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Posted in virtual worlds on Dec 16th, 2007
Islab is described as the official search tool for Second Life and is the latest addition to my list of slashups: mashups for Second Life. This is the best out of world search tool I’ve found so far making finding people, places and information so much more efficient and accessible than relying on the search [...]
Posted in virtual worlds on Nov 4th, 2007
Slashups , Second Life mashups, are the answer to merging your existing web content such as photo’s, music and bookmarks into Second Life. Objects within SL can get data from, or post data to, the web. Conversely your networking sites on the web can post data to, or get data from, [...]
Posted in accessibility, virtual worlds on Oct 21st, 2007
Find searching in Second Life a bit tricky? Frustrated with digging around in your inventory and friends lists for landmarks or avatars you can’t remember the name of? Well help is at hand with sloog.org, a bookmarking, or tagging, service for Second Life.
Sloog works in the same way as del.icio.us, Digg, and Magnolia [...]
Posted in accessibility, virtual worlds on Oct 19th, 2007
AssitiveWare have published some excellent videos of people with disabilities accessing the web using various access technologies. Amongst them are a few gamers accessing in virtual worlds using a combination of assistive technologies to zap dragons and outwit the enemy.
In One Thumb to Rule (below) Mike Phillips, a gamer and freelance technology writer born with [...]
Posted in accessibility, virtual worlds on Sep 25th, 2007
At Oz-IA ast weekend, the Australia Information Architecture conference in Sydney, Gary Bunker and Gabriele Hermansson presented on User Research in Virtual Worlds.
They talked about how their company Hyrdo, have set out to build a research platform to allow user testing within virtual worlds, not only for their experiences there but also of products [...]
