Though I wound up distracted by their AI-powered spokeswoman, I originally visited Daden Island to see the company's Navigator, an in-world web browser. While it's been possible to stream web pages into Second Life for several months, even active web pages, your avatar can't click links or otherwise directly interact with them. You still can't do that with Daden's Navigator; instead, you control the browser through command line instructions-- i.e., standing near the Navigator, and typing keyword commands into your Chat line. So type in "Seach New World Notes", and the Navigator goes to the Google page with the search results of that term. Then typing "link new world notes", as I did above, takes you to the website with the most relevance to those keywords-- in this case, my blog. The Navigator's not a perfectly elegant, full-featured web browser, at least not yet, but until the Lindens or an enterprising coder creates full dynamic browsing in-world, I imagine it'd be pretty useful in numerous situations.
See for yourself: here's Daden's official page, here's a YouTube presentation, and here's a direct SLURL teleport link to a hands-on Navigator demo at the company's island.
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