Hypergrid Entrepreneur Group: next meeting is Thursday night
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Maria Korolov (Trombly)
Jun 2, 2009, 6:43:20 PM6/2/09
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Hi everyone -- I'm sorry to be missing this month's meeting of the SEG, but I might be in Shanghai for the July one.
Meanwhile, every Thursday, there's an online meeting of the Hypergrid Entrepreneur Group.
Hypergrid, if you haven't heard of this yet, is the next generation of the Internet.
Just went live this spring -- this is BRAND NEW technology folks.
Remember the days before the Internet, when all we had was AOL, Compuserve, and a bunch of bulletin boards? When it's comes to the 3D internet, that's what we have now -- Second Life, and a bunch of other disconnected worlds.
The hypergrid is the new World Wide Web. Instead of HTML, we have a new generation of 3d worlds, running open source software like OpenSim and realXtend.
OpenSim seems to be the big one, with the most companies behind it (Intel, IBM, Microsoft, IBM), and the most live projects, and the best interoperability.
All this stuff has been in development for the last couple of years, but only became usable now. Today, you can have a virtual world just for your company to hold meetings, training sessions, conferences, client demos (if you build houses, for example, or manufacture things) and to run simulations.
The proof of concept stage is past, and we're now entering the roll-out and investment stage. There are a few virtual worlds already up and running using this technology. ReactionGrid is a nice one, focusing on education and business use. The OSGrid is the biggest, focusing on testing and development of the OpenSim software. And there are small ones -- like the 32 acres running on my home computer.
It will take a few years before everyone gets an avatar (remember how long it took everyone to get an email address?) and learn to use the technology. Meanwhile, there are opportunities for people to become the next Google, the next Amazon, the next PayPal, the next YouTube -- or invent brand new stuff that nobody has thought of yet.
How do I know its the next big thing? Because hundreds of colleges are already in Second Life (and in the process of moving to OpenSim, if Second Life doesn't get its act together). Because all the big tech players are in this, especially IBM, which has successfully made the move from typewriters to mainframes, to PCs, to services. Probably the only company that did. And because every kid is in a virtual world.
So, anyway, my plan is to create a business using this new platform. After all, my old business model -- emerging markets journalism -- seems to be completely dead. I'm thinking - the next Yahoo. If you want to be the next Yahoo, too, come talk to me. Or else its war! Bwa ha ha. We can have a big battle of the portals. It will be fun. :-)
Anyway, the HEG meets weekly. This week's meeting is Thursday night, at 8 pm Shanghai time: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=87030777540
Here's how to get there: http://www.osgbwc.org/?page_id=5
Also, I have regular office hours from 10 a.m. to noon every weekday morning my time (Boston) or 10 pm to midnight Shanghai time. Stop by and I'll show you around, and take you to free places to get business suits.
Email me if you want a longer tour.
The great thing about OpenSim is that it's a virtual world in a box, all ready to go. Free. Open source and modular -- you can customize it to any degree. Like I said, I run mine on a home computer. If you want someone else to host it for you, prices start at $25 a region (16 acres) a month. And costs are dropping almost daily, same as with web hosting (in fact, it's very similar to running an Apache web server). You can run it on Linux or on Windows.
And you can host it close to where you are, to improve speed -- for example, you can have a Chinese virtual world hosted inside China. The browser is open source, so you can translate it into Chinese. Or you can use the existing Second Life browser -- today, all OpenSim worlds can be accessed by the Second Life, Hippo, and realXtend browsers, all of which require a download. There is no Web-based browser yet for OpenSim, but with Google's release of 03D last month, one is probably on its way.
I've been writing quite about this lately, both on my blog and for every technology magazine I know of. It will take a few months before all the stories hit print, though, and the mainstream starts to realize what's going on.
- Maria
Maria Korolov
Editor & publisher, Hypergrid Business (hypergridbusiness.com)
Trombly Ltd.
