November 30, 2006
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GrandCentral call screening: the power of VoIP

Phil Wolff | November 30, 2006 11:18 PM

I was in Milan when a guy told me Italian men carried three mobiles. One for work, one for the wife and kids, and one for his lover. Keeping worlds apart by giving them different phones to call.

GrandCentral says with enough control, you could keep them separate, and treat them differently, by using one number not tied to any device or service provider. And with their very slick software.

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Skype from Second Life

Phil Wolff | November 30, 2006 09:24 PM

Now you can make a clickable Skype link in Second Life. TDavid of TD Scripts saw my latest Second Life post and whipped up a little service. Form a URL with your Skype name using this format:

http://tduri.com/s-SKYPENAME

That page turns it into a skype:SKYPENAME link that tells your Skype to call that link. Your browser sees a skype:SKYPENAME URL.

So, for me, that's

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Second Life IM catches up a bit

Phil Wolff | November 30, 2006 04:41 PM

Yesterday's Second Life client update improved in-world instant messaging and presence. From the change log:  

  • Added: a new Profile tab shows a web page of the profile owner's choice without launching a browser. (more than Skype)
  • URLs in chat and IM are now clickable links. Supports http://, https://, secondlife:// (hmmm, wish skype: links were clickable in 2L)
  • Log IMs and/or chat (hmmm. Are my Skype moods and presence logged?)
  • Permit friends...
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