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I Can Has Shortstory? – Warren Adler via SecondLife

Posted on February 27, 2008 by labsji

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!

Posted on January 16, 2008 by labsji

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?

Posted on December 1, 2007 by labsji

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

Posted on November 10, 2007 by labsji

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

Posted on November 1, 2007 by labsji

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

Posted on October 18, 2007 by labsji

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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AWS SecondLife Chat: 06 Sep 2007

Posted on September 7, 2007 by labsji

With Jeff Barr back with a bang after a month long vacation and Conference going, the AWS developer chat at Secondlife is back with renewed enthusiasm. Today’s chat was dominated by EC2 discussions with the usual rants about S3 mounting … Continue reading →

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Proto.in Summer Edition: Internet and Web2.0

Posted on July 27, 2007 by labsji

The first to be called on stage was Pramati Software as they experienced setup glitches, BriteSoft took the stage. To quote from their website: BriteWorks The BriteWorks platform enables users to create enterprise applications in a fraction of the time … Continue reading →

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Proto.in SE in SecondLife: unconference within a conference

Posted on July 19, 2007 by labsji

Proto.in is a serious initiative by fun and energetic techies of The Knowledge Foundation. With Proto.in Secnd Edition, the TKF folks are all set to excel their high standard of fun and useful event by several orders of magnitude. Given … Continue reading →

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Mashing SecondLife and Amazon Web Services: SHA1 in LSL

Posted on July 17, 2007 by labsji

Mashing up SecondLife and Amazon Web Service must be easy. Or at least that is my conventional wisdom. Yet when I attempted it, I found it more involved than what I bargained for. First, Linden Scripting Language(LSL) does not have … Continue reading →

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