Posted in search, secondlife, slashup, virtualworlds on December 16, 2007 | No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in search, secondlife, slashup, virtualworlds on November 4, 2007 | No Comments »
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, [...]
Posted in accessibility, search, secondlife, slashup, virtualworlds on October 21, 2007 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Posted in accessibility, virtualworlds on October 19, 2007 | No Comments »
AssitiveWare have published some excellent videos of people with disabilities accessing the web using various access technologies. Amongst them are a few gamers accessing in virtual worlds using a combination of assistive technologies to zap dragons and outwit the enemy.
In One Thumb to Rule (below) Mike Phillips, a gamer and freelance technology writer born with [...]
Posted in user testing, virtualworlds on September 25, 2007 | 3 Comments »
At Oz-IA ast weekend, the Australia Information Architecture conference in Sydney, Gary Bunker and Gabriele Hermansson presented on User Research in Virtual Worlds.
They talked about how their company Hyrdo, have set out to build a research platform to allow user testing within virtual worlds, not only for their experiences there but also of products [...]
