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In The News: Buy More Lizards!

First off, as you know, The Burning Crusade was released today. As one who managed to shrug free of the damn virus a while ago, all I can say for now is "great, now I'll never see my friends again". Bloody addicts, the lot of them!
Now then, it looks like IBM is once again pushing tennis into Second Life. Here's a video:
   


In other news, a column I shamefully missed when it game out last week, one called Localizing Brands and Licenses, over on Gamasutra. Quite a large article, one "packing" a decent amount of info on "how it's done".

Back to Second Life for a bit. The bloke over at IM telling U has taken advantage of SL's opensourcing to create an "interviewer terminal". To quote:

"It goes like this: the interviewer logs into Second Life with the modified viewer, and goes around looking for respondents. At this point everything is as usual, they can walk, fly, chat etc. just like anyone else. Once they find someone, they may ask them if they were willing to take a survey. If the respondent agrees - and here's the clever bit, such as it is - the interviewer can switch their avatar to a "data collection" mode, so the avatar automatically starts saying the questions as they have been defined in the survey back-end, and the answers from the respondent are automatically recorded in the survey back-end too. Once the survey is finished, they're back to a "normal" Second Life user."

Link to the post here.

To end this, an image that got a couple of chuckles out of me. Clicking on it will open a window with the game the capture is from. It's a browser-game.

Posted by Alex Eperjessy on January 16, 2007 8:50 PM |

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