[sldev] Linden Lab Navigations and Landmark Project

[Anna Gulaev]

Callum Lerwick wrote:
>
> How about we just nuke profiles out of the client and SL protocol
> entirely and push them out onto the web?
>


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


I call it a tacky mess of ugly crap.

Think about what a profile is. When I get a profile I know what I'll find
there. One brief statement about the person's SL life, with a picture. One
brief statement about the person's FL, with a picture, if he's so inclined
to share. One page of favorite items that tells me about the person's tastes
and potentially offers links to interesting things.

Restricted? Yes. But it's also concise and there's a limit to how tacky it
can be made.

There's also a web tab, so the person can set up a facebook page and from
there they can link all the other tacky crap they want. Wisely (for security
and privacy) the viewer asks my permission to view this external content.

If profiles go the way of other things and become web-based, at least keep
them under viewer-generated control so they remain consistent and concise,
and keep them on LL-owned property.
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