really enjoy Second Life, mostly for the building and avatar customization aspects, and shopping -- the economy end of it is something to be seen -- but it does take time and money; real architecture takes land, for instance. But one of my favorite free things is just exploring what other people have built; there's some stunning stuff in there.

I managed to get SL running on Linux once a year ago, and then my video card stopped working in 3d at all. I'm considering getting a new nvidia card and seeing if that works.

ronbar April 13 2007, 19:38:59 UTC

Taking your phone out dancing is a great visual gag, especially when I imagine it starting out grumpy and sullen. Do you buy it flowers?

I hate shopping, even online, but exploring what other people have built sounds fun.

Sorry, I lied. The SL Linux alpha didn't lock up my machine, it just hung (without affecting anything else) after doing a bunch of preparatory stuff after login. I downloaded the latest alpha last night and tried it a few times and got the same behavior. It did seem like it got a little further than before (based on the debugging output on the terminal when I let it sit for a half hour or so), but once all the messages were about connection timeouts downloading textures or something, I killed it ( ... )