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You might already know that I started a Second Life portal site called Second Links, with all of the most useful Second Life links I could find. Well, I’ve been doing some work on that to make it more useful, and now I’ve added some Handy New Things.
The Second life portal at http://www.secondlinks.com/portal is the original portal page with key links for news, basic Second Life sites, fashion, building, freebies and those kinds of things, but now with the ability to show a compact version (without the descriptions, easier to get to what you want to click on if you’re visiting sites you already know) and to hide any categories you’d like, permanently (or until you decide to click on the option that brings them back).
(You can also just go to http://www.secondlinks.com and it will bring up the portal and give you links to the other two pages.)
The news page at http://www.secondlinks.com/news shows the latest five headlines from each of 23 Second Life blogs or news sources, and they’re always shown most recently updated first. It uses the same categories as the portal page, so you can permanently show or hide listings there, too. Glancing at the page is kind of like getting a quick answer to “what’s going on with Second Life”?
The blogroll page at http://www.secondlinks.com/blogroll collects all of the Second Life blogs I could find, over 900 of them! Actually, there are about a thousand right now, but I’m slowly working through and checking each one, eliminating any that haven’t been updated in a long time or aren’t really blogs or whatever, so I imagine the number will go down to closer to 900 by the time I’m done.
I’d love suggestions for any of the pages! Personal blogs go on the blogroll page, and the ones with descriptions go up top. If you have a blog that’s about things going on in Second Life in general and you update it regularly and it’s not mainly about your life or your store or your venue or your friends, then it might be a good candidate for the news and portals page too.
Let me know if this is useful. I kept feeling like there should be sites like this, so in the end, of course, I had to run out and make them. 🙂
^^^\ Kate /^^^
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Wow!!! This is really amazing!!! Thank you for all your hard work on this. What a great resource. 🙂
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One thing I miss about using my paid LJ account is the edit comment feature. *sighs* I had an idea that would be a lot of work but might ultimately be kind of useful.
A lot of people in SL have Twitter accounts, as well as Plurk accounts. It might be cool to have all of them in a list and show their updates like you did for the news and blogroll.
Like I said, it would be a lot of work but it would take the annoyance out of having to find people to follow/friend!
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Oh, now that’s interesting…I admit, I don’t know much about Twitter or Plurk…can anyone give me any pointers?
^^^\ Kate /^^^
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Both sites are kind of considered “microblogging” where you post small updates about what you’re doing during the day.
Twitter shows a list of your updates as well as anyone you’re “following”. I don’t have a Twitter for Kedawen as an avatar, I just have a personal one – http://twitter.com/kedawen
I like Plurk better, the timeline of people’s updates is a lot better, and its easier to respond to people’s questions and such. I do have a Plurk for Kedawen here – http://www.plurk.com/user/kedawendarrow
Now that I think about it, showing people’s latest Twitters/Plurks might be too much craziness, maybe just having a directory of people using each service would be better.
I would be willing to do the research and compile a list, if its something you want to do, or I could just post a list on my own LJ. Either way is fine!
As a side note, I was wondering if you’d mind taking my personal LJ off the blogroll list on your site. I won’t be posting SL stuff there anymore. 😀 Thank you!!
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Thanks, hon, on a number of fronts. Let’s see:
First, we’re all set with your First Life blog. I removed it.
I think links to people’s Twitters and Plurks might be very nice, and if you’re able to compile them, that would be wonderful! I’ll e-mail you about it. 🙂
Do you have a description for your Second Life blog that I can type in?
^^^\ Kate /^^^
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