Links for Saturday, August 5, 2006

• DiggFltr – “Create a custom digg feed in seconds.“
• Jake Ludington: Make Your Own Floor-to-Ceiling Whiteboard – “*If I need to dive in and detail out a plan, a whiteboard is the way to go. *“
• CTER Portal: How to create a teleport link in Second Life – “This tutorial shows you how to create a local teleport link out of any object in Second Life.” This is part of a collection of tutorials, each accompanied bya video.
• Mark Wallace: Starwood Hotels Checks Into Second Life – “Starwood Hotels is building out a version of their new Aloft hotel brand in the virtual world of Second Life as a way to attract future customers and presumably get some feedback about the brand’s features before it hits the physical world.” There’s also a blog about the hotel and the building process. Very cool.
• The Unbearable Likeness of Being Digital: The Persistence of Nonverbal Social Norms in Online Virtual Environments – “In an observational study of Second Life, a virtual community, we collected data from avatars in order to explore whether social norms of gender, interpersonal distance (IPD), and eye gaze transfer into virtual environments even though the modality of movement is entirely different.“
• Don Lancaster: August 3, 2006 – “* There are stronger responses, but the point is starting a pissing content with obviously stupid individuals is just plain not worthwhile. *“