I have been on an active search for some sort of Instant Messenger that we can connect these grids together, no.. not just email type messages, but a real live messenger that has functions to connect to other grids without logging out of one to connect to another. Perhaps there is something out there, I just have not found it yet. Even if we had some sort of scripted land gizmo or hud that we can send messages back and forth between SL and other opensim grids.

At this stage of the opensim structure, I think its pretty stable to start getting others to sell OS grid or hypergrid user their goods. If linden labs hadn't purchased or forced the other online stores out of existance, I believe that we would have items available from the old xstreetsl to other grids.