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==28 February 2009==
Bevan Whitfield tweets a writer's guide to SL:
*http://www.writersinthevirtualsky.com/a-writers-guide-to-learning-about-second-life-part-3

Bevan tweets what you can dev for your country:
*http://technosailor.com/2009/02/21/ask-not-what-your-country-can-dev-for-you

Crap retweets MalBurns - virtualworldbusiness.com on avoiding the virtual land trap
*http://virtualworldbusiness.com/2009/02/26/avoiding-the-virtual-land-trap

Orban (who else) tweets H+ a slick singularity magazine:
*http://hplusmagazine.com/digitaledition/2009-spring

Bevan tweets somegreyblock on what Facebook is for:
*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFKHaFJzUb4

Nick W tweets culture in Virtual Worlds:
*http://jvwresearch.org/v1n3.html

Prok tweets (and trashes) Facebook opens governance to users:
*http://www.facebook.com/press/releases.php?p=85587

Bevan retweets Novamente paper on behaviour in virtual animals:
*http://www.novamente.net/file/AISB08_Goertzel.pdf

Squid tweets 140pedia:
*http://140pedia.com

Dusan tweets MMOX use cases:
*http://www.interopworld.com/mmox-use-cases

Botgirl using issuu for her comic magazines:
*http://issuu.com

Dusan tweets QuakeLive in a browser:
*http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2009/02/flash.html

Bevan tweets New Media Corporation "sandbox":
*http://sl.nmc.org

==27 February 2009==
Orban tweets public data sets from Amazon Web Services:
*http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2009/02/new-aws-public-data-sets-economics-dbpedia-freebase-and-wikipedia.html

Mitch Wagner tweets Microsoft standing to profit from downturn:
*http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2009/02/decoding_steve.html?cid=RSSfeed_IWK_ALL

Botgirl retweeting Bevan Whitfield on Journal of Virtual World Research:
*http://journals.tdl.org/jvwr/index

Poinky tweets Kjerulf on Lego business cards:
*http://positivesharing.com/2009/02/coolest-business-card-ever/

Laughing Squid tweets Someecards:
*http://www.someecards.com/upload/lent/id_consider_following.html

Bevan Whitfield tweets VMwares cloud API ambitions:
*http://www.elasticvapor.com/2009/02/vmwares-vcloud-api-still-hazy-ambitions.html

Al K tweets Twitter for Business 101:
*http://www.slideshare.net/pistachio/webcom-montreal

Prok mentions wordles:
*http://www.wordle.net

Mitch retweets Obama's elf:
*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_B5UrI7nAI

Josh Knauer tweets where does data go when services die:
*http://www.rhizalabs.com/2009/02/23/where-does-data-go-when-services-die

M's entry on the new SL blog network, with Prok unblocked:
*https://blogs.secondlife.com/community/features/blog/2009/02/24/a-day-in-the-lab-with-m#comments

==26 February 2009==
Rvdwals tweets the Smashing Book (and disapproves of its foreseen 30 dollar price tag):
*http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/02/24/the-smashing-book-join-in

==25 February 2009==
iYan tweets Boxxy, the rise of an Internet meme:
*http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/jan/20/internet
*http://boxxystory.blogspot.com

Al Kronos tweets Steve Dale on Is Social Networking Learning:
*http://steve-dale.net/2009/02/23/is-social-networking-learning

Al Kronos tweets the Coke "avatar" ad:
*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kwke0LNardc

Pavig tweets victory of goons over bob in Eve Online:
*http://www.offworld.com/2009/02/ragdoll-metaphysics-good-grief.html

Orban backed up his account with Tweetake

Gwyneth tweets:
*She wonders why There.com wants to help to define the Open Gateway Protocol
*MMOX has been the setting for the latest "Prokofy Wars"

Ugotrade reading The Wealth of Networks by Yochai Benkler

Davidorban wants to compare Feedly to Twine

Josh Knauer uses both http://glance.net and http://gotomeeting.com depending on his meeting needs

Orban tweets Yahoo, Adobe, online word processors and desktop advertising:
*http://seekingalpha.com/article/66018-yahoo-adobe-it-s-a-vision-thing

Mashable blogs 13 online word processors:
*http://mashable.com/2008/02/11/13-word-processors

Adobe's BuzzWord:
http://www.adobe.com/acom/buzzword

Was it Squid who tweeted this flickr thread full of Blingee? -
*http://www.flickr.com/photos/dorkmaster/3287780385/page2/#comment72157614272355567

