Basal Omni-Presence

The web has always had an element of place and 2D meshes well with a 3D environment

… the Meshverse(which is more than a 3D web) will subsume text-based stuff and then transform it. This is already happening in Second Life as the Mozilla based uBrowser technology brings web pages in world as functional decoration on the surfaces of 3D objects. When there’s a need to scroll through traditional text we’ll zoom full screen onto a window. This is just an evolutionary twist on maximize/minimize controls and the Dock(Mac) or Task Bar(Windows). Over time, we’ll see less and less text and most images will be snapshots of 3D models. There will also be more functional sound and Tangible User Interfaces(TUI). Text will remain but in a secondary, support role.

End of The Text Based Internet

But the web and social networking need a greater sense of sight and interaction with other people and so we’re seeing a growth in embedded text chat clients:

• AOL - WIMZI
• Google Talk Gadget
• Same Place
• Meebo Me
• Meebo Rooms
• Radius IM

As this trend takes root, web pages will either become virtual world places or virtual objects within them while instant messaging and chat will become the means of facilitating presence within these virtual worlds. Until BOPSpace, there’s been no infrastructure for this - no standards, no RSS and XML-RPC. Implementations are still a bit rough around the edges but the idea just makes sense to many people because being social means interacting with other people. BOPSpace aims to facilitate this for everyone without need for a server or even an IM account. Your pages, your world should belong to you.

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*If this doesn’t appear correct to you see AYB

BOPSpace uses the Coral Content Distribution Network(CoralCDN) to distribute static content for it’s virtual worlds.

CoralCDN is a free peer-to-peer content distribution network, comprised of a world-wide network of web proxies and nameservers. It allows a user to run a web site that offers high performance and meets huge demand, all for the price of a $50/month cable modem.

I’m also using it for media here on this site so wherever you see urls with .nyud.net appended to them, you’re accessing the content via CoralCDN.