Hosting providers with previous experience in Second Life are bringing some Second Life terminology with them into OpenSim. For example, Coral Estates draws a distinction between “owning” a region and paying “tier” — and “renting” land.

Published: Friday, August 13, 2010, 7:00 AM I pay monthly fees for a varied mix of online subscriptions, for everything from online backups to web hosting to photo sharing, but there’s one type of subscription I don’t have, and I bet you don’t, either. I don’t subscribe to an online music service. Now, don’t get the wrong idea

Hosting News – HOUSTON – The Planet, the global hosting leader, today announced that Web Hosting Evangelist Kevin Hazard will be a featured speaker at this month’s Houston Interactive Marketing Association meeting. On a panel titled, “Getting Down to Business: A Look at the Increasingly Interactive B2B Landscape,” Hazard will join industry experts to discuss recent developments in business-to-business marketing via the web, email, social media and mobile platforms.

The government of Tuvalu has voiced its displeasure at the return it has received from handing over the operation of the .TV ccTLD to VeriSign. Tuvalu received about US$2 million a year from VeriSign for use of the ccTLD, however the country’s finance minister believes this is a poor return. “We are negotiating but we are tied because of the agreement that was signed before us

From CNN Radio: Damon and James discuss Obama’s paradoxical nature, saying he will kick A$$ but never actually taking with the BP President.

A group in Chile has found an innovative way to talk about technology to children affected by an earthquake earlier this year.

Step by step – that’s how Vancouver-based Gossamer Threads Inc.

Google Now Says Search Outage Due To Censorship Google’s temporary search engine outage Tuesday was originally thought to have been the result of an internal glitch, but Google now says it was due to censorship by the Chinese government. The outage affected users in China who attempted to visit Google.com.hk as well as Google.com. Google initially attributed the outage to its usage of the search parameter “gs_rfai,” the “rfa” portion of which is linked to Radio Free Asia, which has long been inaccessible in China

I know the blog has been a bit quiet this week, we have been heads down on strategic planning meetings all week long (I remember hating when people scheduled week long meetings before I owned a company, now look at me doing the same… Live and learn). Anyway, I must say thanks to Andrew Allemann at Domain Name Wire for the interview he did for DNW Radio.

UDRP Arbitrator Sandra Franklin offered her insights on UDRP arbitrations concerning trademarks, domain names, and cybersquatting issues in a Cybersquatting Law Radio interview. The interview, available to read or listen to, can be found on the Traverse Legal blog here .