Archive for 'Virtual Business, Finance and Economics'

Report from Year 2010: “Second Life Has Been Pacified!”

By Future-Embedded Reporter Poindexter Linden In this Screenshot an elegant Scion makes its first forays in the the silly hideous world that was Second Life back in 2006. Lord Philip, following please find my report on the great success of our Second Life Pacification Project, otherwise designated SLPP-108b. I can assure you that apart from [...]

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SLBoutique Zeros Commissions

Second Life content creators plan to break out party hats and hooters to celebrate by Pixeleen Mistral, Virtual E-commerce desk Saturday night, SLBoutique notified sellers that the web-based shopping mall is dropping its sales commission to zero – metaverse content creators who sell their virtual wares via the http://www.slboutique.com/ web site will net a few [...]

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Uri Does Strumpette; Hates on PR Fucktards

Your humble servant Uri has a guest column in the PR/marketing blog Strumpette, at the invitation of head strumpette Amanda Chapel. In the article, I argue that the new corporate builds in Second Life are standing out mostly for their rust-belt aesthetic and mind numbing lack of creativity, and that the endless false claims of [...]

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Sticker Shock

Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Rumours, Innuendos, and Inside Dope for Inside Dopes Second Life island dwellers were disturbed from their serene and lucrative virtual existence this morning as rumours began flying that the wholesale price of private islands is about to rise steeply. Lindens apparently put the word out to their special friends on something [...]

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A Gallery of Lies!

The bullshit and hyperventilation about recent developments in Second Life has now officially turned into a theater of the absurd. Rohit Bhargava, a VP for Interactive Marketing with Public Relations giant Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide, has a recent post on digitalmedia wire entitled “A Gallery of Virtual ‘Firsts’ from Second Life.” Readers of the Herald [...]

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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 [...]

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The 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 [...]

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I 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, [...]

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Ads 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 [...]

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SL 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 [...]

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