tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57372405459672734242024-03-13T20:04:17.470-07:00Weblin BlogThis Blog is about virtual worlds, chats, instant messenger, web20 and social networks. We believe: the web is the biggest virtual world so far - and all the people surfing the web should see the others, visiting the same webpage right now. Watch out - there is the next generation avatar messenger and virtual world.interaktivistinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15591130589769546795noreply@blogger.comBlogger81125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5737240545967273424.post-11194016618547025192013-10-03T02:48:00.000-07:002013-10-04T03:06:40.904-07:00Weblin Helper Chrome Extension<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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One of the changes, which Google introduced with Chrome Version 29 made Chrome incompatible with weblin. In other words: no weblins with Chrome 29.<br />
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A new Chrome extension in the Google Web Store corrects this. The extension adds weblins back to Chrome.<br />
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The extension is not yet included in the weblin installer. It must be installed manually with 2 steps:<br />
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1. Add the Chrome extension from here: <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/weblin-helper/cedamdmlplebpfigaldiimmbdkdcopeb">https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/weblin-helper/cedamdmlplebpfigaldiimmbdkdcopeb</a><br />
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2. Add these lines to the file "Browsers.sreg" in the weblin program folder (e.g. with Notepad):<br />
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[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\zweitgeist\Oberser\Browsers\GoogleChrome29]<br />
"Active"=dword:1<br />
"Name"="GoogleChrome 29"<br />
"Description"="GoogleChrome"<br />
"MainClass"="Chrome_"<br />
"MainClassUsage"=dword:2<br />
"MainCaption"="Google Chrome"<br />
"MainCaptionUsage"=dword:3<br />
"TextClass"="Chrome_"<br />
"TextClassUsage"=dword:2<br />
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The extension will be included in the weblin installer later.Heinerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09520563824611073104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5737240545967273424.post-26284745238705616672013-06-03T06:19:00.000-07:002013-06-03T06:19:34.656-07:00First Weblin with Black CrownMacr@Soft is the first Weblin with a black crown points level.(<a href="http://www.weblin.com/toplins.php">http://www.weblin.com/toplins.php</a>):<br />
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A black crown means more than 2^16 = 65536 points. You can get up to 100 points each day. But this is very difficult. A "Power-User" may reach about 70 points a day. This means, that Macr@Soft is a power user every other day or that he was online every day since introduction of the weblin points system. Anyway, Macr@Soft is the most active weblin ever.<br />
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Congratulations.Heinerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09520563824611073104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5737240545967273424.post-12985673864006131552012-10-08T10:32:00.003-07:002012-10-08T10:57:19.382-07:00Weblin Trademark and Logo<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="line-height: 20px;">The trademark "Weblin" and the Weblin Logo (right) are registered and protected. Name and logo must not be used without explicit permission. </span><br />
<span style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span>
<span style="line-height: 20px;">In general we like any decent activity in the Weblin space. We are supporting people who create tools, clients, communities, and additional services. Especially mobile is an interesting area.</span><br />
<span style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span>
<span style="line-height: 20px;">Unfortunately, there are always black sheep, who misuse the Weblin trademark. We had to deal with strange things, which were completely unrelated to Weblin. We must be able to prohibit the use of the Weblin trademark by these people to protect our users. Most users can not differentiate easily between service offers. They see a Weblin logo and assume, that it is a Weblin service or at least endorsed by Weblin. We want to prevent normal people from being mislead.</span><br />
<span style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span>