Rdvwal tweets Font Conference:
*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8Nh0sZt8IU

Pavig tweets NASA's MMO game using Unreal Engine:
*http://news.bigdownload.com/2009/02/19/feature-first-look-at-nasas-unreal-engine-3-based-mmo

Pavig tweets historic 2003 Bill Gate rant about Windows' lack of usability:
*http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/141821.asp

Pavig tweets a comparison of in-game web browsers:
*http://au.gamespot.com/features/6204588/?skipmc=1&tag=mncol;txt

Gweneth explains updating your social sites from inside SL with hellotxt:
*http://gwynethllewelyn.net/2009/02/24/updating-your-social-websites-status-from-inside-second-life
Gwyneth tweets: "Success! SL <-> Ping.fm works flawlessly! Now I just need my Ping.fm API key approved by them"

She adds: "Someone beat me to a Ping.fm HUD."

Markus Breuer says: "in a few years comsumer pcs (i.e. netbooks) will boot into a web browser and that's it ... with operating systems."
*https://twitter.com/markus_breuer/status/1244467310

Poinky tweets phasing, the new instancing:
*http://www.massively.com/2009/02/23/mmogology-phasing-phwns-the-phuture/

Hamlet Au on OpenSim:
*http://ostatic.com/blog/an-introduction-to-opensim-the-apache-of-virtual-worlds

Rik surprised to discover his profile on the SL website:
*http://world.secondlife.com/resident/e87973b9-4e5f-41f9-b9a4-3efa6d1d8b43

Mitch Wagner tweets Google kicks Safari:
*http://www.macworld.com/article/139011/2009/02/chrome_safari_4.html?lsrc=rss_main

Cory tweets reboot.gov:
*http://yeswescan.org

==24 February 2009==
Grace McDonnough tweets 3D immersive holographic spaces:
*http://www.telepresenceoptions.com/2009/02/the_case_for_4d_immersive_holo

Prok tweets Mashable on why big brand struggle with social media:
*http://mashable.com/2009/02/20/big-brands-social-media

Botgirl retweets Rheingold on thesis about user participation:
*http://mtschaefer.net/entry/defending-my-bastard-culture

Laughing Squid tweets a pix.ly contest about twitter:
*http://twit.pix.ly/winloss/show/106

Dusan Writer tweets M Linden's Flickr stream:
*http://www.flickr.com/photos/mlinden

Dusan tweets Novicraft virtual world team building:
*http://www.metaversejournal.com/2009/02/22/novicraft-virtual-world-team-building/

David Orban tweets embed flickr slideshows on your blog:
*http://ptamaro.posterous.com/cool-tool-flickrslider-embed-f

Al Kronos tweets yammer:
*https://www.yammer.com

Mitch Wagner trying bookmarklet for posting to Twitter: twitlet and bit.ly, but rejects automated tumblr posts for this purpose.

Rubaiyat posts his ATC project:
*http://rubaiyat.wordpress.com/2009/02/21/macbeth-sv

Ugo Trade joins Metaverse twitter group:
*http://twittgroups.com/group/metaverse

Pavig tweets Cenon, open source vector art package:
*http://www.cenon.info

Valleywag takes flack for writing The End of Second Life (lots of "End of Valleywag" posts):
*http://valleywag.gawker.com/5158190/the-end-of-second-life

==23 February 2009==
Gwyneth Llewelyn using hellotxt to update across all social software at once:
*http://hellotxt.com

Mitch Wagner tweets why hulu should embrace boxee (but what are these, and why should we care?):
*http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2009/02/the-valentines-day-breakup.html

Fast Company call-in on virtual worlds, with Tish Shute:
*http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/joseph-allan/customer-conversation/next-generation-interaction-are-virtual-worlds-waiting-wings

Dusan tweets long article about SL and the media:
*http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2009/02/reuters-closes-second-life-bureau-but-virtual-life-goes-on050.html

Dusan tweets virtual worlds hype cycle:
*http://www.muvedesign.com/the-virtual-worlds-hype-cycle-for-2009

Nick Wilson tweets People Talk article on immersive worlds:
*http://www.muvedesign.com/the-virtual-worlds-hype-cycle-for-2009

Rheta Shan - and others - experimenting with Plurk's new Twitter-to-Plurk integration.

