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Why Does LL Hate Premium Account Referrals?

Is Robin Linden powerless to pay up -or- kill off the account referral program?No L$2000 referral bonuses for accounts created after July 23rd 2008 by PIxeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk At least one player grows restless over at http://www.profileslive.com/ and points out the Lab has run a broken premium account referral program for over 6 [...]

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Linden Lab Learns From Frank Lucas

by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk 'The man I worked for had one of the biggest companies in New York City. He didn’t own his own company. White man owned it, so they owned him. Nobody owns me, though.' – Frank Lucas Possibly taking a cue from American Gangster, M-is-for-mafia Linden’s plans for Second Life [...]

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Central Database Humiliated by Slave Uprising!

Gorean society a role model for grid? by Idoru Wellman, Metaverse Society reporter FJ Linden announced wednesday that the central database has been humiliated and forced into the role of Gorean slave girl as part of a bizarre ritual held early thursday morning somewhere in San Francisco. The exact details of the transfer of power [...]

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Post 6 Grrrl — Lacie Babenco

[The idea of the Post 6 isto feature different SL residents and let them talk about themselves – their (second)lives, their projects and their interests. This is the first time that a Post 6model wants to talk about someone else, the woman who inspired her so much thatshe gave her second life a certain direction. [...]

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Alien28 vs Plagiariser – part 4

FOX arrives, followed by the landlord !!! by Coke Supply

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SL Hits, Admits Performance Wall

Lab puts down fatties, brings in database expertsHow to sell a stable corporate world on an unstable platform by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk January has been a rocky month for metaverse service provider Linden Lab, and the troubles culminated in severe database problems that brought the virtual world to it’s knees Sunday. The normally [...]

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Post 6 Grrrl — Ms. Database Issues

[Today the Herald presents a personality that has become very familiar to our readers - Ms. Database Issues. Ms. Issues has been around the metaverse for years, but recently has taken a higher profile -  making nearly daily appearances since the holidays -- particularly when SL is most popular. We had been trying to ignore [...]

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Alien28 vs Plagiariser – part 3

The fight to recover L$50,000 and win Zilu's customers continues… by Coke Supply

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January Issues Continue – Concurrent Users Drop to 29,797

Intermittent access during Sunday prime time by Argent Halide, photo journalist

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Shock from Prok! Is Pixeleen Mistral the Inventor of the Interwebs?

McCahill admits self-identity by Idoru Wellman (Herald Bureau of Personal Identity) For three years now the most pressing question facing denizens of the interwebs has been the real life identity of Herald editrix Pixeleen Mistral. Is she, as Mark Wallace once surmised, actually one of Prokofy Neva’s spare personalities? Is she, as others opine, the [...]

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