I knew it was a great name! :) Actually, I forgot to mention that love for suggesting it goes to Q Linden, who suggested the name in a meeting we were having after hearing Merov laughingly say "Rosebud". Hence the Citizen Kane reference.
P Mike Monkowski wrote: > Citizen Kane? Was he in Snow Crash? :-) >> There is something new: A globe about the size of a grapefruit, a >> perfectly detailed rendition of Planet Earth, hanging in space at >> arm's length in front of his eyes. Hiro has heard about this but >> never seen it. It is a piece of CIC software called, simply, Earth. >> It is the user interface that CIC uses to keep track of every bit of >> spatial information that it owns - all the maps, weather data, >> architectural plans, and satellite surveillance stuff. > > Mike > > Philip Rosedale wrote: >> Hey all, >> >> So 'Snowglobe' is the new name we picked for the new viewer we've all >> been working on. Seemed clever (just think of the Citizen Kane >> references), fun, referential to virtual worlds generally, and >> something that could be effectively mutated for different projects >> (what you put 'inside' the snowglobe). We've registered it and >> gotten some domains (snowglobeproject.org, etc). Next step for >> us/LL is to come up with some art, and flesh out some usage guidelines. _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SLDev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
