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Hamlet Au’s Shocker Scoop: Bill Gates not a Billionaire!!!
Wow, this post by Hamlet Au nee Linden totally woke me from my dogmatic slumbers. Hamlet doesn’t really say Gates *isn’t* a billionaire, he just shows that the chain of conditionals that has to hold in order for Bill to really truly be billionaire is so long that serious people would never consider him a [...]
Full StoryIBM Finds Application for Second Life Scions
If you were wondering what on earth you were going to do with your Millions of Us crafted Scions, well wonder no more. IBM has made its first contribution to Second Life — figuring out an application for those Scions. Kudo’s to Ian Hughes of IBM’s Hursley Park Lab who posted this idea on their [...]
Full StoryMy Ass Ain’t for Sale! Why? What Were You Going to Offer Me?
Is Linden Lab for Sale? Or rather, Would they sell it? Well, PR/Marketing blogger B.L. Ochman has speculated that it is just a matter of weeks before it sells. And David Fleck (who has since been forced to walk the plank on the Leaky Ship Linden) told the Times of London that LL was open [...]
Full StoryHerald Exclusive: It’s Official — Anshe Chung is a Millionaire! [Updated]
Anshe Chung spun $10 into $1,000,000 in two and a half years. According to Second Life resident Anshe Chung , tomorrow she will issue a press release officially announcing that she has accumulated the equivalent of over one million US dollars in assets in Second Life. The bulk of these assets are in Anshe’s virtual [...]
Full StoryTaking Wagers: When Will Linden Lab Sell
by Flimflam Edelman at the Puppies, Ponies, and Other Action Desk There is always chitchat in world about the possibility of Linden Lab selling out soon, but now the chitchat is coming from “RL” blogs. Last week PR Marketing guru B.L. Ochman predicted that Second Life would go within three weeks. Two weeks left for [...]
Full StoryFlog-funding Edelman PR Firm and Sheep Offer Chump Change in Bogus Contest
If You Lie Down With Dogs You Wake up with Fleas. But What Happens if Sheep Lie Down with Dogs? The SL Blogosphere has been all a twitter about the joint initiative between the Electronic Sheep Corporation and the Edelman PR firm. Part of this initiative is a prize with a value of $2500 for [...]
Full StoryBanned CopyBot Girl GeForce Go’s Identity Revealed?
Is a former cornfield resident an alt for GeForce Go? by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk nimrod Yaffle’s sister? Reports at the Second Citizen web site forums indicate that CopyBot salesgirl GeForce Go may have had an alternate identity – the well known nimrod Yaffle. These reports have raised some eyebrows since nimrod was originally [...]
Full StoryCory Linden Stands With Crowdsourced Libbers
LL to address CopyBot rights management issues sometime next year? by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk the (now missing) GeForce Go removing Copybot vendor from Manitoba sim “i will NOT be adding anymore products until LL amends SL to entirely negate copybot and similar technology – lip service to the TOS is not enough. second, [...]
Full StoryCopyBot: “Prim Dong Without Functionality”
Baba Yamamoto’s Bots: All Dressed Up And Nowhere to Go By Prokofy Neva, Community Affairs Desk Tableau tonight is dark and closed to teleportation, with only one green dot on the island map. Usually the upscale boardwalk shopping sim built in the weather-beaten Cape Cod style has a dozen shoppers browsing the stores of some [...]
Full StoryCopyBot Store Closes; So Does Linden Thread
Photo by Wrestling Hulka By Prokofy Neva, Community Affairs Desk A subdued GeForce Go, a would-be bot vendor, closed her CopyBot sale operation in Manitoba this evening, surrounded by a seething mob shouting that she was ruining their Second Life, and concerned that if she did not close she would face consequences from the Lindens [...]
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