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Category Archives: Virtual Worlds
links for 2008-03-01
heise online – Declaration for open standards in the internet passed “Furthermore, expensive on-location meetings ought to be limited and should be expanded upon using online cooperation via wikis, chats or telephone conferences, in order to afford small and mid-sized … Continue reading
links for 2008-02-29
OOXML Around the World Using NGOs to Push Agendas “Microsoft has “persuaded” several non-profit organizations to bombard the Indian IT Secretary and the Additional Director General of the Bureau of Indian Standards with letters supporting its OOXML proposal.” (tags: microsoft … Continue reading
links for 2008-02-27
Virtual Worlds and Game Consoles I4U News – Xbox 3D Virtual World necessary to compete with Playstation Home? “If Sony does everything right it will be huge for the Sony PS3. I actually think Microsoft cannot afford to not launch … Continue reading
links for 2008-02-20
Politics Lessig: I’m considering a run for Congress | Tech news blog – CNET News.com “Confirming weeks of speculation, Larry Lessig, the Stanford University law professor and “free culture” icon, has confessed that yes indeed, he’s considering a run for … Continue reading
Posted in Games, News, Open Source, Politics / Government, Programming, Virtual Worlds
Tagged Microsoft, Second Life
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links for 2008-02-15
Harvard Research to Be Free Online – New York Times “On Tuesday the arts and sciences faculty voted overwhelmingly in favor of a resolution that would commit Harvard to open access — the movement to speed the exchange of knowledge … Continue reading
#2. If I were to build a virtual world … building up the basic model
This is the second part of my series where I’m brainstorming about some considerations regarding building a virtual world. The idea is that I discuss what I would like to see in the world (or “worlds,” as I’ll talk about … Continue reading
#1. If I were to build a virtual world … the basics
I’m going to start a new series where I publicly brainstorm about some issues of building a virtual world. This is just Bob thinking out loud, not some deep IBM strategy. I’m not even in the part of the company … Continue reading
links for 2008-02-01
Redirection – Manage 301 redirections without modifying Apache | Urban Giraffe “Redirection is a WordPress plugin to manage 301 redirections, keep track of 404 errors, and generally tidy up any loose ends your site may have.” (tags: wordpress plugin) Echoing … Continue reading
Posted in Document Formats, News, Open Source, Virtual Worlds
Tagged Microsoft, OOXML, Second Life, WordPress
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Seven Challenges and Priorities for Virtual Worlds in 2008
Thus far this year I have given my opinions about the top ten priorities for open standards and open source in 2008. With this post I’m going to continue the series and give my ideas for virtual worlds like Second … Continue reading
links for 2008-01-24
Lotus toying with Sametime features including virtual world meetings – Network World “Lagarde introduced the features with a caveat saying that they may never see the light of day. “You may see some of this in the future and you … Continue reading
links for 2008-01-23
Linux Conference Australia and Second Life “I got an email about the Linux Conference being held in Melbourne later this month. There will be events also happening simultaneously in Second Life.” (tags: linux secondlife australia) Microsoft wants National Bodies to … Continue reading
OpenSim
Do any of you have any experience with OpenSim? It’s a BSD open source effort to provide an alternative back end to Second Life and other virtual worlds. There are two or three grids up on the web and you … Continue reading
links for 2008-01-19
Why does the MacBook Air make so many so dumb? | The Apple Core | ZDNet.com “Who will be customers of this classy machine? Captains of enterprise and commerce. Traditionally, these customers have been Windows users. But now they will … Continue reading
Posted in Document Formats, Macintosh, Music, News, Open Source, Virtual Worlds
Tagged Apple, HP, Microsoft, NASA, ODF, OOXML, Pete Seeger
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links for 2008-01-17
INTERVIEW: A look at Sun’s virtual world for internal collaboration “Started about a year ago as a collaborative effort between Sun and the open-source community, Wonderland is a virtual, 3-D website that allows people to build virtual worlds based on … Continue reading
links for 2008-01-16
Coming to the Mac in 2008: ‘Spore’ | CNET News.com “That’s why EA is fine-tuning its relationship with Toronto-based TransGaming Technologies, a company that has developed a technology that makes it relatively easy for publishers like EA to develop Mac–or … Continue reading
Posted in Entertainment, Games, Macintosh, News, Open Source, Virtual Worlds
