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Full StoryTeenie Grid Now Open for Headaches
Teens line up to join SL’s new “Teen Grid” Well, the teen grid is open for business. See this announcement from Robin Linden for details.We are taking bets on when we get to say “we told you so.” And Tony will get to say “I told you so” too.
Full StorySOE Wakes Up! When will EA?
The big big story today is not the new Pope, but a decision by Sony Online Entertainment to begin offering a player-to-player market — called Station Exchange — for the sale of in game assets. As usual, the good Mr. Terdiman is on top of the story in wired.com and the bearded ones freely opine [...]
Full Story“Virtual Reality-Check”
Second Life’s Zero Grace (who masquerades in RL as blogger Tony Walsh) has a trenchant post on the future of SL at his blog, Clickable Culture. “Second Life hasn’t weathered well,” Tony claims. While we don’t agree with all the arguments he puts forth in his post, there are some good points for consideration here. [...]
Full StoryThere ya go again
Our friend Daniel Terdiman is reporting in wired.com that the parent company of There — Forterra Systems — has spun off the social MMO There. A couple of execs have purchased the IP rights and plan on hiring new tech and customer support staff. Our fearless overlord King Philip says that this is good news, [...]
Full StoryEnd of an error era: JC Soprano avi for sale on eBay
I have to say that I personally had a nostalgia attack and shed a tear or two when I saw this: The JC Soprano avatar/founder account on TSO is up for sale on ebay. Yes, this is the very same JC who fought with the Sim Shadow Government (both in game and on CNN), who [...]
Full StoryPushers Hit SL’s Streets as Diablo Cartel Declares Business First
by Gina Fatale Castiglione Ramona and Bebop Voxx of the Diablo Cartel Castiglione Ramona, Diablo Cartel big boss, had grown tired of seeing the proliferation of mom-and-pop mafias in SL, and requested a sit-down with the Herald to set the record straight on recent rumors of his griefing – and to boast about his brand [...]
Full StoryThe Ego Builder
by Budka GroshommeAs inevitably as night follows day, I, your faithful newbie correspondent, having mastered the fundamentals of prim building at Ivory Tower, finally succumbed to the ego-building attraction of avatar modification.
Full StoryGwyneth: A decentralized, open-source Second Life?
When Gwyneth Llewelyn comes up with some food for thought, it’s usually not a light salad. At her blog she has led a herd of cattle into our living rooms, slaughtered them and impaled their carcasses on rotisseries, ready to be consumed. Her post ‘More thoughts on expanding Second Life® to the metaverse…’ outlines a [...]
Full StoryStealing Dreams
Perhaps best known as author of the ‘Newbie 2 Newbie’ column, Rose Karuna has returned in print for the first time since writing for the now-defunct SecondLIFE Magazine. It is worth noting that even back in her SL Magazine days, Rose was already flirting with the questionable journalism practices that have made the Herald famous, [...]
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