With Tenshi, I was one of the legitimate critic of Avastar approach from the start.(See link on Critic above) 2 months or 2 years, it doesn’t matter. I said it will not last nor be able to provide any viable content, and look at them now.
I wonder how much money was spent, in that way, we can figure the scale of their failure. (and envy how BILD can waste money on such monkey business for two years… >.> lol)

As for me, being a individual niche creator(I started about the same time Avastar was launched), grew as viable designer of hats and accessories, had just acquired my own full sim for 350$ about the time this article was published. I feel the deep connection with them. (Hey, I would gladly buy their sim for 100$ just for the sake of this story.)

My name will be on top of the search result, if you are looking for *goth cowboy hat* or *cowboy hat*,

This is how you build your business, and persevere, survive, and most of all, provide contents for the pixel public and contribute.

The thing is(was my point) that, we, individual creators all got it, meanwhile those corporate providers never did.

I remember they tried to convince me by telling me only 5 days before the launch, that they are going to sell their weekly paper for 300L… Had they ever reach that goal?

By the way, my hats are about 300L… lol
I will gladly provide discount for those Avastar executives who banned me at one time from their island, for being legitimately provide criticism. And no my hats are not DUNCE hats. They look fabulous even on them.

There is also the problem that Second Life news is, quite frankly, not always there! Or interesting! When Butterfly Pixiedust creates her new particle-spouting flower basket for sale in her “Fairies ‘R’ Us” store, is that really news? And even if it is, how many SL folks do we think will read about it?

News – and I use the word loosely – needs to appeal to a wider group than just SL citizens. If 10% of the folks who log on at any one time were to be interested in what the SL Press has to offer, there would be about 6,000 readers. So, the market for SL news is tiny. Minute.

Which leads us to ask why the Herald has just seen its fifth birthday and continues while others fold (pun intended). Folks come here often to rip on the Herald and flame everyone and everything, crying Cassandra-like about its imminent demise. But we’re still standing.

The AvaStar is gone. Who’s next? Anyone care to run a “dead pool?”

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/yt-Gy9hQDT6fhI/hitler_explains_second_life/