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Virtual World Highlights (and Lowlights) of 2008: Part 2, the Players

Now that I’ve given explained my feelings on the year as a whole, here is a short look at some of the things that either excited me or fell flat on their face during this year.

Proof That Philadelphia is Really the Center of the Metaverse

Philadelphia has a thriving virtual worlds community, and many enthusiasts live [...]

Virtual World Highlights (and Lowlights) of 2008: Part 1, Background

Jennyfur & Philip at SLCC (Photo: Jeska D.)

Hype is short for hyperbole, and it can be positive or negative. Virtual worlds have gone through a hype cycle not seen in technology for quite some time. Through 2006 and most of 2007, virtual worlds were the darlings of the press, every company seemed to want [...]

realXtend 0.4 released, with amazing “Beneath the Waves” world!

Check out realXtend

The folks over at realXtend are doing some amazing things. To check out the new version:

(1) Visit http://www.realxtend.org/page.php?pg=downloads and download the realXtend 0.4 viewer.

(2) If you haven’t yet, visit http://users.realxtend.net/rexauth/Register.aspx and create an account (and avatar name!) while it is downloading.

(3) Install the viewer, and fire it up once the install [...]

Checking Out MetaPlace

Metaplace has gone into a limited beta, which I’ve been checking out for a few days. I was impressed, after the alpha screenshots I had seen. The concepts here are all good: fast, simple interface, and you won’t need the latest/greatest hardware to run it. The professionally created artwork looks nice, but for those of [...]

How To: Process Second Life Snap Shots Sent as Email into Wordpress (and more!)

SecondBlogger is a free site I created that allows anyone with a Second Life avatar to register and blog to a common location. It runs on the Wordpress back end, but also includes an option for people to blog from in-world, by sending an email post-card. This script will allow you [...]

Lovely ride home in the sunshine with the windows down for the first time in longer than I can remember! 2010/03/16
YAY, our Intarwebs are back. It made it hard getting work done over the weekend. 2010/03/15
@erinwyher Welcome to Twitter. You're lucky you had TV and Internet last night... Comcast outage in my area! 2010/03/15
Penn UIConf Higher Ed Web Symposium registration is open! http://tr.im/RXg5 Don Norman! Cory Ondrejka! Come join us. 2010/03/15
How about a month of nice weather? Trying to get my house back on the market - argh! 2010/03/15

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