.com on muc1

Moved all domains beginning with n-z in the .com tld to muc1.virtual-presence.org.

Moved some TLDs -> Muc1

Moved all domains with the TLD .br, .de and .mx to muc1.virtual-presence.org

Per user rooms for highly frequented sites

metroflog.com and fotolog.com had lots of avatars. They have been configured to use a room per user account. people visiting the same account will meet each other. But it will hopefully be much less crowded on the main page.

On the way, the "explicit entry" function has been fixed for the email services of yahoo.com, msn.com, and live.com.

.es -> muc1

Moved all domains of .es to the chat server muc1.virtual-presence.org.

Name Hierarchy Letter C, conduit, ac-adapt.net

- Added a "c" to the name hierarchy. required additional refinement in the name index
- http://search.conduit.com/ is now explicit enter only like google.com
- http://ac-adapt.net/denpa/ got a separate in the site http://ac-adapt.net/

Google India

Too many people on google.co.in made Google slow. Applied the well proven "manually enter" button to google.co.in.

Reason: Google is a dispatcher. It can be regarded as street crossing where many people walk by and leave quickly. If you want to meet people there, then enter manually. But usually you just search and leave without much communication.

YouTube, Nicovideo

Both video sites have been reconfigured to use a room per video. If you meet someone, then you know that the person watches the same video as you are.

YouTube

There are 10 rooms on youtube in the video section. Rooms are currently assigned to segments of the video ID space by the leading letter of the ID. Four letters are combined into a room., e.g. a-d and e-h.

Yet, these rooms are already crowded and something has to be done. The question is now if the ID space is split up further, e.g. by single leading letter or even 2 letters OR if we jump directly to the ultimate destination and make a room for each video.

After all, virtual presence is about meeting people with similar interest based on the content. If there is a room per video, then you know that the person you meet watches the same video as you are. The perfect reason to talk.

Are we ready for that, yet?

5 rooms for nicovideo

The japanese video site "nicovideo" has been split into 5 rooms. One for the home page www.nicovideo.jp and 4 for the videos. Relevant is the first number of the video ID (after the "/watch/sm"). People meet if they watch the same video. But the video watching crowd is distributed over 4 rooms for video ID starting with 0-2, 3-5, 6-7, and 8-9. Also, if the host name starts with anything except "www.", then this is interpreted as a country domain and taken into account. So, de.nicovideo.jp is different from www.nicovideo.jp. Please see the nicovideo.xml.

TLD style handling inside ccSLDs

Some countries subscribed to SLD domains, like .uk, .in, .br. They introduce another level like ".co." (in .uk) and ".com." (in .br). But sometimes they also register directly under the country code. Example: orkut india is www.orkut.co.in, but century21india is www.century21india.in. So be it.

msn and y8.com, one.lt, miniclip.com, naza-klasa.pl, raidrush.ws

4 random rooms for msn.com, y8.com, one.lt, miniclip.com, naza-klasa.pl, raidrush.ws

Facebook, Youtube

More rooms for facebook and youtube. Now 5 international rooms plus 6 language specific rooms.

g-m.com -> muc1

Moved all domains of .com with domain names starting with g-m to the chat server muc1.virtual-presence.org. This will distribute half of the load from all .com domains to the new chat server. Still more to come.

a-f.com -> muc1

Moved all domains of .com with domain names starting with a-f to the chat server muc1.virtual-presence.org. This will move the load of 1/4 of the .com domains to the new chat server. More to come.

orkut.co.in

As a high traffic site it gets a random-room config with 4 statically configured language independent rooms. First entry in the brand new SLD structure.

Structure for Second Level Domains

A new folder hierarchy has been created for countries with a ccSLD.

UTF-8

All data has been moved to UTF-8 format. There where still some files in good old ISO8859-1.

Added Common Configs

A folder "common" has been added directly under the root folder. It is supposed to provide commonly used configurations in order to avoid duplicates.

hi5, yahoo, friendster

High traffic sites got a random-room config with 4 statically configured language independent rooms.

Mapping API

A mapping API is available at http://lms.virtual-presence.org/api/

Check the HTML form to learn about the parameters.

Root folder v7

A new root folder has been added. The main difference are relative delegate URIs with "../" instead of absolute URIs as in "firebat-2.7.7".

"v7" is the new root folder. "firebat-2.7.7" is deprecated and now frozen. Future mapping changes will be only in "v7".

pennergame.de

Due to popular demand, http://www.pennergame.de has been split into several categories. See the new config for more information.

Individual Rooms for Facebook Profiles and Apps

Each profile and each app is now a separate room. While you will be missing the company, you will now know that the person you meet is on the same profile and is visiting the same user.

See the facebook configuration.

5 rooms 4 Youtube

The Youtube site has been split into 5 rooms. One for the home page (www.)youtube.com and 4 for the videos. Relevant is the first letter of the video ID (after the "v="). People meet if they watch the same video. But the video watching crowd is distributed over 4 rooms for video ID starting with a-h, i-q, r-z, and the rest. Also, if the host name starts with anything except "www.", then this is interpreted as a country domain and taken into account. So, de.youtube.com is different from www.youtube.com. Please see the youtube.xml.

Even more Structure

Two new toplevel folders have been added. There are now 3 hierarchical structures and the 2 toplevel files.

Toplevel files:

• root.xml: starting point for all mappings
  
• default.xml: a general fallback

Structures:

• ip4: IP 4 adresses
  
• tld: toplevel domains
  
• name: global names which span multiple domains
  

The mapping starts at root.xml, then branches out to IP4 adresses or continues in the "name" hierarchy. If there is no name, then mapping is forwarded to the "tld" hierarchy. If no location matches then the general fallback (default.xml) applies. Each hierarchical structure has its own starting and fallback points.

Here is a sample mapping process for http://www.slashdot.org/

It starts at:

• http://www.slashdot.org/_vpi.xml

...then uses these files in the global phase:

1. root.xml
2. name/_.xml
3. name/default.xml
4. tld/org/_.xml
5. tld/org/s/_.xml
6. tld/org/s/l/_.xml
7. tld/org/s/l/slashdot.xml

...until a matching location tag is found.

Removed Auto-Enter for heavy email sites

Configured some heavy traffic utility sites so, that people do not enter automatically. There is an [Enter] button, if users really want to meet there.

Sites:

*.mail.yahoo.com
*.mail.live.com
*.hotmail.msn.com

Tag:

<delay sec="infinite" bypass="true">

weblin.com -> muc1.virtual-presence.org

Moved all *.weblin.com rooms to the chat server muc1.virtual-presence.org. TTL has been set to 5 minutes days before. Users entering the pages are directed to the new server. Users already entered stay in the old room until they navigate.

Hierarchical folder structure

Switched to the new hierarchical folder structure where a TLD has a folder and the domain is split by single letters. How many prefix letters will depend on the domain name density. We are starting with 2. Example:

root/
root.xml
de.xml
de/
_.xml
y/
_.xml
a/
yam.xml
_.xml

Also: a hierarchy for IP4 addresses:

_ip4/
_.xml
80/
_.xml
154/
_.xml
16/
_.xml
235/
_.xml

TLD files still contain the individual configs. They will be migrated to the folder structure on demand.

Schema firebat-2.7.7

Migrate to firebat-2.7.7 schema. (<delegate> now separate from <location>)