I need someone who knows Second Life like the back of their hand to create a mini-world type thing for a band of ours. Please contact me if you’re 2ndLife Mojo is on overdrive and you want some cash. (ethan A T warnerbrosrecords.com).
Andreas Schlegel currently lives in Singapore. He likes to write programs that generate audio, visual, and physical output. He enjoys doing projects with syntfarm.
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- #["Five measures prove to be useful: A, the area of the isovist, which gives us a measure of size (in 3-D this is a volume); P, the perimeter of the isovist, which gives us a measure of the boundary length (in 3-D this is an area) excluding the horizon and excluding Q, which is a measure of the length (area) of the radial, component of the isovist boundary; M2, which is a statistical measure of the variability of the boundary’s distance from x; and M3, which is a measure of the asymmetry of M2." From Benedikt]
If we dimensionalize the data from any given social framework online, could we apply isovistic theory to the quantification of perceptual awareness around a user in this textually augmented reality we now find ourselves?
- #Infra-mince, Duchamp declared, cannot be defined, but can only be described by examples, such as the difference in displaced volume between a clean shirt and the same shirt worn once, or the taste of one's mouth lingering in exhaled smoke.
Infra-mince was a new way to think about physical and temporal dimensions (decades before Mandelbrot discovered fractals). Holes in some of Duchamp's artwork link the 2nd to the 3rd dimension. Sometimes he shot the holes out with bullets, echoing infra-mince again in the delay between the sounds of the shot and the impact.
Add this to the isovism concept and you basically describe a social network.
A single isovist is the volume of space visible from a given point in space, together with a specification of the location of that point.
Isovism is an interesting concept when applied to the creation of a website. Quantifying the perception of space in a given point. How far can you see from your homepage for instance into the larger n-dimensional world a site creates?
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- #The new iPad has lots of space. The screen offers 1024x768 pixels.
via tuaw.com
What excites me the most about the iPad, I think, is that it takes paradigms and approaches and lets us expand them. Good art, whether visual or interface, comes from working against constraints imposed by the medium. The iPhone imposed very strict constraints and amazing new paradigms of interface design came out of that. These new approaches have bled their way into Mac OSX apps, Windows 7, etc. I expect the same to happen with the iPad.
The funny thing is, if Adobe does not take the steps to make tools to address a future with HTML5, what we'll be left with is tools others create. And chief amongst those others will most likely be Apple. Flash's stance here reminds of Microsoft's during the creation of Blackbird and later their migration toward Visual Interdev and Frontpage. When you build the walls so high around your garden, the fall will just kill your plants.
- #[From Flash, iPad, Standards – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report]
Rest in piece little buddy.
- #[From xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe]
Idiotic. Copy paste wasn't missing because of an ideological reason. It was missing because it wasn't ready. Same with an SDK and an App-Store. Multitasking presents a usability challenge that I wager they are nearly set in addressing. I bet the camera is supply chain related (same with the iPod Touch). WIth Apple products, what is MISSING is the interesting part, as it usually leads to exposure to ideologies, challenges or works in progress.
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I wonder if they are also seeing concurrent apps running from the same device, and that's how they know? I imagine the Tablet will be able to run multiple apps in a grid of some sort, given the screen size.
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A pretty big deal I think, especially considering the move from entertainment companies from "impression" based metrics to revenue.
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Hi there,
I’m extremely busy this month, but I have a few clients that might be interested. I’m posting a link to this at http://www.sldevelopers.com, and I’m emailing a couple people.
If you have questions, please feel free to contact me!
-Ron
aka Hiro Pendragon in SL
Hi, I’m currently free and very interested in helping you out with this project.
For more information about my team, past projects, references, and press coverage, feel free to contact me at aimeeweb@gmail.com and check out some of my projects at:
http://history.secondserver.net/index.php/Aimee_Weber
-Aimee
http://secondlife.com/developers/directory.php
There’s a good list there. In particular bedazzled and avalon are probably the top two tier professional groups. electric sheep is good as well.
Thanks everyone. This is hopefully the first of many. More details as we move forward
Hi Ethan, I sent you an e-mail. In SL, I’m Spin Martin, but your team might know me differently in RL
Cheers!
Nicholas,
I saw this post linked from clickableculture.com, and although I am not a serious SL developer, seeing as per your profile your job is to find “cool things” to do with technology I thought you might be interested in what we do.
My band, robots.txt, has been doing live audio webcasts for the last 5 years. In January, we have taken up residence in Second Life and from here on out, this will be our main venue for live shows. There is a lot of folk and acoustic music in SL, ironic seeing how cutting edge the tech is, but as far as I know, we are the only Techno band currently gigging in SL. I certainly haven’t run accross and rock bands, but the potential is there.
Our first show in January really felt like a live show, we got great realtime feedback from the crowd. My band mate and I were both in world in avatar form, sending a live stream from our studio onto my land in SL.
So, if you get this post in time, and you want to experience a live music show in Second Life, stop on by the MoonBase. We will be playing our next show tomorrow evening from 6 to 10 SL time.
Jason (Tinisi Lightworker)
If you’ve not settled on your developer yet, please allow us to add our name to the list. To see some of our work and to find out more about us, visit our website at:
http://www.rezzust.com
Thanks for your consideration,
Rez Menoptra & Endira Udal
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