Weblog of Wednesday 11 June 2008

Website about managing windowns startup:
http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_index.htm

Importing Google earth into Second Life:
http://digitalurban.blogspot.com/2008/06/google-maps-imagery-and-3d-cities-in.html

Weblog of Tuesday 10 June 2008

Clever Zebra publishing profiles of visitors to their sim:
http://dusanwriter.com/?p=573

Clever Zebra is using the Mechanized Life program:
http://www.mechanizedlife.com/wiki/index.php/Products

Last March, Gwyneth posted about Content Theft and Avatar Rights:
http://gwynethllewelyn.net/2008/03/10/content-theft-avatar-rights-and-the-riaa

Studying MS Windows

Last Friday I was looking for a Windows Task Manager that would give more info than the standard one, and found this:
http://www.neuber.com/taskmanager/index.html

I was surprised to see all sorts of programs running that I had never opened during the current session.

Today to go further and started with the Wikipedia article on Microsoft Windows:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows

My immediate interest is in preventing the automatic startup of unnecessary programs, so I looked at the Windows Startup Process:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Startup_Process

For Windows NT it says:
"There are several programs that let the user control which programs automatically start when a Windows NT system logs on, including StartU, OSAM: Autorun Manager and Autoruns."

The StartU link is broken. "OSAM: Autorun Manager" is here:
http://www.online-solutions.ru/en/osam_autorun_manager.php

I downloaded and installed this, but it seems difficult to use.

"Autoruns" is available on the TechNet website:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx

The above page notably says:
"Autoruns goes way beyond the MSConfig utility bundled with Windows Me and XP."

Weblog of Monday 09 June 2008

Ugo Trade says Holodec is "cool":
http://physorg.com/news131807820.html

Mal Burns moves his Metaworld review to Mogulus:
http://www.mogulus.com/metaworld

Virtual Artists Alliance Blog
http://virtualartistsalliance.blogspot.com/2008/06/diversity.html

Dusan Writer on "Cracks in the Open" (meaning OpenSim):
http://dusanwriter.com/?p=569

Mal Burns' Second Arts blog:
http://malburns.wordpress.com

Rubaiyat links to Eddo Stern in relation to the Portal, Wormhole, Flythrough
http://eddostern.com


Continuing the Jabber sage (see yesterday's post for the beginning)

At work on my lunch break, I now try PSI:
http://psi-im.org

I try to register with livejournal.com, but nothing happens. The firewall must be blocking it.

I then download Pandion:
http://www.pandion.be/download

I try to connect with livejournal.com, and it is blocked again. But in the window that opens, it has a cell to enter the http of a proxy. This may be the way to go...

Jabber Epilogue

Added on Tuesday 10 Juin: I finally got PSI connected to Livejournal Monday evening at home. First it is necessary to be logged in to Livejournal: I may have forgot to do this during certain trials. And then you have to click on the right little icone in a drop-down menu, which I may have failed to notice. But this morning when I try to do this at work, it never connects: the firewall gets in the way. I need a proxy.


Back to todays weblog:

Second Life HUD for FriendFeed:
http://pastebin.ca/1041757

Clever Zebra's list of Virtual Reality platforms:
http://www.mixedrealities.com/?p=227

Blog of KZero virtual world consultancy:
http://www.kzero.co.uk/blog

KZero Chart of all Virtual Worlds:
http://www.kzero.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/virtual-world-numbers-q2-2008.jpg

Prokofy cites Bezroukof "A Second Look at the Cathedral and the Bazaar":
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue4_12/bezroukov

Google's virtual world developments:
http://dusanwriter.com/?p=562

Weblog of Sunday 08 June 2008

Linden distributes freebies to everyone's inventory:
http://sl4nowt.wordpress.com/2008/06/07/the-silently-delivered-freebies

My Jabber fiasco

Mal Burns' SL Edu-Blog on LiveJournal:
http://malburns.livejournal.com/136293.html

Mal Burns profile on LiveJournal:
http://malburns.livejournal.com/profile

Looking at the LiveJournal profile of Mal Burns, I see I could IM him using Jabber.

Instructions for using Jabber chat on LiveJournal:
http://www.livejournal.com/chat

I download Miranda Jabber Client:
http://www.miranda-im.org

Which in turn requires download of OpenSSL:
http://www.slproweb.com/products/Win32OpenSSL.html

The Miranda installation process for some reason requires registration for ICQ chat:
http://chat.icq.com/icqchat

I end up with Danton's page on ICQ chat:
http://www.icq.com/people/about_me.php?uin=460249671

The Miranda menu shows Jabber, but won't open it. And ICQ is not a Jabber client. I go back to the list of recommended Jabber Clients on the Livejournal Talk page and decide to try Pidgin:
http://www.pidgin.im

I install Pidgin without noticing that Jabber is NOT one of the systems that Pidgin can work with. So next I try Gizmo LJ Talk:
http://www.livejournal.com/chat/download

But then when I try to entre my screen name, dantonsideways@livejournal.com turns out to be one character too long to fit in the window! Sheesh, they coulda told me there was a limit. So that is screwed too!

So I use Google to find a list of Jabber Clients:
http://www.jabber.org/clients

At the top of the list is Psi, which I installed once, but disinstalled because it would always open when my computer did, and I couldn't unset that.

to be continued...

Weblog of Saturday 07 June 2008

New paper on paths to recognition of virtual property:
http://virtuallyblind.com/2008/06/06/gould-virtual-property

Mal Burns points to Pachube, real-time feeds for objects:
http://pachube.com/feeds/outputs

David Orban recommends Schismatrix by Bruce Sterling.

