September 10, 2009 – 9:56 am
After many, many years of dating, Emi and I finally tied the knot in a small chapel in Las Vegas this weekend. The Internet proved to be a godsend for having a small wedding on the cheap! Our official invitations went out via Evite, we Tweeted and TwitPic’d maniacally the entire weekend long, [...]
As posted on Raph’s blog today, Metaplace has officially released support for remote embedding of worlds. Embedding a Metaplace world on any web site (including a blog) is now nearly as simple as embedding a Youtube video. With some assistance from a beta tester’s WordPress plugin, I’ve festooned the “Pages” section of WorldIV [...]
February 12, 2009 – 3:04 pm
Over at Metaplace, we’re doing a Game Jam for the afternoon. Follow our progress live on Twitter.
EDIT: Tachevert, 2/13
Phew, they made a couple of screenshots public, so I can link ‘em too! Here’s some of my handiwork.
January 28, 2009 – 5:26 pm
As Tweeted on the official Metaplace Twitter feed, there is a limited-use beta key available. Go to www.metaplace.com and enter the key MPWELCOME to join the beta program for this virtual world project helmed by industry veterans such as company president Raph Koster. This is a limited-time key, so once it runs out, [...]
January 16, 2009 – 5:26 pm
It’s a little older (November), but I was pointed to a story on Silicon Alley Insider, with the inside scoop on the closing of the Reuters Second Life bureau. The article presents some interesting points that I think may be cogent for all players in the emerging virtual world space, and does so in [...]
January 8, 2009 – 7:53 am
Deal Breakers
MMOHub has a brief article up on in-browser versus downloadable MMO’s.
My biggest problem isn’t with a download per se, but with downloads that run a very long time or downloads which don’t come direct from a link on the game company’s site. Torrents are sometimes ok and often a pain. Going to [...]
October 7, 2008 – 12:58 pm
So I can have my own little virtual world now. Really, I’ve been able to have my own corner of a world for a very very long time.
Big pink hairy deal. If I had a world, would anyone come? If you had a world, would I visit? I know, 100 million Habbos disagree. [...]
