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.

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Open Grid public beta originally appeared on Massively on Tue, 08 Jul 2008 03:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

It's only the first draft, but Linden Lab (specifically Mark Lentczner aka Zero Linden) has published the awkwardly named Second Life Grid Open Grid Protocol (SLGOGP) on the Second Life wiki.

While very preliminary and far from complete, the SLGOGP is essentially the beginnings of the technical underpinning that will ultimately allow the cohesive operation of both Linden-operated and non-Linden-operated Second-Life style simulators and grids.

If you're not deeply excited by protocol documents, this is probably not going to be your cup of tea. Otherwise, if raw technical protocols get you hot, this is a great starting point for technical discussion.

Linden Lab publishes draft Open Grid Protocol originally appeared on Massively on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.