Your2ndPlace

<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/knowprose/1323378892/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1317/1323378892_e2fd279676.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="Pimp Self" align="left" hspace="5" vspace="5"/></a>Nobody Fugazi has a wide range of experience in and out of Second Life. He runs Your2ndPlace.com, and is the author of '<i><a href="http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596514174/" target =_blank>Making Your Mark In Second Life: Business, Land and Money</a></i>' (O'Reilly Publishing). He runs <a href="http://www.your2ndplace.com" target =_blank>Your2ndPlace.com</a>, where he writes about <a href="http://secondlife.com" target =_blank>SecondLife</a> related issues, and makes space available for others to do so as well. </p>
<p>He runs an inworld store, where some of his work can be found. It is located within Second Life at <a href="http://slurl.com/secondlife/NineInchNerds/212/36/22" target =_blank>NineInchNerds (212,36,22)</a>, or online at his <a href="http://www.slexchange.com/modules.php?name=Marketplace&amp;MerchantID=19851?&amp;affiliate=0a683238834301a30deda7546ceac3" target =_blank>SLExchange Store</a>.</p>
<p>Nobody Fugazi is listed as a <a href="http://secondlifegrid.net/themes/linden_grid/solution_providers/listings.php?category=Consultant" target =_blank>SecondLife Consultant by Linden Lab</a>, and brings a wealth of experience in many regards. You can find out more about his real world experience in his <a href="http://www.knowprose.com" target =_blank>Official Bio</a>.</p>

Second Life is getting a lot of residual buzz from educators - and there are very intriguing aspects to it when it comes to education. However, there may be more practical benefits, as Second Life system provides online classes indicates.

...But there's a sensible side to Second Life, too. If the New Orleans area should be struck by another monster storm that forces students, teachers and administrators to scatter widely for an indefinite period, Second Life will let teachers set up online classrooms overnight, Johnson said _ keeping school functions from shutting down, as they did after Hurricane Katrina, and helping them hold on to students.

Most New Orleans area institutions of higher learning can do that already because they have moved their computer servers out of state and because they are equipped with Blackboard, a system that cannot only set up online classes but also store records, post documents and allow text-message chats among students and teachers.

But Second Life, by Linden Lab of San Francisco, goes a step further. Johnson sums up the difference with one word: presence...

I've been connecting the internet (through Drupal) and SecondLife in quite a few different ways. Most of these connections are not public yet (keep an eye on Your2ndPlace.com), mainly because there is a lot of beta testing involved and underway.

One thing I found - while using Drupal's Troll module and using the Linden Scripting Language's llHTTPRequest - was that at least some of Linden Lab's simulator server IP addresses are... blacklisted. Which blacklist? I'm not sure, I didn't dig too deep - but it struck me: What a brilliant way to spam people using Linden Lab servers for almost nothing.

One 16 m² plot could have 3 objects with email addresses in notecards, just firing out spam emails (and perhaps lagging the sim). Or posting spam comments on websites, or any manner of strange things. There are no rules against it - and the rules for spam are a big point of contention on an international level. Most people accept spam as a part of life, but if you asked a lot of people whether they would like to get rid of it - the answer would be 'yes'.

Cisco Systems, was featured at a press conference today within SecondLife. This was the last part of the Cisco Systems event, as listed here¹:

9:00 a.m. SLT, Bandwidth Stage.; Live stream of CEO John Chambers' keynote at Interop, Las Vegas.
10:30 a.m. SLT, Live stream from Interop Mobility Booth in Las Vegas
12:00 noon, SLT, Virtual Press Conference with Cisco executives - SL Only Event. Mobility Pavilion on Cisco Systems Sim 1.

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Remember Landbaron Merlin?

<p>Due mainly to <a href="http://www.knowprose.com/node/17547#comment-10358" target =_blank>this comment</a>, I decided to put myself in harms way - braving the <a href="http://secondlife.com" target =_blank>SecondLife</a> website armed only with a keyboard and mouse. So, let's step through it. I know the magic url at the end of the tunnel, but that's because I'm used to doing stuff like that. Let's see how the breadcrumbs roll.</p>