<span style="line-height: 20px;">We have to protect the trade mark. Therefore, name and logo must not be used without permission. Unfortunately, the trademark law requires, that a trademark is actively "defended". Therefore we require, that everyone obtains a permission. We can not let some people use it without permission and require permission from others. That would allow black sheep to argue, that the trademark is not actively used and that may invalidate it over time.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 20px;">By the way: there are people, who payed for the trademark with their own hard earned money. It is at least not fair to use the brand name without asking.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 20px;">So, if someone wants to use Weblin name or logo, then he/she should contact the trademark manager and discuss a license.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 20px;">Contact: </span><br />
<span style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span>
<span style="line-height: 20px;">Lupus Labs UG</span><br />
<span style="line-height: 20px;">Waterloostr. 26</span><br />
<span style="line-height: 20px;">22769 Hamburg</span><br />
<span style="line-height: 20px;">Germany</span><br />
<span style="line-height: 20px;">info@weblin.com</span><br />
Heinerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09520563824611073104noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5737240545967273424.post-9200931402296196542012-06-28T01:36:00.000-07:002012-06-28T01:36:18.372-07:00Weblin Fun<br />
It is no fun to ban weblins form the toplist. It is no fun to check log files for unfair behavior. It is no fun to reply to complaints. It is no fun to ban accounts because of illegal images. It is no fun to program several hours to fight unfair behavior.<br />
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We keep Weblin running in our spare time. Sometimes a server is down. Then someone spends several hours to fix it. Sometimes web browsers change and someone must program to make Firefox and IE and Chrome work with Weblin. Sometimes there are attacks on servers from unknown parties and someone has to fight it. Apart from the fact that running the servers for Weblin costs 150 € each month of our private money.<br />
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From your point of view, Weblin is just there. You just start it and the weblin appears on the page. But this is not a given. It is much work. Someone watches and gets up at 2 am to fix it, if necessary.<br />
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It would be nice, if you would not add to this work by doing unfair things and uploading indecent images.<br />Heinerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09520563824611073104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5737240545967273424.post-20618472786980382362012-01-17T14:00:00.000-08:002012-01-17T14:03:10.106-08:00New SSL Certificate<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBDHMsFAyBzYEml8lL_MC8CfOKjyEhpF0kEUXMCq43sOyp2vcj2ifN8ALhRcq-M09xbkNdVKYF6mEGAx9MiA_2wTCUAM1H1WAkKRtpjdbAoIoBZFMUT_fSUiE-WoXj1vuXOTnc_Rb249m2/s1600/secure_white.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBDHMsFAyBzYEml8lL_MC8CfOKjyEhpF0kEUXMCq43sOyp2vcj2ifN8ALhRcq-M09xbkNdVKYF6mEGAx9MiA_2wTCUAM1H1WAkKRtpjdbAoIoBZFMUT_fSUiE-WoXj1vuXOTnc_Rb249m2/s1600/secure_white.gif" /></a><br />
I just installed a new SSL certificate on www.weblin.com. The old certificate was installed by Zweitgeist for 3 years. It expires January, 20th. I now bought a new certificate valid for 2 more years.<br />
<br />Heinerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09520563824611073104noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5737240545967273424.post-12349398321334004152011-11-12T10:51:00.001-08:002011-11-12T11:10:07.314-08:00Moving to a Bigger Server<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Weblin will move to a bigger server. The current server was supposed to be a test. It is working quite well. But for a long term production system, there should be a new system. The main difference is, that the test system was a single server and the new system will be a small cluster of several hosts. We will separate the server roles Web, Database, Messaging. This makes the system more powerful, more fault tolerant, and more scalable.<br />
