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Full StoryQuarter 4 Results – Lowest QPC on Record
Growth rates slow, spending lags residents logged in – bots to blame? by Jessica Holyoke Linden Lab has released the economic statistics for the last quarter of 2008, while also claiming the advent of new land offerings – OpenSpace, Homestead and Full sims – are a response to the demands of the majority of the [...]
Full StoryLL Playing Gotcha With Land Baron?
IntLibber Brautigan's frozen accounts can’t sell L$ to pay bills by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk A surprising note appeared on the Ancapistan Capital Exchange website tuesday evening – accord to the press release, IntLibber Brautigan’s virtual land business is having some difficulty covering land tier payments to Linden Lab due to the Lab’s L$ [...]
Full StorySL In Deep Recession – Economic Indicators Implode!!!
Group creation and uploads drop 20% in December LL panics, “temporarily” disables land statistics? by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk The Linden Lab spinmeisters webmasters have chosen to “temporarily disable” convenient display of Islands owned and added on the Economic Statistics page – perhaps hoping to draw attention away from the virtual economy that is [...]
Full StoryLegend City Online Fashionista Drama-fest
Should non-payment of land tier result in removal of all creator's content? by Jessica Holyoke Over on Metaversally Speaking, there is a post about a dispute on one of the new OpenSim-based virtual worlds, Legend City Online. According to the account, Simone Stern volunteered content to Legend City, as well as her name and goodwill. In return, she [...]
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Full StoryLab Tries to Hide SL Downturn in 3rd Quarter Economic Report
Pay no attention to the player hours logged in September by Jessica Holyoke Fresh out of the Herald‘s Money office, (unfortunately located right next to Jimbo’s) is the 2008 Quarter 3 Herald financial report. The compilation of this particular report was a bit harder to compile as a key piece of data was missing. Zee Linden [...]
Full StoryMicrosoft’s Mundie: Photosynthetic World OK, User-Created — No Way!
by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Speaking at MIT’s Emerging Technology conference, Microsoft egghead Craig Mundie said the 3D spatial web will be photorealistic and made by automatically creating models from pictures taken in the real world — according to Ian Lamont’s report in The Industry Standard. While there are certainly uses for a reality-based [...]
Full StoryVirtual Sex Industry Mud Wrestling Continues
Corsi Mousehold suspended for “disclosure” after posting SexGen contract chatlog in-world?SL Sexbed Industry’s Dirty Laundry — Part 3 by Pixeleen Mistral, Irrational Affairs desk Just how messy the SexGen trademark disagreement between Stroker Serpentine and Corsi Mousehold has grown became clear when my iMojowire 3g went off this afternoon. Corsi Mousehold had located a screenshot [...]
Full StorySL Sexbed Industry’s Dirty Laundry — Part 2
by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Corsi Mousehold’s content inside SexGen bed sold at Stroker Serpentine’s store In part 1 of this report, we heard from Stroker Serpentine – virtual sex entrepreneur and owner of the SexGen trademark – and learned he is now taking an active role in protecting the good name of SexGen. [...]
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