Accident Designs just enlisted in this competition arranged by arcspace.com and ecolandnow.com, in collaboration with INBAR – International Network for Bamboo and Rattan.
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The competition is a great opportunity for me to unite my interest and ideas regarding architecture with my expertise in Second Life. I am looking forward to be a part of it and i am sure i will learn a lot in the process.
This friday we had the last reception on the Danish National Gallery where the final two artworks were launched. I have spend some time organizing and refining the scripts which i have developed for the installations in Second Life. Jacob Sikker Remin submitted his work in Arduino and Processing for memory SLot. I have encouraged all of the artists to submit there own work as well. Read the rest of this entry »
Why are they not evil? – see for yourself: magnatune.com They are present in Second Life: http://magnatune.com/info/second_life
There is only about a week to the next job convention at Power-Match, this time featuring Grundfos, Termax, Institute for career development, SKAT, Saxobank, Hartmanns, TDC, Børsen, IBM, FLSmidth and more. Futhermore Grundfoss will be arranging a debate targeting engineers during the convention. Be there Tuesday, February 5th, 2008, 19:00 – and bring your friends!
Through the past few weeks i have been occupied with the implementation of VIRTUAL MOVES in Second Life. An experimental art project by Tagging Art investigating the virtual universe and its uses as a platform for education, art, and culture. Some of the works will take on physical form in the u.l.k. exhibition rooms at the Danish National Gallery. But the artworks primarily exist in Second Life. If you can’t make it to Copenhagen, do come by as your avatar!
After many problems with my Radiant Installation on my Ruby on Rails container at Media Temples grid service i have decided to dump the development of the Radiant Site and i have gone with Wordpress instead. I really like Radiant CMS and its simple and logical structure, it has a sort of grace. As do Ruby. But i found myself unable to solve the problem that would sometime cause my Radiant site to display nothing but a 502 Error.I sought help on the mailing list but got no answer so far. And (mt) gave poor support on the subject. I know of workin Radiant installations on (mt)s (gs) are out there, and i would very much like to use radiant for future projects. So if your the one with a healthy installation i would very much like to hear how you did it!For now im off with wordpress which i am very satisfied with, but it certainly doesn’t have the grace of ruby and radiant, however there is an enormous community to seek support from, not to mention the wide selection of plugins and themes. …it just works!
Lately i have been looking for a new host, that would give me more flexibility and performance in order to experiment with web applications. My first project is to evolve accidentdesigns.com which i moved to the gridserver from my old host.
Currently my idea is to make Accident Designs more of a personal brand covering what i am. Instead of the corporate Second Life focus its has now. My main expertise will still be Second Life, ad least for a while until i get better at something else.
With the website i am experimenting with freemind as the structure of the site. Through a flashviewer my vision is to merge it with a cms and create a simple site build around the mindmap including a blog. This blogger blog or perhaps directly hosted within the cms. This is my thoughts right now but i don’t seem near a solution yet so the old site will still be available at accidentdesigns.com/old
If you have feedback on the new site, i would love to hear from you!
With new and very much improved search in Second Life, SEO will get a whole new meaning within this virtual world. Now objects on parcels can be listed with title description and even price if set for sale. This will also redefine commerce. Now networked web integrated vendor systems as apez and onrez systems are widely popular. But none of the objects sold through theese systems will be indexed by the search engine. Perhaps the such services can span Search Engine Optimizing through rezzing example objects for sale from the inventory.server used on grid.
The new search really ads some possibilities to get yourself indexed in varius ways and it ads a new meaning to the way content is managed in Second Life. Suddenly it matters what you name each prim in a project you want indexed.
Search also creates some prim specific issues since for each prim oriented entry you would need to rez it, and keep it rezzed. Perhaps there would be future possibilities to SEO without the need to use unwanted prims.
The new search is definetly a huge improvement and i am looking forward to have SEO in SL as a point of focus in my next project.
I recently gave a lecture on Second Life at Building Lab DK. They have been involved in U_Build, a project that unites the construction and the game industry and utilizes user-driven innovation and dialog. Among the collaborators are Mutopia and IO interactive. IO has technology that would be able to support an interactive platform. Technology that is mature in relation to the technology supporting Second Life. However Second Life is still very relevant for the project, especially if you see it in a perspective where technology is allowed to improve. Second Life has an already established user-community and the grid enables interconnected collaboration and almost unlimited technical possibilities. So even though the technology isn’t mature, the grid already has its advantages.
Which has very good intentions on how to use Second Life and its community, they don’t fully succeed though because they do not have something to offer the users in return. Therefore the users do not get involved in the project.To look at a case of an ongoing successful presence in SL that manages to build an active user community we investigated Pontiac. Motorati as Pontiac’s presence in SL is named relies on mainly competitions and customization. Users can customize there own vehicles and compete in races organized by Motorati which is of value for Pontiac in the ideas and user involvement they achieve but also just as general marketing.Adlast we looked into how Keystone Buchard and some of the projects he is involved in mannages to use SL. He is a pioneer in using SL in his field which is very relevant for Building Lab DK.
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Powermatch – Jobfair
The first RL-job fair in Second Life is launched on the Powermatch island this Tuesday at 11:00 SLT/PDT. Here you can meet FL Smidth, Saxobank, Grundfos, TDC, IBM and others. Accident Designs have been involved in the design of the entrance portal and yesterday i went by to help out with the TDC convention booth. Heidi Ballinger has been figting for this project for a very long time and i am happy to see that it is finally starting to flourish. PowerMatch (119, 155, 470)