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Most preparations are already done. The transition is supposed to happen on Sunday morning. There will be a downtime for several hours, which you hopefully won't notice because I plan to get up early and be ready when most people go online.Heinerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09520563824611073104noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5737240545967273424.post-29268368799624661982011-10-12T14:40:00.000-07:002011-10-15T17:40:24.993-07:00First Month in PicturesIt is now one month since relaunch. The number of active Weblins is about 3400. 3400 Weblins have been online at least once in the last month. Each week are about 2000 different Weblins online. At most 10% of all "active" Weblins are concurrently online. This number grows slowly every week. Yesterday (Wednesday) was the highest number since relaunch. There are new registrations all the time and there are also returning Weblins who reactivate old accounts. <br />
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Weblins who are concurrently online. The number fluctuates between day and night. We are very much dominated by Europe. The peak is at about 9 pm (UTC+2). But sometimes there are also many Weblins in the Portuguese room on the Weblin home page. I suppose they are from Brasil and make the small bump in the middle of the European night, when it's evening in Brasil.<br />
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New registrations and re-activations: they remain constant without any ads or press activity. This will probably grow, whe<br />
n we start telling former Weblin users, that we are back.<br />
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The most important indicators for online games. Later Weblin will measured by these numbers. Monthly and weekly unique active users and the number of new users (=Activated). In addition, there is the number of weekly returning users. These are the users who do not just try Weblin, but are still using it a week later. The ration is quite good. A possible explanation is, that primarily former Weblin users create new accounts. They know what to expect and do not just try it out.<br />
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<br />Heinerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09520563824611073104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5737240545967273424.post-44669816611040542612011-10-08T11:39:00.000-07:002011-10-08T11:41:18.325-07:00Request for Participation: Weblin Code Wiki<br />
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I just found the contents of the Weblin Code Wiki. It has technical documentation of Weblin.<br />
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The most important part is probably the Weblin Sitekit framework. Weblin Sitekit lets Web pages communicate with the Weblin client. You can create great applications with this framework. There where examples of an interactive adventure, a dance floor, where avatars would dance automatically. You can create an avatar theater where avatars play a script. And there more features hidden in the Wiki.<br />
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Weblin Sitekit is a tool for Web page and JavaScript programmers. But if someone makes an app with weblin Sitekit, then all weblins can participate.<br />
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We are now looking for volunteers who install and operate the Wiki. I can make the data available:<br />
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<li>mysql database backup (MySQL dump 10.11 of mysqld 5.0.32): "code_wiki.sql.gz" (108 kb)</li>
<li>PHP-files of the Mediawiki: "mediawiki.tgz" (14 MB)</li>
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If someone has server space and some time to setup the Wiki, we would be happy. Please write to wolf@weblin.comHeinerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09520563824611073104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5737240545967273424.post-80797989889207821682011-10-05T13:12:00.000-07:002011-10-05T13:12:12.434-07:00Your Questions About New Features<br />
In short: new developments, new features, new avatars are currently not planned. We can not promise anything.<br />
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We run weblin without commercial support. Installation of the new Web site and necessary updates to client and server took about 4 weeks of work. Currently the system runs stable. But every day we have to check backups, respond to user questions, check uploaded images, investigate complaints, and occasionally ban offending users.<br />
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In other words: we are already busy in our spare time.<br />
