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Love and Love Seats
What do you do when you come home and find a couple humping in your bed? by Wendell Holmer, metaverse home and garden reporter Prim Perfect publisher Saffia Widdershins and a pet In one day, Prim Perfect’s blog got as many hits as the number of magazines sold in the previous month—and three new advertisers [...]
Full StoryLinden Lab’s Metaverse Maths: 1 + 1 = 10
SL must grow constantly to be profitable – a sophisticated Ponzi scheme?3000 servers for 50k simultaneous users – 1/3 of LL’s income from selling new servers each month by Gwyneth Llewelyn, mostly harmless meta-resident We believe Linden Lab is a profitable company, at least since April 2007, because Jeska Linden blundered that out in a [...]
Full StoryThat’s Cold. Have the SL Haters Gone Too Far?
First it was Forbes, declaring the meatspace corporate invasion of SL to be a bust. Then it was the LA times, which reported the departure of several feted meatspace projects (like American Apparel and Starwood — “there wasn’t a compelling reason to stay”). Now the Wall Street Journal Online and c|net are piling on as [...]
Full StoryNew York Times, Dream Houses, and SL
by Espresso Saarinen Shopping in SL is not quite like RL Yesterday’s New York Times had a very positive article about Second Life, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/09/garden/09second.html that helps explain the appeal of the metaverse to an audience unfamiliar with the concept. Instead of sex and gambling, or the mega-corporate flopping while trying to duplicate RL marketing in [...]
Full StoryGinko Financial’s End-Game
L$200,000,000 in obligations, no liquid assets — queue up and wait by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk get in the Ginko queue Sunday afternoon, GinkoTec and Ginko Financial honcho Hinoserm Rebus sent a notecard to customers who have deposited Linden space bucks in the role-play bank known as Ginko Financial. The notecard and announcement at [...]
Full StoryAdvertisement: Mad Doc’s Creation Given Second Life
On Saturday the 4th of August a group of Cambridge-based actors, writers and directors are hoping they have a future West End hit on their hands with “Joined at the Heart.” Before the traditional West End they want to break the virtual world. At 7.30pm (BST) / 11.30am (SLT) a performance will be streamed to [...]
Full StoryGinko Financial’s AVIX Buyout Blocked
Cash crunch and opaque accounting limits Ginko’s appeal by Jessica Holyoke The SL financial market was roiled today by news that the Ginko Financial Group, owned by Nicholas Portocarrero was attempting to buy a controlling interest in AVIX financials, owned by Investor Allen. After previous reports of Ginko’s inability to cover withdrawals from the “bank”, [...]
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Full StoryBoxed In: A Nation of Landlords
By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Virtual EstateThe other night I attended an off-the-record meeting of inworld business people who, for some reason I couldn’t fathom decided to use the new outworld Crowne Plaza meeting space (claiming to be the first such private meeting facility in SL!) under the theory that this was “safer” or “more [...]
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