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So you are pondering a career as a Linden currency speculator?
Tell me you haven’t fantasized a career as a currency speculator specializing in Linden dollars. Heck, I *know* someone who tried to do it by manipulating the market with those down home SL gangsta tactics. Is it feasible? Enter Forex Forays: Ideas and Insights from the World of Currency Trading, a blog that specializes in [...]
Full StoryThe Dog That Didn’t Bark: The Stable Linden
By Dow Jonas, Inworld Economy Desk Argghhh…Here I am, on the Herald yacht for weeks…lazily trailing through the Caspian Sea after my all-expense-paid trip to Baku to discuss the emerging presence of oil companies in Second Life (watch this space!). I left last month thinking the Herald was in the capable hands of Pixeleen; there [...]
Full StoryI Owe My Soul to the Company Store
By Prokofy Neva, Community Affairs Desk Further publicity write-ups of the General Motors/Pontiac invasion of Second Life prompt this veteran Herald reporter devoted to the old press corps motto “comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable” to ask some hard questions. So.. they’ll give you free land on the 6 sims to be called Motorati, [...]
Full StoryAds For Login Screen?
Will LL sell space on the login page? By Fiend Ludwig Don’t web pages usually include ads? Re: Second Life 1.12.3(1 & 2) Beta Josh Linden Says: “… – there’s a shiny new web-based login screen! “But Josh,” you ask, “aren’t you Lindens supposed to be fixing bugs instead of adding flashy features to the [...]
Full StorySL Herald on a Prim
Pr0n on a prim coming soon? by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Suitable for wrapping fish – the Herald on a prim Jeffronius Batra told me he planned to start selling HTML-on-a-prim once he “figures out the mechanics of selling things in SL” when I called him from Joe’s Bar in Athabasca. Athabasca is a [...]
Full StoryLL Swings Ban Stick, Stays Mute on Chat Log Leaks
Asking questions that Linden Lab will not answer by Pixeleen Mistral, Herald National Affairs desk This week started on a happy note, as the Lindens completed their temporary weekend ban from answering the phones and began nibbling their way through the monumental task of resetting passwords for 660,000 avatars (or is it really 260,000?) after [...]
Full StorySecondCast #30: Privacy and Private Jokes
Johnny “Jazz Hands” Ming is back, with the latest episode of Second Life‘s favorite podcast, SecondCast. In Episode #30 we talk to Mark Barrett, who created the SLStats.com site, which has caused no small amount of controversy among SL residents. SLStats, until Mark altered the site, tracked how much time you’d spent in Second Life, [...]
Full StorySecondCast #29: zzzzz . . .
Second Cast Episode #29 is out, and it’s a real snoozer! Actually, I haven’t listened to it yet (I missed the taping yet again, unfortunately), but as Johnny Ming puts it in his show notes, “The show was so riveting that Cristiano fell asleep.” The crew also interviews SL resident Tony Tigereye, owner of the [...]
Full StoryPoof! LL’s Smoke and Mirrors Do Away With Starax Statosky
Starax Statosky is no more! Linden Lab’s magic wand has apparently done away with him. The master scripter, whose own magic wand had become one of the most popular SL diversions over the last six months or so — even being featured by kingpin Philip Linden at a talk at Google — no longer appears [...]
Full StoryTaking a Chance on Chance Takashi
A special profile to benefit the American Cancer Society, by Walker Spaight Chance Takashi “This is The Observatory, my first big build in SL,” Chance Takashi tells me when I meet her in the Caledon Highlands. “Or anywhere, really.” It’s an interesting addendum: the metaverse, for Chance, is broad enough that a “build” could exist [...]
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