Work

by <span class='p-author h-card'>gpotter</span> on Work

Netvibes Ginger

I have been playing with the the Ginger release of Netvibes. Some new widgets and customization available in this Ajax-powered customizable startpage.

Some new eye candy along with new & improved widgets offer improved multi-language support and integration of social networking accounts.

Netvibes has been my Firefox startpage for nearly 2 years now and I have been pleased with the direction they are taking with private/public page customization. I like the idea of a Ginger-like PLE. I have set up a Netvibes Universe tab as a PLE for a practice for which I am still a young padwan – parenting.

 
by <span class='p-author h-card'>gpotter</span> on Play, Work

OpenSim

Yet another ball in the air this past week – an OpenSim installation.

From my first wandering in SecondLife, I was always somewhat leery of the platform’s dependency on centralized arrays of servers and the inability to peer into the server code. OpenSim is an important step in decentralizing SL servers allowing users to host their own simulation or link to other nodes to create broader collaborative environments using services like OSGrid, Central Grid, and OpenLifeGrid.

Haven’t had a whole lot of luck managing permissions on objects and have had some wonky physics engine issues, but at 0.5 Beta – there is significant potential in OpenSim. Have my OpenSim on the university LAN, so no listing with aforementioned directories as of yet. Hope to have the bugs worked out in the coming months and start listing my OpenSim regions.