Tag Archives: OSGrid

Fri, Jul 22 2011
OSGrid celebrates four years of OpenSim

OSGrid celebrates four years of OpenSim

OSGrid, the largest grid running on the OpenSim software, is celebrating its fourth birthday this weekend with parties, games, tours, and training classes. OSGrid 4th birthday celebration party. (Image... 

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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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Sat, Jul 9 2011
Free campus released

Free campus released

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Educators and companies looking for free, Creative Commons-licensed starting regions for their corporate or school campuses should take a look at Universal Campus. These four regions were originally created... 

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Sat, Jul 2 2011
New OpenSim market launches with three grids

New OpenSim market launches with three grids

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HGExchange, a new online marketplace for OpenSim goods launched today, with live delivery to OSGrid, MyOpenGrid, and Haven. It is not the first online marketplace to deliver items to multiple OpenSim... 

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Sun, Jun 19 2011
Curiosity, pioneer spirit drive hypergridders

Curiosity, pioneer spirit drive hypergridders

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Simple curiosity and the pioneering spirit are driving the growth in hypergridding, despite technical challenges. According to data from The Hypergates, the total number of travelers using their teleport... 

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Sun, Jun 5 2011
Educator calls for college enclave on OSGrid

Educator calls for college enclave on OSGrid

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I am looking for volunteers for an OSGrid Academic Consortium — somewhere between four to eight schools who want to have free regions in an education-oriented community located near to one another... 

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Sun, Jun 5 2011
Hypergrid inventor calls for mass grid migration

Hypergrid inventor calls for mass grid migration

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Hypergrid inventor Crista Lopes, professor of informatics at the University of California, Irvine called today on big public grids to begin a mass migration to lower regions. The reason is that Second... 

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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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Sun, May 8 2011
The business case for OpenSim

The business case for OpenSim

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A reader asked me today about the OpenSim business case — are there enough users on any of the grids to make it worthwhile for a business to set up a presence there instead of in Second Life? The... 

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Sat, May 7 2011
Major OpenSim upgrade adds security, meshes

Major OpenSim upgrade adds security, meshes

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OpenSim’s new 0.7.1 release supports meshes, media-on-a-prim, and adds additional security features for grid owners and content creators. The upgrade also promises increased stability and less lag.... 

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Sun, Apr 17 2011
OpenSim 102: Running your own sims

OpenSim 102: Running your own sims

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There are plenty of reasons to run OpenSim on your own computers. If you’re a content creator, you can have as many regions as you want, for free, and load them up when you need to work on them.... 

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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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Tue, Nov 2 2010
Bargain region hosting: What you get for $9.90

Bargain region hosting: What you get for $9.90

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OpenSim hosting company New Voice offers full OpenSim regions for just $9.90 per month. So what do you actually get for this amount of money? A region in Second Life, after all, costs $300 —... 

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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, Aug 31 2010
Does your grid need its own currency?

Does your grid need its own currency?

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Update: I still recommend the OMC currency, which has grown substantially since this article was first written and now used on 30 OpenSim grids. The two other currencies I mentioned — V$ and G$ —... 

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Wed, Aug 25 2010
OpenSim prices drop to $10 per region

OpenSim prices drop to $10 per region

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Correction: Coral Estate regions start at $20, not $10. OpenSim hosting prices have fallen to a record-low, with providers like New Voice offering regions for just $10 per month — though the performance... 

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Wed, Apr 28 2010
Server crash, backup failure destroys Aesthetica build

Server crash, backup failure destroys Aesthetica build

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The owner of the Aesthetica sim — a rich and detailed artistic build created over the course of several months — learned on Monday that his region was gone for good. And five months of scheduled... 

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Thu, Apr 22 2010
Non-profits experiment with grid payments

Non-profits experiment with grid payments

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Virtual worlds run by non-profit organizations focus on providing a low-cost platform for other non-profits and individuals. To many in the non-profit sector, in-world economies belong on for-profit grids... 

