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Wednesday, April 6, 2016

2016 NEW: HG: Hello world! I'm NubieTubie, and I'm here to rescue you. From the flat world, that is. HGProjects

Hello world!  I'm NubieTubie, 
and I'm here to rescue you.  
From the flat world, that is. 
Updated 6/8/2016
Introducing Nubie Tubie, a fictional character brought to life to represent new people coming into virtual worlds as beginners--Newbies.  The inworld adventures of Newbie are intended to show the world the beginners experience and perhaps to suggest ways to make that experience easier.    
  • What is the flat world, you ask.
  • It is the world you are looking at right now.  
  • The world of the flat screen.  
  • There is another world on the internet, one where I can walk around. 
  • Where I can go places, chat with friends, make friends, listen to music.
  • Where I can build things out of nothing and store things in the cloud.
  • Where I can find people that share my interests.  
  • Where I can work with people that like the same things I do. 
  • Where I can--But wait!  I don't know what I can do.  I must go there to find out.
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Sunday, June 12, 2016

2016 HG: HELP: The unicode problem: Unicode can cause problems in HG addresses and maybe elsewhere.

The unicode problem:  Unicode can cause problems in HG addresses and maybe elsewhere.
When a HG address in unicode is pasted into a G+ post, it remains unicode.  If a user copy/pastes that address into the World Map to go to that destination, the unicode may not be recognized, with the result that the response is "Not found."  This will confuse newcomers and may keep them from getting to the event.  Several suggestions for fixing the problem are offered.

The problem I ran into

  • I had this HG address:  hg.zangrid.ch:8002:partyland
  • I copy/pasted from the G+ post.  I got Not found.  
  • With some investigation, I discovered that it worked if I typed partyland.
  • But not if I copy/pasted.  No problem for me.
  • But NubieTubie, one of my head-alts, told me that he would have given up,
  • concluding that this was too complicated for him.
  • The same word works when typed, but not when pasted.

Unicode 

Unicode: an international encoding standard for use with different languages and scripts, by which each letter, digit, or symbol is assigned a unique numeric value that applies across different platforms and programs.
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  • Q: What happened to the Friday event notices you were carrying twice a month?
  • A: They weren't drawing enough interest and alternative sources came available.  I am now running a short  form daily near the top of this blog. A more comprehensive collection is in Selby's daily news collection

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        Monday, November 7, 2016

        2016 HG: PEOPLE: Find friends fast when you start in Kitely-- use the login page

        Find friends fast when you start in Kitely-- 
        the secret of the login page
        Nubie friendly: People come into a virtual world, see no people, and don't have any friends.  If they use a feature on the Kitely login page, they can probably find friends fast.  But they gotta know the secret of the login page.  The key to the secret lies in the destination panel, upper left side.  
        Kitely entry page
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        • "What do I do next?"
        • The first question of newcomers when they enter a virtual world.
        • Even old timers from other virtual worlds may start that way.
        • But but hover your cursor over the panel marked Destinations.
        • And you get a set of suggested imaged destinations.  
        • Ignore the first 2 on the top line.  Click on one of the other images, then login.  
        • You will  probably enter a world that has someone already there.
        • Other grids may offer the same feature on their login page, so look or ask.
        • If another grid has this feature, mention it in the comments on this blog. 
        • (I hope it becomes popular in OpenSim,)
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        • Find nearby people in Firestorm by a click on the button showing 2 heads.
        • That button will be somewhere around the edge of the viewer screen.
        • To contact that person double click on the name.
        • Then look for the IM option in the panel that comes up.
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