Next Generation has a snippet of interview from a much lengthier piece that will be in an upcoming issue of Edge in the UK. In it I talk about the DS game I am currently playing, the origami-folding thing I picked up at Narita Airport, as well as discussing “the chocolate cake metaphor.”
While here at Virtual Worlds Fall, I ran into Prokofy Neva, who asked “whatever happened to that GoPets initiative to come up with a rights document?”
Well, the answer, I believe, is over at BetterEULA, where a Wiki has been set up to do research, work on drafts, and so on.
Steve Crews from MMOGamer came down to the office a week or so ago with questions, and I think I stunned him with the verbosity of my answers. 🙂 He has both transcript and audio of the hour’s worth of conversation.
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Some of you may have seen the announcement that IBM and Linden are looking to work together on creating standards to move avatars between worlds.
In fact, there was a whole “virtual worlds interoperability summit” that happened yesterday, with a bunch of folks at it, including Linden. I have a rough liveblog of Zero Linden’s talk on the matter which I will post up eventually. Many thanks to the folks like Peter Haggar of IBM who gathered everyone together to talk about the issues.
I think interoperability is a noble goal, and federations of worlds is an inevitable development. But aspects of the discussion made me nervous. Never mind the question of whether moving avatars across worlds is already patented or not, I was a bit bothered by assumptions that seemed to exist in the room (and said so, which made me somewhat unpopular, I think).
Among them: Read More “Interoperability”
