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ADV: Get L$250 for Completing a 5-Minute Survey

RTI International (www.rti.org),a not-for-profit research organization with presences in RL and SL, isconducting a 5-minute survey on RL personality and demographic information andis in need of volunteers.  Upon completion of the survey, you will receive L$250. If you would like to participate, go to the RTI Facility in SL at http://slurl.com/secondlife/Labro/126/175/41

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Quarter 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 [...]

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LL 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$ [...]

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SL 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 [...]

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Legend 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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ADV: The Children of God – Jenn Villota’s New Art

Censored! advertisement now placed below the fold. (NSFW at all!)

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Lab 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 [...]

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Microsoft’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 [...]

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Virtual 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 [...]

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SL 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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