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Jeroen Semaphore
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Join date: 13 Jan 2007
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01-13-2007 03:42
Would it be an idea - or is it already possible - to maintain a website outside of Second Life where you can check out how many times your objects are being watched or used by SL residents, and god knows what other types of information you can keep there?
I've heard of Meta Adverse which says it does pretty much the same, but is it possible to create your own connection with Second Life?
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Haravikk Mistral
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01-13-2007 05:19
You can send data from secondlife using llHTTPRequest(), I do it for visitors to my shop by having a relatively slow sensor looking every 30 seconds or so for new visitors to my store. Every 24 hours it sends the value for the day off to my site so I can see how it's doing. I then do this for other areas so I can get an idea of which places are popular or not.
I suppose the question is how you want to measure stats. There isn't really any way to know if someone has 'seen' an item, that would have to be implemented server-side but would be very costly to do (imagine if it were enabled for the bullets in a machine gun!), but IMO a simple sensor like mine is adequate for the task.
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Draco18s Majestic
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01-13-2007 13:37
You could do the sensor sweep and at the same time record what item(s) are active on the vendor (assuming you use one that has next and previous buttons). Would produce some incorrect results (say if the person had just clicked to the item and it got recorded and then they clicked off not wanting to see if), but it'd give a vauge indication.
More complicated manner would be to record how long a given item was active, ignoring times over a certain value if a sensor sweep indicated that no one was there (i.e. item1 was viewed for 26 seconds and sensors indicate someone was in the area -> record for sending vs. item2 was viewed for 9 hours and 48 minutes, sensors came up blank -> ignore).
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Jeroen Semaphore
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01-14-2007 01:15
Okay...so there are already limited possibilities for this. Hm, well it's at least something, but I have to think about how to produce more data from this singular manner.
What type of data comes back from that HTTPHeader, if I may ask. Could you give one or two lines to show me that, Haravikk?
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