I’ll be hosting the 3rd annual Townbuilding Seminar at the Townbuilding booth in AWExpo on Saturday, Dec. 13 at 4am VRT. (1am EST)

I understand that this is pretty late, but I figure that since it’s Friday night most people will be coming in from hanging out, and it’s a fairly decent hour for the rest of the non American world. :p

This year I’ll be highlighting a broad list of topics relevant to the developments Townbuilders have made over the last year.  The general guideline I’ll be following will cover…

– Environments
– The possibilities of new commands (lock, scale, say, etc.)
– Advancement and resurgence of themed public building worlds
– Efficient Advertising for new towns

Of course, I won’t strictly follow this and if anyone would care to interject I would love to make the seminar more of a discussion.

If anyone has a town or community they would like to advertise or otherwise have recognized, let me know by Friday Night.

Big day in AW, I’ll keep it short.
If you’ve ever owned a citizenship in the past, it has been renewed for a month. If you haven’t visited in a while, I suggest you drop into the Universe and say hello. This free month, plus the deadly holiday specials, could mean your citizenship can be active for a couple more years at a price similar to the old yearly pricing scheme.

You’d be insane not to take advantage of these wild holiday specials that AWI is offering: http://www.activeworlds.com/newsletter/1208/120808.html

Talisan is hosting a building contest in Winter world with some good prizes and unique rules. The contest will run from December 1st, 2008 to January 11th, 2009 so be sure to check it out between those dates.

The AlphaWorld Property Search (AWPS) has been updated by Ima Genius (Mr. G)! Along with the release, all the object counts have been re-tallied for each citizen, so here is a quick summary of some of the SW’ians & SW’ian friends on the 250 most prolific builders list:

• 002. SW Comit (3,278,487)
• 018. Syntax (1,325,553)
• 027. Cactus Jack (875,37
• 031. SW Chris (704,740)
• 061. Captain MAD Mike (444,777)
• 064. Ferruccio (406,217)
• 085. Blue Green Gem (305,41
• 087. vornox (299,712)
• 109. Bach Zhaa (261,624)
• 115. Legolas (242,539)
• 126. hicks8 (222,513)
• 143. m i k e (195,909)
• 172. AbsoLute Monarch (165,163)
• 193. Duskbat (143,632)
• 194. OniLink (142,704)
• 235. s e v e n s (113,271)

As usual, you can check out the Property Search website at http://tangent.imatowns.com/.

The next Tech Talk hosted by chrispeg will take place on December 5th, 2008 at 9:00PM VRT. The main topic will be Movers and, like last time, will take place in AW@4D world and will be conducted via VoIP.

This is a small update which conforms to recent OP changes in Alphaworld. You can download it here and read the release notes here

The 2008 CY Awards ceremony wrapped up it’s week long celebration with the awards show on Saturday night, handing out all the awards to the winning citizens. A transcript of the podium chatlog, put together by Karten, is available at AWPortals and shows the top 3 nominees and eventual winners. Congrats to all the winners, and thank you to the CY team for putting on a great party.

Just a couple quick news notes here.  Alphaworld has added more substance to its Halloween event with Flagg activating a day/night cycle which will cycle through day and night twice daily. He also managed to cram a Halloween-exclusive Object Yard into a lil’ 4×4 space right at Alphaworld GZ. If you don’t know what objects are available, just teleport there.  Another reminder; the 2008 CY Awards nominations have kicked off today if you haven’t already been ‘grammed about it and will remain open until October 26th which gives you 10 days. Go nominate stuff!