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11.15.09Killer Apps, Second Life Enterprise, LindeLogic and the MarketplaceLinden Lab's SLEEK - or Second Life Enterprise as they prefer to call it, will rise or fall on its applications not its prims, although the logic of how 3D content is being handled has the sort of snake-eating-its-own-tail quality which drove things like homestead pricing or the illegality of nipples in the PG areas of Second Life: from where the Lab sits it probably makes sense, but put the thought process into the wild and you suddenly remember you're running a world not a platform. If what enterprise wants is a sim with a bunch of corporate builds and the ...
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06.06.08Google Earth Unbound – Is THIS Virtual Earth?Google Earth (GE) recently announced that it would make a plug-in to allow GE to run in a browser (thus far, for Windows only). GE expects to see its mashups on the Web, in its words, "with many more applications than ever before." GE is careful to note that the entire application is not being converted into a browser, but only that the plug-in will run, which will enable developers to create applications and enable UI features. While the plug-in will not have all the features of the full GE client, it is still a favourable development for developers who can ...
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