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After I blogged the location-tracker hacked up for use in Second Life by Linden Lab CTO Cory Ondrejka the other day, Cory sent along a link to a similar service, SLStats [Cory also blogged it, I now see], that was started recently by SL resident Mark Barrett. I’ve also been meaning to look into the new blogHUD built by SL resident Koz Farina, which is currently in alpha. The cool thing about that is that it can be used as a kind of location-tracking device as well. (more…)

My partner in podcasting, John Swords, has posted one of the last interviews we did at the Metaverse Roadmap summit back in May. This one is with Sibley Verbeck, CEO of the Electric Sheep Company (who sponsor this blog). Take a listen and hear for yourself what it’s like when you put your money where your metaverse is. (And as always, you can listen in the sidebar here if you don’t want to navigate over to the Sessions site.)

If you’re going to be in London in September, you might want to drop in on the Association for Geographic Information’s AGI 2006 conference, being held September 12 - 14. The AGI includes not only geospatial industry members, but researchers, academics and simply interested individuals, as well, and its annual event will include speakers from Google, Microsoft and others who’ve been poking around in the field. The conference will include cool-sounding panels on the state of geospatial services in 2010 (”geospatial semantic grid” and “invisible GIS”) and “Geography: Revolution or Evolution?”, and will include two open debate sessions that the public will be able to participate in. If they can afford the 500-600 pound registration fee, that is.

Apologies to anyone who had trouble accessing 3pointD yesterday. Our hosting service, which I am from now on referring to as NightmareHost, was down almost all day yesterday, at least on the servers I’m using. It was also down much of Tuesday — all of which adds up to a situation that has me pretty steamed, and considering switching over to something like godaddy or bluehost. But switching hosts would be an enormous PITA, and I’m not convinced any other service will be more reliable than the one I already have. Grrr… Insights welcome.