Here's another cool feature that's part of Second Life's new Social Profiles: Integration with Plurk, the microblogging social network that's a much-used communication channel among several thousand highly active SL users. In the Profile tab, you just click the Social Identities slot, click Plurk, and that gives you the option to connect and link to your Plurk profile. (Linden promise: kept.) As you can see, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter, and LinkedIn are also connection options, and I rejoice at this assload of integration choices. Now I'd really love to see an option to actually display, for example, your Twitter or Facebook updates inside your Second Life Social Profile, not to mention your latest YouTube video or Flickr screenshot/photo. But unless I'm missing it, that option isn't available (but hopefully soon)?
Again, to try it out for yourself, go here and log in with your SL account info.
I'd like to see a special group type for RSS feeds or twitter feeds, etc. So I could have my twitter home feed of everyone I follow displayed as a group chat in the viewer. However I suspect twitter would ban that idea. Most of these socnet businesses are beginning to turn on third party developers to force people to use the owner's user interface only for ad page view reasons. Thus the potential of all this technology is being destroyed by greed. As usual. Bean counters destroy all.
Posted by: Ann Otoole InSL | Thursday, June 30, 2011 at 02:29 PM
oops. FTC now investigating twitter over it's behavior towards 3rd party devs.
Posted by: Ann Otoole InSL | Thursday, June 30, 2011 at 08:55 PM