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Wednesday, January 07, 2009

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Ann Otoole

Too bad Alf's website is broken. Perhaps someone could convince him to put the files elsewhere on a system that doesn't stop responding.

:(

Nisei Oh

Thanks Wagner for your amazing Blog!
It helps to discover and understand the metaverse. Happy new year!

Hamlet Au

You too, Nisei, and thanks!

Ann Otoole

It works again yay!

Liz Dorland (Chimera Cosmos)

This is great! I've been thinking about how to introduce SL in presentations at conferences, etc. I like the historical/cultural approach. Starting from a big-picture map (including the annotation of how much it has grown is fab) and then working out to a sim or region gives a sense of "place" to it. Then you can talk about one or a few sims and the nature of how we avatars interact with the world and the people in it, our projects, etc.

Thanks for this!
Chimera Cosmos

Salazar Jack

It would be most interesting to see versions of this map as of January 2009 and just after July 2009 to compare and see if there is a noticeable difference.

Salazar Jack

I mean... because of the OpenSpace transition.

Gary Kohime

OUTSTANDING!! This is great...and to try and avoid being flamed!! A zoom in feature would be cool. But, I can't even fathom that possibility. :)

Valentina Kendal

Well Salazar, I used good old fashioned screen grab technology to capture a view of the grid on Xmas day 2008 - that could serve as your before shot:
http://xstreetsl.com/modules.php?name=Marketplace&file=item&ItemID=1097021

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