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The discourse about Interoperability: 1 year wrap-up
A bunch of new interesting contents has been produced during the past year about interoperability. We thought it was a good idea to start wrapping it up here. Have we done any progress? What are the new developments and the new challenges? Looking forward to discuss one year of developments about interoperability at the next virtual worlds conferences here’s a first list of selected interviews, posts, audio and presentations (newer to older):
- Philip Rosedale: Opensource, Interoperable Virtual Worlds
- The Interoperability panel at the recent LA Virtual Worlds Conference and Expo. Full audio here
- Data Portability and Virtual Worlds on Pixelsbi
- Tear Down the Walls of Virtual Worlds (presentation at EuroPython 2008)
- Bridging Virtual Worlds is the wrong answer (Techcrunch take on the SL/Opensim announcement)
- Happy Jumpy Ruth… Interoperability takes a step…
- MPEG Issues Call for Requirements for “Informarion exchange with Virtual Worlds” Interoperability Project
- Linden Lab: interoperability protocols before opensource
- Interoperability, virtual goods and forced migration
- Interoperability Forum discusses IP for Virtual Worlds standards
- Interoperability or Outeroperability (Kzero’s take on connecting worlds)


[…] is a visual representation of the text contained in one year of announcements and news about interoperability. Two things are pretty clear and astonishing here: only two worlds/companies are always mentioned, […]