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		<title>Where to build in OpenSim</title>
		<link>http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2012/02/where-to-build-in-opensim/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:49:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria Korolov</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you like building &#8212; or need to build for your work or school &#8212; and you find Second Life [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How educators can benefit from Kitely</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lawrence Pierce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kitely &#8211; an OpenSim-based grid that runs its regions in the Amazon cloud &#8212; has a unique system that gives educators [...]]]></description>
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		<title>International collaboration &#8212; in 3D</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 03:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karl Kapp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a little vignette describing how 3D collaborative environments can impact large organizations. Just as technology has advanced in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prof: Schools moving to OpenSim should pay for hosting</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:42:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Rogate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In November, I led a well-attended three-hour workshop, Second Life is Dead – Prepare for an OpenSim Future at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Second Life is Not a Game</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 02:45:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cosette Paneque</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my teeny tiny pet peeves is when people harp about Second Life being a game. This is often [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crash of the House of Usher doesn&#8217;t keep students down</title>
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		<comments>http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2011/12/crash-of-the-house-of-usher-doesnt-keep-students-down/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 19:33:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Essid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Editor: Joe Essid teaches a class about Edgar Allen Poe's "Fall of the House of Usher" for the department of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OpenSim needs a viewer of its own</title>
		<link>http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2011/10/opensim-needs-a-viewer-of-its-wwn/</link>
		<comments>http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2011/10/opensim-needs-a-viewer-of-its-wwn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 23:53:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lawrence Pierce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even as OpenSim implementation continues to grow, a constant remains: there is no viewer tailored specifically for OpenSim as it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How real is real enough?</title>
		<link>http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2011/09/how-real-is-real-enough/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 04:54:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clyde Warden</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Open Wonderland]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[How real does a virtual environment need to be for users to feel presence? This is a question educators have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Virtual Events: The New Marketing Frontier</title>
		<link>http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2011/09/virtual-events-the-new-marketing-frontier/</link>
		<comments>http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2011/09/virtual-events-the-new-marketing-frontier/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 21:09:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Vidal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The economic downturn has put a damper on tradeshow activities worldwide. Travel budgets have been tightened across the board. Attendees [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>How SWIFT reduced virtual world training to 30 minutes</title>
		<link>http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2011/09/how-swift-reduced-virtual-world-training-to-30-minutes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2011/09/how-swift-reduced-virtual-world-training-to-30-minutes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 17:24:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Rudman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interesting quesion arose from my ALT-C talk last week. It was basically “How can you use Second Life for [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>It&#8217;s time to move all grids south</title>
		<link>http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2011/09/its-time-to-move-all-grids-south/</link>
		<comments>http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2011/09/its-time-to-move-all-grids-south/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 17:42:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Rogate</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[hypergate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hypergrid]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hypergrid is probably one of the greatest and unifying features for OpenSim, and virtual worlds in general. Basically, virtual worlds [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>18</slash:comments>
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		<title>Medical simulations can benefit healthcare, pharma industries</title>
		<link>http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2011/09/3d-serious-games-and-simulations/</link>
		<comments>http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2011/09/3d-serious-games-and-simulations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 03:50:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Hughes</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[virtual training]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Healthcare and the pharmaceutical industries can benefit from using training simulations and serious games in everything from sales and customer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Avaya trains sales reps virtually</title>
		<link>http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2011/09/avaya-trains-sales-reps-virtually/</link>
		<comments>http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2011/09/avaya-trains-sales-reps-virtually/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 14:46:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anders Gronstedt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The flight simulator celebrated its 100s anniversary a couple of years ago. A training rig was developed in 1909 to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OpenSim needs an installer bundle</title>
		<link>http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2011/08/opensim-needs-a-installer-bundle/</link>
		<comments>http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2011/08/opensim-needs-a-installer-bundle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 20:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Garrow</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[OpenSim]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I attended UMass in the early eighties when access to DARPAnet first became available to students. In the beginning, all [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>11 tips for successful virtual training</title>
		<link>http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2011/08/11-tips-for-successful-virtual-training/</link>
		<comments>http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2011/08/11-tips-for-successful-virtual-training/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 01:46:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Heyden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last three years I’ve planned, designed, and orchestrated a dozen learning events in the virtual world of Second [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Five steps to OpenSim at your school</title>
		<link>http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2011/08/five-steps-to-opensim-at-your-school/</link>
		<comments>http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2011/08/five-steps-to-opensim-at-your-school/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 23:32:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Rogate</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[immersive education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been using OpenSim since October, 2008. The software is still in an alpha stage of development, but it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Putting SpotON3D&#8217;s patent into perspective</title>
		<link>http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2011/08/putting-spoton3ds-patent-into-perspective/</link>
		<comments>http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2011/08/putting-spoton3ds-patent-into-perspective/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 04:09:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lawrence Pierce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent furor over patents by SpotON3D is understandable. However, we may be overemphasizing that issue while staying naïve about [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>33</slash:comments>
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		<title>Iggy&#8217;s rules for moderating virtual world meetings</title>
		<link>http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2011/08/iggys-rules-for-moderating-virtual-world-meetings/</link>
		<comments>http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2011/08/iggys-rules-for-moderating-virtual-world-meetings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 18:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Essid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The good folks at the Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable are training new people to host our meetings, and they&#8217;ve asked us veterans [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Katalab&#8217;s OurBricks shows 3D with no plugin</title>
		<link>http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2011/08/katalabs-ourbricks-shows-3d-with-no-plugin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2011/08/katalabs-ourbricks-shows-3d-with-no-plugin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 05:36:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Damon Hernandez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For years I have been wanting to see 3D on the web become ubiquitous and with Katalabs&#8216; OurBricks, I am [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>SpotOn3d releases browser plugin for OpenSim</title>
		<link>http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2011/07/spoton3d-releases-browser-plugin-for-opensim/</link>
		<comments>http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2011/07/spoton3d-releases-browser-plugin-for-opensim/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 22:12:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Canham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There have been several attempts over the past year to create a viewer for Second Life and OpenSim based virtual [...]]]></description>
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