Archive for August, 2007
3 weeks in SL – A Photographic Portrait of the Betaverse
by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk welcome area – 50% off
Full StoryOp/Ed: The Avatar’s Dilemma – Trust
What do unconscionable contract provisions say about contract creators? by Jessica Holyoke Residents are talking about trust more on the grid. And that trust expresses itself in many forms. Some of the trust deals with the SL financial sector. In a world of anonymous avatars and few accountants, it is hard to know what to [...]
Full StoryJaime Wheeler – Post 6 Grrrl
Earlier this week, Marilyn Murphy contacted the Herald offices from a small cafe in south of France to say that her spiritual quest was going well, but it was hard to say exactly how much longer it might go on. With Marilyn off indefinitely sunning herself somewhere on the Cote D’Azure, I turned to the [...]
Full StoryExclusive Pix from the Developer Grid: SL’s New Zone Concepts Interface
The next version of SL? by Pixeleen Mistral, food critic Zone Concepts Interface: brighten the corners I considered having another glass of wine while waiting for the wild coho salmon filet slathered in finely chopped fresh organic parsley to finish steaming over a what I hoped would become a Grey Goose vodka and sicilian blood [...]
Full StoryThe Linden Business Plan?: Pwning the Metaverse the Chef Cantu Way
by Urizenus Sklar, food critic Chef Cantu at Work. Since I am the ultimate metaverse insider with a profound grasp of new media and the economics thereof, it is natural that when Media Playahs and Venture Capital Guys and Grrls meet me they want the 411 on Second Life. “Uri”, they ask me “exactly what [...]
Full StoryLove and Love Seats
What do you do when you come home and find a couple humping in your bed? by Wendell Holmer, metaverse home and garden reporter Prim Perfect publisher Saffia Widdershins and a pet In one day, Prim Perfect’s blog got as many hits as the number of magazines sold in the previous month—and three new advertisers [...]
Full StoryLinden Lab’s Metaverse Maths: 1 + 1 = 10
SL must grow constantly to be profitable – a sophisticated Ponzi scheme?3000 servers for 50k simultaneous users – 1/3 of LL’s income from selling new servers each month by Gwyneth Llewelyn, mostly harmless meta-resident We believe Linden Lab is a profitable company, at least since April 2007, because Jeska Linden blundered that out in a [...]
Full StoryThat’s Cold. Have the SL Haters Gone Too Far?
First it was Forbes, declaring the meatspace corporate invasion of SL to be a bust. Then it was the LA times, which reported the departure of several feted meatspace projects (like American Apparel and Starwood — “there wasn’t a compelling reason to stay”). Now the Wall Street Journal Online and c|net are piling on as [...]
Full StoryVirtual News Briefs
by Curious Rousselot Residents protest gambling ban August 9th at Linden Village Castle [photo by Argo Pollis ] Gambling Still Available in Second Life Reuters reported on August 14, 2007 that the recently enacted gambling ban in Second Life has not been completely successful.Honest former casino owners are not happy seeing others reap theprofits they [...]
Full StoryOp/Ed: Pools Closed …so it goes
Linden Lab really, really sucks at security – if one of the Lindens can be harassed for hours without as so much as a ban, what about the average resident? [Mudkips Acronym recently stepped down from leading the PN - a notorious griefing/invasion gang in Second Life. When I contacted him for comment, Mudkips was [...]
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