[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arblVyxn0qQ[/youtube]   Links: Interview with Justin Clark-Casey Hypergrid Business - The Hypergrid is a social web Chuck Prophet on Archive.org Douglas Coupland and William Gibson on the KWLS William Gibson in Second Life (Part 1 | Part 2) Jeremy Bailenson on Infinite Reality: Avatars, Eternal Life and New Worlds Aloha

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJNWidQrgf8[/youtube] Links: Open Simulator Overte Foundation Justin Clark-Casey's Master's Dissertation on Internet-Scale Virtual Environment Architectures Hypergrid Unity 3D Second Life Experimental teleport between Second Life and OpenSim Diva Distro Kitely OpenSim Creations Topics: 1:30 How do you become an OpenSim core developer? 8:00 Can OpenSim become the "3D web"? 14:00 Does OpenSim need asset security? 24:00 Does OpenSim need feature parity with Second Life? 31:30 How do you decide which features are in OpenSim core? 37:30 The state ...

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/embed/m39ca4qEPEs[/youtube] Kinda in response to the latest episode of Metareality Podcast, but actually more of a general comment on the show. Get your free Cactuar here.

In our second tour across the SL mainland (this time calling it "across the grid") we are discussing the Simplified Inventory, how things were for us when we were newbies in SL, how things are when you're a fashion blogger and El's fingernails. We plan on making more tours like this in the future, not just across the SL mainland, but ...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/embed/dX-6QDGSMNE[/youtube] Credits: Music Brigan Ensamble - "star of the country down" (cc-by) Roger Subirana Mata - "El secret del mar" (cc-by-nc-sa) ТЕЛЬНЮК: Сестри - "Не женися на багатій" (cc-by-nc-sa) V is wearing: Ce Cubic Effect [4mc] Fallen Gods Skins Redgrave Shoes El is wearing: Fishy Strawberry Pig Akeruka Skins Fashism Eyes Siow's Makeup Tattoo EMO-tions Hair Animations by Sweet Lovely Cute  

In the 4 months since I last posted an update on the Loom, nothing much has happened. Recently, though, I finally got around to do a little more work on our metaverse home, so that finally the towers are back in place and connected again. Current snapshot: And while I was at it, I finally played a little more with Viewer ...

The nicest blogs never get any comments, which is rather sad, if you think about it, so I don't think about it too much. It's silly, anyway. Thinking about comments, that is. But it's 3:23 AM here, and I'm sleepy, so I'll rant a little. I love Thirza's blogs. Not because I've been featured on them at times, but because I ...

Germany has, state-legally, an interesting history. After WW II, both the Federal Republic of Germany, and the German Democratic Republic were formed, but legally, the German Reich, which was the name of the state before the war, continued to exist (and does, to this day), which led to some confusion on how germany was to be treated. The final conclusion was ...

For now, this is just the recording of yesterday's event. All in all, I was happy to hear that SpotOn is indeed committed not to use its patents in an anti-competitive manner, and we have a few more information about what the patents are there for. I don't know if I'll write any further follow-up about this issue, or the ...