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si Money
The nice demon.
Join date: 21 May 2003
Posts: 477
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06-16-2003 16:41
Odd request I don't know is possible or not, but it would be interesting to see Secondlife's in game IM system linked to an out-of-game IM client as well, allowing for communication while not having the game running. I think it would be an interesting extension to the SL social system. (Obviously, use of the IM would require a SL game account, not just an open system).
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Bob Brightwillow
Technologist
Join date: 7 Feb 2003
Posts: 110
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06-16-2003 18:22
This would be very useful. If I'm at work, I can browse the forums but can't interact at all with those in the world.
Lindens, can you adapt Jabber to communicate with SL IM? Obviously this is a post-launch project, but I think it would be neat. And it promotes OSS in a minor way, something I feel the Lindens like doing whenever possible.
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Ope Rand
Alien
Join date: 14 Mar 2003
Posts: 352
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06-16-2003 19:07
anything to keep us jacked-in is a good idea IMO 
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Devyn Grimm
the Hermit
Join date: 1 May 2003
Posts: 270
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06-17-2003 14:54
I heartily second this idea / request. I've thought about this before too.. how cool it would be to chat with online SL friends while at work or any other situation when I'm not able to enter the game world.
It wouldn't need many elaborate features... as long as it mirrored the in-game IM functionality I think it would be fine.
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Huns Valen
Don't PM me here.
Join date: 3 May 2003
Posts: 2,749
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06-17-2003 21:50
From: someone Originally posted by Bob Brightwillow
This would be very useful. If I'm at work, I can browse the forums but can't interact at all with those in the world.
Lindens, can you adapt Jabber to communicate with SL IM? Obviously this is a post-launch project, but I think it would be neat. And it promotes OSS in a minor way, something I feel the Lindens like doing whenever possible. I second that! If no one had suggested Jabber I would have been the first. It's free and it's in reasonably wide use. My web hosting provider (DreamHost) even gives us free private Jabber servers to go with each account if that's any indication. |