Cory tweets Ordinal's twitterbox:
*http://ordinalmalaprop.com/twitter

==22 February 2009==
Notes to self:
*http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/11/googles-seo-starter-guide.html
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtualization

==21 February 2009==
Dr. Manhatten says http://www.reactiongrid.com has been heavily influenced by Erica & Sam Drivers' approach to putting professionalism ahead of anonymity in VW's:
*http://twitter.com/Dr_Manhattan/status/1226389689

Poinky tweets learning Ruby on Github:
*http://github.com/edgecase/ruby_koans/tree/master

Clever Zebra building a list of Virtual Worlds Communities:
*http://cleverzebra.com/forums/virtual-worlds-communities-groups-and-information-sources

Botgirl tweets Facebook could raise your risk of cancer:
*http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1149207/How-using-Facebook-raise-risk-cancer.html

Nick Wilson tweets Intellagirl presentation (on some kind of technology that is new to me...):
*http://breeze.iu.edu/p22569434

Tateru tweets - and blogs - MMOX standards:
*http://www.massively.com/2009/02/19/mmox-standards-at-the-74th-ietf

Massively Multiple Online X, at SL wiki:
*http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/MMOX

Nick Wilson tweets AITP Keynote on Virtual Worlds (slides with lots of factoids):
*http://www.slideshare.net/lyrlobo/aitp-keynote-on-virtual-worlds

Nick Wilson tweets Solipsis, Opensource Decentralized Metaverse:
*http://www.solipsis.org

Mitch Wagner tweets how to make gmail ugly:
*http://venturebeat.com/2009/02/19/youre-now-free-to-make-gmail-as-ugly-as-you-want

Botgirl tweets: "Gridiron is scanning my drives now and I'm looking forward to playing with it."

Mitch Joel is president of TwistImage:
*http://www.twistimage.com/blog/about

Mitch Joel's blog features Marc Andreessen:
*http://www.twistimage.com/blog/archives/where-its-at-and-where-its-going-according-to-marc-andreessen/

Mitch Wagner tweets Cory Doctoro on "collapse anxiety":
*http://www.boingboing.net/2009/02/17/how-are-you-coping-w.html

Poinky tweets signific, a Massively Multiplayer Online thought-experiment:
*http://lab.signtific.org

Mitch Wagner is the Copper Robot:
*http://copperrobot.com/index.php?post_id=434115

Laughing Squid tweets a 100 kilo website:
*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPRQWdk4M_E

And here's the result, the (Czeck) Idea-Entrepreneur website:
*http://www.elektroavdelingen.no

Dusan retweets Mal Burns about virtual goods on Twitter:
*http://twesents.com

==20 February 2009==
Dusan Writer likes Raph Koster's Metaplace Evangelism.

SinTrenton tweets: "Setting up portable Google Chrome 2.0 with mobile bookmarks on USB. Quickest "jack in anywhere"."

Pavig tweets fatfoogoo "monetizing your game":
*http://www.fatfoogoo.com

Pavig tweets Fireball on "copying the wrong thing":
*http://daringfireball.net/2009/02/copying_the_wrong_thing

Sin Trenton tweets disposable chat rooms:
*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/18/tinychat-makes-creating-disposable-chat-rooms-a-breeze

Rick van der Wal tweets twitter bots:
*http://infovore.org/archives/2008/12/29/twit-4-dead

Mitch Wagner tweets Vista's DRM not so bad:
*http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/02/oh-the-humanity-windows-7s-draconian-drm.ars

Botgirl tweets a visual story-telling encyclopedia:
*http://www.fulltable.com/VTS/index2.htm

Crinid post about convergent thinking:
*http://www.crinid.com/idea_development/simple-way-to-practise-convergent-thinking
:Answer these questions with one word:
::What are you passionate about? 
::What do you like about your current job ? 
::What do you value most in life? 
::Where do you want to be in 5 years? 
::What is the stuff dreams are made of?

