Second Life Could Do With More Widgets

I’ve mentioned this before but here we go again. Second Life could do with more ways for people to share information about events, places and sims by allowing people to easily embed that information into blog posts.

Flickr allows you to embed or copy the code of a picture easily so that you can included it in a blog post :

Cracked Mirror

YouTube makes it easy for you to share or embed videos :

These quick and easy ways of sharing content from social media sites help to not only promote your own content, they help to promote the brand of the platform you publish on. Second Life is a little lacking in this area when it comes to sharing content from Second Life on blogs. Let’s look at some more social media examples.

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Ebbe Linden Needs To ….

One of the things about being a blogger is finding something to write. A lot of the time a blogger finds the material to base their post on elsewhere, … actually this happens a lot. This post will unashamedly use material from someone else. The reasons for this are because the material is cutting, funny and relevant. I’m heading off to Twitter for this.

There’s a lot of advice going around on what Ebbe Linden needs to do to make Second Life awesome. Both SLUniverse and the official Second Life forums have threads full of advice. However one brave soul has been collecting this advice from Twitter users, adding their own, putting their tongue firmly in their cheek and creating a Twitter account of @EbbeNeedsTo.

Now some of these are funny, some of them may not tickle your fancy, you may found the whole thing a bit silly. The first thing to say is that you should ensure that you have your sense of humour turned on if you read that Twitter feed because some of the posts may be about one of your important issues or pet favourites.

For example:

I mean come on, Versu is a brilliant project … that Linden Lab decided to ditch because they don’t think it’s so brilliant and they have a lot more information about it than me! Pah, but hey I can take it, healthy disagreement is good. I mean it could be worse, the account could be poking fun at SLUniverse, which is a site I think has a lot of good information on … oh wait …

Noooooo! However this poking fun at suggestions and ideas is actually quite brilliant in so much as it brings issues to light and also brings to light the fact that we don’t all agree. Healthy disagreement is good. There are many more issues raised, far too many for me to post about here, but I will cover some more.

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Ebbe Altberg – What We’ve Learnt So Far

Ebbe Altberg has arrived with a bang in some circles, before he has even officially started work as the new CEO. His start date, I’m unreliably informed, is Monday February 10th 2014. I’m writing this for reference for future blog posts.

Inara Holmes has once again donned her deerstalker, puffed on her pipe and investigated the man to come up with a rather deep short profile on Mr Altberg. This time Inara has been able to demonstrate her science of deduction without having to call upon the assistance of Gray Of The Lab from San Francisco.

Ebbe was born in Sweden, the country that invented Blocksworld and the country next to the country that invented Lego. Unforunately Ebbe has so far been unable to convince Swedish super group Abba that they should perform inside Second Life for tips only. However give it time, Linden Lab has opened the door to a Viking invasion and those guys like to party.

Mr Altberg has previously worked for Microsoft (hooray), Yahoo! (boo) Ingenio (?) and BranchOut (??) who were linked to Facebook (Boooooooooo!). For full details, please read Inara’s informed post, carry on reading here for an uninformed post.

So far Mr Altberg seems to have been enjoying himself as the new found leader of the virtual revolution and other products and has been particularly active on Twitter, where you can find him under @ebbealtberg.

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New CEO Fallout – @SecondLie Retires From Twitter But @RebbeAltberg Is Born

Second Lie at Twitter Party

The arrival of Ebbe Altberg has already led to the end of one Second Life character on Twitter, with @SecondLie announcing his retirement in an afternoon/evening of excitement, hope, despair, bewilderment and surprise at the arrival of Ebbe Altberg as new CEO of Linden Lab.

The unexpected turn of events threatened to overshadow the optimism about the arrival of the new CEO, with fans of @SecondLie expressing shock at his retirement. Lie (real name SecondLie) refused to answer any further questions, but did point reporters, observers, bloggers and Lindens in the direction of a new kid on the twitter block, @RebbeAltberg.

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