Filed under: Digital Information — mike @ 9:55 am
OpenID is an exciting new protocol specification relating to online identities and single sign-in authentication. Lately, it has been attracting a lot of attention and support, and I’m planning for it to play a major role in SPUD. Today I read a blog entry discussing OpenID by Tim Bray, and had the following comments:
Filed under: Virtual Worlds — mike @ 11:13 am
Robert Scoble reports that an Australian company is working on a new Second Life competitor called “Outback Online” that replaces centrally-hosted servers with P2P technology to provide better graphics and more scalable islands. You can sign-up on their website for an Alpha version they plan to release this summer.
Filed under: Virtual Worlds — mike @ 7:37 am
The OpenSL Project (which is sponsored by The Electric Sheep Company) has taken the lead on open source Second Life development, being the first to release an (”alpha”) open source server for the SL client, called “OpenSim.” When SL opened up their client software in January, I predicted that someone would use the code and protocol documents to reverse-engineer a server soon. Holy cow! I had no idea they would do it in less than a month!