Update 18:36pm 6th September – Location SLurl changed. Hi folks. Just a brief note to say that Robin Teigland kindly invited me to speak at the Nordic Virtual Worlds Network’s Virtual Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Second Life on Wednesday 7th September 2011, 16:00 – 17:00 CET (7:00 – 8:00 am SLT/PST). This is…
So, it’s that time of year again when those of us rash enough to make predictions for the year ahead get to look back and regret them. Actually I shouldn’t say that – I think that I’ve done pretty well this year! Or perhaps I just don’t take enough fun risks. Anyway, on with the…
Hi folks. Just thought I’d let you know that I’ve once again undertaken the sisyphean task of updating the OpenSimulator configuration instructions This time, I’ve updated the grid setup instructions to reflect the current situation in OpenSimulator 0.7. In fact, I wrote a whole new set of steps based on my experiences in setting…
Hello folks. Having assessed my 2009 predictions at the end of last year, I meant to get this post out very shortly afterwards but, as so often, life intervened . Still better a couple of weeks late than never, so here are my predictions for OpenSim in 2010. Just to conform with everyone else, I…
Hi folks. I thought that I would spend a little bit of time today assessing the guesses I made for OpenSim back at the start of 2009. It might be less than usually coherent since I’ve been struck down by a cold today, so please forgive that. Next year I’ll stick my head out again…
In today’s long and rambling post I want to address two topics which have come up for me recently. The first is the assumption that OpenSim is just trying to be a cheaper Second Life. The second is the idea that OpenSim development is something that will inevitably be provided by other people and companies. …
Introduction – the Problems of a Universal Viewer In common with quite a few other people, I’ve speculated before about a very different internet architecture for virtual worlds from that of the current Second Life. Instead of virtual worlds comprised of big ‘grids’ of simulators sharing central services, there would be a much larger number…
Introduction A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that I planned to post something about my experiences in writing the Parallel Selves Message Bridge module. This is that post, albeit a little bit later than planned It isn’t a region module writing tutorial – the OpenSim project wiki has one of those if you’d…
So, I thought I’d somewhat belatedly indulge in that favourite blogging staple, predictions for the coming year. In my case, I’m going to stick to speculation about OpenSim (or speculation about events that may affect it). And in the interests of truth in advertising, I’m going to call these guesses as they’re based largely on…
Anybody reading this blog may have noticed that I haven’t posted anything much for the past few weeks, apart from weekly OpenSim development summaries. The truth is that I’ve wanted to but just haven’t been able to get the time – as I’m sure everyone knows, travelling and starting a new job tends to leave…