{"id":4489,"date":"2014-12-15T20:42:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T20:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=4489"},"modified":"2014-12-15T20:45:36","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T20:45:36","slug":"second-life-could-do-with-more-widgets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=4489","title":{"rendered":"Second Life Could Do With More Widgets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Flickr <\/a>allows you to embed or copy the code of a picture easily so that you can included it in a blog post :<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Cracked Mirror by Ciaran Laval, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ciaran_laval\/15217379200\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3873\/15217379200_59b1f3e284.jpg?resize=500%2C294&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Cracked Mirror\" width=\"500\" height=\"294\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"YouTube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> makes it easy for you to share or embed videos :<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jkm9mQlejCw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s look at some more social media examples.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>From <a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, you can embed posts :<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=788306611216573&amp;id=189945647719342\" data-width=\"466\">\n<div class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=788306611216573&amp;id=189945647719342\">Post<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Ciaran-Laval\/189945647719342\">Ciaran Laval<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>From <a title=\"Google +\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Google +<\/a> you can embed posts :<\/p>\n<p><!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag. --><br \/>\n<script src=\"https:\/\/apis.google.com\/js\/plusone.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><!-- Place this tag where you want the widget to render. --> <\/p>\n<div class=\"g-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/113319564893712212668\/posts\/KeRFeydjGJ5\"><\/div>\n<p>From Twitter you can embed Tweets : <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>New Blog Post &#8211; Interesting ideas emerge after LL invite feedback on suggestions for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SecondLife\">@SecondLife<\/a> more Orcs needed : <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/klQH2ZpL2H\">http:\/\/t.co\/klQH2ZpL2H<\/a> \u2014 Ciaran Laval (@Ciaran_Laval) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ciaran_Laval\/status\/543532153947295745\">December 12, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>From Second Life you can create an ad widget for <a title=\"Destination Guide\" href=\"http:\/\/secondlife.com\/destinations\" target=\"_blank\">Destination Guide<\/a> locations :<\/p>\n<p><!-- Begin Second Life Destination Link --><\/p>\n<div id=\"sl-dg-widget\" style=\"border: 1px solid #2c2e30; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; height: auto; width: 450px; display: block; background-image: none; background-color: #2c2e30;\"><a style=\"border: none; color: #5cb192; display: block; margin: 0; padding: 5px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/secondlife.com\/destination\/winter-holiday-village2?sourceid=dgw1\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 440px; display: inline; border: initial none initial;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lecs-destinations-secondlife-com.s3.amazonaws.com\/img\/13856\/544abaf1b6a56737882664.jpg?w=525\" alt=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"color: #5cb192; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; font-size: 20px; line-height: 22px; padding: 6px 0px 3px 2px; margin: 3px 0px 0px 0px; border: initial none initial;\">Winter Holiday Village<\/h1>\n<p style=\"border: none; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 7px 5px 0px; padding: 2px 0px 3px 3px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; color: #bbbbbb;\">Christmas time fun is here and Winter Holiday Village is open for it&#8217;s 6th winter on the grid. Winter Holiday Village is chock full of wintertime goodness, fun and snow! Visit Polar Bear Pond, Penguin Park, slippery slopes, ice tunnels, arctic scenery, ice skating and so much more with surprises around every corner. Santa even makes personal appearances November 28th through December 24th.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"sl-dg-widget-btn\" style=\"-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.496094) 0px 1px 3px 0px; background-color: #ff5c00; background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear, 0% 0%, 0% 100%, from(#FFB23F), to(#FF9A03)); border-bottom-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.246094); border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; cursor: pointer; color: white; display: inline-block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; height: 20px; line-height: 20px; margin: none; outline-color: white; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 3px 0 5px 0; position: relative; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.246094) 0px -1px 1px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 100%; border-width: 0px;\">Visit in Second Life<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span id=\"dgw-pix\"><\/span><!-- End Second Life Destination Link --><\/p>\n<p>However there&#8217;s not really a lot that can be done with events, places and regions and this seems a great pity because giving some oomph to events, places and regions for blog posts would add depth to the promotion of them.<\/p>\n<p>The Destination Guide links work really well and I&#8217;d really like to see them extended to other areas so that people can promote the good (and of course bad) things that Second Life has to offer in a much more vibrant format. Obviously it&#8217;s possible for people to create some code of their own to give life to these areas, but as we can see from the likes of Flickr, YouTube, Facebook and Google +, making it easy for users to do this is beneficial.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-share-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" data-url=\"http:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=4489\" data-via=\"Ciaran_Laval\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;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. 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