Hypergrid Business

InWorldz farewell party, July 27, 2018. (Image courtesy Brooklynn Peretz‎ via Facebook.) Beth Reischl, founder and owner of the now-defunct InWorldz grid, is starting a new grid, called Islandz, she told New World Notes yesterday. The new URL has been purchased,  islandzvw.com, though there is nothing up on the site just yet. Some filtered content […]

In the comments section on one of the several InWorldz-related articles these past few days, I saw some people talking about whether OpenSim is safe for content. The idea being that InWorldz was somehow safer because it’s not OpenSim. First, InWorldz IS OpenSim. It’s just another fork off the OpenSim code base, like many other

If the form below doesn’t load, click here for the direct link. I’ll be posting the graph of responses and the comments right here on this page, as they come in. (Scroll down to see them.) Loading… Live poll results I know the graph above looks a little wonky — that’s the auto-update version that

OpenSim grids are welcoming former InWorldz residents with open arms, offering technical support to get their OARs uploaded, discounts on region rentals, and even free homes and stores. Scroll down for details about special offers. Where to go For people looking for a closed, commercial grid — no hypergrid travel in and out — the

The lights went out at midnight. InWorldz, one of the oldest and most successful OpenSim grids, shut down last night. And it ended in a way fitting for a social grid — with a party. “Tonight we were lucky enough to have the ability to log in and have a last hurrah at InWorldz,”  wrote

After yesterday’s announcement that InWorldz would be shutting down, grid owner Beth Reischl set up a GoFundMe page to save the grid  — and the community has stepped up in a big way. As of this writing, more than 100 residents have already contributed more than $13,000 of the $17,000 needed to keep the grid

A Mardi Gras celebration on InWorldz. InWorldz, one of the oldest and most successful commercial grids, is shutting down this week, owner Beth Reisch announced today, citing financial difficulties. According to Reischl, travel-related communication problems, bureaucratic mistakes and other issues resulted in the shutdown of the grid’s PayPal accounts and the calling in of the

Kitely’s new Welcome Center. (Image courtesy Kitely.) Kitely will soon offer the option of hosting Virtual Private Grids on top of the Kitely grid, the company announced this week. According to the company, this new offering will enable groups and organizations to benefit from Kitely’s stability, performance and ease of use while gaining a new

US $8 for a 20,000-prim region on the hypergrid-enabled Avalon Grid. Variable-sized regions also available. Two-by-two varregion with 40,000 prims: $18 Three-by-three varregion with 60,000 prims: $30 Four-by-four varregion with 100,000 prims: $48 Add-on prims also available. More info here. Source: Hypergrid Business

YrGrid’s Welcome Center region is a recreation of the gambling district in Macau. The gambling-focused, Bitcoin-friendly YrGrid has been down and out lately — and it’s looking like that might be permanent. We did see it online last month, so it’s still on our active grids list, but readers have been emailing us complaining that

Goodbye, my virtual office. I barely ever used you. You might have noticed that the volume of coverage in Hypergrid Business has fallen over the past few months. Well, it’s about to get worse. First, I’m cutting the monthly stats report. It’s a lot of work each month, manual work that I haven’t been able

US $10 per month for a 22,500-prim region on the hypergrid-enabled Social Mouse grid. Other region sizes also available. The grid uses the Gloebit virtual currency. It promotes itself as a home for breedables. Full land rental page here. Other region sizes: $15 per month for a 65,000-prim standard-sized region $40 for a standard-sized region

(Image courtesy TheDigitalArtist via PixaBay.) Earlier today, I posted an article about what we here at Hypergrid Business are doing to comply with GDPR. Fines are up to 20 million Euros or 4 percent of total annual global revenues — whichever is higher, and  GDPR applies to every company that has European users or customers

(Image courtesy TheDigitalArtist via PixaBay.) You might have noticed a flood of emails lately and website popups asking you to consent to new privacy policies. That’s because a major new European privacy regulation, GDPR, goes into effect today. Fines are up to 20 million Euros or 4 percent of total annual global revenues — whichever