Weblog of Friday 30 May 2008

Novamente, specializing in Intelligent Virtual Agents:
http://www.novamente.net

From Ugo Trade's post on Virtual Worlds 2008:
http://www.ugotrade.com/2008/04/11/the-architects-of-the-open-source-metaverse-at-virtual-worlds-2008
*Ben Goertzel of the AI company Novamente is doing AI for virtual pets in Multiverse.
*Adam Frisby: "If you build the object and you allow it to be transferred from one server to another then at that point the people who it’s being transferred to can copy it. And this is just a fundamental thing. If someone is going to copy something they can make another copy."
*Peter Quirk of EMC feels that OpenSim LSL is already forking from the Second Life LSL.
*Philip Rosedale asks if OpenSim will use Mono: http://blog.secondlife.com/2008/01/29/mono-beta-launch
*Yani Pirkola: "we hope and see that there are going to be many realXtend servers around the world, like today there are Apache servers." Apache is a web server, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_server
*Yani Pirkola: "We have started donating all our content that we do in the project for public use, in this CC license, attribution only, corresponds to the BSD license on the code side. So you can take and use it. I haven’t yet seen any, at least I don’t know any good open source project around open content."
*Adam Frisby: "It’s an interesting point. There is the Google warehouse. That would be a fantastic thing to integrate so you can grab drag and drop items from there and they’re all in collada." See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COLLADA
*David Levine: "There are groups now in Second Life like Clever Zebra doing open content intentionally for open use."
*David Levine: "I think what’s going to happen is there’ll be self grouping. We’re going to have large clusters of people who have a similar philosophy on content, and they’re going to find ways to interoperate."

Peter Quirk's "No There There" about business applications of virtual worlds:
http://peterquirk.wordpress.com

Bloggers' page on EMC website:
http://uk.emc.com/about/community/blogs.htm

Links about the Nicholaz viewer:

SL wiki page on alternate viewers:
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Alternate_viewers

Nicholaz blog:
http://nicholaz-beresford.blogspot.com

Nicholaz download page:
http://www.blueflash.cc/users/nicholaz

EyeCandy download page:
http://www.blueflash.cc/users/nicholaz/EyeCandy

More viewers:

MovableLife browser-based viewer:
http://movablelife.net/login.aspx

The Sleek viewer:
http://delta.slinked.net/second-life/sleek

Delta's Sleek blog:
http://delta.slinked.net/2007/07/17/sleek-development-update-717

Back to the daily weblogging:

OpenSim workshop at ArsVirtua:
http://arsvirtua.com/more.php?p=101

Under the Radar Conference (Tracking Early Stage Innovation):
http://www.undertheradarblog.com/schedule_1.html

Mitch Wagner's fax solution:
http://efax.com

Rik on virtual world collaboration, with long comment by Prok:
http://www.rikomatic.com/blog/2008/05/what-would-virt.html