Work: 413-323-4356 | Cell: 413-559-9055 | ma...@tromblyltd.com
Sent from Ludlow, MA, United States
Meanwhile, every Thursday, there's an online meeting of the Hypergrid Entrepreneur Group.
Hypergrid, if you haven't heard of this yet, is the next generation of the Internet.
Just went live this spring -- this is BRAND NEW technology folks.
Remember the days before the Internet, when all we had was AOL, Compuserve, and a bunch of bulletin boards? When it's comes to the 3D internet, that's what we have now -- Second Life, and a bunch of other disconnected worlds.
The hypergrid is the new World Wide Web. Instead of HTML, we have a new generation of 3d worlds, running open source software like OpenSim and realXtend.
OpenSim seems to be the big one, with the most companies behind it (Intel, IBM, Microsoft, IBM), and the most live projects, and the best interoperability.
All this stuff has been in development for the last couple of years, but only became usable now. Today, you can have a virtual world just for your company to hold meetings, training sessions, conferences, client demos (if you build houses, for example, or manufacture things) and to run simulations.
The proof of concept stage is past, and we're now entering the roll-out and investment stage. There are a few virtual worlds already up and running using this technology. ReactionGrid is a nice one, focusing on education and business use. The OSGrid is the biggest, focusing on testing and development of the OpenSim software. And there are small ones -- like the 32 acres running on my home computer.
It will take a few years before everyone gets an avatar (remember how long it took everyone to get an email address?) and learn to use the technology. Meanwhile, there are opportunities for people to become the next Google, the next Amazon, the next PayPal, the next YouTube -- or invent brand new stuff that nobody has thought of yet.
How do I know its the next big thing? Because hundreds of colleges are already in Second Life (and in the process of moving to OpenSim, if Second Life doesn't get its act together). Because all the big tech players are in this, especially IBM, which has successfully made the move from typewriters to mainframes, to PCs, to services. Probably the only company that did. And because every kid is in a virtual world.
So, anyway, my plan is to create a business using this new platform. After all, my old business model -- emerging markets journalism -- seems to be completely dead. I'm thinking - the next Yahoo. If you want to be the next Yahoo, too, come talk to me. Or else its war! Bwa ha ha. We can have a big battle of the portals. It will be fun. :-)
Anyway, the HEG meets weekly. This week's meeting is Thursday night, at 8 pm Shanghai time: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=87030777540
Here's how to get there: http://www.osgbwc.org/?page_id=5
Also, I have regular office hours from 10 a.m. to noon every weekday morning my time (Boston) or 10 pm to midnight Shanghai time. Stop by and I'll show you around, and take you to free places to get business suits.
Email me if you want a longer tour.
The great thing about OpenSim is that it's a virtual world in a box, all ready to go. Free. Open source and modular -- you can customize it to any degree. Like I said, I run mine on a home computer. If you want someone else to host it for you, prices start at $25 a region (16 acres) a month. And costs are dropping almost daily, same as with web hosting (in fact, it's very similar to running an Apache web server). You can run it on Linux or on Windows.
And you can host it close to where you are, to improve speed -- for example, you can have a Chinese virtual world hosted inside China. The browser is open source, so you can translate it into Chinese. Or you can use the existing Second Life browser -- today, all OpenSim worlds can be accessed by the Second Life, Hippo, and realXtend browsers, all of which require a download. There is no Web-based browser yet for OpenSim, but with Google's release of 03D last month, one is probably on its way.
I've been writing quite about this lately, both on my blog and for every technology magazine I know of. It will take a few months before all the stories hit print, though, and the mainstream starts to realize what's going on.
- Maria
Maria Korolov
Editor & publisher, Hypergrid Business (hypergridbusiness.com)
Trombly Ltd.
Work: 413-323-4356 | Cell: 413-559-9055 | ma...@tromblyltd.com
Sent from Ludlow, MA, United States
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