Archive for November, 2009

The Morning Coffee Mix In Second Life

Stroke awakened the radio passion by Alessandra Narayan Did you know there’s a live radio show going on SL every day? Me neither. Jameslarken Supply, a former musician in real life, suffered a heart stroke which led him to discover the magnificent new world of Second Life. At first, he started DJ’ing, a live experience [...]

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Pink Linden’s Commerce Survey Scares Merchants

Pink points out Apple takes 30% of iPhone App revenue – will LL follow suit? by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk   Pink Linden It is hard to blame Second Life merchants for being concerned about the virtual goods' retail landscape – the Lab has a long history of changing the rules of the game [...]

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Korea Fails Second Life – Lab To Offer English Classes

Lab curtails Korean language support, closes Korean operations by Pixeleen Mistral, International Affairs desk The Korea Herald reports that Linden Lab has abandoned its Korean localized web site and viewer after allowing its contract with Barunson Games Corp. to lapse. Barunson Games had been contracted to operate Second Life's Korean service in October 2007, but [...]

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Suit Life Enterprise™ & Suit Life Work Marketplace™ — Now in Beta

We're listening to the gullible with money Posted by Mammon Linden   Over the last few years, the number one request and core business requirement of many of our money-grubbing, soulless and wealthy customers has been the need for a behind-the-firewall solution. In other words, they get the firewall and the cattle (our former user [...]

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Less Equals More for the Restrained Life Viewer

Better bondage in Second Life by Jessica Holyoke When you hear about a new Viewer, usually you hear about the new things you can do with it; it will run faster, it can encypt your IM's, it can make your boobies jiggle.   (And honestly, I would be worried about a company complaining about not being [...]

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AbidE Blessed — Post 6 Grrrrl

[AbidE Blessed aka patience contactedme ages ago about being a Post 6 Grrrl and I'm glad she did. I presentwithout further ado the gorgeous AbidE Blessed, aka patience, Post 6Grrrl -Timothy Morpork] Words come more easily for mewhen they're not about myself, but I'll give it a go… I SO want toavoid the cliche's, like [...]

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Alexa Linden’s Pre-Halloween Treat – Viewer 2.0 Feedback

Second Life 2.0 viewer feedback leaked to world+dog by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Players eager to try the super-secret new Second Life 2.0 viewer may want to hold off a bit after reading what appears to be early resident feedback Alexa Linden accidentally sent to the Battery Street Irregulars mailing list October 30th. The [...]

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LL Slaps XStreet Competition With Selective Copyright Enforcement?

Lindens can't tell the difference between Gorean slave silks and CONVERSE shoes by Coke Supply   Lindens see CONVERSE shoes here – do you? As we all know, Linden Lab has introduced new rules on their XStreet site that state that copyright-infringing items will be removed under new guidelines. I was recently contacted by Constanza [...]

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Quarter 3 Results, no QPC, but introducing TPH

by Jessica Holyoke The Lab'ts latest economic blog post by T Linden promised an in-depth look at the their quarter 2009 economy.  However, the Herald's economic friend, Positive Monthly Linden Flow, was not reported.  PMLF as its known,  reports in-world business profits on residents who have earned more money then they have spent the previous [...]

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Fierce Fashionistas – Metaplace launches Fall collection!!!

The Herald goes backstage at MP's Fall fashion show by Suzie Skybeam Amethyst announces the after-show party Nervously waiting backstage, I watch two channels of chat scrolling up the screen: the public announcements to the audience, and the private instructions to the models. They've taken away spotlight we had at rehearsal (it made the clothes [...]

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