One reason to run the Linux SL client
Also, try checking out the Live Boot CD of Second Life Linux– found via Torley via Baba Yamamoto. Unfortunately I can’t try it out, since this is an ATI house (Gamecube + 2 Windows boxes)
Second Life and Google’s new Accessible search
July 24, 2006 at 5:16 pm (Google, Google Accessible Search, Second Life, SignpostMarv Martin, Torley Linden)
I have a tendancy to ramble on endlessly about topics nobody cares about, so I thought it’d be a good idea to check with someone first.
My Observations
Compare the position of SecondLife.com in the “normal” search results
and the accesible search results when searching for “second life” on Google:
- “Normal” Search
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- SecondLife.com is the first result
- The teen grid site is the 10th result on page 1
- LindenLab.com is the third result
- The forums are on page 2
- The Wikipedia entry is the fourth result
- http://secondlife.com/whatis is the 2nd result
- Accessible Search
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- SecondLife.com is the 10th result on page 1
- The teen grid site is on page 18
- I went looking for LindenLab.com and found it on page 13
- The forums (along with this page that I can’t make head nor tail of ) are on page 17
- http://secondlife.com/whatis is on the 15th page
- The Wikipedia Entry is the first result
Also note the different ordering between the site specific searches on
the accessible searches and the “normal” searches
End of email transposition (do take into account my observations were made during the writing of the email and the results may have changed by the time this post is read)
So what does this mean ?
- The Wikipedia is more accessible than Second Life
- The Teen Grid site is for some reason significantly worse off than the Main site, despite having significantly less coding errors than it’s Main Grid counterpart.
- Google Accessible Search makes about as much sense of the forums as I do.
- Google Accesible Search prefers the wikipedia over everything else
- Google are still using <font> tags.
- Linden Lab, and possibly a certain Zombie have some work to do if they want their content to have equal or superior weighting to web content as percieved by Google Accessible Search
Using Firefox ?
To use the accessible search for Address Bar searches, load up about:config, search for keyword.URL, and change the value to http://www.google.com/u/accessible?cx=accessible%21&btnG=Search&q= (thanks to Angsuman Chakraborty for this useful how-to)
How big is your ego ? (part 1)
July 21, 2006 at 11:45 pm (Anshe Chung, Hamlet Au, Hamlet Linden, Philip Linden, Philip Rosedale, Second Life, SignpostMarv Martin, Torley Linden, Torley Wong)
Running around the internet via the StumbleUpon extension for Firefox, I came across this service called “ego Surf“.
Looks to be one of those Search 2.0 things where it does some script-fu to see how big your ego is. I of course ran some searches (not bothering with .co.uk stuffages) on some Second Life related peoples:
Philip
- Philip Linden on SecondLife.com, a total of 21449 points, highest of 8186 points on Google.com
- Philip Linden on his blog, a total of 8272, highest of 3181 points on Google.com
- Philip Rosedale on SecondLife.com, a total of 15976 points, highest of 5718 points on Google.com
- Philip Rosedale on his blog, a total of 2322 points, highest of 955 points on Google.com
- Philip Rosedale on LindenLab.com, a total of 11303 points, highest of 4019 points on Google.com
Torley
- Torley Linden on SecondLife.com, a total of 19401 points, highest of 9149 points on Google.com
- Torley Linden on Torley.com, a total of 14484 points, highest of 6393 points on Google.com
- Torley Linden on LindenLab.com, a total of 8408 points, highest of 3319 points on Google.com
- Torley Wong on SecondLife.com, a total of 4174 points, highest of 1450 points on MSN.com
- Torley Wong on Torley.com, a total of 17807 points, highest of 6833 points on Google.com
- Torley Wong on LindenLab.com, a total of 4644 points, highest of 1450 points on MSN.com
- Torley Torgeson on SecondLife.com, a total of 15682 points, highest of 7471 points on Google.com
- Torley Torgeson on Torley.com, a total of 16509 points, highest of 6749 points on Google.com
- Torley Torgeson on LindenLab.com, total of 6501 points, highest of 2300 points on Yahoo.com
Hamlet
- Hamlet Linden on SecondLife.com, total of 26473 points, highest of 10464 points on Google.com
- Hamlet Linden on his blog, total of 25188 points, highest of 10103 points on Google.com
- Hamlet Linden on Hamlet Au’s blog, total of 8083 points, highest of 3067 points on del.icio.us
- Hamlet Linden on LindenLab.com, total of 8238 points, highest of 3035 points on Google.com
- Hamlet Au on SecondLife.com, total of 14604 points, highest of 7043 points on Google.com
- Hamlet Au on Hamlet Linden’s blog, total of 11385 points, highest of 4065 points on Google.com
- Hamlet Au on his blog, total of 11813 points, highest of 5307 points on Google.com
- Hamlet Au on LindenLab.com, total of 6692 points, highest of 3477 points on Google.com
And to cap off part one, Me
Note to Hamlet: Multi-tasking NwN, SL, Yahoo, egoSurf and a bunch of other things in Firefox is taking quite a while, so if you pick this up on NWN before I finish the tests, I apologise for not getting the Wagner James Au results done. Also, do note that according to the egoSurf algorithm, Google associates Tateru Nino more with SecondLife.com than Philip Linden OR Philip Rosedale.
Rag Doll Physics in SL ?
July 15, 2006 at 3:25 am (Linden Scripting Language, Robin Linden, Second Life, Torley Linden)
Found via Torley Linden.
Physical Avatar
what is it?
– in world poser
– expressive puppeteering
– explicit world coordinate system representation
– allows for physics/rag doll physics; uses spring physics. compensate for too much springiness with added constraints to create a pseudo-rigid body
– largely viewer side with packet system allowing for server to control ordering
Does this mean that Hit and Run will no longer mean “hitting someone with your car to make them run” ?
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