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One of our priorities this year (and there are many, from making the experience more intuitive to reducing Lag), is to give Residents new and better ways to connect and share, through features like the following:
- Searchable profiles
- Friend and activity feeds
- Widgets and viral content
- Optional registration and sign-in using credentials from other properties (Facebook, Yahoo!, etc.)
- APIs that enable developers to create widgets, tools, and sites pulling from selected SL data feeds
Our goal is to extend and support the great work done by so many on their SL-related blogs and Web sites, because they are a powerful network in themselves. We want to give you more tools, feeds, and connection points to build even more richness and depth into the experience of SL. This is something we only want to encourage. Hamlet did a great post recently about the power of the Second Life „family“ of blogs and sites.
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To help us do all this, we’re excited to announce an acquisition we’ve just made that will soon start to give Residents new and better ways to connect with each other and with the rest of the world: Enemy Unknown AB is a Swedish company that runs Avatars United, a Web-based community site designed especially for avatars. We’re proud to announce that they are now part of Linden Lab.
Avatars United lets you make some of those connections that I’m talking about above. It’s a great site. Check it out and add me, T Linden, and others to your friend list. As you do, you’ll start to build an activity feed (similar to Facebook or Twitter) that keeps you in closer touch with the people you’re connected to in Second Life. This is one of the most exciting things about the acquisition, this ability to reach my friends more easily, with more interesting information (and photos!), and in a more meaningful way. As we go, we’ll be adding to these capabilities — and because Avatars United provides developer APIs, anyone else can add to these capabilites as well.
One thing we’re really excited about is the team behind the AU site. Thor Olof and his team bring a wealth of talent to Linden Lab. More importantly, these guys get it, they know that the social needs of avatars are often unique, and they know how to serve them. One exciting side effect of this acquisition is the prospect of having an ecosystem of Second Life apps grow up around Avatars United. The AU team already has an active and growing developer program, and we’re looking forward to seeing what the endlessly talented SL dev community can do there. (I’m betting/hoping that a groups app will be one of the first to emerge.) What kind of Second Life apps would you like? What kinds of APIs would you like to be able to develop on?
In coming months, we’ll be looking at the best way to create new services for Second Life around some of the sharing and networking tools that Avatars United has to offer. The AU team is focused on how to extend their platform out to other social networks, sites, and blogs. That will also be key to how we want to connect the expanse of Second Life-related sites, and give them a higher profile on the Web. […]“
via M Linden
„Avatars United (AU) is a community for your virtual avatars. Register your avatar, upload your profile picture, write your biography and share some of your exploits in virtual worlds through pictures, videos, blogs and much more.“
via Avatars United
Avatars United is like Facebook
for virtual world avatars.
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