Second Friends Tweeter:
http://artfossett.blogspot.com/2008/05/second-friends-tweeter-now-available.html

Arcadia Asylum Recovery Group:
http://slfix.com/?p=371

Cheap virtual servers in France:
http://www.ovh.com/fr/particulier/produits/offres_rps.xml#

Weblog of Friday 06 June 2008

Digado points to a "clientless" virtual world plateform:
http://www.alternativaplatform.com/en

The Russian-made Alternativa3D browser (3D-engine) is based on Adobe Flash Plugin:
http://www.alternativaplatform.com/en/alternativa3d

They are also working on the Alternativa Core server system:
http://www.alternativaplatform.com/en/alternativacore

A paper (in French) on the 3D web by a firm called Concept SL:
http://www.conceptsl.com/papers

The Arch website discusses reflexive architecture:
http://archsl.wordpress.com/2007/08/21/more-reflexive-architecture-resources

Dusan Writer posts about MMO widgets as collaborative tools:
http://dusanwriter.com/?p=516

The above post quotes Deepak Ramachandran of New Paradigm, as follows:
“One popular widget tells you which of the people in your guild is under the most threat. This technology doesn’t exist in $200 billion enterprises – but it exists in this game. How many corporations do we see doing that?”

Weblog of Thursday 05 June 2008

Madame Maracas blog post about plurk and twitter:
http://madamemaracas.wordpress.com/2008/06/03/twitter-plurk-and-other-social-media-online

Mitch Wagner "still" using Goosh:
http://goosh.org

Grace McDonnough points to using robots in Second Life:
http://second-life-training.ahg.com/second%20life%20simulations%20using%20robot%20avatars.htm

Sin Trenton points to article on IM in the workplace:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-06/osu-imp060308.php

@vanelsas posts about scaling down social software:
http://vanelsas.wordpress.com/2008/06/04/why-noise-will-be-tackled-by-scaling-down-the-social-media-conversation

Rheta Shan using Chatterbox, of which there seem to be several, and which seem to be a form of "shoutbox":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoutbox

Doug Randal's teleportation between Second Life and OpenSim with RealXtend:
http://www.rexdeveloper.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=34

Mitch Wagner's interview with Twitter CEO:
http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/06/twitter_ceo_jac.html?cid=RSSfeed_IWK_TWITTER

Mitch Wagner is Ziggy Figaro in SL.

Amul builds SL milk factory on sim "India."

Rustica furniture store.

800,000 Linden viewer contest:
http://dusanwriter.com/?p=557

Weblog of Wednesday 04 June 2008

Rikomatic likes the new skin of the gamesforchange website:
http://gamesforchange.org

Dale Innis comments on Peter Quirk's post about multi-dimensional visualization in SL:
http://peterquirk.wordpress.com/2008/06/02/multi-dimensional-visualization-in-second-life

Mal Burns point to a post about choosing to be fat in Second Life:
http://marissaracecourse.com/2008/06/03/you-mean-you-chose-to-be-fat-body-image-in-a-virtual-world

Nebadon's weird website:
http://nebadon2025.com

All the Twitter users seem to be trying Plurk as an alternative.

iYan points to Slovenian startup applying semantic technologies to blogging:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/andraz_tori_zemanta_interview.php

Keho wiki for research on Presence in virtual worlds:
http://keho.pbwiki.com

Ugo Trade points to Second Life on mobile phone:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9958201-7.html?tag=nefd.top

Second Life on mobile phone offered by Vollee:
http://www.vollee.com

Mitch Wagner says Multiverse offers a reduced-bandwidth mobile-phone viewer.

Lesbian Pirates from Outer Space:
http://www.drunkduck.com/I_Was_Kidnapped_By_Lesbian_Pirates_From_Outer_Space/index.php?p=186423

Metaversatility is a virtual world development company:
http://www.metaversatility.com

Weblog of Tuesday 03 June 2008

Old Arrington post from October 2006. Crayon claims to be first company to be launched in Second Life:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/22/crayon-claims-to-be-first-secondlife-company

I found this on Digg. When I logged in today, none of my 10 friends of Digg have done anything recently. To search for Digg articles about Second Life, type it as one word: SecondLife.

Crayon seems to be still around:
http://www.crayonville.com

Jjacek fargling plurk:
http://www.plurk.com/user/jjacek

David Orban sees that Facebook is going open source:
http://www.techmeme.com/search/query?q=facebook+open+source&wm=false

Orban also reading the IEEE report on the Singularity:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/singularity

iYan recommends social profile tool:
http://www.forrester.com/Groundswell/profile_tool.html

ker2x_ discovers the unofficial Google shell:
http://goosh.org

Multiverse virtual world development platform:
http://www.multiverse.net

Ted Castronova switches from Multiverse to Neverwinter Nights:
http://terranova.blogs.com/terra_nova/2007/10/arden-slows-dow.html

Neverwinter Nights has user created content and free (?) server downloads:
http://nwn.bioware.com/builders

Microsoft launch in Second Life:
http://blogs.msdn.com/zainnab/archive/2008/04/13/heroes-happen-here-launch-in-second-life-april-26th-2008.aspx

Weblog of Monday 20 June 2008

Al Kronos on ExitReality:
http://slambling.blogspot.com/2008/05/are-you-going-to-exitreality.html

Sin Trenton uses Twibble.

Isfullofcrap is using weblin lite:
http://lite.weblin.com

Digado finds sounds on findsounds.com

Rubaiyat launced own sim and connected to it: "Connected 3 ruthies over network to opensim pretty easy, can't build tho."

Chestnet Rau working on Shengri La.

Weblog of Sunday 01 June 2008

The Second Life Client-Viewer: A Case Study in Using Open Source:
http://ausweb.scu.edu.au/aw08/papers/refereed/deshpande/paper.html