Tagged MySQL, Second Life, Sun
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links for 2008-01-09
Banks banned in ‘Second Life’ | Geek Gestalt – A blog by Daniel Terdiman – CNET News.com “On the heels of banking scandals in the virtual world Second Life, its publisher Linden Lab announced Tuesday that it is effectively banning … Continue reading
Posted in Document Formats, News, Open Source, Virtual Worlds
Tagged financial, ODF, Second Life, XML
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links for 2008-01-07
Gravity Labs Elevators (Second Life Location) Examples of commercial elevators for SL. (tags: secondlife) MapWoW.com World of Warcraft Maps This is cool: Google Map interface to WoW continents. Can show locations of herbs and ore. (tags: worldofwarcraft games map Google)
links for 2008-01-06
Making Old Document Formats Unreadable Microsoft Watch – Business Applications – SP3 Downgrades Office 2003 “Yes, Microsoft behaved stupidly here. Let me emphasize: stupidly. File format compatibility is a hugely sensitive issue with many IT organizations. Microsoft should have issued … Continue reading
Building in Second Life, By Example
Over the holidays I started a little project to take some of the building topics that I discussed in my 25 entry blog series on Second Life last year and turn them into an online book. This will allow me … Continue reading
links for 2008-01-02
Commercial the dominant word in open source | Open Source | ZDNet.com Good post and opportunity for discussion. (tags: opensource) Business Communicators of Second Life®: Kiva’s New SL Office, Microlending and Reputation Interesting intersection of financial, reputation, and virtual world … Continue reading
links for 2007-12-29
Wow, So OOXML Isn’t Perfect After All The Deprecated “Smoke Screen” of MS Office Open XML (OOXML) | Fanatic Attack “In an effort to win quick converts to its bid to have Microsoft Office Open XML (MOOXML) accepted as an … Continue reading
Posted in Document Formats, Macintosh, News, Open Source, Virtual Worlds
Tagged ECMA, Microsoft, ODF, ODF Alliance, OOXML, Second Life
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Return to Second Life: Land
After doing a lot of Second Life during the first half of the year, I took a few months off. As I previously mentioned, I needed a break from what I was doing in that virtual environment because I felt … Continue reading
Second Life book: “Creating Your World”
I just received a copy of Creating Your World: The Official Guide to Advanced Content Creation for Second Life. Since I did the rather long series on Second Life earlier this year, I’ve been thinking about doing a book on … Continue reading
links for 2007-12-17
On Facebook, Scholars Link Up With Data – New York Times Whether for academic use or otherwise, if the information is out there, expect people to use it. (tags: facebook) Upheaval at Linden Lab: Cory Ondrejka out | Geek Gestalt … Continue reading
links for 2007-12-15
Madonna, others named to Rock Hall of Fame – USATODAY.com “The ever-evolving Madonna was announced as a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee on Thursday along with John Mellencamp, The Ventures, Leonard Cohen and The Dave Clark Five.” (tags: … Continue reading
Thoughts on digital reputations
As a follow up to my comments at the Yale Law School Information Society Project Symposium on Reputation Economies in Cyberspace, I wanted to talk a bit about digital reputations. By this I mean some way of attaching numeric data … Continue reading
How much land to buy in Second Life?
I just got a question via email about how much land to buy when first doing so in Second Life. Here is the response I gave. That’s a good question. Do you plan to build on the land yourself or … Continue reading
links for 2007-11-27
24/7 Wall St.: Sun Microsystems Reflects Ticker Change Over 1-4 Reverse Split (JAVA, JAVAD) I had missed this when it was first announced. “The high-end server maker and owner of the rights to Java will temporarily change its stock ticker … Continue reading
Posted in Music, News, Open Source, Politics / Government, Virtual Worlds
Tagged Guitar, OOXML, Second Life, Sun
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links for 2007-11-26
Real Estate Growing number of foreclosures creates a new scam – The Boston Globe “The National Consumer Law Center estimates that thousands of troubled borrowers across the country were victimized in the last few years.” (tags: realestate) Where Mansions Go … Continue reading
Posted in Document Formats, Entertainment, News, Virtual Worlds
Tagged Google, Guitar, Linux, OOXML, real estate
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Another blog
I’ve decided to start using NigelParavane.com as a blog site for some of my Second Life, World of Warcraft, and other online 3D game and virtual world experiences. The idea is to use that site for information about using these … Continue reading
