August 6, 2008Woo 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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July 2, 2008I 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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May 18, 2008Since 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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May 4, 2008While 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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April 13, 2008I 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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February 25, 2008I was just following some links found in advance slides from an NCOIC conference that’s taking place on Feb. 26th in Denver, when I clicked a link in one of the sites and stumbled across information about a project New Media Consortium (NMC) has announced. They are embarking on a 2-year collaboration with Sun Microsystems [...]
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