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Sun, Mar 14 2010
OpenSim grids grow 10% this month

OpenSim grids grow 10% this month

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The world’s top 40 OpenSim-based grids gained over 900 regions over the past month, from 8,626 to 9,533, an increase of more than 10 percent. As usual, OSGrid was the single biggest gainer, with... 

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Mon, Mar 1 2010
Cyberlandia switches to distributed model

Cyberlandia switches to distributed model

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In a move which may be followed by other current and future private world operators, the Italian Cyberlandia grid has switched from a centralized to a distributed architecture model. The result? Lower... 

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Sun, Feb 28 2010
The Maria Awards

The Maria Awards

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Can’t wait for Oscar night? I know I can’t. So here at Hypergrid Business we’re doling out our own awards. First, a little video introduction. This is a little sailboat trip that OpenSim’s... 

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Mon, Jan 25 2010
OpenSim continues to gain in January

OpenSim continues to gain in January

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The top 40 OpenSim grids gained approximately 500 regions this month, maintaining the growth rate set in the last quarter of 2009. OSGrid gained almost 600 regions, for a growth rate of 17%. But OSGrid... 

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Thu, Jan 14 2010
How to hypergrid

How to hypergrid

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[Update: You can browse all hypergrid-enabled public OpenSim grids with Hyperica, the directory of hypergrid destinations. Directory indexes more than 100 shopping and freebie store locations. Updated... 

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Thu, Jan 14 2010
January Hypergrid List

January Hypergrid List

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[Update: You can browse all hypergrid-enabled public OpenSim grids with Hyperica, the directory of hypergrid destinations. Directory indexes more than 100 shopping and freebie store locations.... 

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Mon, Dec 21 2009
Why freebies are good for virtual designers

Why freebies are good for virtual designers

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As OpenSim-based social grids continue to grow, Second Life content designers are understandably worried about the free content floating around these grids — content which may have been ripped off... 

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Wed, Nov 18 2009
Free land in OpenSim

Free land in OpenSim

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Getting free OpenSim land is a great way to test out the OpenSim platform, or to have a home base for exploring the social aspects of OpenSim-based virtual worlds. Free land can also be used as a location... 

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Mon, Sep 14 2009
DeepThink launches OpenSim hosting firm

DeepThink launches OpenSim hosting firm

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Australia’s DeepThink Pty Ltd. has launched an OpenSim hosting company, founder Adam Frisby announced today. Adam Frisby is DeepThink’s co-director and the company’s head of research and... 

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Mon, Sep 7 2009
OpenSim grids continue to grow

OpenSim grids continue to grow

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SecondLife currently has around 23,000 user-owned regions, with another 5,000 regions owned by Linden Lab. However, OpenSim-based grids seem to be catching up in total land area, with over 5,600 regions... 

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Fri, Aug 21 2009
Private grids, public grids, and intragrids

Private grids, public grids, and intragrids

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I occasionally get announcements or news from new grids running on the OpenSim platform, but they require the creation of a new avatar to visit. I don’t personally have anything against these kinds... 

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Wed, Jul 29 2009
Virtualization 101

Virtualization 101

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Here is what you will need to know if you decide to have a virtual world. First, you need to decide where your virtual world will be. Do you want a private world accessible only by you? Or a public one,... 

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Tue, Jul 28 2009
OSGrid: now, more social, user-friendly

OSGrid: now, more social, user-friendly

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In conjunction with its two year anniversary, the folks behind OSGrid — the largest grid running the OpenSim open source virtual world platform — have added new functionality to the grid, including... 

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Mon, Jul 27 2009
Copyright in virtual worlds

Copyright in virtual worlds

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As the virtual worlds grow and develop — and evolve into the next 3D Web — the issue of copyright is being debated again. In some ways, virtual worlds copyrights may require changes in the... 

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Thu, Jul 23 2009
OSGrid marks second birthday

OSGrid marks second birthday

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OSGrid — the biggest and oldest virtual world running on the OpenSim platform — celebrated its second birthday July 22. The celebration included several days of events, including a presentation on... 

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Mon, Jun 29 2009
Joomla for the Metaverse

Joomla for the Metaverse

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If Opensim is the Apache of the Metaverse, then what will be the Joomla of the Metaverse?  This isn’t a idle or rhetorical question, it’s something which has to be answered if Metaverse solutions... 

