Howard Look gave the keynote speech at IEEE Virtual Reality last week. He talked about Linden Labs’ plans for the next few years of development. Apart from better user experience through better client viewer software, he talked about the back-end services and their plans for openning these services up. As noted elsewhere in this blog, the openning …
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RealXTend
We’ll have a lot more to say about SecondLife in upcoming articles on this site. However, just released are new versions of realXtend’s Naali viewer and Taiga server, which are Open Source implementations of the SecondLife server and client software. We discuss in the book that the client-server protocol for SecondLife was reverse engineered well before …
State of the Internet Q3 2009
The latest edition of Akamai’s State of the Internet, covering Q3 2009, is now available. We refer to an earlier report in the book. From their announcement (Jan 28th), this report includes: Average measured connection speeds of the top 10 fastest cities per continent/region The top 10 ports seeing nearly 95 percent of all observed attack …
Mammoth Media
Mammoth Media have produced an interesting guide to dedicated server software for games. They argue that games developers can better serve their customers by releasing dedicated server software that customers, or 3rd parties can install. In particular, the guide suggests that allowing ISPs to provision dedicated servers can improve customer experience, and alleviate demand at the …
Legality of Deep Packet Inspection
In the book we briefly touch on the issue of net neutrality; whether those running routers should be allowed to inspect the content of packets, rather than just the headers. This issue will rumble on for years, but the legality of so called deep-packet inspection, is being challenged in Europe. Virgin Media, which runs a big …