http://primforge.com/2008-01-25/voice-for-linux/ That Virtual World. We build it. Thu, 13 Jan 2011 12:20:28 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9-rare hourly 1 http://primforge.com/2008-01-25/voice-for-linux/#comment-11 26-of-25 | PrimForge Fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:45:50 +0000 http://primforge.com/2008-01-25/voice-for-linux/#comment-11 [...] 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)…. [...] [...] 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)…. [...]

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