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Today, I reviewed the prices of all 55 grids that I know of that post their prices, and the average has fallen slightly to $19.22.

I occasionally get emails from people starting new OpenSim grids, and wondering how they’re going to pay for them. Here are the top five ways that OpenSim grids find success. 1. Commercial grids These are the best-known grids, typically because they put the most time and resources into sales and efficient ClickFunnels SEO marketing. And

  Podex terminal on the Virtual Highway grid. (Image courtesy Podex.) Genesis Metaverse, a commercial grid that emerged last fall from the collapse of Avi-Labs, has been having problems with its currency vendor, Podex, and took the dispute public today. For residents, this means that they will now buy and sell their currency directly from

(Image courtesy marketing expert Rose Freeland.) Today, I got another submission for a free ad that was basically just the grid’s name. And I regularly talk to grid owners who try to tell me that their grid is special because of its community, and to attract residents they offer low-cost land and free user accounts.

  (Image courtesy Hypergrid Safari.) The Google Plus community OpenSim Everything gained 131 new members since last September, bringing it to a total of 506 members. It was the single biggest gainer of the OpenSim-specific communities we follow. However, more people could be visiting the community without becoming official members. OpenSim Virtual remains the largest

  Torben Asp at a live performance. (Image courtesy Avination.) If you’re a fan of Torben Asp — and you probably are, as he’s  one of OpenSim’s favorite performers  — and you live or visit the US east coast, you might now be able to catch him performing live, in person. “The move to the

InWorldz announced that as of this month, it will no longer be publishing its region stats or active user numbers, two statistics which have been falling over the past few months. Total registered user numbers and the number of users currently logged in remain on the login screen, however. According to  grid founder Beth Reischl

(Image courtesy Riza Nugraha via Flickr.) It seems unfair, but there are some people out there who seem to have the trust of their customers, no matter how many times they let them down. And other, completely decent, honorable grids can’t seem to get any respect. Part of the problem is that many honest, reliable,

  (Image courtesy Avination.) Avination is one of the oldest commercial OpenSim grids and was, at one point, the largest. This week, both the grid and the company behind it has officially shut down after a long outage and a series of financial hits. The grid’s regions and user inventories are saved, but residents will

  The welcome region on the formerly-recently-relaunched AviWorlds grid. This time, AviWorlds shut down not with a loud scandal, but without even a whisper. Alexsandro Pomposelli Over the past few days, grid owner Alexsandro Pomposelli has opted not to renew his grid servers, let his domain name expire, and shut down his media accounts and