Archive for the 'General' Category

IBM’s Next Big Thing in Second Life

I am very proud to announce our latest project! Dalian and I have been working on the latest IBM Island here in Second Life called IBM Benelux, which will be a combination R&D Lab and communications center for IBM’s BeNeLux division (that’s Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxemberg). We tried to make the island fit well with […]

Virtual World Transition: What SL Business Model Works Best? by Bill Nissim

A good friend of mine, Bill Nissim, recently published his latest article on virtual worlds. You may have seen his previous article here and here, which was about my very own SLQuery.com search platform. Bill has graciously allowed me to reprint his latest article in full, here on the Virtual Searches blog. Thanks Bill! Many successful […]

Virtual Worlds 2007

I’ll be attending the Virtual Worlds 2007 conference in New York next week. So, if you’re there during that time, look me up. You can reach me via the contact form on our Tretiak Media site. I’ll be checking email periodically.

New Blog Address

I’ve decided to change my blog address to blog.slquery.com for all future posts regarding the SLQuery project. This new address has the advantage of being better associated with the SLQ site itself. Most of what I’ll write about concerns slquery.com and what we’re doing to further information gathering and retrieval within SL, so it made […]

QQ, the SLQuery Bear

A few days ago, Dalian Hansen introduced our very own bear named QQ. In the same tradition as the various collectible Linden Bears, QQ is free to share and trade. And QQ has become quite popular! Within a few days of his release, QQ has been downloaded over 30 times. Not bad for a little bear […]

Update to SLQ Web Tab Profiles

I’ve updated the web tab profiles available through slquery.com so that they now include navigational buttons such as back, forward, home, and refresh. In addition, clicking on images for items now shows correctly sized within the web tab browser. And finally, clicking on an item’s more information link also shows correctly sized within the web tab browser. I’m […]

Nice blog entry at infoisland.org

Lorelei of the Alliance Library system and Info Island wrote up a nice blog entry about the work I did on their Library Search HUD. The Library Search HUD is essentially the same as the normal search hud with some added links specifically for their project as well as searches against the WorldCat database and the […]

Working on my deployment strategy

I’ve begun to work on my new deployment strategy for each of the SLQuery.com products as well as any new Tretiak Media products. To date I’ve admittely waffled with the version numbers as I tried to match those of my MEG update server, which is a very nice update server by the way, and my […]

Hello Second Life!

Welcome to my new weblog, designed to discuss the SLQuery.com™ website, information exchanges in the virtual world, and various other adventures I might encounter inside the Second Life® metaverse.