Second Life to weblin — best of both worlds (english)

November 20th, 2008 Torrid Posted in Art, Business, English, Firma, Media, Press, Scripting 3 Comments »

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[diesen Artikel auf deutsch lesen]

The Primforge group is proud and happy to release the weblin Gate in New Berlin, an avatar teleporter in cooperation with zweitgeist GmbH into the Public.

Weblin — that is small avatars that live on common websites, to chat, surf together with friends, talk about the current news on your page or blog (yes, they are there!), or just be present and greet their visitors on their own page. Since 2006, weblin avatars — created by the Hamburg company zweitgeist — are amongst us. I’m constantly amazed at that parallel cosmos that lives on lots of popular sites, that I surf all day.

June Trenkins probiert die weblin avatarstation

June Trenkins ready to become a weblin.

Now you can visit our professional 3D photograph Weblin Paule in New Berlin who simply transforms your fully featured Second Life Avatar into a weblin, and surf the good old WWW with your very own look!

It’s an amazing opportunity for long time Residents of Second Life to take their beloved identity onto the World Wide Web, and a cool new feature for skilled weblin users, to create their unique avatar with all the features, Second Life can give you.

“Win win”, one could say, or just “Best of both worlds”. :-)

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Perfect day

November 5th, 2008 Torrid Posted in Art, Business, Meta, NotAnArt, Scripting, Thoughts, deutsch No Comments »

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Das war klasse heute. $Auftraggeber hat sich nach Second Life begeben, vor Ort, in medias res: Ein Programmierer, ein QA und ein Verantwortlicher. ;-)
Wir haben an einem Tag mehr geschafft, als man normalerweise mit Emails, ausbessern, Versionen freigeben, rätseln, was der andere nun wieder meint in vielen Tagen erledigen würde.
Ich hab die Hoffnung auf Agile Entwicklungsmethoden, Pair Programming und Code Review vor einigen Jahren mal an den Nagel gehängt, aber da war ich a) selber noch zu unsicher und b) von Luschen umgeben. ;P Aufgegeben habe ich das nie, und mit tx bin ich auch ganz gut auf einer Wellenlänge, dass es klappt. Schön, wenn — wie heute — der Kunde sowas mitmacht, und besonders schön, wenn es funkt. :-)
Ach ja, es wird eine große Ankündigung geben, die Tage. Inter-Grid-Reisen, Virtual Entity Retainment, Virtual Presence. Interoperability.

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Chemistry Engine

October 24th, 2008 Torrid Posted in English, Firma, Galleries, Science, Scripting, Tech No Comments »

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Lately there was some joking in one of the SL group forums, that Second Life has a Physics engine (Havok4), but no Chemistry Engine yet. Well, there are a few things we scripters can still invent, while the common workflow is taken over by the big companies like IBM and Rivers Run Red. :-)

Chemistry Workbench

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Preloading Images (Microsoft Island)

August 21st, 2008 Torrid Posted in English, Firma, NotAnArt, Scripting No Comments »

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Just visiting Microsoft Island:

C’mon guys, that’s not a big secret: If you make a slideshow in SL, make sure to preload the next image (and maybe some more, depending on your user guidance). It’s really easy, not a secret to do so in SL, and it’s a huge drawback for your audience to lose out on that.

Actually that’s just a tiny bit of really bad scripting/ergonomic knowledge, I find all over Second Life, but it reminds me so much to the “hey, it loads OK for me” from back in 1997.

When in Trouble or in Doubt, Run in Circles, Scream & Shout!
(Or just call 0800 PRIMFORGE)

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Breaking Tables

July 20th, 2008 Torrid Posted in English, LoTek, Scripting, Tech, Thoughts No Comments »

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Lively

July 9th, 2008 Torrid Posted in Business, English, Media, Scripting, Tech No Comments »

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Lively, Lively, lalalalala. (Doesn’t run in wine, nor Linux. So I’ll abstain from testing that yet.)

Ah, did you see that we have weblin on http://primforge.com/ yet? There’ll be some nice improvements by the Primforge Group around that, soon…^^

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Fun with (no) EM Streaming

June 29th, 2008 Torrid Posted in Art, English, Media, Polemik, Scripting, Tech No Comments »

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Today, while I was busy trying to stream the Finale of the Soccer EM (never say soccer^^) to our land on meetingpoint, I had a funny effect. I am building a new TV receiver for DBC Radio TV Switzerland, and every once in a while, I used that to check if the media was still working. Then, within the first few frames of Torley Lindens funny video “How to build a 1 prim barstool” (streaming directly from youtube, which is super easy with the new DBC TV), some magic happened:

Now we have a huge Torley Linden, wearing some sort of Spy vs. Spy costume and a watermelon ghetto blaster protecting our Sim. :-)

Btw, the Soccer Streaming didn’t work for me. All ZDF live broadcasts have a Quicktime option, so you can find out the rtsp streaming url and paste that in your Media Options. But ARD (”Das Erste”) only broadcasts ASX or WMV streams. Somewhat lame for a public payed TV station.

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Sie haben es wieder gemacht

June 6th, 2008 Torrid Posted in Polemik, Scripting, unmut 1 Comment »

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Gnaagnaa! Ich habe heute, am 6. Juni mein Passwort fuer den hier aufgetretenen Fall von Datenbanksenilität zugesandt bekommen. (Ich weiss, in Institutionen kommen die Emails auf so einen Rollwagen und werden dann von Azubis durch die Institutionen geschaukelt, aber das waren zwölf Tage!!)

Klasse, endlich mal schauen, warum Primforge immer noch nicht in der Suche auftaucht (Ich hab auch ein paar lecker Screenshots in unserem Portfolio abgelegt, falls mal wer wissen will, was wir so machen.)

Und? Geht natürlich nicht. Genau wie mein erstes Firmenprofil, taucht auch das zweite nicht in der Suche auf. Torrid nach Admin telefonieren. Hab heute schon 5 Stunden lang mit Freenet, Alice und T-Kom rumgeschäkert, da ist das ein Klacks, sollte man denken:

Ich glaube, bei Projekten, die vom Senat gefördert sind, muss man einfach gaaaaaanz laaaaangsam klüüüüücken.

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