[sldev] Linden Lab Navigations and Landmark Project

[Callum Lerwick]

On Sat, 2008-04-19 at 07:00 +0100, Aimee Walton wrote:
> On Apr 19, 2008, at 04:58, Darien Caldwell wrote:
> 
> > Reading the Wiki entry, it sounds like a lot of good ideas.  
> > However, the talk of doing away with User Picks is worrisome. LL  
> > may not be aware, but many people use Picks like an extended area  
> > of their personal profile. The locations in the picks often are  
> > meaningless, it's the words and pictures which are of importance.
> 
> The suggestion of deprecating user picks on the wiki page is actually  
> at odds with most of what was expressed at the meeting. General  
> consensus seemed to be that they should become more flexible in  
> recognition of the fact they are being widely used for non- 
> geographical purposes.
> 
> I would suggest that rather than just allowing a landmark on them  
> they should be able to take a generalised attachment, be that a  
> landmark, link to a friend, URL, notecard, or an object. That would  
> allow store owners to distribute incentive freebies through the  
> profile pick for their store for example, or give non-landowners a  
> way to distribute freebies,

How about we just nuke profiles out of the client and SL protocol
entirely and push them out onto the web? We seem to have an in-game
browser these days...

Then integrate it with Facebook and Google Apps and Mugshot and so on.
Apparently the kids these days call this a "mashup"...
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