New “Teleportal” For Second Life
Posted Monday, February 26th, 2007, at 9:28 am Eastern by Mark Wallace
Tags: Second Life, virtual worlds
Second Life Tree is a new directory of Second Life URLs that allow you to teleport directly from a Web page into the virtual world of Second Life. [Via VTOR.] It’s already got around 300 links in it, which means it should be of some value, and that value should only grow as people suggest their own links at the site. So start suggesting.
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“Teleportal.” Love it! Not crazy about the SL Treee site, though. When I click “Teleport Now” I don’t teleport at all, I just end up at SLurl.com. Awkward.
How scalable is this? Who gets to do all the work updating it? Do they get to choose what goes in and what doesn’t? Can they be bribed? Haven’t we moved from taxonomy to foxonomy, and from arbitrary hierarchies to recommendation systems like the Google and DIGG? Didn’t Google beat Yahoo! because of this? Seems very retro to me.
Well I like it.
It should complement http://second411.com/ nicely.
Hi Sean. The site is run by Salome Skjellerup and a few helpers. Yes, we choose what goes in and what doesn’t. So far, we haven’t refused any submittals, but if we are not too keen on a place, you’ll read it in the description (sometimes between the lines ;)). Yes, it’s retro. We believe editorial content and our own judgement are better suited to this than rating/recommendation systems (often abused by submitters). And finally… Yes, we can be bribed!!! Please make a proposal (LOL).
PS, Tony, at Slurl.com there should be a pop-up with a map allowing you to teleport from there.
Brixio, I know how SLurl.com works, thanks :)
What I’m saying is that it is counter-intuitive to click “Teleport Now” on your site then be taken to SLurl.com, where a map pops up, and one clicks “Teleport Now” a second time. “Teleport Now” means “Teleport NOW.”
I’m with Tony.I hate SLurls. I roll with just secondlife:// etc., and bracket it in chevrons, like »this«