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Just in Time for the Superbowl! But is it Legal?
In the past we have reported on attempts to establish sports books (sports gambling operations) in Second Life. SL Sportsbook Inc. is the latest and most ambitious entry in this service industry. Representatives take bets in person on all major sports, including bets on point spreads and over/unders. Of course the question naturally arises as [...]
Full StoryCrew 88 Vows to Take Back SL from the Perverts (Whores, Furries, Elves and Emo Goths)
Last night I ran across a crew of 4 skinheads brandishing baseball bats, tire irons, and lag inducing weapons, torching a suburban cul de sac in second life. I invited the group – called Crew 88 for purposes of the interview – back to Herald Media Inc. HQ in Jessie for a chat about their [...]
Full StoryYour Imagination, but now it’s Activeworld’s: Stagecoach Island Failure has Content Contributors Crying Fowl
Tony Walsh (aka Zero Grace) has a superb article on the failure of the Stage Coach Island Project, that a group of Second Life residents undertook for Well’s Fargo Corp. Not only has Wells Fargo moved the project out of Second Life and into Activeworlds, but it has taken a lot of SL resident work [...]
Full StoryMore Lessig!
As Hammie Linden is reporting, Lawrence Lessig, the Official Hero of the Second Life Herald ™ will be visiting Second Life Next Wed. at 5:30 PM Linden time. Author of Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace and Free Culture, he has long stressed the idea that we are in danger of swapping out of a [...]
Full StoryPlay Money No More: Non-Virtual Goods to Sell for Linden Bux
Cutting out the middleman, SLBoutique founder FlipperPA Peregrine announced at Saturday’s Democracy Island event that his virtual commerce site would soon begin accepting Linden dollars in exchange for tangible real-world goods. Read more at the Second Life Future Salon blog where we heard the news. Then call your accountant.
Full StoryNews of the World News: Castronova Takes Virtual Commerce to the National Airwaves
Virtual Economist Edward Castronova — author of Synthetic Worlds: The Business and Culture of Online Games as well as many engaging Terra Nova blog posts — hits the national airwaves this evening during a segment about virtual commerce to air on ABC World News Tonight. Check your local listings for time and channel, but don’t [...]
Full StoryNewsflash: Entire Second Life Population Faces Jail Time!!
by Walker Spaight In a development with shocking ramifications for the virtual world, Second Life’s entire population of 100,000 or more residents found itself facing imminent jail time — and not the cornfield kind — after U.S. President George Bush signed a new law last week that forbids using the Internet to "annoy, abuse, threaten [...]
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The Beeb Does SL
After the show, BBC guy Paul Mason chills with an SL beeb groupie. If you haven’t already seen it, we highly recommend everyone check out the BBC report on MMORPGs. The streaming video of the program is a long report on online synthetic worlds, including a broadcase from in SL, and a glimpse of Philip [...]
Full StoryLinden Liability and Changing the Rules of the Game
Dow Jonas’s excellent Herald article on the economic consequences of P2P travel has spawned a most interesting discussion on Terra Nova, posted by our friend Ren Reynolds, who is really on a roll. This discussion, featuring such cyberluminaries as Ted Castronova and Peter Jenkins, has a number of notable highlights, some of which I’ve extracted [...]
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