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We have to wait until there are more Weblins. We are now at 2.500 active accounts. There are up to 350 Weblins online concurrently. It is slowly growing. Today were more Weblins online than ever since relaunch. Please be patient, invite your friends, talk, twitter, blog about Weblin, find more users.<br />
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Then we will find ways to build new features in addition to the operating effort. Until then we will continue to re-activate weblin features and hope for your help.<br />
Heinerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09520563824611073104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5737240545967273424.post-28332606858329868292011-09-16T11:24:00.000-07:002011-09-16T12:07:15.709-07:002000 WeblinsThis was the first week after relaunch. Several hundred weblins have been created without ads and media announcements, just by word of mouth. Even more reactivated their old accounts. <div><br /></div><div><div><div>In the (European) evening there are more than 300 weblins concurrently online. At night, the number drops to about 150. We just crossed the mark of 2000 active users. This means, that 2000 different user accounts have been online in he first week.</div><div><br /></div><div>The image shows the number of connections at the XMPP server. Each connection represents a running weblin client:</div><div><br /></div><div><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBTaIop22vjjgdsgm5EXaf4VDpiQQOW3oVYNcEMSwsTrBoN9dVzrbxjjHBhsZpuTdPzDjvQ_qZazExBKd7NoIOnY-8q16nGQLFNdLzks0cjJz58XSSsNN-6FG1JW96fpxxCfdAl3VBtlIS/s400/ejabberd_connections-week.png" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 225px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653026832633022370" /></div></div></div><div><br /></div><div>This is incredible, great, unbelievable. Thank you all. </div>Heinerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09520563824611073104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5737240545967273424.post-68050665732637449452011-09-10T03:29:00.000-07:002011-09-10T07:31:54.420-07:00More than 200 Weblins OnlineOn it's first day after relaunch weblin got more than 200 concurrent users online.<div><br /></div><div><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheUAlKSoLwQg9FB8zXDXWopus63Z5DQfIapJW2PpdaTT_Ssgdi-zHVJWlaQ8k0DafHijJBIlFBUomARndyN5AeSmDiONVYXX9Ik8FyReE-DeM5TJnxHMW_hjkMAnqrttWpcOhL5u9_XLyJ/s320/ejabberd_connections-week.png" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 180px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5650737984767577410" /></div>Heinerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09520563824611073104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5737240545967273424.post-7420391043992199132011-09-09T10:02:00.000-07:002011-09-09T10:11:57.423-07:00Weblin is Back<div>The weblin homepage <a href="http://www.weblin.com/">www.weblin.com</a> is online. The <a href="http://www.weblin.com/download.php">Download</a> works. Users can now log in and create new weblins. They can wousle (the weblin way poking), send gifts, select avatars from the gallery, upload avatars, use effects on web pages and much more.</div>Heinerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09520563824611073104noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5737240545967273424.post-54812102590695719102011-09-02T02:55:00.000-07:002011-09-02T03:17:33.911-07:00freeavat4r.com is Transferring to Weblin<div>During the last 2 years a dedicated, but anonymous Weblin user kept Weblin running. There was a download at the domain freeavat4r.com. Several thousand users downloaded and used Weblin from there.</div><div>
<br /></div><div>Weblin will soon be relaunched on <a href="http://www.weblin.com/">http://www.weblin.com</a>. The intermediate solution is not necessary anymore. But if freeavat4r.com is just closed, then Weblins registered with freeavat4r.com would cease to run.</div><div>
<br /></div><div><div>We cooperate with the operator of freeavat4r.com to migrate users before freeavat4r.com closes. If everything works well, then you should not notice the transition.</div><div>
