DIGGABLE PLANET

Now this is quite possibly revolutionary: the ever-urbane Walker Spaight reports on a new heads-up display that lets Residents make Digg-like ratings on Second Life objects, ratings that are stored in an accessible database:

[A] green thumb appears that cycles through objects in your field of view. A number appears above the thumb displaying each object’s rating. At any point, when the thumb is hovering over an object, you can click the green thumbs-up or red thumbs-down that appear at the top of your screen. This increases or decreases the rating of the object by one point. That’s it.

Created by low key mad scientist Babbage Linden, the HUD still has kinks to smooth out, but the potential to influence the SL content experience, just as Digg has done with the Web at large, is already there.  Read about the coming folksonomy of virtual objects here.

Comments

[Dolus Naumova]

There's also a huge potential to use this as a rating system, reminiscent of Cory Doctorow's HUD in "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom."

[Hamlet Au]

Good point! Way back when, Cory actually came into SL and talked about that book:

http://secondlife.com/notes/2003_09_22_archive.php