The closed, commercial social grid AvWorlds has abandoned its high price strategy — at least for now. When the grid [...] … Read entire article »

Germany’s TalentRaspel virtual worlds Ltd. has licensed the RCI grid management technology from PioneerX Estates. (Get the details here.) This [...] … Read entire article »

Customers looking for a high-end grid management service for their OpenSim worlds similar to that offered by PioneerX Estates now [...] … Read entire article »

Netflix now accounts for the largest share of Internet traffic. According to a new report from Sandvine, Netflix movies and [...] … Read entire article »

I’ve been reading lately about how great mesh will be for Second Life. But I’m wondering whether it won’t actually [...] … Read entire article »

The top 40 OpenSim grids gained a total of 1,199 new regions over the past month, for a new record [...] … Read entire article »

Educators looking for OpenSim alternatives to Second Life are currently limited to ReactionGrid or Jokaydia Grid, which is operated by [...] … Read entire article »

A reader asked me today about the OpenSim business case — are there enough users on any of the grids [...] … Read entire article »

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 [...] … Read entire article »

Blue Mars has an iPhone client that allows users to change their clothes. There’s an app for Second Life and [...] … Read entire article »