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#SL Follow Me Coming?

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Today I had an email coming from secondlife.com saying someone from SL was following me… O.O /me looks around… I checked a friends profile to see if I could follow them. I used the https://my.secondlife.com/nalates.urriah URL. The new button is not there. I only found the Follow and Friend buttons on the https://my-demo.secondlife.com/nalates.urriah I guess … Read more

Second Life Statistics Week 35

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Second Life’s second quarter economic stats were released 2011-08-13. Since then several people have blogged their take on the numbers and what they may mean. Those that have heard the addresses and panel discussions at SLCC 2011 have probably noticed a disparity between what bloggers are saying and what Lindens are saying. I’ll take a look at both sides of the coin.

The Bloggers

Several bloggers posted their reviews of the economic stats before SLCC convened. Others posted after SLCC concluded. Some of those posting are:

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Language Translation in Second Life

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Some time ago I wrote about Google shutting down their free Translation API. This is the service Google provided and Second Life Viewers use to handle language translation. Google has now come out (8/24) with pricing for the Paid-Translation-Service-API. So, what happens to our viewers?

Google Translate

As It Is Now

It only works in Local Chat and is disabled by default. One enables it in Me->Preferences->Chat. At the bottom of the panel is a check box to enable machine translation.

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#SL Failed Deliveries

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Whether you are a merchant or a shopaholic failed deliveries are a PITA. Darrius Gothly has a post in the SL Forum (A New Theory Why The Shopping Cart Causes “Failed Deliveries”) about failed deliveries and what might be done to improve things. A quick summary follows.

Concept

Darrius has the idea that we may not be have a higher rate of failed deliveries, but only a perceived higher rate. It is like not having a TV, so you don’t know about all the storms around the world. You get a TV and hear about them and suddenly start thinking there are more storms than ever. It is not the weather that changed, it is you intake of information that changed. You are now aware of what is going on.

Darrius explains how the shopping cart in the Market Place (MP) has changed the information flow so that we see more delivery failures. We personally have no increase in failures, but merchant reporting tells us about more failures and raises our awareness.

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SLCC 2011 Archive

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If you missed parts of this years SLCC and would like to see videos of the missed parts, check Inara Pey’s site. She has the videos nicely listed. See: Living in a Modem World. Look in the menu for SLCC. This is a nice index to the various meetings and the videos.

SL Mesh Update Week 35

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The Mesh User Group meeting is moving back to ADITI. The meeting has been in AGNI in the Mesh Sandboxes. Those will disappear tonight. So, a new meeting place is being selected  in ADITI.

Mesh Meeting

The majority of meeting participants feel ADITI is a better place for the discussion. I think the big selling point is the free mesh upload available in ADITI. Whatever the reason, Charlar decided to go with the majority and have the meeting in ADITI.

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