AjaxLife Reloaded: Web Client for Second Life Now More Stable, Feature Rich, Awesome

AjaxLife, the groundbreaking web-based Second Life client created in 2007 by a 15 year old Resident named Katharine Berry, has been updated and upgraded in recent months, and if you haven't tried it lately (or at all), you really should: Since launching it, Katharine has added a number of features, which you can discern from the screen capture above: Not just Second Life chat and IM on the web, but a dynamic map, inventory, profile search, and more. (I especially like how textures in your inventory can fully display.) There's also a music streaming feature, though currently it's not working. (Katharine tells me she's fixing that now.)

All this has gotten a recent stability overhaul: "Group chat works, the map works, textures work, and it's reliably up," Katharine Berry Tweeted to me a few days ago. "It's now on somewhat beefier hardware," she added later, when I chatted with her via AjaxLife. "Dual quad-core i7s, 8GB of RAM, 100Mb/s connection to the Internet." So essentially, we're talking about robust interaction in Second Life from your browser window. (AjaxLife blog here.)

One more feature AjaxLife supports: Paying Linden Dollars to other Residents, which is something you should do to Katharine Berry -- supporting AjaxLife costs about L$23,000/month to run, she says, so donations would be much appreciated.

As for Katharine Berry? Since turning 18 and joining Second Life proper, Miss Berry became a developer with the extremely popular Emerald SL viewer, got a write-up in Computer Weekly as a next generation Ada Lovelace, and was accepted into MIT. She starts next August. World domination begins roughly three months later.

Comments

[Ignatius Onomatopoeia]

Hurrah. It shows that the outside community is nimbler than Linden Lab...and more patient.

Check the blog. That LL would ban AjaxLife, even temporarily, shows their Three Stooges Management Philosophy® at its finest.

This is the sort of tool many of us need. Thank you, Katharine.

[magggnnus]

works fine on my nexus one except scrolling in the inventory window - if that worked it would be an even greater alternative to the native client app.

[Opensource Obscure]

That people would draw conclusions about LL management from a temporary 3rd party client shows how complex the whole system is.
Not only and not mainly from the tech point of view.

KUDOS to Katharine - she's as tenacious as skilled!
:)

[Wol Euler]

That is pretty amazing. Back in the day, something like the Ajax viewer would have been a highly praised thesis (end-of-course) project, and she wrote it before starting college? Well done, Ms Berry.

[Gwyneth Llewelyn]

Oooh I was just talking to SignportMarv Martin yesterday that I would love to finally meet Katharine in-world as soon as she turned 18... I had no idea she has been already around for half a year! Woo hoo :) Welcome to the Real Second Life, you mad spark girl :) *)

@Wol, end-of-course thesis? Gosh, my own *mastership* thesis was less demanding than AjaxLife, and I'm not even sure if the PhD will be as tough as that... there is no Nobel Prize for Computer Science, but if there were, Katharine would be on my nomination list!

Computer Weekly is anything but underestimating her :)

*) Obligatory "Girl Genius" reference, of course :)

[Milton Broome]

AjaxLife is unfortunately no longer operating due to problems with authorisation from Linden Lab. Third party viewers and all that stuff I expect. There's a description of their dealings on Katharine's blog at http://ajaxlife.net/

Milton

[Andre Almeida]

Vou escrever em português do Brasil.

AjaxLife era nosso único acesso vai browser para quem não poderia instalar nenhum viewer e gostaria de manter contatos com os residentes.

Mais uma vez a LindenLab conseguiu tirar do mercado mais um concorrente, dizendo que o browser colocaria em risco a segurança dos demais residentes.

A quantidade de visitantes pelo Browser AjaxLife era tão pequena que dificilmente faria algum mal ao metaverso, mas como o Ajax estava conseguindo fazer o que a LindenLab não sabe ou ainda não fez, é melhor banir o concorrente do que criar uma ferramenta igual ou superior a disponivel na época.

É triste assistir a LL agindo dessa forma, em vez de aumentar as opções para que mais pessoas acessem, preferem limitar e deixar apenas o Beta como única opção.

Escrevi sobre isso no meu blog para que os residentes ao menos saibam a opinião de quem acessava o AjaxLife como único recurso em um ambiente de trabalho restrito.

Quem quiser ler:
http://lindenbr.blogspot.com/2010/07/lindenlab-tira-mais-um-concorrente-de.html

In-World: AndreAlmeida Bravin

[Mauro Renato]

não tem outro servidor para entrar no second life como ajaxlife? não posso instalar jogo no pc que uso e usava o ajax para entrar no secondlife se alguem souber por favor agradeço abraços!

[Mauro Renato]

não tem outro servidor para entrar no second life como ajaxlife? não posso instalar jogo no pc que uso e usava o ajax para entrar no secondlife se alguem souber por favor agradeço abraços!