Archive for 'Virtual Business, Finance and Economics'
Play Money No More: Non-Virtual Goods to Sell for Linden Bux
Cutting out the middleman, SLBoutique founder FlipperPA Peregrine announced at Saturday’s Democracy Island event that his virtual commerce site would soon begin accepting Linden dollars in exchange for tangible real-world goods. Read more at the Second Life Future Salon blog where we heard the news. Then call your accountant.
Full StoryNews of the World News: Castronova Takes Virtual Commerce to the National Airwaves
Virtual Economist Edward Castronova — author of Synthetic Worlds: The Business and Culture of Online Games as well as many engaging Terra Nova blog posts — hits the national airwaves this evening during a segment about virtual commerce to air on ABC World News Tonight. Check your local listings for time and channel, but don’t [...]
Full StoryThe Beeb Does SL
After the show, BBC guy Paul Mason chills with an SL beeb groupie. If you haven’t already seen it, we highly recommend everyone check out the BBC report on MMORPGs. The streaming video of the program is a long report on online synthetic worlds, including a broadcase from in SL, and a glimpse of Philip [...]
Full StoryLinden Liability and Changing the Rules of the Game
Dow Jonas’s excellent Herald article on the economic consequences of P2P travel has spawned a most interesting discussion on Terra Nova, posted by our friend Ren Reynolds, who is really on a roll. This discussion, featuring such cyberluminaries as Ted Castronova and Peter Jenkins, has a number of notable highlights, some of which I’ve extracted [...]
Full Story“I’m not a pimp, I’m a club owner”: Interview with Jenna Fairplay
By Dow Jonas In this interview the discreet charm of bourgeois Herald reporter Dow Jonas overcomes the bad blood between Uri and Club maven Jenna Fairplay, and gets her to sit down for an extensive conversation that ranges from her battles with the Lindens, to her troubles with mafias, her issues with Hellraiser Millions, her [...]
Full StoryBarons Get Buy-Back.
by Dow Jonas In a surprising move, Linden Lab has offered compensation to landowners who purchased telehub land, now widely viewed as devalued since the advent of point-to-point teleportation earlier this month. The announcement met with lukeward response from telehub landowners looking for a heftier compensation and appears not to have significantly benefited SL’s largest [...]
Full StoryAvatar of the Year, Second Place: Anshe Chung
Second place in the Herald’s coveted Avatar of the Year award traditionally goes to the avi who has had the most impact on the virtual world’s economic scene. Last year’s winner, Sir/Father Callahan, was a master of the simolean trade in TSO, as well as a collector of rare cannons and press secretary for the [...]
Full StoryGood Riddance: SL Says Goodbye to Dwelloper Awards
Uri and Prok do Some Last Minute Christmas Camping by Dow Jonas With the advent of camp chairs in the last month, Robin Linden’s announcement of the end of the Developer Incentive Awards (DIA), or the “Dwelloper Awards,” as they were dubbed, came as no surprise to most of the hundred-odd recipients of the cash [...]
Full StoryHiro Quits Meatspace Job, Becomes Full Time Secondlifer
Hiro Pendragon, co-organizer of the Second Life Community Convention and Charter Member of the Feted Inner Core recently sent us news about the appearance of Make editor Phillip Torrone at the most recent SL Future Salon. That’s news to be sure; we always raise a glass to fello media giants who join us in world. [...]
Full StoryIs Rathe Sniffing Our Packets?
By Dow Jonas While the story this week is FBI agents possibly coming to sniff round Second Life to see if charges of denial-of-service attacks can be filed, another story about possible land-baron packet-sniffing is percolating up through SL-related blogs and the official forums. Rathe Underthorn, a long-time resident and land dealer, has been quietly [...]
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