There are sites focusing on offline wonders like Cool Hunting. I don't consider myself a cool hunter (or what it is, for that matter, so elusive?I won't define but will expand). I'm meta in that I focus on what's cool within Second Life.
Skybox workspaces are popular within SL. They are designed to take advantage of a lowlag, sparse atmosphere so you can hopefully get your work done in peace. What I've often seen Residents do is rez a plywood cube, stretch it out, texture it blank or something other than the dreaded default so they can more easily work on it, and manually send it up a few hundred meters. In light of this new finding, that is OBSOLETE and REDUNDANT!
Frans Charming has come up with a Private Workspace?only L$100, a great price for all the new Residents who don't want to break their virtual billfolds?and I can appreciate how well it is thought-out, despite me not really uh being a content creator or anything. It doesn't have to be a workspace. Infact, it can be a Playspace!
You rez it. Click on it, it gets bigger for more people to sit on. (How cute!) You sit on it. It asks you how high you want to go, and you go from there, using easy peasy touch dialogues. Then, you get your work, play, or work+play done.
I retinted mine to me and had a little fun. The watermelons aren't included, but if you want one, just let me know!
The guy who is making it is nice and responds to replies. Frans even starts the topic off with a contradiction. What more could you ask for? Well, besides the feature suggestions I made.
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I agree that this tool can be a nice and cheap solution for social meetings and collaborative building. But the sit-on-the-plywood-cube-and-send-yourself-in-the-sky technique is simple, smart, COOL and SECONDLIFFISH! (Also, zero L$ is actually a better price than 100 L$ for all the new Residents who don't want to break their virtual billfolds).
@Opensource: Wow, I haven't used this tool in awhile — 2005 flashback!