<br /></div></div><div>Thanks you to the operator of freeavat4r.com for the 2 years and for the offer to transfer the domain.</div>Heinerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09520563824611073104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5737240545967273424.post-9916158534627898802011-08-31T06:52:00.000-07:002011-08-31T07:14:22.089-07:00Browser Compatibility Restored<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBxTVJ21ziJmsE78Ubaj8RQJwaTUjkSNIDvuoRWkkpMIx_EuGboqpUtizhxPX52HDvv62LOgU6nyNIPkXIJtC5KMH3UmoKMSYpQGLgLLbpTFFvhjoo2rp0Dl8hhWdDvZOOAbytFQr-3Hq8/s1600/weblin-3-in-browsers.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 272px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBxTVJ21ziJmsE78Ubaj8RQJwaTUjkSNIDvuoRWkkpMIx_EuGboqpUtizhxPX52HDvv62LOgU6nyNIPkXIJtC5KMH3UmoKMSYpQGLgLLbpTFFvhjoo2rp0Dl8hhWdDvZOOAbytFQr-3Hq8/s320/weblin-3-in-browsers.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5647023037548949042" /></a>Over the last 2 years, while weblin was in hibernation, the browsers continued to develop. Especially Firefox and Chrome change heavily. It happened, that these changes affect internal features, which weblin uses to extract the web page URL. In other words: as browsers change, they become incompatible with weblin.<div><div>
<br /></div><div>The problems have been solved and weblin works again with the latest versions of all 3 major browsers.</div><div>
<br /></div></div><div>The image shows avatars on 3 different browsers. </div>Heinerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09520563824611073104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5737240545967273424.post-16841429719386035512011-03-13T10:45:00.000-07:002011-03-13T10:47:46.452-07:00Blog ReactivatedThis is the first post after 2 years of downtime.Heinerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09520563824611073104noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5737240545967273424.post-82396119987726220292009-02-18T08:50:00.000-08:002011-03-13T08:49:01.699-07:00weblin new version with new design and effectsFinally, the new weblin version is downloadable for a few minutes now! The new version enables a set of effects on websites, such as raining roses and setting a website under water.<br />As a weblin user you can buy items with virtual currency and social points combined. The new version is in download now, the update version for all users will follow on monday.<br />The new website design is very cool. Have <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fun">Fun</a>interaktivistinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15591130589769546795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5737240545967273424.post-42076875334963997062009-01-16T01:23:00.000-08:002009-01-16T02:15:49.158-08:00weblin begins 2009 with two million users2.000.000 users, what a finish in 2008. The year 2009 begins with very good news for weblin and we have a lot of plans bringing weblin to the next stage in 2009. For the moment we are very happy to finally managed all the more than 50 servers to work well and stable with this huge user base. The buddy list is up and running again, for a few weeks now. There will be a website design relaunch shortly and a funny new way to send gifts and trow some graphical bombs on websites will be available soon. There will come a lot of other features and fun stuff, this year.<br />So, stay with us and enjoy the weblin way 2009. Free speech on websites!interaktivistinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15591130589769546795noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5737240545967273424.post-16935867698098078362009-01-09T07:01:00.000-08:002009-01-09T07:03:40.564-08:00Scalability Strategies Primer: Database Sharding<a href="http://blog.maxindelicato.com/2008/12/scalability-strategies-primer-database-sharding.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://files.zweitgeist.com/d6/7a/d3/65196242d492b8e11ed84c7b4553b9cdeb.jpg" alt="" align="right" height="300" hspace="10" /></a><br />Database partitioning is definitely a hot topic for weblin. Weblin does primarily vertical dataset partitioning where each feature gets its own database.<p>If that does not help anymore then we will probably add horizontal partitioning on top of vertical partitioning.</p>So, features have their databases with a primary-secondary setup. If a DB is overloaded by a feature then the cluster is split into multiple clusters which serve disjunct sets of item IDs.Heinerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09520563824611073104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5737240545967273424.post-63876619554993761052008-12-19T03:31:00.000-08:002008-12-19T04:15:05.415-08:00Finally! weblin frees Avatars from Second LifeOne unique avatar, stepping from one virtual world to another. This was the idea and weblin made it come true. The new weblin Gate portal allows avatars to roam from the virtual world of Second Life(R) to the Web, which is the biggest virtual world. Isn´t it?<br />Yesterday, at 8:00 am Boston time we sent out the press release and just few hours later, there was a bunch of people waiting in the weblin house in SL, to be teleported to the web. How cool is that?