Not in Second Life and still talking to your friends?
August 16, 2007 4:39 pmUpdate: Linden Lab unofficially announce a new (Second Life) client called SLim after a a trademark filing for SLim by LL was discovered: ‘SLim will be a very thin client that is designed to stay in both voice and text contact with your (in-world) friends’. I myself am very curious and can’t wait until it goes into First Look (announced Aug-Sept 2008).
Teacup, a Japanese software devoloper company, came up with yet another way to talk to persons inside Second Life without having to run the Second Life client: use their community chat and talk through an avatar they created especially for this purpose. IM’s and main chat are both a possibility and you can use both PC and cellphone to do so, that is, if you can figure out the Japanse. ;) They also plan on adding functionality for sharing snapshots. The major drawbacks of this service by Teacup?
- The service is web based.
- The avatar you are talking you must find him or herself on their island Japan Resort.
From Japan’s Cellphone Edge: I went to teacup’s Second Life chat room to see how it works and was pleased with the results. All you need is to enter your nickname before entering the chat room. Inside, it looks rather like a very simple text chat room with multiple users shooting up messages at each other at once. At the time there were around six people chatting, two were from Second Life and the rest accessed from mobile phones.
Other neat programs, gadgeds and tools that allow communication between Second Life and ‘the internet’ (or vice versa):
Second Life notification e-mail
You can set it that way in your preferences on the Second Life site that if you receive an IM or group notice in SL when you are not online, you get it send to the mail address you provided. You can reply on those, and the person that send the message shall receive your reply in-world. Be weary about replying long sentences or urls, though.
Ajaxlife
Created by Katherine Berry, Ajaxlife, a light, webbased, non-official version of the Second Life client allows you teleport, talk to main chat and to communicate with your friends in Second Life.
SLeek
Being the oldest program I know of that does so, SLeek also allows you to chat in general chat and with the friends. You can pull up people’s profiles, teleport, … without having 99% of your CPU power decidated to rendering Second Life’s graphics. ;)
Movable Life
MovableLife allows Second Life users to log in to Second Life using only a web browser. MovableLife allows you to chat, IM, search, teleport, manage friends, groups, and much more. If you just want a quick and easy SecondLife experience without all the 3D graphics, then MovableLife is exactly what you are looking for.
BlogHUD
Allowing you to post snapshots and blogposts directly from Second Life to WordPress, Blogger, Typepad, … the BlogHUD is an excellent tool for those who wish to blog from within Second Life.
Twitterbox
The Twitterbox is an object which enables one to post to and receive updates from Twitter, when inside Second Life. If you are not familiar with either of those I might suggest, sir or madam, that you click the previous links to further educate yourself.
SLtweets
Another free HUD is SLtweets which allows you to send twitter messages directly from Second Life to your twitter account and to import received messages into SL again.
Squawk
Same as SLtweets but also supports Jaiky and Tubmlr. Added are some social networking functions on the squawknet.com website.
IRC Gateway
Chatting to and reading from Second Life using an IRC client, with an object as ‘intermediar talker’ which reads from SL main chat and posts to IRC and vice versa. I know it’s already done often, but I can only find this information in the Dutch language.
VNC2SL
Combining VNC and Second Life, VNC2SL developed by Dalien Talbot imports your desktop into Second Life. Use it for presentations or showing a lot of photographs without paying those upload fees.
SLimchat
Although developing has stopped on SLimchat it’s worth mentioning as it was a - payed - instant messenger for Second Life. (Which could be compared to SLeek.)
FlickrViewer (beta)
The FlickrViewer Allows to browse Flickr streams, show your own, … without having to upload all the photographs to Second Life. Still under - heavy - construction. I used it on SL4B.
Any that I’ve missed? I’ve left out the huge amount of SLurl tagging and rating systems, as that’s a list on it’s own.
Wassr.jp
Wassr is a twitter clone but optimized for Second Life and mobile phone. The creator also provides a HUD, with which you can easily send SLurls.
4 Responses to “Not in Second Life and still talking to your friends?”
One thing that was maybe obvious but I had to discover it by mistake…. if your prefs are set so that SL sends you IM’s and group notices via e-mail, you can reply to them. Just hit reply and it will go to your friend as an IM. Don’t write too long though.
The reply think i use all the time, it’s really good.
Acutually, we japanese uses “wassr” much (http://wassr.jp). It’s twitter clone but optimized for Second Life and mobile phone. The creator also provide HUD, with that you can send your LM easily.
BTW, Relaying all of open chat to the site has some lag and privacy problem I think…
Dandellion, yes, thank you. I forgot the most logical one. Although with me it does get through when I put urls into them or when I use my webmail to answer them (the latter is the fault of the webmail not coping very well with a lot of numbers or smth, I think).
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