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Duranske Blasts New Linden Policy on the “Broadly Offensive”
Just wondering: Who on gopod’s green pixilated earth is in charge of Linden Lab’s legal policy and why do they seem to be on a mission to destroy the company? First, there was the Bragg vs. Linden Lab fiasco, which anyone who has been paying attention would have seen as an obvious legal trap for [...]
Full StoryMario Gerosa: “Stop the Criminalization of Second Life!”
It seems like every day there is more bad press about the moral and legal problems with Second Life. Ageplay, for example, has caught the attention of courts and media outlets ranging from the US, to the Netherlands, to Germany, to France to Italy. Mario Gerosa has said “enough is enough” and is fighting back. [...]
Full Story“Unconscionable!” Court Blasts Linden Terms of Service, Holds that Philip can be target in Bragg Lawsuit.
Yesterday the US District Court for the District of Pennsylvania ruled on two motions by Linden Lab in the case of Bragg vs. Linden Research. One motion had to do with removing Philip Linden as a target of Bragg’s lawsuit. The second issue had to do with Linden Lab’s terms of service, which says that [...]
Full StoryMore Grid Hopping
by Tenshi Vielle, Fabulous Fashionista I never knew Tuesday nights were so busy in Second Life. This evening held three very big events in ESC history. The NBA made its virtual-world debut on the T-Mobile sim, while the Aloft project held a second grand opening and took questions from the attendees, and Robert Redford’s The [...]
Full StoryAnshe Pays US$60,000 to Open Virtual Pawn Shop in Entropia
Land baron Anshe Chung expanded her empire today by winning one of five banking licenses in the wild and wooly virtual world of Entropia Universe, according to a late-breaking report from RCE Universe. Anshe paid PED600,000 (US$60,000, or more than L$16 million) for the right to make collateralized loans in Entropia, meaning any banks that [...]
Full StorySecond Life Economic Statistics Analyzed
by Curious Rousselot, metaverse numerologist As many of us are no doubt aware; Linden Lab publishes statistics about Second Life. Conveniently they also make the historical data available in Excell and OpenOffice, and Google Docs format. This gives us here at the Herald a chance to see how the economy of Second Life is doing [...]
Full StoryNissan Retools
The Orignal Nissan Build has Become a Famous SL Marketing Flub. Is the New Project Any Better? Readers may recall our criticism of the Nissan build last October. It was our view that the build failed to take advantage of the social nature of online worlds and also failed to show any sort of imagination [...]
Full StoryNew Logo for SL? Or New Business Model?
By Prokofy Neva, KremlindenologistIf you look closely at the new SL Brasil web page that will launch the Brazilian community in Second Life with official Linden support tomorrow, you’ll see an interesting new logo: “Second Life Grid”. It’s a logo separate from the Kaizen Games: SL Global Provider” to the left of it, and appears [...]
Full StoryUpdated: Is Business Week Stealing Herald Intellectual Property?
Update: April 18, 10:30PM Linden Time As of 10:30 this morning the SL Herald attribution has been added to the BallerMoMo pic. Thanks to author Douglas Macmilllan for getting Business Week to fix this in a timely manner. As Prokofy Neva noted on April 16, Business Week is running an online article in which they [...]
Full StoryGambling on the Virtual World Trade Center
by Rhinestone Bling, business reporter …coming soon to a metaverse near you Friedman- SL Entrepreneur LukeConnell Vandeverre is gambling despite the recent Linden discouragement of the practice. His brand of gambling doesn’t involve cards or dice, however, it involves stocks and buildings; namely, it involves his holdings in the Second Life World Stock Exchange and [...]
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