It would seem that today’s viewer update contains, among other things, the ability to display a website on a prim. It’s not exactly all I’d hoped for at this stage, but it is quite interesting that I can now display my website in-world (click for full size) : (note that my website looks completely different [...]
I’ve mentioned many times on this blog that I’m a huge fan of the idea of gathering usage statistics, and I do my best to display them in a way that makes sense for others. I recently read an article on Coding Horror that reinforced my belief that gathering actual "real-world" usage statistics is invaluable. [...]
Recently I was trying to figure out a way to automatically publish a summary of the preceding week’s C:SI statistics to this blog, similar to how some of the other Second Life® blogs publish traffic or signup or economic statistics, and being a WordPress user I thought it made sense to use XMLRPC and the [...]
Virtual World News had an article a couple of days ago on IBM’s announcement that they had built a 3D data center simulation using OpenSim, which I found particularly fascinating because I have long believed that the potential of Virtual Worlds like Second Life® and OpenSimulator was far larger and with potential for much broader [...]
Ever since I released the Wave Katana 2.0.3 update, I’ve been hearing rumors about it that I find somewhat disturbing. It’s not the content of the rumors that I find most disturbing, however, but rather the fact that only a single good friend of mine is relaying them to me. The rumors range from the [...]
Over at UgoTrade and Massively there’s a buzz going about realXtend joining the OpenSim project, and I have got to say that this announcement (and the accompanying screenshots and video) marks perhaps the first time that I’ve gotten truly excited about a virtual world other than Second Life®. Let me start with the goodies before [...]