Maxping didn't just happen overnight - it is the culmunative of the efforts of Jani Pirkola, Ralf "the Shark" Huelsmann & Simon Probert
Wednesday 14th April, 2009.
Maxping Magazine is now online in beta format. This is the last
post on CyberTech News. From now on, Max Ping brings the news to
you in a better, more organized way with more authors and wider
scope!
CyberTech News was started at the beginning of December, 2008.
Now the scope of the articles have grown wider and we have many
more authors. The blog format no longer fulfills the
needs of CTN and Maxping is a natural progression for CTN
itself and for the people contributing to it and for the
readers. In may respects CTN was a great proof-of-concept, it
demonstrated that the audience and interest was there and gave us
the motivation to make something "bigger".
While this is still early days for Maxping, our aim is to build
up a extensive resource of materials for all "adopters" of these
open source virtual worlds, 3d web and immersive interent. Our
initial audience is the existing group of readers at CTN which we
see very much as the "friends and family" of Maxping. Once we have
developed more content and fleshed out the resouces section with
how-to articles and other technical resources our aim is to become
the primary portal for the mass adopters that will come over
time.
Why Maxping?
We are all very experienced both in software and also virtual
worlds - as very early adopters and indeed in Jani's case the
technical lead of one of the core projects RealXtend - we realized
there was a massive hole in the marketspace for a magazine just
like Maxping. The challenge is that while there are many people
writing about these technologies in blogs, wiki's and on forums -
there was nowhere that captured all this information in one easy to
find and ( hopefully) easy to read place. To that end we give you
Maxping.
The existing Cybertech News website will be left as an archive,
many sites link there, and many articles at Maxping still link back
to Cybertech News. The existing CTN RSS feed continues to
exist, although the content for the feed will come from
Maxping - if you already have a feed from CTN then you have to do
nothing. If you don't have a feed then why not grab one now?
Thank you all who read, submitted and commented
on posts at CTN, it has been a wonderful experience! We will
continue to write articles at Maxping, please join us there. Your
continuous feedback has given us energy to go on.
Let's make Max Ping a success, together!
Best Regards;
Jani Pirkola, Oulu, Finland - Founder and
Editor
Ralf Hülsmann, Kempen, Germany - Founder and
Editor
Simon Probert, Melbourne, Australia - Founder and
Editor,
(and all the Maxping Editors and Authors around the world)
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