[sldev] New viewer name: Snowglobe

[Philip Rosedale]

I knew it was a great name!  :)  Actually, I forgot to mention that love 
for suggesting it goes to Q Linden, who suggested the name in a meeting 
we were having after hearing Merov laughingly say "Rosebud".  Hence the 
Citizen Kane reference. 

P

Mike Monkowski wrote:
> Citizen Kane?  Was he in Snow Crash? :-)
>> There is something new: A globe about the size of a grapefruit, a 
>> perfectly detailed rendition of Planet Earth, hanging in space at 
>> arm's length in front of his eyes. Hiro has heard about this but 
>> never seen it. It is a piece of CIC software called, simply, Earth. 
>> It is the user interface that CIC uses to keep track of every bit of 
>> spatial information that it owns - all the maps, weather data, 
>> architectural plans, and satellite surveillance stuff.
>
> Mike
>
> Philip Rosedale wrote:
>> Hey all,
>>
>> So 'Snowglobe' is the new name we picked for the new viewer we've all 
>> been working on.  Seemed clever (just think of the Citizen Kane 
>> references), fun, referential to virtual worlds generally, and 
>> something that could be effectively mutated for different projects 
>> (what you put 'inside' the snowglobe).  We've registered it and 
>> gotten some domains (snowglobeproject.org, etc).   Next step for 
>> us/LL is to come up with some art, and flesh out some usage guidelines.