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Category Archives: Virtual Worlds
Daily Links for Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Open Source An Open Source Tool for Every Task School Library Journal / Steve Hargadon Following are some of the most popular OSS applications for schools. All are freely available, requiring no license fees, and can be loaded on an … Continue reading
Posted in News, Open Source, Software, Standards, Virtual Worlds
Tagged Google, Microsoft, OpenSim
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Daily Links for Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Open Source What’s New in openSUSE 11.2 Linux Magazine / Joe Brockmeier openSUSE 11.2 is finally out after 11 months of development. The openSUSE Project released openSUSE 11.2 with a bevy of updates and improvements over last year’s 11.1 release, … Continue reading
Daily Links for Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Open Source Did Microsoft Windows 7 download tool violate the GPL? ZDNet / Mary-Jo Foley Microsoft has pulled an update tool for Windows 7 from the Microsoft Store site after a report indicating that the tool incorporated open-source code in … Continue reading
Daily Links for Wednesday, November 4, 2009 – Virtual Worlds Edition
Virtual Worlds Feeding Edge Feeding Edge is a consulting company. Founded by epredator (Ian Hughes) metaverse evangelist, tribal leader and public speaker and developer with over 18 years experience in a single large corporation. Half of that time has been … Continue reading
Daily Links for Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Document Formats BE: OpenOffice boom in Belgium The Port of Antwerp started preparing the migration of 1300 desktops to OpenOffice earlier this year. The completion of the migration is expected around September 2010. The IT-department decided not only to move … Continue reading
Posted in Document Formats, Macintosh, News, Open Source, Virtual Worlds
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Daily Links for Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Open Source The Open Source Initiative’s corporate status is suspended: a CAOS Theory Q&A 451 CAOS Theory / Matthew Aslett The ability of the Open Source Initiative to steward the Open Source Definition and police the use of the term … Continue reading
Posted in Macintosh, News, Open Source, Virtual Worlds
Tagged Apache, browser, Chrome, Google, Linux, OSI, Second Life
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Daily Links for Wednesday, September 30, 2009 – Morning Edition
Open Source Former MySQL CEO Joins Benchmark Capital – Digits – WSJ Wall Street Journal Online / Pui-Wing Tam Former MySQL CEO Marten Mickos is joining venture-capital firm Benchmark Capital as an entrepreneur in residence, says Benchmark partner Kevin Harvey. … Continue reading
Posted in News, Open Source, Virtual Worlds
Tagged Apple, Linux, Microsoft, ODF, Second Life, Twitter
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Daily Links for September 4, 2009
Virtual Worlds Avatar Reality’s Blue Mars goes public beta The public beta of Blue Mars is starting. See Not Possible IRL and Chapter & Metaverse. I am collecting interesting BM links here: Blue Mars coverage. As one of the few … Continue reading
Daily Links for August 19, 2009
Macintosh Apple’s Snow Leopard: A flurry of changes CNet / Erica Ogg “According to rumors, the release of Mac OS X 10.6, Apple’s operating system also known as Snow Leopard, might arrive a bit early. Though Apple announced at the … Continue reading
Open source and 3D
I’m one of the least artistic people you will ever meet though I like to build things. Through the years I’ve experimented with various applications that promised to allow me to visualise what a room or a building would look … Continue reading
Daily Links for August 4, 2009
Wikis The prospects of Microsoft Word in the wiki-based world “All in all, I’ve had a relationship with Microsoft Word for over two decades, with only a couple of brief dalliances with Ami Pro and DeScribe for OS/2 in between … Continue reading
Daily Links for August 3, 2009
Consumer Electronics Apple tried to silence owner of exploding iPod with gagging order – Times Online “Apple attempted to silence a father and daughter with a gagging order after the child’s iPod music player exploded and the family sought a … Continue reading
Introducing the events calendar
Two year’s ago when my wife Judith was running for the New York State Assembly, I wrote a simple events calendar for her website to keep track of all the local meetings, parades, and county fairs where she would be … Continue reading
Hunches and predictions for open source in 2009
It’s that time of year again. Last year I wrote about challenges and priorities for open source, standards, and virtual worlds. In January, 2007, I reviewed my favorite blog entries for 2006 (and note that I was considerably more succinct … Continue reading
Posted in Open Source, Virtual Worlds
Tagged MySQL, OpenOffice.org, PostgresSQL, Second Life
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Daily Links 12/01/2008 (p.m.)
