The Alphaville Herald

Let the Island Wars Begin

by Dow Jonas No sooner did Linden Lab put an island + frills up for sale on eBay (apparently to show Project Entropia they ain’t all that), but now Anshe Chung has raised the stakes, challenging with an island of her own for sale on eBay, and she has sweetened the pot with additional perks. [...]

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Entropia Envy Leads to Island Auction with Frills Attached.

Thanks to Zero Grace/Rat Boy/Tony Walsh for this pointer. I’ve often wondered if it didn’t chafe Philip’s behind to see the eminently lame Project Entropia score big publicity for its island auctions. I guess it did, because now LL is gunning for similar publicity (and observe: we enable them in the enterprise!). Here is the [...]

Major Chinese Gold Farming Operations Exposed in Tomorrow’s NY Times

There is a fantastic article by David Barboza in tomorrow’s (Friday) New York Times, but it is already up on the site of the International Herald Tribune if you want a peek. It is only the second case that I know of, where the reporter actually went and visited gold farming operations. I talked to [...]

EXTRA! EXTRA! BARONS LOSE BIG WITH TELEHUB REMOVALS; ANSHE STARTS CASH OUT

All that’s left of a once busy SL Telehub by Dow Jonas In a move that is likely to cause profound economic and social changes to Second Life, Linden Lab announced last week in the official Linden forums that it will be enabling the platform for point-to-point teleporting (p2p) and removing telehubs, the main portals [...]

EVE Extra: Deep-Space Outpost Goes Public in $8,100 Deal

It’s no mistake that EVE Online‘s player organizations are known as corporations. Though Second Life has seen a number of start-ups that have required resident stakeholding and investment, a recent IPO by EVE corp Interstellar Starbase Syndicate has set a new mark for virtual-world business dealings, having raised 36 billion in InterStellar Kredits, the equivalent [...]

Fashion Show Review: DreamBuilders Mall

by Chipsen Queso Fresh on the heels of my last highly-commented fashion show review from Cloud Nine, I decided to go out today to a show for an agency I hadn’t previously heard of – the Divine Dreams Models. The show featured designs by Sparkle Designs (Leona Kitty), Avide (Inari Saito), and Whispers by Zelinna [...]

A Solution to the SL Lolita Gap? Bring on the Goth Lolitas!

by Kendra Charlton The Lolita look; while it has become increasingly popular in Japan, I have never seen a Lolita in SecondLife. I even joined a Lolita club but I have yet to see any of my fellow group members come online. So I asked myself, “why are there so few Lolitas in SL?” Perhaps [...]

Fashion Show Review: Munchflower at Cloud 9

by Chipsen Queso and the Mystery Collaborator After a nice, long, refreshing break from the harsh and painful world of SecondLife’s modeling industry, I decided to come back to review a show that ended up being harsh and painful. For a change of pace, a highly-respected figure from SecondLife and I collaborated on this review [...]

Anshe Declares War on Ginko: “It”s a Ponzi Scheme!” (Lindens block discussion. Transparency is first casualty.)

SL Power Player and Business Girl, Anshe Chung By Dow Jonas A fierce debate about trust in financial institutions is rocking the business community of SL, pitting SL’s largest land baron, Anshe Chung, said to own SL properties valued at U.S. $200,000,against Nicholas Portocarrero, SL’s largest savings and investment bank owner, reportedly holding more than [...]