Category Archives: Secondlife

Sim-OnDemand: OpenSim on EC2- Personal Virtual World Server

In the last post I mentioned that Sim-OnDemand is a learning by doing initiative in DevPay context. Let me elaborate on Sim-OnDemand a bit. The intended purpose of Sim-OnDemand is as a personal Sim for experimentation, development and testing. Sim-OnDemand: … Continue reading

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AWS DevPay: Learning by Doing – Making Money With OpenSource

AWS DevPay is one of lesser publicized and presumably under utilized service by Amazon Web Services. A Platform + Community play becomes an growing, thriving ecosystem when barriers of making money off the ecosystem are reduced. DevPay makes it possible … Continue reading

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Amazon Elastic Block Store and Opensim

The announcement of Elastic Block Store has opened the flood gates for new methods of using, distributing, and monetizing opensource software. The very nature of opensource software is that it is emergent – always getting enhanced by the community. Opensim … Continue reading

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I Can Has Shortstory? – Warren Adler via SecondLife

Who needs fiction when blogs are there or when truth is stranger than fiction? Warrren Adler Short Story writer was at Amazon Island in Secondlife to share some of his Short Story writing tips. It is natural to understand his … Continue reading

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Featuring Proto.in via SecondLife: As if Being There!

What does the old cliché, Location! Location! Location! translate into in an increasingly flat world? When there is problem of plenty( not exactly abundance) what is the single thing that makes or breaks? Is it not Serendipity? As I’d like … Continue reading

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Unconference Becoming Mainstream?

Just got a tweet from Ujj that the Mindtree annual festival is going to be BarCamp style unconference. Coincidentally when Tara ‘MissRogue’ Hunt heartbrokenly lamenting that BarCamp is about LOCAL and GRASSROOT and empowering. Hmmmm! Yeah, it is inevitable that … Continue reading

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AWS Chat:Edmund Earp(Lars Kotthoff) presenting S3 based backup in RL, SL event

Edmund Earp(Lars Kotthoff) presenting S3 based backup at Amazon Dev Island, SecondLife Originally uploaded by labsji Lars Kotthoff giving a presentation on a Ruby script he has developed for backup using Amazon S3 . The presentation in English was presented … Continue reading

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Photo Snap Chennai from Afar with SecondLife

Not there in Chennai during Nov 3, 3:11pm Sanp Shot Evant? Now you can participate via SecondLife, With the unique method of spilling SecondLife Avatar Interaction to real life( Avatar Voodo), it can be made real!

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AWS EC2 as Restaurant, Avatar Voodo with Mturk, Tree Teleportation

Amazon is indeed an extreme retailer, and retailers want their inventories to move. Amazon Web Services is just this concept applied to one of their ‘Inventory’ viz., their Infrastructure! Well, for some, this is bit over the head to appreciate. … Continue reading

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SAP Global Survey: Push vs Pull Machinima

I’ve been consulting for Universal Print System for almost a decade now. Seeing a lot of similarity in pre-press backend activity and social media activities, I asked them to get into social media. I signed them up for the social … Continue reading

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