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I tried DaliWorld for a short time when it first came out, but I was frustrated with all the bugs. For example, I would leave it running for a few hours only to come back and find that my computer had frozen because so many fish had migrated onto my screen that my computer couldn't handle it. I went to their message boards and commented several times that this was a problem, which they acknowledged. However, as far as I can tell they never have released an update fixing any of the many bugs. I ended up deleting the software out of frustration -- it had too much of a negative impact on my system.
Still, the concept is undeniably intriguing. A global aquarium, with fish swimming freely from one computer to another... Personally, I'd like to see the fish migrate in terms of proximity, i.e. from my computer to the next nearest one currently available geographically (random direction). From there, they could dynamically 'swim' from one computer to another until over time ending up on the other side of the world, perhaps. This seems somehow more rewarding than the current essentially random ability to leap from Florida to, say, Hong Kong in an instant. However, the DaliWorld folks don't seem to be making much of an effort to update their software.
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