Developer Tools for Second Life

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This page is given over to second life developer tools of all sorts.

Second Talk brings Skype voip to SL. Currently (Jan 07) in beta. According to the documentation, whenever you're in range of others wearing the Second Talk headset (and presumably not anywhere set no-script), you'll be prompted to see if you want to talk to them. You'll need a skype account to make this all work, and instructions on plugging your skype details into the headset are provided with the instruction card. Second Talk are looking into integrating with the open source client. It will support up to 10 users in voice chat.

Vivox another voice chat system in SL, available as one-to-one calls or as a mic'd environment with up to 5 participants. It also allows calls from SL to RL (Real Life).

SL Chatbot - component based on the A.L.I.C.E foundations AIML, and is designed to carry on relatively intricate conversations with avatars. Its most useful function may be that of "greeter".

DTV, a product marketed by Electric Sheep, provides an interface for viewing Second Life via quicktime through a regular web browser session. A PC logged into Second Lige sends its video output to a second PC which publishes the video stream through quicktime.

Amazon Web Services: Remote Shopping Cart. This article describes the work undertaken by one SL shop-owner to integrate the remote shopping cart into their store infrastructure.

Notes on Scripting from Kan-ed in Kansas.
Giving a PowerPoint presentation in Second Life, with a guide to scripting and preparing such a presentation.
Hackdiary, a useful site with many code examples, such as:
- Code for accessing Flickr from Second Life
SLuniverse - a large, comprehensive site that includes a developer forum. The site also houses Snapzilla, a Second Life equivalent of Flickr, and a developers' knowledgebase.

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