Hypergrid Business

One of the most important numbers in OpenSim is how many new people sign up for accounts each month. New people means new customers for merchants, new creators and performers who help improve quality of life on the grid, new people to interact with, and, of course, potential new land renters for the grids themselves. […]

US $8.95 a month for a 20,000-prim region on the hypergrid-enabled Virtuality Grid. Other region sizes also available: 2×2 VAR region with 60,000 prims:  $18.95 3×32 VAR region with 80,000 prims:  $28.95 4×4 VAR region with 100,000 prims:  $38.95 Full region purchase details here. Source: Hypergrid Business

This is a survey of OpenSim hosting companies — it is not a survey about OpenSim grids. (That survey was conducted in October.) If you run your own grid and use a hosting company for technical support or hosting, this survey is for you. But also if you rent regions from an independent vendor, instead

First, I’d like to apologize. I first noticed that Zetamex had posted its OpenSim hosting prices over the summer, and meant to do a story then, even contacting the company and some of its customers for quotes. But then a family medical emergency happened, and I’ve spent much of the last couple of months in

Each year, we ask our readers to rate their home grids. It’s a way to show off the best that OpenSim has to offer. Even though we only list the top 15 grids by traffic as default options, respondents can also write in the name of any other grid — in fact, each year there

More than 400  responses came in for  this year’s Seventh Annual OpenSim Grid Survey, and  Littlefield received the highest overall scores, followed by  AllCity, Virtual Brasil, and  DigiWorldz. DigiWorldz also had the largest number of readers who said it was their primary grid, followed by Kitely. This is the second year in a row that

(Image courtesy SineSpace.) SineSpace — formerly known as just Space — will hold a summer festival this coming weekend, August 19 and 20. The festival will include contests, live music, carnival games, a roller-coaster, movies, fireworks, and tours of the platform. SineSpace is a browser-based virtual world created by Adam Frisby, one of the co-founders

As you folks know, I’ve been struggling with collecting all the stats from all the grids every month, and, earlier this year, have almost fully automated the process, using an extremely jury-rigged Filemaker script. Today, I accidentally stumbled on the fact that Google Spread can be used to do the same thing, without the heavy