Geekend News: Voice for Linux
I just met Dale Glass on the Geekend meeting at Orange Island. And it seems there is a native Voice solution for Linux, FI-NAL-LY!
The other thing is: These SL meetings are a super great thing. Listening to that cool, bright guy talking about S3 amazon virtualisation while blabbing away with random brilliant audience people was pure fun.
[12:31] Jeffronius Batra: I think that 2008 will be the year that SL really takes off for meetings and conferences.
[12:31] Jeffronius Batra: Last week I spoke to a conference in Israel one day (via SL) and two days later I was virtually in India.
[12:31] Jeffronius Batra: A huge time saver and fun to boot.
[12:31] Adri Saarinen: and less airport food!
[12:32] Frans Charming: you missed out on good curry though. ;P
[12:32] Jeffronius Batra: Less airport food, that’s for sure.
[12:32] Jeffronius Batra: I wouldn’t mind that curry.
[12:32] Jeffronius Batra: SL perf and stability seems to be headed in the right direction.
Anybody telling me that SL is dead, will be ignored, not kicked in the balls this year, I promise.
And that’s the one single problem I (still) have with voice: So much gets lost when you have to listen to someone on voice, instead of having a typed down protocol of what was said. Nobody (beside me and my dog) will ever know how often I run to the kitchen, grab some food, come back to the computer, type some “Aha, I see.” and read in the chat history what was said while I was away. In no time. That just doesn’t work with voice, see?
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March 14th, 2008 at 13:45
[...] Orange have an interesting way to get along with the situation: If you are interested in their event news, you click on a panel. Seconds later you receive a friend request of a Avatar called “EventReminder OrangeGroup”. This happens to be a bot, that sends you IMs on the events, just as the name says. I’m just in the process of building such a thing for our own portfolio, justincase. But nontheless, this is just a cheap surrogate: Forming groups in SL is a higly social process, you don’t just want to receive and chat, otherwise, we could all just subscribe to an RSS feed or mailing list. It’s vital that you can see who’s in that group with you, or peek into some Avie’s profile and see his group list. The whole “Oh hai, you too?/Love your grouplist!” thing called Web2.0(tm)…. [...]