Archive for 'Virtual Business, Finance and Economics'
Linden Lab Kicks Anshe in Arrears
by Walker Spaight If it’s an April Fool’s joke, it’s one that’s seriously ill-advised. What is no joke is the fact that Anshe Chung, Second Life’s most renowned land baron and one of Linden Lab’s biggest customers, was not present in the virtual world’s Find interface this morning, indicating the account has been suspended or [...]
Full StoryNewsflash: Linden Lab Bans its Best Customer!
In a surprise move, Linden Lab has apparently banned the main account of its best customer, land baron Anshe Chung, after she tried to withdraw more than US$50,000 from one of her Linden accounts and dangled the idea of starting up her own virtual currency to compete with the Linden dollar. The Herald is even [...]
Full StorySL Population Mostly FIC, Figures Show
Clickable Culture’s Tony Walsh brings us new information on Second Life’s population and demographics, courtesy of Philip and Cory Linden and the remarks they’ve been making lately at events like eTech. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the figures reveal that the vast majority of Second Life residents may be members of the dreaded Feted Inner Core!
Full StoryTulipmania Takes Over Second Life
by Dow Jonas The crocuses aren’t even up in real life yet, but in Second Life, people are going wild about pixelated tulips. The craze was started two weeks ago by a modest, unassuming but rather prosperous furniture and prefab creator, Desmond Shang of West Trade Imports Ltd., in Alice, who describes himself as an [...]
Full StoryIn Which I Happen to Invent Web 3-point-D
Perhaps because I feel for the most part that “Web 2.0” is just a fancy term for the march of Web-related progress, I don’t use the phrase all that much. But its particular rhythm has stuck in my brain, and now that we’ve begun talking about places like Second Life as part of a possible [...]
Full StoryFirst Cast of SecondCast Catches a Few FIC
SL resident Johnny Ming’s new Second Life podcast site, SecondCast.com, went “live” today with a podcast featuring four of Second Life’s famous Feted Inner Core — including yours truly, for some reason.
Full StorySLBoutique: Going once, Going Twice, SOLD!
FlipperPA Peregrine announced today on the forums that he had sold his popular SecondLife mall-in-a-browser, SLBoutique.com, to the Electric Sheep Company. SLBouqitue was recently featured here in the Herald for being the first SecondLife shopping website to offer real life commodities such as computer hardware and software for Linden dollars. Flipper was quick to say [...]
Full StoryFlipper on MTV?
Our friend Stephen Totilo of MTV.com has a story on SL resident FlipperPM Peregrine’s recent attempts to sell real world stuff for Linden dollars at his SLBoutique. It even looks like he will be selling copies of Only a Game for Lindens as well. We can see how the book might sell, but the rest [...]
Full StoryAnimal Auctioning
Technical issues kept me from posting this sooner, but it wouldn’t be the Herald without a bulletin on the auction market that’s sprung up for stuff found in the Nintendo DS massively wifi-player game Animal Crossing. Thanks to a Faithful Reader for alerting us to NookBay.com where all things Animal Crossing can be bought and [...]
Full StoryNo Pain no Fun?
In an interesting recent post on Terra Nova, Bonnie Ruberg raises the question of the value and authenticity of BDSM scenes in a virtual space where, strictly speaking, no pain or blood or even serious power exchange are possible. Along the way she sites that classic Alphaville Herald interview with Anonymous on the BDSM scene [...]
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