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It’ time to start posting what this project, in it’s entirety is all about.

Crystal to the end user means they only have one login to remember for our various sites and products, eg. RazorIRC.com, quantumRadio / Renegade Music.

Now this doesn’t mean that other sites in the future cannot become part of our network.  But there will be certain standards that sites must follow.

Crystal to the web developers of the network.

What this means for the developers in the network is that they have a platform that is designed with them in mind.  As a developer you’ll get to choose how little or how much of the Crystal features you want to use.

To login to a site on the Crystal network you just have to use the Username you use when you registered for a Crystal ID or if you link one of the various social networking sites to your account you can use this to login on any Crystal ID enabled sites.

You will be able to fully edit your Crystal ID Profile from any site within the network without leaving said site.  All sites in the Crystal network are required to have a page / tab on their user control panel for Crystal ID management, this will have a standardized spec that all sites will be required to fulfill or they will be removed from the network.

How will management of internal Crystal Network sites be handled?

Thats a tough one to explain.  We will have set internal user levels for the entire network which will mean those users with those specific levels of power will transfer to each site but within a certain limitation.

Anyways, it’s time to wrap up this post.  There’s a reason I broke it off jaged like this.

Each weekend as more information becomes available I will post an article.  I can only release little bits of information at a time.

PS.  Crystal ID will be able to be used as an OpenID, we will implement a layer within crystal that will allow for this to happen.  This is actually what the title of this post refers to.

No it’s not done yet. Not in either sense of being “done” either.

I’m working on two versions right now, one for Windows written in C# / .Net 4 and one for Mac OS X 10.6.4 written in Objective-C / Cocoa.

With writing it in C# I can use it on all platforms that support Mono, and it gives me the flexibility to use the core of RazorIRC to write a silverlight version for the web and Windows Phone 7 version, etc…

With writing it in ObjC it’s basically limited to two platforms iOS and Mac OS X.

But my primary goal when I first came up with the RazorIRC idea was to write a client for Windows, and it would be the spiritual successor to one of my older projects EvolvedIRC, which was an IRC client writen in VB6 / Winsock.

Hey all,

Been awhile!

So, I’ve got a new project starting up, it’s going to take away my focus from EdgeChat a bit but that’s no biggy!

So what is this new project you ask?  Well it’s a somewhat Simcity / Micropolis clone.  But I plan on eventually doing it in 3D and for Windows only.  It’ll be written in C# using either the XNA Framework (which means it could come to the Xbox 360, Zune and Windows Phone Series 7 or C# and SlimDX (A .Net wrapper for DirectX).

This project stemmed from myself and my father since we both love the Simcity franchise and well Simcity Societies was a huge flop.  So we’re going to do it right and make a true Simcity 4 successor!  Plus we may open source it or we may sell it on steam, time will tell.