Tag Archives: InWorldz

Sat, Oct 8 2011
InWorldz users cash out over $15,000 a month

InWorldz users cash out over $15,000 a month

According to statistics released Friday by InWorldz co-founder Beth Reischl, in-world residents have been cashing out, on average, more than $15,000 a month over the past year. “Overall, I’m... 

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Sat, Aug 20 2011
InWorldz

InWorldz

InWorldz: $60 a month for 30,000-prim region, with $60 setup fee, located on the InWorldz grid’s mainland. In-grid currency. Private islands are $75 for a 45,000-prim region with $75 setup fee. AKPC_IDS... 

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Sat, Jul 30 2011
Kudos to SpotON3D for viewer plugin

Kudos to SpotON3D for viewer plugin

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A lot of folks sit around complaining about not having a decent Web-based viewer for OpenSim and Second Life. (Okay, maybe just me.) The existing stand-alone viewers require that users download and install... 

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Sat, Jul 30 2011
InWorldz, CariNet team up on new joint venture

InWorldz, CariNet team up on new joint venture

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Press Release: InWorldz, LLC and CariNet Inc. To Power Virtual World Technology and Hosting Through Joint Venture Venture to focus on quality of service, scalability, and core software to promote growth... 

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Thu, Jul 14 2011
Cariama vs. HGExchange

Cariama vs. HGExchange

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If you’re launching a new grid, your number one problem is lack of content. Whether your grid is a corporate office complex for your employees, a campus for your students, or a large social and roleplaying... 

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Mon, Jul 11 2011
Cariama offers no-fee, multi-grid marketplace

Cariama offers no-fee, multi-grid marketplace

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Paris-based Cariama, a multi-grid marketplace, wants merchants to know that they can sell their goods to six different OpenSim grids, plus Second Life — without paying any commission. Those six grids... 

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Sun, May 15 2011
OpenSim grids reach record high

OpenSim grids reach record high

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The top 40 OpenSim grids gained a total of 1,199 new regions over the past month, for a new record total of 15,765 regions. The biggest growth was on OSGrid, the non-profit grid which allows people to... 

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Thu, Mar 24 2011
InWorldz develops own scripting engine

InWorldz develops own scripting engine

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InWorldz has taken a further step way from mainline OpenSim Tuesday with the announcement of a proprietary scripting engine, called Phlox, which is expected to enter beta testing this week. The new scripting... 

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Tue, Feb 15 2011
OpenSim grids embrace copyright protection

OpenSim grids embrace copyright protection

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Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve been surveying the owners of all the public OpenSim grids about what their grids are all about. We asked about hypergrid, currencies, maturity levels —... 

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Tue, Feb 15 2011
Avination explodes; OSGrid sweeps clean

Avination explodes; OSGrid sweeps clean

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The number of regions of the 40 largest OpenSim grids went down this month for the first time since July, from 15,623 to 13,069, a loss of over 2,300 regions, a result of a long-overdue housekeeping on... 

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Thu, Jan 20 2011
OpenSim grids reach new peak

OpenSim grids reach new peak

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The top 40 OpenSim grids gained 529 regions since mid-December, to reach a new high of 15,623 regions on January 15 of this month. The monthly growth rate, 3.5 percent, was the second-lowest since we started... 

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Wed, Nov 17 2010
OMC, I’z transactions grow on OpenSim

OMC, I’z transactions grow on OpenSim

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The OpenSim economy continued to grow this month, with both the OMC currency and the I’z currency from InWorldz growing in users and transactions. The OMC, a convertible currency from Austrian virtual... 

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Wed, Nov 3 2010
Survey: 84% of OpenSim users would recommend platform

Survey: 84% of OpenSim users would recommend platform

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OpenSim users overwhelmingly said that they would “absolutely” recommend the platform to others. Out of 114 people who responded to our survey this week and answered this question, 84 percent... 

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Wed, Oct 13 2010
An OpenSim grid primer

An OpenSim grid primer

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There are a lot of different kinds of OpenSim grids out there — it can get a little confusing. Well, a lot confusing. Here’s a quick primer. Social grids Social grids attempt to replicate the... 

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Tue, Oct 5 2010
How to choose an OpenSim hosting company

How to choose an OpenSim hosting company

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Yes, you can run OpenSim for free on your own computer -  you can even run it on a USB stick. But do you want to? Here’s a question — would you run your own Apache Web server for your website,... 

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Thu, Sep 23 2010
There’s something about InWorldz

There’s something about InWorldz

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Last week, InWorldz became the second-largest grid running on the OpenSim platform, after shooting up the charts over the course of just the past three months. Between April and September 15, the grid... 

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Sat, May 15 2010
OpenSim adds group, teleport functions

OpenSim adds group, teleport functions

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Developers released a new version of OpenSim this week, with support for group management of land, the ability to offer teleports to other avatars, and other minor improvements and bug fixes. Many OpenSim... 

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