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 :)

SL Browser is an inworld ad network created by Felix Wakmann and Diva Canto. So what makes this HUD gadget special enough to demand attention, you ask? Well, it indexes some 1.4 million products and averages 2000 searches per day.

But this isn't about numbers ... I'm excited about several features that surpass the searching capabilities available in the SL client. For one - you can search based on keywords and in your results you get the location and relevant object/keyword image (instead of the picture of a storefront). This helps narrow your search at-a-glance, without wasting time teleporting to a tens of sites to find something close to what you have in mind. It even sports an "impulse buying" option through the "Public" search feature. If you have that box checked, your HUD will react to searches other people make using the browser. If you like what you're hearing, go get your own here.

If you're a business owner and wish to update your object description, simply change the object description and the Browser will automatically update in a week's time. Felix is also working on creating tags for those who wish to have their objects stay un-indexed by his gadget. For the techies reading this, continue on to hear about how the browser works, pitfalls, etc.