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• 01.19.09
  Philip Rosedale on Metanomics: 5 Things I’d Like to Hear Applications and Tools, Business in Virtual Worlds, Collaboration, Second Life, Visualization in 3D | (6)

  Philip Rosedale will appear today on Metanomics at 12:00 SLT (PST). Now, there's lots I'd love to hear from the fearless and wandery founder of Second Life, but I'll set my standard list aside for a bit: you know, the one that includes things like why is Mono six months late, why did it crash the Grid last night, what were you THINKING when it came to open spaces, that kind of thing. When Philip hired Mark Kingdon, (M), he promised he was going off to do what he does best: focus on technology, and ideas, and to give presentations that ...

  Tagged: HTML, Linden Lab, mitch kapor, philip rosedale, Second Life
  
• 06.15.08
  HTML On a Prim Now Dynamic Applications and Tools, Second Life | (0)

  Thanks to Epredator by way of Hamlet at New World Notes for pointing out that HTML on a prim now has the capacity to display dynamic Web pages. OK, sure, you can't click them yet and it's still not HTML textures (as compared to using a media stream on a parcel) but we're getting close. As Epredator notes on Eightbar (and Hamlet quotes): "The ability to get to web information in a shared fashion always seemed to be a killer app," Mr. Potato writes. "There is so much content out there and people don’t always want to rebuild everything. So in ...

  Tagged: HTML, HTML on a prim, Second Life
  

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