Btw, with Google Desktop search (yes Gmail is integrated with Google Desktop serach) one could even have minimal off-line capabilities.
http://www.mmogchart.com/ has good data on numbers of MMORPs users. The table says one thing: WOW is booming (green line). The numbers are from June, 2006. The site has the actual excel numbers of many other games. Interesting data. By the way, according to video blogger (on Jan 11, 2007): So it is possible to build a massive MMORP for the metaverse. (well, baring in mind that true Metaverse is a bit more difficult).Blizzard Entertainment announced today that World of Warcraft, its subscription-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), is now played by more than 8 million gamers around the world.
World of Warcraft has also achieved new regional subscriber milestones, with more than 2 million players in North America, more than 1.5 million players in Europe, and more than 3.5 million players in China.
To those not familiar: Second Life gave new premium users the ability to buy inexpensive 512 sqm plots land for just L$512. Yet with more users.. this was abused... many people opened alt (alternative) avatars. Purchase the land and then sold it. it was killing the economy).My analysis: First land was abused; and thus no longer relevant; it is a good move. It makes life simple.BUT I have a very big but.
you’ll know that only those Second Life Residents who have transacted with Linden Lab either by being a premium account holder, owning land, or purchasing currency on the LindeX, will be able to log-in. Residents who are in Second LifeThis has created two responses. Most people liked it. Because working in the SL metaverse has become a pain in the ... you know where. But some people .. did not like it and plan to take drastic measures. This is not the first time. The story of the Elf Clan is kind of sad. Here it was an amazing community that just got pissed off with Linden and simply left Second Life.
when this occurs will only be affected if they log-out and want to return before
the grid returns to normal status.
The $100 billion opportunityIf you look at the history of disruptive technology platforms, like the PC, like the Internet itself, it appears that Second Life, or more properly virtual worlds, are going through that same type of explosive growth that happens when you have a very open platform, in which the barriers to entry and participation are low, in which there’s a lot of entrepreneurial incentive, and also a lot of idealism. And when you make the system open the way it is, with the open source client and more opening to come, people will invent fabulous applications of things to do.Other hints (I have actually listened) from the movie (which is really his voice + SL animation)
One often need to cut parts of the screen to store them for Blogs, Demos, or any other use. There are several tools out there -- I use Gadwin that allow you to capture gifs to clipboard, printer, and file. More info www.gadwin.com. Download the specific software here.
January was another record month for Second Life in many ways. The size of the world, as measured by the virtual square kilometers of simulation, expanded 23% over December to 361 square kilometers. In fact, continued brisk sales have left us with roughly a two-week backlog for new Island order delivery. (Thanks to everyone for their patience on this.) The backlog has also affected our ability to expand the mainland sufficiently to meet. demand. As a result, the average price for mainland auctions is up higher than I think anyone would like to see it. Over the next several weeks, we hope to rectify both situations with a greater volume of server delivery from our supplier. With a recent release of more than 40 regions of mainland, the addition of a new mainland continent & and doubling of the daily release of new mainland regions I would hope that we will satisfy the seemingly insatiable demand and stabilize the mainland auction market to a more sustainable price.
The invention of the term is often erroneously attributed to Grace Hopper, who publicized the cause of a malfunction in an early electromechanical computer. A typical version of the story is given by this quote:
In 1946, when Hopper was released from active duty, she joined the Harvard Faculty at the Computation Laboratory where she continued her work on the Mark II and Mark III. Operators traced an error in the Mark II to a moth trapped in arelay, coining the term bug. This bug was carefully removed and taped to the log book September 9th 1945. Stemming from the first bug, today we call errors or glitch's [sic] in a program a bug.
For the actual story see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_bug
I am sharing this with you so you will know.[UPDATE 11:22am PST] Our network issues are still under investigation.
Please refrain from moving items to/from your inventory and thank you for your
continuing patience. -Jean[UPDATE 10:13am PST] We are still hammering away! Unfortunately we currently have no further information however please continue to refrain from moving items to/from your inventory. We will keep you updated. -Jean
[UPDATE: 9:08am PST] Our techs are hard at work isolating the cause of the current network issues. Whilst investigations are underway, please continue to refrain from performing asset-related activities such as moving items to/from your inventory. We’ll continue to update the blog with further details as they come to hand.
Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales had even greater ambitions than previous encyclopedists. He
wanted not only to build a comprehensive reference work but also to make it freely available to as many people as possible. The Internet and World Wide Web were key to Wales's vision, since a free Web-based encyclopedia would be usable by anyone with Internet access
I can not help it: Amazing video that compare the dance abilities of WOW and Guild Wars. Note the amazing dancing steps.
My friend Mor Sagmon from SAP Labs in Israel was kind enough to share with me this video. Kind of nice Web 2.0 review for the rest of us.
Prof. Dan Halperin (Tel Aviv University) and myself will teach a Software Workshop at the School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University.More projects will be proposed in class. Students are encouraged to propose their own projects.
Prerequisites: Software 1, Software Project, Algorithms, Data Structures.
The Wii Remote, also nicknamed "Wiimote," is the
primary controller for Nintendo's Wii console. The main
features of the Wii Remote are its motion sensing
capability, which allows the user to interact with and manipulate items on
screen via movement and pointing, as well as its expandability through the use
of attachments.
I am often asked about linking the Metaverse and the Realverse; or in Second Life term: linking SL to RL. Well ... one of the most interesting mental models to think about this came to me from the classic book Flatland. Interestigly Flatland is about Romance..."Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a 1884 novella by Edwin Abbott Abbott,
still popular among mathematics and computer science
students, and considered useful reading for people studying topics such as the
concept of other dimensions. As a piece of
literature, Flatland is respected for its satire on the social hierarchy of Victorian society."
Update: An update version of this course was given in the Fall of 2007-8.
