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SLBuzz.com snapshots are working again!

Earlier today Torley Linden contacted me to let me know that SLBuzz had stopped processing postcards sent from within Second Life.
Turns out that the issue was that the format of the embedded meta data had changed which the parser couldn't cope with. The new meta data is better as it also includes the region coordinates, […]

MetaverseData beta starts

The key problem with developing for Second Life thus far has always been the less than sufficient APIs that Linden Lab offers.
When it comes to communicating with objects in-world, you have the choice of the reliably broken XML-RPC, polling from in-world via llHTTPRequest(), or sending bite-sized data snippets by email. To make it easier, faster, […]

Speedier IMs

I fixed a bug. Now sending in-world IMs, adding someone to the friends list, and sending email from profiles should be snappier.
Posted by Second Life Resident Mark Barrett.

Skiing in the nude

Well that was not exactly what I had hoped for. So I'm on the Weather Island, which looks great. Extreme skiing sounds like fun, so I bought my set of utilities (boots, skiis and poles). I ski in RL so maybe this will be fun.
On top of the hill I run into Dharma Austin, who […]

My Rezdate

It is hard to believe a year has passed already. It's been a lot of fun, and it's great to see Second Life grow and evolve. For as fun as 2006 was, I'm looking forward to an even more interesting 2007.
Posted by Second Life Resident Mark Barrett.