I’ve been busy lately working on two new DuoGrid projects, called “Noob Camp” and “Second Lounge”.

1. Noob Camp is a tutorials and introduction website for new Second Life Residents (”Noobs”, if you don’t know the term ). I plan to use tons of video tutorials on it — mostly Torley’s — , textual tutorials, and open an option for developers to post documentation and quick start guides on it, to make everyone’s Second Life easy and frustration-less . This website will be DuoGrid-compatible, and so will not host M-rated (Mature = 18+) products’ documentation. However, it may be possible later with a Main Grid version.
2. Second Lounge is a Second Life web portal containing forums, chat, events, places, and more, very similar to SL Talk, yet uses an entire different code base (the current code base for SL Talk is highly complex, which is why we are scraping it and starting over with Second Lounge). Although Second Life will soon have a way to search on-site for inworld content, this service will have free of charge location posting, fast timings, and may have AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML.

These projects will not be ready in a one-three weeks, especially Second Lounge. Expect to see Noob Camp by the end of December 2007 / beginning of January 2008, and Second Lounge in beta testing by the beginning of January 2008 / middle of February/March 2008.

P.S.: Just for fun, you can see the coming soon page of Noob Camp at www.duogrid.com/noobcamp.