Second Life Viewer 2

Wie auf Linden Lab´s offiziellen Second Life Blog zu lesen ist, steht seit gestern ein neuer, bahnbrechender Second Life Viewer unter dem Namen Second Life Viewer 2 Beta zum download bereit.

Der Look des Viewers ist an die eines herkömmlichen Webbrowsers angelehnt und dadurch wesentlich benutzerfreundlicher. Viele aus Webbrowsern bekannte Funktionen wie Navigation Bar, "Home"-Button, Favoriten / Lesezeichen, ein Suchfenster oder "Vor-" und "Zurück-"Buttons finden sich hier wieder.

Unter dem Markennamen Second Life Shared Media können nun Webinhalte bequem in SL integriert werden. Auf eine Textur lassen sich z.B. Flash, mp3 oder ganze Webseiten (HTML) legen und auch aus SL ansteuern.

Die gesamte Menüstruktur wurde neu gegliedert und übersichtlicher gestaltet. So gibt es jetzt an der rechten Seite ein "Toggle out"-Menü, in dem alle den Avatar und die Kommunikation betreffenden Funktionen zusammengelegt sind.

Es ist Jedem wärmstens empfohlen, Viewer 2 auszuprobieren! Wir sind jedenfalls begeistert!

Mehr dazu auch auf der YOUin3D.com Webseite.

Hier findet Ihr eine PDF-Kurzanleitung zum neuen Viewer.

Mark Kingdon CEO Linden Lab @ CeBIT

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CeBIT Global Conferences - Keynotes

Mark Kingdon Chief Executive Officer Linden Lab:
The Ultimate Immersive Experience - Using Virtual Worlds to Connect, Communicate and Collaborate.

Learn how virtual worlds like Linden Lab's Second Life are being used everyday by individuals, companies and organizations around the world to collaborate with co-workers, create new products, hold meetings and start new businesses.

Convention Center (CC), Saal 2,
05.03.2010, 11:00 – 11:30 Uhr

The speaker´s short vita:

Mark Kingdon joined Linden Lab in May 2008 as Chief Executive Officer. Mark leads the day-to-day management and operations of the company, working closely alongside Linden Lab founder, former CEO and current Chairman Philip Rosedale.

Prior to joining Linden Lab, Mark served as Chief Executive Officer of Organic Inc. a leading digital communications agency, building its reputation as a groundbreaking, innovative provider of user-centered design. While at Organic, Mark built the company's social media and social computing services and launched the company's emerging platforms practice. Prior to Organic, Kingdon worked with idealab!, providing strategic guidance and operational support to emerging companies. Before that, Mark was a partner with the consulting division of PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP (PwC), where he held a variety of senior roles throughout his twelve-year tenure.

He received an MBA from the Wharton School of Business and a BA in Economics from UCLA.

Nachtrag:
Hier ein Mitschnitt von der Webseite der CeBIT:

Seminar in Second Life zum Thema Virtuelles Recht -Content Creation

Alle Interessierten sind herzlich zum kostenlosen Seminar

Virtuelles Recht I - Content Creation

im brandneues Ausstellungs- und Veranstaltungszentrum in newBERLIN eingeladen.

Ort: newBERLIN in Second Life® Teleport-Link
Zeit: 18:30-20:00
Datum: Mittwoch, 24.02.2010

Inhalt:

Das Seminar ist der Auftakt zu einer kleinen Seminarserie rund um das Thema "Virtuelles Recht".

Rechtsanwalt Mag. Peter Harlander (aka Ice Stawberry) erklärt in den beiden ersten Seminaren zum Thema Content Creation anhand häufig gestellter Fragen, welche Regeln für deutsche und österreichische Content-Ersteller in virtuellen Welten wie Second Life gelten, welche Rechte Dritter zu beachten sind und was zu tun ist, wenn die eigenen Rechte verletzt werden.

Technik:

Der Vortrag erfolgt in Second Life per Voice und ist unterstützend in Form einer Slideshow aufbereitet. Zur Teilnahme ist also die Möglichkeit, Voice zu hören, erforderlich.

Das Publikum kann seine Meinung zum Thema in Form von Umfragen einbringen und natürlich Fragen per Voice als auch per Text-Chat stellen.

LG Peter Harlander (aka Ice Stawberry)

First look on avameet.com: The virtual worlds hub

avameet.com just went public. It is still under construction (official launch: Q2 2010) but you may already have a first look and see what it will be about. The description on the website says:

"At avameet, you will find a friendly community of all users of all social virtual worlds, your favourite marketplace,

a comprehensive wiki, useful collaboration tools, and much more.

avameet is your place to stay in touch with your friends all over virtual worlds, to meet new interesting people, and to join groups and inworld projects.

Settle down in your favourite virtual world community, and reach out to users of different virtual worlds.

Goods and services for many different virtual worlds are traded in the avameet marketplace, and there is a special and unique feature to your marketplace to be announced soon.

The avameet wiki for virtual worlds is a comprehensive competence and information center built up by and for users of all virtual worlds.

Start your own inworld project and be master of your own group!

Represent your university, organization, or corporation at avameet!

At avameet you can publish and share your inworld and real world pictures and videos, announce your events, manage your projects, and use various channels to communicate with all worlds.

Use avameet as your central gateway to all virtual worlds.

Participate in 3D projects. Widen your horizon on the variety of virtual worlds."

avameet.com was founded by Silvio Remus (Silvio Interflug in Second Life) who opened slinside.com in 2007, a very successful, but more SL focussed and mostly German portal.

BERLINin3D.com and slinside.com have a long tradition in working together: we organized a lot of inworld and real life parties and events.

Just some days ago, Linden Lab´s CEO Mark Kingdon(M Linden) announced, they bought Avatars United, a quite simliar project from Sweden.

"The community for your MMO avatars. Discover social applications that will improve your virtual life.

Intro on website:

"Create profiles for your virtual world avatars

Customize your profiles through applications, themes and backgrounds.

Interact with your friends. Find friends and hook up with avatars from any virtual world. Stay in touch with your world and see what your friends are up to when you are not playing.

Explore social MMO applications.Find and install applications customized for your virtual world."

See also Myrl.com, launched already in April 2008.

"Myrl is a social gateway for virtual worlds that allows you to share your virtual life on the web. Discover, browse and play across multiple worlds with Myrl.

Myrl brings Virtual Worlds together and on to the Web, empowers avatars/users with social networking and social ranking tools, provides direct integrations between the Virtual Worlds and the Web and creates a cross-worlds search engine for the Metaverse." (Description on myrl.com website)

There are quite a lot of others existing since years, e.g. koinup (foccussed on vid/pic sharing), allvatar (MMORPG orientated) or slprofiles. A relatively new one seems to be linkedprim, mainly foccussing on "Freebies" for Second Life.