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April 10th, 2008
The Archives
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04.10.08Librarian Outlines Trends in Online CommunitiesJill Hurst-Wahl, a lifelong information technologist and library scientist, visited the Memorial Library at the SUNY campus in upstate New York recently to offer some keen observations about social networks. Hurst-Wahl said that online communities are the "virtual coffee pot," a place for users to gather around a water cooler and discuss... well, anything. She also noted that the trend towards social networking will not abate any time soon. Here are a few of her observations, pulled from the SUNY Memorial Library blog: - Social Networking Tools (SNTs) will be everywhere. In the course management software, in the library catalog, in ...
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04.10.08Linden Clarifies Island PricingLinden has further clarified the pricing structure of private islands and Open Space sims in a blog entry this evening. I posted initially here. The move is being "read" a number of ways - on the one hand instilling less confidence amongst land owners who rent or sell parcels who, without warning have seen the base costs of setting up comparable islands fall up to 40%. While others are reading is as a welcome shift that will encourage wider use of the Second Life platform. With competition from OpenSim, Vast Park and other grids where a sim can be had for as ...
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