For those of you not following along with Katherine Berry’s AjaxLife project, it’s basically a web-based Second Life viewer that allows you to log in, send instant messages, chat, teleport, and a few other limited things.  It was one of the cooler RL <-> SL projects (along with PHPSimCaps) I’ve seen thus far, and Katherine is to be commended for making it. 

Unfortunately, it seems that LL killed AjaxLife by closing down or breaking the MapAPI part of their site that allowed third-party developers to display maps of Second Life areas on their own websites.  This was a tremendously useful bit of functionality for several projects, some of my own unreleased projects included, but was perhaps displayed to best effect by AjaxLife.

It is incredibly frustrating that Linden Labs so regularly and spectacularly breaks or removes functionality that affects third-party developers - both in-world and out.  Without content creators and developers Second Life would be nothing more than a poorly rendered 3D chat room, so it would seem logical to me that they’d have a bit more care and better testing procedures in place.

Alas, as disappointing as this is, it’s par for the course.

Sorry to hear about all your hard work broken by LL’s inability to communicate or even to imagine the simplest consequences of their actions, Katherine

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