Archive for 'Virtual Business, Finance and Economics'
HUNDREDS OF SL STORES SHUTTER DOORS!
By Prokofy Neva, Community Affairs Dept.Hundreds of stores were shuttering their doors tonight all over the grid of Second Life in protest against CopyBot, a cloning agent devised by a reverse-engineering team called libsecondlife. which evidently did not go back in the box when its designers summoned it last night. Angry residents quickly pulled out [...]
Full StoryBots Back in the Box?
Baba Yamamota’s alt showing off his cloning capacity on Pi last night. By Prokofy Neva, Copy Desk After huge public outcry about the replicating facilities of a new toy created by the controversial libsecondlife, the bots have been put back in the box, Jesse Malthus, a member of the 88-member libsecond group announced today. In [...]
Full StoryIs LL’s Copy Protection Pwned?
Content shall go forth and multiply by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Metaverse citizens who hoped to make a living selling objects may want to consider a different line of work – a new tool is making the rounds that makes it trivial to defeat Second Life’s copy protection of objects – as well as [...]
Full StoryIs Linden Lab Shepherding Electric Sheep to Greener Pastures?
Why reverse engineer when you have the API handed to you? by Isaiah Truth When the Herald broke the news that LL had given an inside tip to a special developers’ list enabling some to get an unfair advantage in purchasing the dwindling supply of low cost private islands, a chastened Philip Linden said he’d [...]
Full StoryAnshe to Honor Residents’ Vote: Dishonest PR Flacks to be Banned from Dreamland Continent
Dishonest PR added to previous list of bannable offenses: griefing, theft, violation of intellectual property, sexual harassment, online rape and distribution of child pornography Anshe Chung, owner and developer of virtual real estate on the Dreamland Continent (a region supported by 400-500 simulators that constitutes 10% of the land mass and 10% of the population [...]
Full StoryResidents of 400 Dreamland Sims vote to Ban PR and Marketing Flacks!!!!!
Residents vote unrepentant flacks off of 400+ islands! In one of the most significant developments in the history of virtual worlds and Massively Multiplayer Online Games, Residents of the Second Life gated community Dreamland have voted to ban unrepentant PR Flacks from their 400-500 Sim region. Conservative estimates suggest that Dreamland consititutes 10% of the [...]
Full StoryAnother Fake First
Your faithful correspondent outside the SLH Vendor in Grace, ready with a rolled-up copy of the famous real actual first virtual tabloid, ready to bop fake firsts. IM Prokofy to get yours today! By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Flak-Catching and Hypervent Harangues Oh, dear. Paging Uri, get on line, quick! You have to see this [...]
Full StoryBig Biz Spending in the Metaverse: Millions for Giant Boxy Corporate Monuments, Nothing for Dialogue and Thought
Big corporations have been falling all over themselves to get into virtual worlds and impress us with the fine corporate builds (i.e. big ugly boxy things), spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on them according to Business Week. They also like to tell us how big they are on conversing and wanting to learn. That [...]
Full StoryWould You Buy a New Car from this Vending Machine?
Or from JR Breed… Screenshots via New World Notes. A couple days ago our good friend Hamlet Au had a most excellent post on the traffic drawn by the Nissan build vs. that generated by indigenous car guy JR Breed. Hammie does a good job of quantifying the fact that JR gets more visitors, and [...]
Full StoryThe Megabucks of Metaversal Minions
By Prokofy Neva, Desk of Outrageous Excess If you were pinching your pennies and slaving all night over a hot PSP in Second Life trying to generate enough cash to buy an island under the old tier scheme, and your hopes have been sadly dashed by the new prices, maybe you’re in the wrong line [...]
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