Category Archives: Dio

More Dio

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Ciaran Laval has a good update on Dio™. Ciaran has several links to examples of different uses for Dio. One is a Sherlock Homes story. Ciaran also links to the YouTube Tutorials page for Dio. You will need that link because searching on Dio at YouTube is a bit of problem, it goes Spanish.

I suggest rather than just using Dio, Spanish for gave, in a YouTube title, use Dio.com. Searching for Dio Tutorials give 110,000 results today and none of them pertinent.

There are 6 tutorials in the set. They run 2 to 3 minutes and burn up about 15 minutes. But, they give you a great insight into how Dio works and what you can do with it.

I’m playing with it. I find I am doing much better after having watched the tutorials.

Dio does go down for maintenance and upgrades and it disconnects you from time to time. That is Beta. So, don’t be too surprised if you get a disconnect message.

Also, I am finding the site is slow, whether editing or using it. I rechecked my connection today to see if it was me or them. It’s them, IMO. So, be patient.

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Dio?

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Looking at Daniel Voyager’s blog I see Linden Lab has released Dio Beta. The web site is here: Dio. The press release is here: Linden Lab® Introduces dio™: a New Shared Creative Space. This is my first quick look at Dio.

So, what is it? A creative space… well, so what’s that mean? It is apparently like a Facebook timeline with linkable posts. Think Facebook timeline crossbred with Google Circles, but with links from circle to circle. Yeah, that about as clear as mud.

There is a video that tries to explain it. Here it is.

Dio looks nothing like the video. That is supposed to give you the concept of what Dio is. The video didn’t do much for me. The Lab folks continue to seem to have a hard time explaining what they mean. Continue reading →