8 Million Iz's and other stuff....with corrections...

The resident traders and entrepreneurs of Inworldz sold 8,000,000 Iz's (not sure how that should be said....it sounds like Iziz in my head but I guess it could be Eyezes... no matter) which is the local currency of the Inworldz grid, in the last three months.. ...and amount of currency bought... 2 million odd in July, 4 in August and 6 million odd in September, which points to a healthy and fast growing economy... well done peeps. Full details .. here.

[stop press.... Nishi develops Bloglexia.....sorry..

"Elenia said...
Quick correction Soror... 8.8mil I'z sold in one month, so a little over $17k USD went back to our residents who cashed out. While roughly a little over 12mil I'z were bought by residents which equals roughly $25k USD in the month of October, once again, doubling purchases of I'z from Sept to Oct. :) Just thought I'd make sure that was clear!"]

(In addition I did an experiment selling some Iz's and some L$ at the same time through Paypal.... Inworldz got cash to me in 20 hours, LL took 52 hours.)

Having been criticised for not being Hypergrid enabled, Elenia defends her position in the same blog. Chosing between security and "freedom" it's obvious that, having the responsibility for protecting IP rights, it is wise to err on the side of caution. Maria has written a fuller post on the pro's and con's ...here....

...and, talking of Hypergrids... a staunch supporter (and general Good Egg) namely Pathfinder Lester has joined Reaction Grid ... in his words...
"As of October 27 20101, I’ve joined the ReactionGrid team as Director of Community Development. My broad focus will be on improving the use of ReactionGrid’s tools and service across all user groups, and helping cultivate the communities using those tools and services. I’ll be representing ReactionGrid at conferences and public events, as well as working closely to support all of our clients. There are many educators using ReactionGrid, so I’ll be spending a big chunk of my time working with those folks to learn about their specific needs and help them succeed."

..now... I think this is great news. Pathfinder seems to be a soul inspired by the possibilities inherent in virtual worlds and their inter-linking. It's good news for VWs in general.... more here...

This connects with a Tweeted news item from yesterday about a Cross-Platform mesh format......what does that mean??.....well...the idea is that if the file is the right format then you could rezz a creation on different types of 3D platforms. This has been developed from the Collada files (which SL will also be using) by an international collaboration of universities, colleges, research institutes, consortia and companies who call themselves The Immersive Education Initiative... full details here.

In unrelated news....for those of you who are Imprudence fans, like me... more news on the future viewer...Kokua (not sure about that name, really...OK so it's hawiian...so what? Still sounds like cock-oo-errr in my head.)... details here.

...and lastly...extremely unrelated.... a bit of hardware news for geeks... from Ars. Its the new hard drive thingy used in the Mac Airbook to save space.... and altho I know nothing it seems like a new format drive which comes on instantly and is small... (did I hear you yawn?)....:)))

Ok....more coffee...

ooo... carrot cake...

:)))