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New Universal Teleports List
By Hyper Anthony
 Earlier
this week Strike Rapier released a new Universal Teleports
List, called the Shared Teleports List, to the AW Community.
A Universal Teleports List is a listing of teleports that
span across Active Worlds designed to give you a comprehensive
list of areas in a world. Strike Rapier's listing utilizes
MYSQL and PHP to create a database of teleports that any
user can add to, or get permission to add to depending
on which region you have permissions in. Within its
first week of existence, the Shared Teleports List has
attracted 41 users and 114 individual teleports.
Intrigued by the possibilities of this new listing, we
interviewed Strike Rapier concerning future features and
goals of the Shared Teleports List. Here is how it went...
AWNews: What are your eventual goals
for the list, and how do you think the community has accepted
it so far?
Strike Rapier: My ultimate goal is to
take over the universe search tab and have over 5,000
building locations.
Strike Rapier: The Community has accepted
it well, I just wish that more of them would contribute
by actually adding their builds, I know it takes a while
so they might be a little hesitant, but the benefits are
enormous.
AWNews: Hey, that sounds pretty cool!
Can you go more in-depth about your ambitions for the
search tab?
Strike Rapier: I think it would be beneficial
if there was a more ummm, 'narrow' interface that would
fit the search tab... maybe a cut down search page where
you can just type something in and find things relating
to it, or for the particular world you are in.
AWNews: Do you think the Shared Teleports
List is about ready, or do you have more work to do concerning
new features?
Strike Rapier: I have to add the voting
system, and perhaps a way to change regional descriptions,
but its ready to go. At some point I'm going to screw
about with the location descriptions, let you use things
like [url]blah.com[/url] tags, bold, pics etc - let the
average joe blogs make a mini site for each build... optional
of course.
Strike Rapier's Shared Teleport List can be reached here.
If you would like to create an account and start adding
your own teleports, click here.
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