<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL4avXe8o0eX735OnhOZwaUxDWrOxyMjd07OWi7LBk7o7LqLYSg00wtV62ID1hdasoh4N_QFuz2nxew4HbZv_7n6BgXcyJHZVVCX5NXwMRA9I2TMPzCCBimvS0Gq6Vgi6ZP1jc_jXNopY/s1600-h/Snapshot1_002.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 238px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL4avXe8o0eX735OnhOZwaUxDWrOxyMjd07OWi7LBk7o7LqLYSg00wtV62ID1hdasoh4N_QFuz2nxew4HbZv_7n6BgXcyJHZVVCX5NXwMRA9I2TMPzCCBimvS0Gq6Vgi6ZP1jc_jXNopY/s320/Snapshot1_002.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281471323344683298" /></a><br />If you are a SL user try it. <br /> Fast Facts about weblin Gate (according to "stargate", not watergate of course):<br />-- The Weblin house in Second Life is located in New Berlin, close to the tower at Alexanderplatz: New Berlin 221, 73, 32 (PG).<br />-- The Second Life avatar is capable of performing all the actions of a weblin avatar, such as walking left and right, dancing, laughing or waving.<br />-- The 3D data is then exported as a library of animated GIFs and once the conversion is finished, the user receives a link and is directed to a personalized weblin login landing page, built with a token. With the token, the generated library can be mapped to one's weblin account.<br />-- Interoperability between virtual worlds is something Linden Lab actively supports. This is a positive and encouraging development for Second Life users to add more dimension to our user experience.<br /><br />There are already a lot of blog posts covering weblin Gate. One of the posts I liked best for now ist: <a href="http://commonsensible.net/2008/12/weblin-in-and-out-of-second-life-genius.html">Common|Sensible</a>.<br />Have fun!interaktivistinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15591130589769546795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5737240545967273424.post-29056746833928992272008-12-12T10:21:00.000-08:002008-12-12T10:24:18.881-08:00weblin works with Chrome 1.0Googles Browser Chrome, which surprisingly changed to version 1.0 today, is working for weblin as well as Windows IE and Firefox.interaktivistinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15591130589769546795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5737240545967273424.post-76274790152304978402008-12-12T08:37:00.000-08:002008-12-15T04:02:50.879-08:00Back from LeWeb 08It was a fancy venue, where Loic Le Meur planned LeWeb 08. But cold. So cold. The first day we thought to freeze to death.<br /><br />weblin had a little booth <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/BizSpark/">sponsored by Microsoft BizSpark</a>. Thanks for the big spender, we had an exciting time and more than 80 leads to talk to. In the end I could not count anymore how many cameras we saw and interviews we gave. Twice we were asked to do an elevator pitch in less than one minute.<br />Unfortunately I didn´t saw any speaker or panel on Tuesday. But it was worth it, because we had so many talks with press and agencies, with major companies and interesting Bloggers, with VCs and Trendscouts.<br /><br />On Tuesday we went to the MySpace party later on, which was a nice place also. A lot of happy people drinking and dancing, some celebrating as if the financial crisis never happened.<br /><br />On Wednesday, the only speaker I saw, was Morton Lund. I could not believe, what he was saying, that he lost all his money by investing in a free print magazine in Denmark. Morten is a weird guy, but I admire his courage to tell this story, again and again and always adding that he will come back. Falling down is not a shame.<br /><br />Despite the catering was curtly calculated, and Loic seemed to save the heating for not contributing to the climate change, LeWeb was great event for us.interaktivistinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15591130589769546795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5737240545967273424.post-16594882473914663282008-12-12T08:05:00.000-08:002008-12-12T08:24:10.454-08:00New Christmas Avatars<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHpS-HQTdIxf3dqxPTn706rRJS6GnXSNUx5U8nDxnEQv1lE1m6EPcwdU0n8zZbsez39fkNxk-djKKUh2D9YOKhkLdAvFSR5OXZrEZiAgsuKTTwwOMeQUsRnyrImhat8Zf9uoc9ixbU1IY/s1600-h/x-mas_avas.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 68px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHpS-HQTdIxf3dqxPTn706rRJS6GnXSNUx5U8nDxnEQv1lE1m6EPcwdU0n8zZbsez39fkNxk-djKKUh2D9YOKhkLdAvFSR5OXZrEZiAgsuKTTwwOMeQUsRnyrImhat8Zf9uoc9ixbU1IY/s320/x-mas_avas.