Rubaiyat tweets clipnabber to download videos:
*http://clipnabber.com

Crap - and others - tweet The Spy Who Lives Here:
*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdVwkUcuxmk&fmt=18

==19 February 2009==
Botgirl tweets Stowe Boyde on canonical features of streaming applications:
*http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/2009/02/the-architecture-of-flow-key-features-of-streaming-applications.html

Nick Wilson tweets the Aula business environment for SL and OpenSim, which reminds him of his own ill-fated Clever Zebra project:
*http://blog.knowsense.co.uk/blog/_archives/2009/2/11/4089275.html

Nick Wilson tweets Erica Driver's ThinkBalm Innovation Community:
*http://thinkbalm.com

Mitch Wagner tweets Orlov on Social Collapse Best Practices:
*http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2009/02/social-collapse-best-practices.html

Laughing Squid tweets French street artist ZEVS liquidating Google:
*http://gzzglz.com

Nick Wilson tweets a primer on virtual event marketing:
*http://www.marketingsherpa.com/article.php?ident=31049#

Ordinal posts Virtual Worlds Directory Hud at Rezzable:
*http://rezzable.com/vwdirectory/virtual-worlds-directory-hud-instructions

Al Kronos starts a list on Blist about collaboration, social networks or (not "and") enterprise 2.0:
*http://app.blist.com/#/blist/alkronos/Sources-for-information-on-Collaboration-in-the-2-0-World

Botgirl tweets Surfing Google Earth with a Wii board:
*http://www.boingboing.net/2009/02/17/surfing-google-earth.html

==18 February 2009==
Pavig tweets "behaviorists gain access to way-too-much everquest data":
*http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2009/02/aaas-60tb-of-behavioral-data-the-everquest-2-server-logs.ars

Prokofy tweets Mark Pesce on hyperconnectivity and mob rule:
*http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/pesce08/pesce08_index.html

Dandellion links to Gwyneth's Post-Immersionism:
*http://gwynethllewelyn.net/2009/01/10/post-immersionism

Al Kronos tweets CoolViewer, latest alternative SL viewer.

Sin Trenton tweets about ping.fm and Identi.ca - I should see what those are.

Cory tweets "Josh and Rita's" (and Rose's) SL Islamic project:
*http://twitter.com/CoryOndrejka/status/1215027423

NickWilson tweets SL parody video:
*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flkgNn50k14

Ordinal and Pavig tweet Browser HUD:
*http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/LSL_Browser_HUD

Dusan tweets Darb Dabney's OpenSim GIS presentation in SL machinima:
*http://blog.simgis.com/2008/12/14/machinima-can-not-equal-a-live-sl-connection-in-presentation/

Botgirl tweets vizthink:
*http://www.vizthink.com/blog/2009/02/16/amazing-all-new-slate-of-content-scheduled-for-vizthink-09/

Prokofy tweets Mr. Tweet:
*http://mrtweet.net/?v=12

Botgirl tweets Feedly:
*http://www.feedly.com

Botgirl tweets sketch sharing:
*http://sketchory.com

Sin Trenton tweets about Tumblr feeding into twitter.

==17 February 2009==
Bevan Whitfield tweets Radar Masukami on the scaling problems of OSGrid's Asset Server:
*http://radarmasukami.com/2009/02/14/maybe-youll-believe-someone-else

Radar links to an Adam Frisby post explaining the problem:
*http://www.adamfrisby.com/blog/2009/02/fragstore-a-fragmenting-asset-store

Pavig tweets Mozilla Bespin, cloud-based code editing:
*https://bespin.mozilla.com

Dusan Writer on virtual world agencies:
*http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2009/02/15/the-forked-road-virtual-world-agencies-and-where-they-went

The blog of Jon Brouchoud about virtual architecture:
*http://archsl.wordpress.com

Digado follows Dusan's blog, Pavig's twitter stream and Justin Gibbs for news outside SL. Btw Digado seems to be Rick van der Wals:
*http://digado.nl/hello-goodbye-and-a-new-project.html

Nick Wilson tweets Open Cobalt, P2P virtual worlds:
*http://www.duke.edu/~julian/Cobalt/Home.html

Botgirl tweets TechCrunch on Twitter as a database for mining the thought stream:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/15/mining-the-thought-stream

==15 February 2009==
Rick van der Wal links to an article called "The Speed of Ideas" on the crinid.com website, the authors of which are himself, Martin in’t Veld and Risha Pradkin:
*http://www.crinid.com/masters/the-speed-of-ideas
This article, written by Risha, links to Seth Godin's blog:
*http://sethgodin.typepad.com

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After twittering a bit, I remembered that today is the second Grand Tour, so I went inworld to Fatima's Wonderland. My pc is a bit old for big crowds - half the avatars are still grey, and I'm not getting the music. The only person I know is KlausWulfenbach, and he seems afk...

