{"id":1042,"date":"2006-10-04T10:00:27","date_gmt":"2006-10-04T14:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1042"},"modified":"2006-10-12T22:04:54","modified_gmt":"2006-10-13T02:04:54","slug":"the-slow-2d-to-3d-convergence-of-second-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1042","title":{"rendered":"The Slow 2D-to-3D Convergence of Second Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/secondlife.com\/\">Second Life<\/a> users have been itching for the expected seamless integration of the 2D internet with their 3D virtual world, but I&#8217;d venture it&#8217;s taking much longer than many expected. So far there has been discussion by Linden Lab (see earlier post on the uBrowser &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=653\">reLink<\/a>) and some interesting hacks (the most recent example of which I&#8217;m aware is the one by Amazonian Jeff Barr &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeff-barr.com\/?p=607\">Link<\/a>), but nothing of what people <em>really<\/em> want: full, seamless, built-in, easy integration.<\/p>\n<p>That said, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.3pointd.com\/20061004\/second-life-adding-web-to-user-profiles\/\">3pointD is reporting (Link)<\/a> that Linden Lab is preparing to integrate webpages into user profiles. I have to admit feeling a little let down by this. It&#8217;s not like I look at profiles very much to start with, so this feels more like peering into someone&#8217;s private life than anything else. I don&#8217;t want to feel like an HP Chairman of the Board, y&#8217;know?<\/p>\n<p>I think Mark Wallace may be correct in commenting that its biggest advantage might be to bloggers (like myself). There might be other advantages and I&#8217;m sure those will surface. We&#8217;ll just have to see how people integrate this new feature.<\/p>\n<p>The only question I had was if links would work, and according to a comment on the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.secondlife.com\/2006\/10\/03\/a-personal-project\/\">Linden blog entry announcing this feature (Link)<\/a>, the answer to that is provided. &#8220;Yes, they will.&#8221;. That&#8217;s good. But in the meantime, I&#8217;m still waiting for the elusive web-on-a-prim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Second Life users have been itching for the expected seamless integration of the 2D internet with their 3D virtual world, but I&#8217;d venture it&#8217;s taking much longer than many expected. So far there has been discussion by Linden Lab (see &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1042\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}