Club One’s two virtual weight-loss programs last year were a clear success — participants lost as much or more weight [...] … Read entire article »

We all remember the Microsoft-Netscape battle. Okay, maybe some people don’t, so here’s the summary: Netscape was a company that [...] … Read entire article »

Hypergrid inventor Crista Lopes, professor of informatics at the University of California, Irvine called today on big public grids to [...] … Read entire article »

What’s the fun of teleporting to other grids and meeting new friends, if you can’t keep in touch with them [...] … Read entire article »

People who remember the last dot-com boom, and are thinking of launching a virtual worlds business so that they can [...] … Read entire article »

You cannot compare Second Life and OpenSim. One is a social world. The other is an open source piece of [...] … Read entire article »

Developers of the Aurora Sim version of OpenSim are building a hypergrid bridge to mainline OpenSim, said Enrico Ranucci, head [...] … Read entire article »

There might be a role for new kinds of exchanges in our virtual future, just as the Internet spurred the [...] … Read entire article »

Second Life “financial institutions” such as virtual banks and stock exchanges have historically been magnets for fraud and mismanagement. But [...] … Read entire article »

With OpenSim hosting prices dropping fast and features and stability improving, it surprises to me that people still ask why [...] … Read entire article »