Bob Dylan | Shop the Bob Dylan Official Store You can never have too much. tags: OB, Bob Dylan, music, clothes Jungle Disk – Reliable online storage powered by Amazon S3 – JungleDisk “Jungle Disk Desktop Edition lets you store files and … Continue reading
Daily Links 11/22/2008 (p.m.)
Exclusive: Why Reuters Left Second Life, And How Linden Lab Can Fix It “So what happened? Is Second Life dying? No, but the buzz is gone. For all the sound and fury over recent price hikes and layoffs at Linden … Continue reading
Daily Links 11/20/2008 (p.m.)
Christian Renaud’s Weblog: Lively heads for the giraffe graveyard “Google announced yesterday on their blog that they are shuttering the Lively project. This is unfortunate for multiple reasons” tags: OB, Google, Lively InternetNews Realtime IT News – Sun Expands MySQL … Continue reading
Almost November
I realized today that it’s been almost a week since I last did a non-news post here. There are several reasons for this. First, of course, I’ve been busy with work. Among other things, I’m preparing for my ten minute … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Politics / Government, Virtual Worlds
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Toys for the plane ride home
I fly back to the States tomorrow and it should take about 9 hours to get to Chicago. I’ll get caught up on some email, take a nap, and play with some of the software that I installed tonight on … Continue reading
Wrath of the Lich King
My son and I just got invited into The Wrath of the Lich King beta program for World of Warcraft. Tres cool. We’re psyched.
Hopping from one virtual world to another
Thirteen months ago I published a series of blog entries about my personal view of future requirements for virtual worlds. The third was about world-to-world scenarios. In it I included the comments: World to world teleportation If you are in … Continue reading
Open Blog Rerun: “Will virtual worlds save the standards process?”
Since I’m traveling this week and not likely to post much, I’ve scheduled some entries like this to point to some of my personal favorite blog writings. Here’s today’s blog blast from the past. Title: “Will virtual worlds save the … Continue reading
Posted in Standards, Virtual Worlds
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I’m in a virtual world, now what?
There are many different kinds of virtual worlds and potentially many different things to do in them. Some are better than others at nudging you along to become productive in them. By “productive” I don’t just mean getting business work … Continue reading
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Help requested
As I’ve mentioned before, I get a lot of mail from people interested in the topics I cover. I just got the following note from a friend of mine who quit his job with a big company to do a … Continue reading
Posted in Virtual Worlds
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Book: Rinascimento Virtuale
Mario Gerosa was kind enough to send me a copy of his new book that was just published called Rinascimento Virtuale (Virtual Renaissance). It’s in Italian, but I know that it’s about virtual worlds, social networking, and related topics. There’s … Continue reading
links for 2008-03-18
OOXML, It’s Just a Bad Idea Mr. Gates goes to Washington as U.S. decision on OOXML nears I teared up just thinking about the families who will be helped by OOXML. Please. (tags: ooxml microsoft) Computerworld > Don Christie: The … Continue reading
Posted in Document Formats, Macintosh, News, Standards, Virtual Worlds
Tagged Apple, iPhone, Microsoft, OOXML, Second Life
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Linden Labs is looking for a new CEO
Philip Rosedale, aka Philip Linden, announced today on the Second Life blog that he’s decided to move to the Chairman of the Board position and that the company will be getting a new CEO. You can read the announcement here. … Continue reading
links for 2008-03-14
Dorje’s Nest Interesting blog about virtual worlds and Second Life. (tags: virtual_worlds secondlife) Terra Nova: Virtual Worlds 101: Draft Syllabus “The following course outline is for a upperclass undergraduate seminar on “Virtual Worlds” here at Indiana University.” (tags: virtual_worlds) Remembering … Continue reading
links for 2008-03-05
[WANTED] SL Grid Marsupials for Large Scale Unix Fun! « Official Linden Blog “Linden Lab Operations is a Debian Linux shop. We rely extensively on OSS, and our in-house systems are usually written in Python or PHP.” (tags: secondlife linux … Continue reading
Cool Second Life open source location
Visit 4 freedom at ami gi in Second Life for some cool inworld open source resources.
