Think that the Grid shouldn’t be a closed off “place”? Wish it was integrated into the wider Web? Well the Lab has a job for you:
Linden Lab is looking for talented, creative web developers to extend the Second Life platform to the Web. We are looking for someone who has experience developing web-based products and services both internal to a medium-size company, and external to a customer base of tens of millions, with an eye towards scalable, internationalized solutions. We are a small team with an important long-term mission, so we work hard to keep our workload reasonable.
(Reasonable workload refers, I think, to doing whatever you want from the JIRA list and playing Foozball in the afternoons, but I’m not sure.)
“so we work hard to keep our workload reasonable.”
Is it just me, or does that sound an awful lot like “we work hard at not working too hard at all” ?
wrong wrong wrong, they get it all wrong. if they were still a lab they would try to make an OS out of Second Life, not trying to reach for the masses. (it’s all for the profit now, i guess.)
implementing functions for editing documents, managing pictures and browsing the internet, this shouldn’t be that hard and while they keep on developing things they could enable users to run programs FROM SL, like launching them FROM SL.
they should really try this, putting the whole thing up on a raw linux distro, maybe this could be called SLix or something.
i know it’s a huge task, but they have the $ from land tiers anyway…
Odd, this announcement also slipped by the developer community:
http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/09/rivers-run-red.html
If you saw the booth at the VW Expo, you would of seen Rivers Run Red almost merged in with Linden Lab. I also saw a demo of their Immersive Workspaces web application to 3d space.
Thanks all…
I have to say I was very impressed with the Rivers Run Red application. Not because it included a robust Web workspace coupled with the builds in SL, but because it did it based on the core mechanics currently in SL itself.
This idea that SL needs to merge with the Web is sort of misleading - SL already HAS merged with the Web. SLExchange, blogs, the Loco Pocos Web site and community, Rivers Run Red, wikis, OnRez…all of them are integrated Web-based applications that help facilitate multi-platform ways of accessing SL-centric content.
I’m with Anonymous however - I’d like to see Web content IN SL in a more robust way, without breaking the Grid, and without turning it into a wasteland of Web-based texturing. I’ve seen art exhibits, for example, that generate textures on prims based on Flickr streams….you input a word, the textures display all the photos tagged with that word.
Embedded Flash applications in world that you can actually click and interact with, and opening the door to collaborating to a degree on documents (much like Qwak say) would open up a new richness of content. Whether the Grid can sustain this level of dynamic content is a real issue, I imagine.
How SL needs to be embedded in the rest of the Web, I’m not sure….but if they’re headed down the Lively path of embedding mini SL Grids in my Facebook profile, forget it. Embed my avatar maybe and link it to SLim, but don’t ever forget that a virtue of SL is the sense of a contiguous space (even when it isn’t) and the feeling that it’s a world not a mini application embedded all over the Web.