Archive for the year 2007
Second 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 [...]
Full StoryLL Mysteries Revealed By Accidental God Mode
Lab can’t afford a legitimate site certificate for internal web server? by Inigo Chamerberlin [As reported earlier, Herald correspondent Inigo Chamerberlin was mysteriously granted game god-mode powers temporarily this Easter. Before his powers evaporated, he was able to file this report from the heavens - and take a number of screen shots - included here [...]
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Full StoryAccidental God Mode – An Easter Surprise
What would Jesus do? by Inigo Chamerberlin, temporary metaverse deity Ok, so, it’s Easter Sunday, and because Spring has finally arrived on my island I’m fiddling with terrain textures, new plantings, animal and insect life, all the minutiae that go into running an attempt at a natural sim. I was also trying to track down [...]
Full StoryCasino Owners Unimpressed With Linden Crackdown
by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk While Azno Simons seems particularly eager to comply with the Linden lab staffers attempt to clean up at least the gambling aspect of Second Life – other metaverse casino owners have a different perspective. Mr. Simons may be a unique case, since he more interested in advertising his web-based [...]
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