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278939636173094850" /></a><br /><br />The New weblin Christmas Avatars are online now! Check the galleries and choose your new avatar. Walk around as an angel, a rendier or Santa Clause.interaktivistinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15591130589769546795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5737240545967273424.post-53731046859653915662008-12-03T05:22:00.001-08:002008-12-03T05:22:56.863-08:00Joey Seilers new Blog: Virtual Goods NewsJoey Seiler, the author of Virtual Worlds News recently started a new Blog: <a href="http://www.virtualgoodsnews.com/">Virtual Goods News. </a>Just to keep you updated.<br /> <div class="flockcredit" style="text-align: right; color: #CCC; font-size: x-small;">Blogged with the <a href="http://www.flock.com/blogged-with-flock" style="color: #999; font-weight: bold;" target="_new" title="Flock Browser">Flock Browser</a></div>interaktivistinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15591130589769546795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5737240545967273424.post-2514407817147184612008-12-02T05:56:00.000-08:002008-12-02T06:26:44.845-08:00weblin presenting at LeWeb in ParisOne week to go: LeWeb ante portas.<br /><br />The(!) European Web 2.0 Conference "LeWeb" organised by french Blogger and Tech Evangelist Loic Le Meur is taking place in Paris from 9. to 10. December. The who is who of entrepreneurs, startups, CEOs and Bloggers will be there. 1500 paticipants are expected, and weblin ist one of the lucky exhibitors. As one of the 12 companies presenting at Microsoft booth, weblin is preparing for the big Web 2.0 event in December. Take a look at the display board and see, who is with us at Microsoft´s booth.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjta40KEuEpi_jqi4lDFS95z3K2R33UnVJ-6YLfPbO0bgcO0XUHpneJAjen5giK7H3gL0gg3yBZFDFJkmbqRvYrR1LFrIhF_o5-bNfgqEYGwkajF0lJoaiVS8v2jrLXvkbH_CwGkl8IgA0/s1600-h/Microsoft-weblin--leweb.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 106px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjta40KEuEpi_jqi4lDFS95z3K2R33UnVJ-6YLfPbO0bgcO0XUHpneJAjen5giK7H3gL0gg3yBZFDFJkmbqRvYrR1LFrIhF_o5-bNfgqEYGwkajF0lJoaiVS8v2jrLXvkbH_CwGkl8IgA0/s320/Microsoft-weblin--leweb.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5275191750894018898" /></a><br /><br />As long as no other event is planned for 2008, it will be the last event for weblin in 2008, which was a great year. Weblin reached the magic 1 million users benchmark and developed some cool features and localized to 10 languages. At the end of the year we expect to have close to 2 million users worldwide. For the first time, a startup built up a weblin copy cat. We appreciate that and welcome the new player RoketOn on the still niche market of layered virtual worlds as a part of the big virtual worlds landscape.interaktivistinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15591130589769546795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5737240545967273424.post-19668767126511002302008-12-01T06:32:00.000-08:002008-12-02T07:10:20.160-08:00First weblin User Meetup in Japanweblin is active all over the world, as you know. There are downloads from more than 150 countries per week. The asian market is already a-keen-on-virtual-worlds-and-games market, and weblin is the casual and easy layered virtual world ruling regions, step by step. In April 2008 weblin met one of its most active users, Hiro at virtual worlds conference in New York. What happened next is the beginning of a successful partnership. Hiro and Tats visited us in Hamburg in Summer and a few days later work and fun began. Thanks to meltingdots, weblin has a growing and exciting user group in Japan. <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQjiHQEX_0Zs_Sd3tU1o5mhoh7-ZD4MgF_89ztEYXqopstbcaYOMUo3bhl5C91SITKcFqoL2SGK1uFdNW7tfsoQ9lIJCEE3O7OOv9r4Yecnz-tKGGW88QG3uy4Ms0cjjkrCK_KpnL5Z2w/s1600-h/Japanese-weblins.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQjiHQEX_0Zs_Sd3tU1o5mhoh7-ZD4MgF_89ztEYXqopstbcaYOMUo3bhl5C91SITKcFqoL2SGK1uFdNW7tfsoQ9lIJCEE3O7OOv9r4Yecnz-tKGGW88QG3uy4Ms0cjjkrCK_KpnL5Z2w/s400/Japanese-weblins.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5275207194891114562" /></a><br />Hiroshi Asaeda, CEO of <a href="http://meltingdots.com/">Meltingdots</a> Inc., Tokyo, Japan wrote us an email and sent over the picture above, the weblin fan crowd in Tokyo: "Here is a photo of the first weblin user meetup ever in Japan. Some active weblin users in Mixi decided to come over to our Office." Hiro is the one in the middle line, sitting on the left.interaktivistinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15591130589769546795noreply@blogger.com0