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You can post snapshots from the Second Life social MMOG to your TypePad weblog or photo album. It's easy. To set it up:

1. Sign up for a free trial of TypePad. (You can use the launch discount code on typepad.com for 10% off, or the movable code from the Movable Type site for a three month trial instead of one month.)
2. Create a new photo album or mixed media weblog. Mine is called "stationary moblog,"Mine is called "Stationary Moblog," because I'm like that. You could use a weblog but I used a photo album.
3. Go to the "Configure" tab. In Advanced configuration → Your Photo Pages, set "Photo size" to Large and save changes.
4. Go to Control Panel → Profile → Mobile Settings. In part 1, make sure the "When I send photos via email, post them to my" option is your new photo album.
5. In part 2, enter the address you gave Second Life, as that's what SL will put as the "From" address.
6. In part 3, pick "Confirmation messages," unless you want to paste a garbly email address into SL every time you post.
7. Hit "Save." Now it all works!

To post:

1. Compose your picture. Hit the "Snapshot" button in the SL client. Select "Email postcard."
2. Write in remote@typepad.com for the recipient's address, change the subject if you like, and write a witty description for the picture (or blank it out). Hit send.
3. When you get the confirmation message in your email client (assuming you selected confirmation messages), hit reply, then send.

Et voilá!

You could make posting easier with procmail recipes, for example automatically replying to confirmation messages, or setting up an easier to remember secret address of your own that forwards to TypePad's cryptic one.

August 20, 2004 2:44 PM 3 comments