Comments on: Second Life and the Web: The New Dashboard

By: Joan Kremer

Joan Kremer — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:23:48 +0000

I agree with you, Dusan, that this new dashboard is the start of a major -- and important -- development in bridging the gap between SL and the rest of the Web. One of the educational institutions in SL, the TLE Educational Network, has been working toward this for a while, believing that only full integration will fulfill the potential of Second Life. Here's one of the blog posts about their work: TLE Begins Building Conduit Between SL and Facebook

By: Dusan Writer’s Metaverse » Real Life Dates in Second Life and Other Coming Features

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:12:14 +0000

[...] referred to the new dashboard, which I think is close to revolutionary but which seems otherwise to have elicited yawns (am I delusional about this or something? [...]

By: ArminasX

ArminasX — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 18:17:37 +0000

I’m quite high on this new service too. As I reported a few months ago, it’s all based on Jive Software’s SBS community software, which is an extraordinarily powerful tool. Jive’s approach is to produce a really smooth interface that is socially engineered to encourage the highest level of adoption by the intended user base. Linden Lab could have done a lot worse by selecting another tool to base their web interface upon.

By: MixedRealities :: Second Life picking up social media logic with DashBoard

MixedRealities :: Second Life picking up social media logic with DashBoard — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 18:01:41 +0000

[...] Writer posted an detailed analysis of this development. He is very positive, and makes a number of very useful suggestions to improve [...]