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One of Danton's dreams: rent a server and install OpenSim:
*http://www.louche.org/index.php/2008/03/28/16-opensim-sur-serveur-rps-ca-marche

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I just rented a low-end dedicated server with Windows, so that I can install OpenSim more easily than with Linux.

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Mitch Wagner likes KAA's social media rant:
*http://www.kaaslaw.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=180:the-rise-and-fall-of-social-media&catid=34:administrator

Nick Wilson tweets scaling Drupal:
*http://www.workhabit.com/products/elastic2

Pavig tweets EFF on bloggers' rights:
*http://www.eff.org/issues/bloggers/legal

Gwyneth Llewelyn links to the shift happens wiki:
*http://shifthappens.wikispaces.com

Ugo Trade tweets Games Alfresco, augmented reality blog by Ori Inbar:
*http://gamesalfresco.com/

Gwyneth tweets that OpenDNS made it seem Google was down:
http://mrtopf.de/blog/web20/goggle-is-down-if-you-use-opendns-and-shortcuts-was-google-is-down-updated/


==13 February 2009==
'''I've started following Twitter again!'''

Pavig tweets a full-length sci-fi film made for 7000 USD and posted on Google vid:
*http://tinyurl.com/cb47rn on

MadameMaracas tweets Hippos on the Jira:
*http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-11118

Mitschi tweets a service to track curse words on Twitter:
*http://cursebird.com

NickWilson tweets a mega-twit-fit (Twitter war):
*http://racetalkblog.com/2009/02/13/want-to-bring-this-outside-how-about-on-twitter

SinTrenton tweets "Sony releases new stupid piece of shit that doesn't fucking work":
*http://www.theonion.com/content/video/sony_releases_new_stupid_piece_of

AlKronos wants to see the IBM virtual green data centre stuff in SL, which leads me to epredator and the eightbar blog (authors listed as: Andy Piper, Graham White, Ian Hughes (epredator), Nick O’Leary, Rob Smart, Roo Reynolds:
*http://eightbar.co.uk

Pavig tweets Tateru explaining "free" licenses:
*http://www.metaversejournal.com/2009/02/13/virtual-world-ip-not-a-steal

Nick Wilson tweets the netsquared website:
*http://netsquared.org

Pavig tweets themorningnews on "Mindfuck Movies":
*http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/reviews/mindfuck_movies.php

LaughingSquid tweets about twitter blocking clickjacking:
*http://blog.twitter.com/2009/02/clickjacking-blocked.html

DusanWriter tweets AdWeek on SL attempts rebirth through enhanced usability:
*http://www.adweek.com/aw/content_display/news/digital/e3i7aabd374e1b54f168b01e63874c4fe12

LaughingSquid tweets Sockington has 32k followers (Jason Scott's cat):
*http://twitter.com/sockington

Poinky (of Xerox) blogs the newbie experience:
*http://really.blogs.xerox.com/2009/02/05/it-isnt-easy-being-green-the-newbie-experience/

and mentions Printalution Island (Virtual Graphic Communication Community):
*http://www.printalution.com

David Orban tweets LaBlogga, aka Melanie Swann, whose website is called "MS Futures Group" (as in Master of Science?), and who runs a techie blog on Blogger:
*http://twitter.com/LaBlogga
*http://melanieswan.com
*http://futurememes.blogspot.com

LaughingSquid tweets the WHIR, Web Host Industry Review:
*http://www.thewhir.com

Prokofy tweets the people that run everything online and should be overthrown:
*http://www.mobilavenue.net/2009/02/07/the-next-digital-experience

LaughingSquid tweets Linus Torvalds' 25 Things About Me:
*http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com/2009/02/25-things-about-me.html

==10 February 2009==
Last night and today I've made a huge step forward: I moved this website to a new, more appropriate URL: http://sluserguide.com.

This in fact involved creating a whole new website, and transfering all the information over. Everything went fine, including ordering the URL, making the web space, installing MediaWiki, exporting pages from vwiki.ouvaton.org using an XML dump, importing the dump into the new site, and separately uploading all of the images. The only problem came at the end: the Category links in the new site do not register until the page containing the Category links is edited. This means I have to open and edit all the imported pages, one by one...

==06 February 2009==
I've been too busy working on this website to write about it.

I'm in the steep part of the learning curve, and of the site-building curve, which in this case comes to about the same thing. Lots of changes in concept, approach and content lately. One enormous change made today: I changed the site name from "Danton's Second Life Tools-House" to "Danton's Second Life User Guide."

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