Islab: Second Life search

Islab is described as the official search tool for Second Life and is the latest addition to my list of slashups: mashups for Second Life. This is the best out of world search tool I’ve found so far making finding people, places and information so much more efficient and accessible than relying on the search in-world.
The joy [...]

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Slashups: Web 2.0 mashups for Second Life

Slashups , Second Life mashups, are the answer to merging your existing web content such as photo’s, music and bookmarks into Second Life. Objects within SL can get data from, or post data to, the web. Conversely your networking sites on the web can post data to, or get data from, [...]

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Slooging is the new tagging

Find searching in Second Life a bit tricky? Frustrated with digging around in your inventory and friends lists for landmarks or avatars you can’t remember the name of? Well help is at hand with sloog.org, a bookmarking, or tagging, service for Second Life.
Sloog works in the same way as del.icio.us, Digg, and Magnolia [...]

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Support Stuff4Sam in Second Life

For a two and a half years myself and some friends have been fundraising for a 3 year old friend called Sam who was severely disabled after a car crash. So far, with the £21,o000 raised, we’ve been able to buy him a specially adapted wheelchair so he can get out and about, an [...]

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Find your voice in Second Life

A little while ago Second Life released Voice Beta which now means residents can communicate using voice as well as the standard chat and instant messaging. This is great news as it opens the world up to those of us who have trouble typing or can not type.
I’ve been collecting people’s stories and experiences of [...]

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