At the Web 2.0 conference I ran into an old RealNetworks colleague from years earlier, Philip Rosedale, who these days helms Linden Lab, makers of the
Second Life (hereinafter SL) online role-playing game / alternate world.
I told him what I was up to with EVDB, and mentioned how intrigued I was to learn that there were events going on in SL. I'd found out about this because of Cory Doctorow's "personal appearance" in SL and then a little later, author Thomas P. Barnett's event in SL.
Phil told me there were something like four hundred daily events all over Second Life, and sure, he'd love for us to index them! So, we made arrangements to do so and presto, Second Life events are now flowing into the EVDB platform and the Eventful.com website.
Here's a handy link to see what's going on in Second Life at the moment. So far we've indexed over 1600 events in December alone! There's all kinds of things going on in that other world...
One thing to note on the event detail pages for Second Life events. You'll notice that one of the links says "Second Life link:". This is the link with a special url, beginning with "secondlife://", which if you've installed Second Life on your Mac or PC, should tell your browser to launch SL and "teleport" straight to that "venue" -- the location within the SL world. Very handy!
