Open Grid public beta
Overshadowing the Linden Prize announcement -- and frankly, that wasn't hard, as the Linden Prize got a whole two and a half minutes of airtime before Kapor and the Lab staff bolted for the fire-exits -- Linden Lab snuck in one last announcement at a minute after midnight.
The Lab have finally publicly acknowledged the historic intergrid teleportation that took place one month ago, though that isn't the interesting part (other than causing us to wonder why it took them a month to get around to it). No, the interesting part is the announcement of the Open Grid Public Beta.
That's public, as in developers (not run-of-the-mill users), and involves improving interoperability with opensim to allow logins to be transferred teleport style to and between third-party grids. No assets are transferred in the process, nor are they intended to be.
We wonder why they slipped this one out at one minute past midnight. That can't be coincidental timing.
