I'm happy to introduce another cool gadget from Felix Wakmann and Diva Canto. It's called SecondView and it's a graphic RSS Reader that works both as a HUD and as prim-efficient object inworld. As you well know, many RSS readers are quite disappointing due to the dynamic text need - each letter has to be rendered onto a prim - so you can imagine things quickly getting to 50+ prims. SecondView contains a total of 6 prims !
Web pages are rendered together (both text and image). The business model requires businesses/bloggers pay 15 Linden dollars per page upload and then the RSS feed is available for free to all readers inworld. Right now, the feeds you can read for free inworld come from SL on Yahoo! News Photos, NYT Movie Reviews, SLNN, Second Life Insider, Second Opinion, Secrets of Second Life, Heute Online, and Le Dauphine (French).
Take a look for yourself and feel free to post your thoughts on this gadget here :)
1. Actually, XY-Text puts more than one character on a prim.
And for the life of me, I have found no clear documentation on adding my own feed. What, pray tell, is the secret handshake?
Posted at 3:36AM on Aug 16th 2007 by Nobody Fugazi