Archive for April, 2007
Word of Mouth Marketing a Winning Strategy for Post Sixx Contest
by Muffin K. Smith, Herald grrrl about town. Fox Cavern- Post Sixx grrls are learning that beauty is more than pixel deep, because last week’s Post Sixx grrrl pageant seemed to come down to personality and brains as the beauties who took the stage were “really too close to call” according to pageant judge Marilyn [...]
Full StoryToday in Second Life, Thursday April 12, 2007
By Prokofy Neva, Meaningless Numbers Cruncher and Irrelevant Facts Driller Today in Second Life: o if you add up all the numbers of today’s date, you get the number 7, which is the number of holes in the human heado Some Linden must be getting a pay-off as there are $26,000 in SINKS for April [...]
Full StoryOp/Ed: Herald Condemns Wei’s Stance on Prim Babies
Candidate Romana Wei: Put the Prim Babies to Work Several Days ago, the Herald reported the efforts of Mrs. President Chomsky in her crusade against blingtard moms who leave their prim babies at home while they go ho-ing in Second Life sex clubs. The Herald applauds Mrs. President in this endeavor, and we must also [...]
Full StoryQQ – The Skyrocketing Virtual Currency
by Onder Skall QQ finally made headlines in the Wall Street Journal. Largely ignored here in the west, the hottest virtual currency in China is the QQ. Created by Tencent Holdings Ltd, “QQ Coins” were originally invented as a means for trading virtual items in online worlds and through their popular instant messaging program. For [...]
Full StorySecond Life Perfect, No Help Needed
By Prokofy Neva, Kremlindenologist Linden Lab, makers of the 3-d streaming virtual world Second Life, announced that it was finished — and perfect–today, during office hours. Robin Linden, VP of Community and Support, confirmed at her office hours Tuesday that “Live Help” will be shut down. The 24/7 service will no longer be needed because [...]
Full StoryCopybot Infestation in Amella
Lindens suggest filing bot abuse reports one at a time – for hundreds of bots by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk When I swung by the Herald offices this evening, the red “hot tip” light was blinking, and two photographs of what appear to be avatar-copying copybots in action were in the inbox – along [...]
Full StoryWAR!
Alliance Navy and Merczateers too busy fighting each other to fight griefers by Curious Rousselot, war correspondent [UPDATE: the lost Alliance Navy pictures have been recovered from the combat-damaged laptop and added to this story. note - underscoring the dangers in covering virtual warfare, Ms. Rousselot's laptop was damaged while covering this story - we [...]
Full StorySheep Warned After Violation of Dreamland Community Covenant
By Prokofy Neva, Corporate Watch Anshe Chung, owner of Anshe Chung Studios (ACS), creators of Dreamland, a popular Second Life residential and commercial region with more than 500 islands, has written to the leadership of the Electric Sheep Company regarding violation of her company’s covenant. Anshe Chung announced to the Herald this evening that she [...]
Full StoryTalks between Alliance Navy and Merczateers Stall. Will it be War Without End?
Merczateer Proteus Hand I was going about some routine editorial work in the Herald bunker in Jessie when an urgent communiqué from a Herald informant splashed onto my screen. According to the informant, the two great armies of Second Life – the Aliance Navy and the Merczateers were engaged in skirmishes again. It had been [...]
Full StoryThe Greed Shepherd
By Prokofy Neva, Corporate Watch The Electric Sheep Company released for public beta testing a few hours ago a new search engine. The engine doesn’t contain things you’ve tagged, so it’s not like SLOOG or SL 411 or Babbage Linden’s engine or any one of a score of search engines depending on the community to [...]
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