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SecondLife Reaches 150,000 Accounts

Late Sunday, SecondLife finally reached the mark of having 150,000 residents, no, paying accounts, wait, no, active accounts, hmmm, accounts – 50,000 residents and their 100,000 alts would perhaps be closer to the actual count.  The number, as shown on the SecondLife website, is updated daily, and jumped from 149,505 to 150,107 at its update [...]

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Post Six Grrrl(s) Revisited: Queenie Extraordinaire and Daphne Molinari

For this week’s Post Six Grrrl feature, I’m very pleased to present to you a Post Six Grrrls Revisited feature, focusing on Queenie Extraordinare and Daphne Molinari!  Both Queenie and Daphne were Post Six Grrrls back when Marilyn Murphy was doing the feature for the Herald (click on their names to see how they used [...]

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Revisiting Stagecoach Island

paulie Femto created a forum thread yesterday discussing Wells Fargo’s Stagecoach Island project that began using a version of the SecondLife viewer, and has since migrated to ActiveWorlds.  As a former ActiveWorlds user myself (I played during the beta period in mid-to-late 1996 and again from 2000 til 2005-ish), the move interested and shocked me [...]

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Newsflash: Group Limit Increase Forthcoming

The Herald has been informed by one of our many anonymous sources that Robin Linden let it slip earlier this week at a meeting of SecondLife residents that in the next update, the group limit would increase.  The update, planned for this upcoming Wednesday, has had a "changes" list posted, but it didn’t include this [...]

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FICkle Forum ResMods: Part II

As I posted earlier, there was an ignored thread in the general forum posted about this evening’s Machinima festival, encouraging people to attend.  An hour after the story was posted here on the Herald, Jeska Linden herself moved the thread to the proper forum.  Thank you, Jeska.  In the issue of balance, though, I find [...]

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FICkle Forum ResMods

I’m not one to typically believe the typical "FIC" stereotype, and I don’t tend to give it much credence.  However, a certain forum thread in the general forum caught my eye this morning as something that needed to be moved to the events forum, as other things of its kind had been in the past.  [...]

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Post Six Grrrl Tazzie Tuque

We at the Herald are very proud to announce this week’s Post Six Grrrl, Tazzie Tuque!  Tazzie was referred to the Post SIx Grrrl staff by former Post Six Grrrl Queenie Extraordinaire, and DJs regularly at two of SecondLife’s more popular clubs!  Our thanks goes, as always, to Daphne Molinari, creator of Daphne’s Delights and [...]

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Post Six Grrrl Sasun Steinbeck

We at the Herald are extremely happy to present this week’s Post Six Grrrl, Sasun Steinbeck!  Sasun is an active artist in the SecondLife art community who says she loves exploring all of the artwork that is out there.  Our thanks go to Daphne Molinari of Daphne’s Delights and Forever Yours for preparing this week’s [...]

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SecondLife Game Developers’ Expo: Participants Chosen

As Hamlet Linden posted within the past hour, the participants of this year’s SecondLife Game Developers’ Expo have now been chosen based on the number of nominations they received on the forums.  The Expo, which unlike years past will not feature a professional game developer coming in to evaluate the games and help choose the [...]

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SLBoutique: Going once, Going Twice, SOLD!

FlipperPA Peregrine announced today on the forums that he had sold his popular SecondLife mall-in-a-browser, SLBoutique.com, to the Electric Sheep Company.  SLBouqitue was recently featured here in the Herald for being the first SecondLife shopping website to offer real life commodities such as computer hardware and software for Linden dollars.  Flipper was quick to say [...]

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