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Sun, Jun 28 2009
First day in OpenSim can be painful

First day in OpenSim can be painful

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When you first open up an OpenSim browser – Hippo, for example — it seems pretty straightforward. Logging in is a snap, just type your name and password. But once you log in, it’s a different... 

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Sat, Jun 13 2009
Get yourself up on the hypergrid

Get yourself up on the hypergrid

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[Update: You can browse all hypergrid-enabled public OpenSim grids with Hyperica, the directory of hypergrid destinations. Directory indexes more than 100 shopping and freebie store locations. Updated... 

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Thu, Jun 11 2009
What is the best grid?

What is the best grid?

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[Update: You can browse all hypergrid-enabled public OpenSim grids with Hyperica, the directory of hypergrid destinations. Directory indexes more than 100 shopping and freebie store locations. Updated... 

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Tue, Jun 9 2009
Hacker destroys OpenSim regions

Hacker destroys OpenSim regions

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An unknown hacker took down more than a hundred OpenSim regions this weekend, as well as over a hundred thousand websites. This is bad news for some OpenSim hosting companies who relied on low-cost virtual... 

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Wed, Jun 3 2009
What is the difference between Second Life and OpenSim?

What is the difference between Second Life and OpenSim?

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When I show people around OpenSim, the first question they ask is: “So this is like Second Life? Only worse?” Which is a valid question. Any particular OpenSim world — like, say, OSGrid,... 

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Mon, Jun 1 2009
Is SecondLife an alternative for OpenSim users?

Is SecondLife an alternative for OpenSim users?

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These last couple of weeks have been problematic for many of us using OpenSim. The OSGrid, in particular, has had more than its share of downtime as a result of ongoing software upgrades, and links between... 

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Thu, May 28 2009
Hypergrid Entrepreneurs Group holds first meeting on OSGrid

Hypergrid Entrepreneurs Group holds first meeting on OSGrid

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More than a dozen entrepreneurs got together Thursday night — or Friday morning, depending on their time zone — in OSGrid’s Business Center to discuss entrepreneurship on the emerging... 

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Tue, May 26 2009
Will you miss the next Internet boom?

Will you miss the next Internet boom?

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I missed the first Internet investment boom. I was covering wars in Central Asia, but that’s no excuse. I could have invented Yahoo! — it started with a guy in his dorm room with a list of... 

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Mon, May 25 2009
Which virtual platform is best for business

Which virtual platform is best for business

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So you have decided that your company needs a virtual world platform. (Maybe you read our earlier article, “Do you need a virtual world?“) Here is how to select the rigtht platform. Do you... 

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Sat, May 23 2009
OpenSim Glossary

OpenSim Glossary

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Grid A horizontal map composed of one or more regions, similar to the way that a chessboard is made up of individual squares. A grid is normally identified by a URL and a port number, for example, the... 

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Fri, May 22 2009
Real names and real faces for virtual worlds

Real names and real faces for virtual worlds

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When business users first log into a virtual world like Second Life or OpenSim they usually have two questions: can they use their real names for their avatars? And can their avatars look like them? The... 

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Fri, May 22 2009
Singapore fund manager to hold virtual annual meeting

Singapore fund manager to hold virtual annual meeting

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The company is in Singapore. The owners are in Thailand, Moscow, and Shanghai. What’s the most convenient location for the annual corporate meeting? Hint: it’s got dragons, a spaceport, and... 

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Wed, May 20 2009
Individual grids, merchants determine OpenSim payments

Individual grids, merchants determine OpenSim payments

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Unlike Second Life, the open source virtual world platform OpenSim does not have a built-in currency system. To users, this is a significant lack of functionality – but developers see it as a feature. The... 

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Fri, May 15 2009
Hollywood producer wrestles with OpenSim

Hollywood producer wrestles with OpenSim

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Mike Joyce – that’s Michael R. Joyce on imdb.com – is a Hollywood producer. You may have heard of him from such projects as “Battlestar Galactica” and “Jewel of the Nile.” “The kind... 

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