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February 13th, 2009 by Ravven

Every morning before I start work (and this habit has carried over into my looking-for-work phase) I read a number of blogs and sites about web, gaming, marketing, and so on to stay current with everything. Some of the interesting/amusing things I saw this morning are: COPPA Kids. This was hilarious, since I received a [...]

Metaplace
September 20th, 2007 by Ravven

Well, the day finally came: Raph Koster made his Areae announcement, and every blog I read now has covered Metaplace.  I had been betting all along that what they were working on was very, very similar to what we’re working on, and in part I am right.  I don’t think they’re doing proper 3D, the [...]

Connectedness and Privacy
September 10th, 2007 by Ravven

And this is what makes all the wipe runs worth it…that night that you waltz in and one-shot the boss that you’ve been struggling with.  Void Reaver down.  :) There was a recent post on my realm forums about a Facebook group for our server.  My immediate thought was “what a great idea, I’ll join [...]

Who's on First
August 30th, 2007 by Ravven

This was my dream: to have a seamless mesh of 2D and 3D site.  To have a social networking site that felt like an MMO.  To move from profile and blog to a virtual multiplayer area, and back again…all within a browser.  I wanted us to be the first. The X3D areas of the project [...]

Postive/Negative
July 24th, 2007 by Ravven

WoW Insider had an interesting post this afternoon: Has WoW had a positive or negative impact on your life? As you would expect, many of the people who responded said that WoW has replaced TV in their lives, and I think this might be true for a majority of players. It’s a positive, social experience, [...]

Porn
July 24th, 2007 by Ravven

This has to be one of my weirder professional experiences: getting the cost of a trial membership on a porn virtual community site approved so I can evaluate the technology and application server that they’re using.  lol… The site (jewelofindra.com) is using the same 3D multiplayer approach that I am using; they’re the only X3D [...]