[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arblVyxn0qQ[/youtube]   Links: Interview with Justin Clark-Casey Hypergrid Business - The Hypergrid is a social web Chuck Prophet on Archive.org Douglas Coupland and William Gibson on the KWLS William Gibson in Second Life (Part 1 | Part 2) Jeremy Bailenson on Infinite Reality: Avatars, Eternal Life and New Worlds Aloha

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJNWidQrgf8[/youtube] Links: Open Simulator Overte Foundation Justin Clark-Casey's Master's Dissertation on Internet-Scale Virtual Environment Architectures Hypergrid Unity 3D Second Life Experimental teleport between Second Life and OpenSim Diva Distro Kitely OpenSim Creations Topics: 1:30 How do you become an OpenSim core developer? 8:00 Can OpenSim become the "3D web"? 14:00 Does OpenSim need asset security? 24:00 Does OpenSim need feature parity with Second Life? 31:30 How do you decide which features are in OpenSim core? 37:30 The state ...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/embed/m39ca4qEPEs[/youtube] Kinda in response to the latest episode of Metareality Podcast, but actually more of a general comment on the show. Get your free Cactuar here.

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Class held on the Virtual Worlds – Best Practices in Education conference on 20th of March 2011. VWBPE building class Links from the class: LibOpenMetaverse: http://lib.openmetaverse.org/wiki/Download Backing up with LibOMV: http://rock-vacirca.blogspot.com/2011/03/moving-objects-between-opensims.html Imprudence Viewer: http://blog.kokuaviewer.org/ Previous versions of Imprudence: http://wiki.kokuaviewer.org/wiki/Imprudence:Downloads OSAvatars: http://osavatars.com/ Rexxed: http://www.rexxed.com/ Jon Brouchoud's website: http://jonbrouchoud.com/ TGIB: http://tgib.co.uk/ TAOS (TGIB forum): http://taos.name/ Hypergrid Adventurers Club: http://becunningandfulloftricks.com/hypergrid-adventurers-club/

Source: Portal Can be used with hypergrid scripts. Please see the tutorial on how to import this creation. Want to show what you did with TGIB creations? Add your snapshots to the TGIB flickr pool with the tag TGIB portal [slickr-flickr id="1578921@N24" tag="TGIB portal" group="y"]

As already announced in the talk on TGIB's first year anniversary on January 16th, we launched several new services, and will (hopefully) include several more in the near future. I tried to lay down the reasons for this on Sunday, but in retrospect, I don't think I did a very good job at it. I'm no crowd magnet, and I'm ...

IRC is short for Internet Relay Chat. Basically, it is a chat service that runs on the internet, which brings us to something completely different... THE INTERNET (Dramatic Orchestra Theme, like this ((Come Back To You by Silece Is Sexy, licensed under Creative Commons)) ) The Internet is vast and infinite, and we are mere grains of dust in its endless wastes... ... Sorry, I ...

Wherein the Club walks The Path and reaches The Inn, converses between worlds and celebrates 1 year of TGIB. In Pathfinder's absence, I happily was allowed to host the meetings of the HGAC. Sadly, our travels thus far have been restricted to HG 1.0 regions, and destinations there are getting very scarce, as more and more grids upgrade to (at least) ...

You might have noticed TGIB was unavailable for a few hours this weekend, and quite wonky for many more hours afterwards. The reason for this is that we moved the site to a dedicated server, which I rented at the beginning of the year. There are several reasons for this: First, it's plain cheaper. I had rented a region for over ...