Weblog of Tuesday 20 May 2008

Gwyneth links to this TechDirt post about company projects failing in SL:
http://techdirt.com/articles/20080516/1552401139.shtml

which in turns links to this InformationWeek post:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/personal_tech/virtualworlds/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207800625

which links back to the original Gartner post:
http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=670507

which AlKronos writes a post about:
http://slambling.blogspot.com/2008/05/gartners-latest-view-on-virtual-worlds.html

Prokofy finds "orwellian" Torley's post on "protroversy":
http://torley.com/start-a-protroversy-today

Prokofy refers to Shel Israel, top tech blogger:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shel_Israel
http://redcouch.typepad.com/about.html
http://redcouch.typepad.com


Open Source and Second Life

Gwyneth's post on Open Source Second Life:
http://gwynethllewelyn.net/2007/08/10/open-source-second-life-%E2%80%93-the-geeks-strike-back

Gwyneth links to Open Source Grid:
http://www.osgrid.org

Post on Linux.com about Second Life after one year of open source:
http://www.linux.com/feature/128941

The OpenSim blog of Justincc:
http://justincc.wordpress.com

Here is a heavy technical blog with posts about OpenSim:
http://newmediaonthego.com/blog

See especially this category "wonderland":
http://newmediaonthego.com/blog/category/metaverse/wonderland

The Daltonic Gin blog has a category for OpenSim:
http://daltonic.blogspot.com/search/label/opensim

Dalton links to Gwyneth's SLOG post about IBM putting Data Centre in OpenSim:
http://secondslog.blogspot.com/2008/02/ibm-puts-data-centre-in-opensim.html

This useful page shows which OpenSim grids allow you to rent and/or add your own:
http://www.sluniverse.com/php/vb/other-grids-virtual-worlds/7071-opensim-openlife-deepgrid-osgrid-virtualworldgrid.html