Woo hoo! Wordpress now has a version that runs on the iPhone! I’m using it now to write this post. What this means is that I will be much more likely to update this blog and my others (the app allows you to have several active blogs in your login settings) even while we are [...]

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I was just talking to Henrik Bennetsen at Stanford Humanities Lab about his project, Preserving Virtual Worlds. So much has been happening in the homebrew virtual worlds space that it’s hard to cover it all, but we exchanged some info about various sites we’ve each visited, and talked about the possible future of these exciting [...]

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Since my last post here, a lot has been accomplished.
Last time I wrote, I was downloading the OpenSim server software to my external hard disk via SVN. That went well, but I have to admit that the instructions for compiling and running it on MacOS 1.5 were so daunting that I deferred that until after [...]

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While I did get Wonderland’s client to load and run finally, I was not able to run the server software because of an undefined error, and when I logged into the server being run temporarily for this test at Drexel University, I was unable to see anything except text chat, and the other people online [...]

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I’ve just added a link in my ‘blogroll’ (in the left sidebar) to justincc’s opensim blog. Thanks to Troy McConaghy for a pointer to that

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LSL, or Linden Scripting Language, was originated by Linden Lab, the creators and owners of SecondLife™. It is remarkably easy to use, and can allow “residents” of SecondLife and OpenSim based virtual worlds to do many marvelous things in these 3D environments. (OpenSim is the open source version of SecondLife’s server software.)
One of the things [...]

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I just saw a link to this Google Docs spreadsheet in another blog, Virtual World SIG. It is much more than just projects using OpenSim server software, but rather covers all VWs, commercial and open source. Thanks to Orange Montagne (SecondLife name) for this link.

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When I was a Linguistics undergrad at University of Hawaii at Manoa, one of my favorite courses was a doctoral-level seminar on artificial intelligence. (The prof let me in because he needed three people to sign up to make the course, and I was very keen on it.) One of the books we read [...]

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According to an anonymous blogger on Sun Microsystems’ website (quoting an InfoWorld article), Sun plans to create a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) for the iPhone using Apple’s new iPhone SDK, to be ready in June 2008. Way cool! If that happens, the next step would be a Project Wonderland client for the iPhone….

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Troy McConaghy just posted a message to the Qwaq MICA group about a brand new Virtual World, Tomorrow Space from a company called Transmutable Networks.
I naturally immediately signed up for an account (katlemieux) and briefly explored this Web-based world, which only opened to the public this Monday. So far, they have two types of “rooms” [...]

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