Archive for the 'Second Life' 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 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.

How to find a name for a subculture

Haven’t blogged in, well…let’s just say forever. So to start things off again, I offer this little nugget of wisdom. A friend of mine in Second Life, Deeep Witte, recently sent me a hilarious, but true, analysis of buzzword phraseology. How to find a name for a subculture Why Second Life? As Lori Singer, […]

SLQuery.com Version 2.4 is Ready!

I’m very proud to announce the latest round of updates to the slquery.com product line. This is a big update and comes with some exciting new features on our previous products, plus the introduction of a new search billboard called the SLQ infoStation. SLQuery.com is continuing to expand and gain more exposure, so expect more enhancements […]

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 […]

Top 15 Suggestions for finding places when Search is down

These are the top 15 suggestions I’ve found, in no particular order, for searching when SL search is down. Most of the suggestions I saw in the “search is down” thread on the Second Life blog seemed to get lost in the usual chatter about how bad Linden Labs is handling the updates. I won’t comment […]

New SLQuery.com Mini Profiles

The SLQuery.com site continues to improve! Last week I released version 2.3 of the infoHUD with some great new features including a dedicated library button, a new SL Business button, enhanced reference searches, and the new SLQ Flight assistance utility. Today, I released the mini profiles available to be used in the Web Tab profile of […]

New Site/Info Huds are Out!

I have released the latest version of the Info HUDs to coincide with the release of some very exciting changes to the site. You’ll notice that the name has been changed to Info HUD (previously known as Search HUDs). This is due to the growing number of functions available on the HUD. I felt the Info […]

slxmlhttp.rb - Ruby API for the Second Life Web Services

I saw this blog entry the other day on the Second Life Blog concerning homepage and Lindex stats, so I went about creating a small Ruby API for retrieving that data. I’ll probably be adding these stats to the SLQuery.com site at some point. In the meantime, the code is free for all to use. […]