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the leapfrog — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 08:42:00 -0700

Hi folks: Just a quick update that you can now browse public JLI spaces directly from the landing page without logging in. Enjoy!

Note that you still need an account to create your own spaces, engage in chats, and comment.

And your private spaces or groups always stay private; neither anonymous visitors nor registered users can see them unless you share your private link or publish your space for all visitors to share.

Slideshows in JLI

the leapfrog — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:29:00 -0800

Hi folks!

We’re experimenting with a new feature, slideshows, which is online now. More details coming soon, but if you’d like to try it out, log in and

upload any PowerPoint presentation, or set of images, as a single PDF. (In most versions of PowerPoint, you can export any presentation as a PDF using ‘Export’ from the file menu; if you run into any trouble, Microsoft’s instructions are here).

In any of your spaces, click the ‘Images’ tab and click ‘My Slideshows’. Your slideshow should be there, and you can drag and drop it onto any image or video frame.

You can use the slideshow controls to autoplay your show for others in your space, or advance and rewind manually.

As always, drop us a line with any comments! And we’ll post some more details soon as we keep testing the feature.

Share links

the leapfrog — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:24:00 -0800

Hi folks—We’ve just released a fix for a bug recently affecting ‘share’ links and embedded spaces. Apologies to anyone whose embedded spaces were interrupted by the bug!

Live gatherings

the leapfrog — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 07:42:00 -0700

So we’ve been running these nice little live chats with community members and developers every Tuesday at 2pm Leap time (um, well, Pacific time). Basically we user-support-types and developer-types jump in and hang out in a recently updated space, leave some comments, and talk to you, if you’ll talk to us!

We like answering questions, naturally, and we REALLY love hearing your feedback, suggestions for new features, thoughts on virtual worlds… anything at all.

We’ve had a great time with this so far, so do drop by one of these Tuesdays. Or drop us a note if you want to get together and Tuesday doesn’t work for you.

Firefox 3.5 compatibility

the leapfrog — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:50:00 -0700

Updated 29 October 2009: Yeah, so we totally think we’ve fixed this now. :-) Let us know if you run into some more browser-related issues.

Updated 9 September 2009: Unfortunately afflicted by some new Firefox related issues, affecting identity choosing and upload. Working on it!

Updated 15 July 2009: And… fixed, as of earlier this week. Should all be happy in Firefox 3.5. Let us know if you see more cretinous issues.

Awesome to see Firefox 3.5 in the wild. Tragically we’re having some compatibility issues with space editing in JLI using 3.5—some editing features are working, others aren’t. We’re looking into it now; in the meanwhile, sorry to say you’ll have to stick with Firefox 3.0.x (link to download) for a little longer for JLI editing. Watch this space for updates, and thanks to several users for drawing the compatibility issue to our attention.

Tuesday shindigs

the leapfrog — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 10:36:00 -0700

Hola! We’ve had a great time at our last couple of live gatherings, and we’ve decided to start hosting a live get-together every Tuesday at 2pm PDT from now on, kicking off on

Tuesday June 30 at 2pm PDT (That’s 2pm on the West Coast, 5pm on the East Coast, 10pm in London …)

Drop in and join us @ justleapin.com next week! We’ll be in the top 3D space on the newsfeed. Admins will be online to answer questions and chat, and try some new stuff.

We’ve also put some fixes in place to facilitate real-time networking behind corporate or university firewalls, an often requested update—if you’re checking in from work or school and are free on Tuesday, come around and let us know if it works for you.

Hope to see you there!

Further to live gathering

the leapfrog — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:42:00 -0700

Thanks to all who came out over Saturday afternoon—it was very cool to meet you in (virtual) person. For any of you who couldn’t make it, or turned up lateish, do let us know what days and times would work better for you in future: there’s a thread over on the forum, or just drop us a line at betatest at justleapin dot com.

Happy leaping (outdoors or indoors).

First live gathering: Saturday May 30, 12pm Pacific

the leapfrog — Wed, 27 May 2009 19:26:00 -0700

Hiya folks,

Welcome to Spring!

For everyone interested in meeting your fellow beta testers, playing some games together, and brainstorming with us about how to take JLI to the next level, we’re planning to hold our first live online get-together on Saturday May 30th at 12:00 noon Pacific time (which is 3pm for those of you on the East coast, 8pm in London, wherever in the world you are…)

If you can get online and join us and other community members then, we’d love to meet you! Hopefully this will be the first of many events, with a forum to talk about JLI and other stuff, and try some new, shared activities.

Looking forward to seeing you online…

You may also have noticed some updates on JLI recently—notably a new Groups function, which lets you cluster favorites in one place, or make your spaces privately available to a select group of friends or colleagues. When we meet on Saturday, we’d like to invite your thoughts on what features should come next.

JLI updates

the leapfrog — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:53:00 -0700

Happy Friday, folks!—check out some updates gone live recently, including:

New spaces (including an underwater world and conferencing space)
Two new avatars
Autoplaying soundtracks (user-configurable via right-click or control-click)
Link any 3D object to launch a webpage
Increased duration limits for audio and video clips (5m each)
Experimental new prop: an expoding barrel. With physics. By popular request (!); You might have fun with this one. :-)
Stability updates for networking and some other functionality

More news coming soon…

PS – We’re seeing some issues with double-click (zoom) navigation in Mac clients in this release. We’re looking into it.

Updates

the leapfrog — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 17:33:00 -0800

Some general updates filtered through last week, our first all-round upgrade since Jan 1.

Mostly, this round contains lots of bugfixes for issues that you’ve kindly drawn to our attention in the last couple of weeks. Lots of stability and UI fixes are scattered throughout the release.

We’ve also been listening to your requests for new features.

As of last week, those who’ve been around for a while will notice the new list of online users, which you’ll find under Populated Spaces in the Home tab. Under Explore, you can now also sort by whether a space has any online users now.

More coming soon; Happy February!