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The Great SMS Cramming Game
“MobChance IQ Fun Facts” ganks phone bills with unauthorized charges As I prepared to expose a horrific virtual pet abuse scandal in Second Life this afternoon, a pair of SMS messages brought my iPhone to life – and put virtual pets on hold as the prospect of being scammed out of $9.99/month by phone bill [...]
Full StoryTeleplace/QWAQ Liquidated By Financial Singularity?
But transhumanists rejoice as open source software immortality saves Turing Church Online The assets of Teleplace are being liquidated after the business-oriented 3D virtual meeting place hit a financial singularity which prevents the venture’s continued operation, according to a mailing sent to potential creditors – including the Alphaville Herald’s own part time typist/technical advisor Mark [...]
Full StoryADV: Who Killed Pixeleen?
BabyDoll’s TAUNT MURDER MYSTERY – Win L$10,000 !!! Rating: PG-13 for gore and mature themes. What: Crack the case and you could win L$10,000! Duration: 2 Hours with Friends When: Mystery and Contest starts October 7th and ends November 1st @ noon SLT. *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Pixeleen Mistral is dead and we must find out who killed her! [...]
Full StorySecond Life SexBed Industry Thrown Into Chaos
Stroker Serpentine’s SexGen 600 animation bed now full permission – and free the end of an era This was without question an historic day. If there was any question about Stroker Serpentine leaving Second Life, it was erased Wednesday morning when he made the flagship of his SexGen business available with copy/transfer/modify permissions. The bed [...]
Full StoryCosbycoin Hack Pops Bitcoin Forum Bubble
CosbyCoin “zing” takes Bitcointalk.org offline Bitcoin - a peer-to-peer virtual currency – has reached the point in the media hype cycle were the inevitable backlash takes hold, and the Bitcoin ecosystem becomes a target for high visibility hacks. The latest incident took place yesterday, when the bitcointalk.org forums were converted into a Cosbycoin ad site, complete with pictures [...]
Full StoryIt Has To Be Said: Pseudo-Realities
As reported here, two teens were sentenced to four years of prison each for using Facebook to incite a riot after UK officials monitored social media. Prime Minister David Cameron stated that while social medi can be used for good, the same media can also be used for ill and must be monitored and controlled. [...]
Full StoryPhilip Linden: All Copyable Content Will Be Free
Second Life founder suggests selling live experiences Second Life’s content creators may be in deep trouble if Philip Rosedale – the on-again, off-again CEO of Linden Lab – can forsee the future of online content. Mr. Rosedale is quoted in the Time magazine Future of Content Time 100 Roundtable as saying, "anything that can be [...]
Full StoryOne Man’s Story: The Second Life Economy
Selling virtual drugs, guns, clothes, and wheels while camping for L$s by Frankie Antonioni. Since early 2008 I have been in business in Second Life, and by March of 2008 I had two stores running. In August of 2008, I had about 19,000 L$. Both of my stores sold drugs and other goods: clothes, cars, [...]
Full StoryMike Godwin Falls Victim to Nazi Tactics! Can’t Say so for Fear of Violating Own Law.
Why did Mike Godwin resign his position as General Counsel of Wikipedia? the speculation in the Hall of Mirrors™ is that Godwin has been pushed out because of his smack talking the FBI over the use of the FBI seal on Wikipedia.
Full StoryMPAA’s Copyprotected.com p0wned by Anonymous
Hactivists use MPAA web site to spread anti-copyright message The cyberwar between the Anonymous hactivists and recording and motion picture industry interests heated up earlier today when the www.copyprotected.com site was hijacked to display an anti-MPAA message in support of the embattled Pirate Bay bittorrent tracker site, then redirected viewers to the piratebay.org site. As [...]
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