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Will Lab’s Over Half-Off Sale For Large Landowners Continue?
According to a reliable source, Linden Lab has been heavily – and secretly – discounting the initial “purchase” price of virtual land for the largest landowners – those with holdings of 20 or more regions in Second Life. Under the Atlas program, standalone Second Life islands are sold for approximately $440 USD rather than the [...]
Full StoryLoki Clifton: The Lab Was Not Respecting The Deal We Made
Loki Clifton’s Second Life consulting business is in trouble. Until Wednesday, Loki was a gold level solutions provider for Linden Lab, the makers of Second Life. But according to Mr. Clifton, despite months of negotiations and an agreement to expand Woodbury University’s Second Life presence, everything suddenly changed Tuesday when the Lindens abruptly terminated accounts [...]
Full StoryBNT Claims $500,000 USD in Damages – Hopes to Join Class Action Lawsuit
Intlibber Brautigan notified the Herald today that he has applied to join a virtual land class action lawsuit against Linden Lab and Philip Rosedale which was filed April 15th. The complaint alleges that after inducing players to join Second life with claims they "would receive and retain all right, title, interest, copyright and intellectual property [...]
Full StoryMayor of Victoriana: $30,000 Wasted, Lindens Killed The Dream
LittleBlackDuck Lindsay – mayor of Victoriana and Tinytoriana – announced his departure from Second Life in a scathing pair of notecards distributed to residents of Victoriana’s 13 sims over the last two days. While this is a sad day for Linden Lab partisans, fans of LittleBlackDuck’s communities remain hopeful that Victoriana and Tinytoriana will be [...]
Full StoryAuto-Bans For Copybot Clients – SL Viewer Wars Escalate
Skills Hak's client detection system & ban relay fights copybot-capable clients – Transylvania vampires warn against running griefer clients by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs Desk Taking Second Life anti-copying software as a service in a new direction, Skills Hak has released a client detection and ban relay system which Hak says "detects all known viewers [...]
Full StoryBill Gurley Discovers Virtual World Bean Counting
Why there is a difference between the provider and the consumer by Jessica Holyoke Over on above the crowd blog, Linden Lab board member Bill Gurley talks about a sit-down meeting with Jeff Grabow of Ernst and Young. Presumably this was in a real office and not in an immersive workspace premium collaboration solution. In [...]
Full StorySaints of Hell MC Implicated In Second Life Content Theft – Part 1
Motorcycle and parts theft copybot outrage! by Coke Supply, Investigative Reporter [In this multipart tale of dark dealings in the Second Life motorcycle and parts trade Coke Supply delves into the shady activities of Black Lisle, AKA BiackLisle, of the Saints of Hell Motorbike Club to reveal anastonishing level of complicity amongst the group's leadership [...]
Full StoryOpenSim Regions Predicted to Overtake Second Life in 2011
OpenSim growth rates shame Linden Lab by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Citing an annualized OpenSim growth rate of 177%, Maria Korolov predicts the OpenSim grids will overtake Second Life in early 2011 in an article in Hypergrid Business. Ms. Korolov made her prediction after comparing the 29% increase in OpenSim regions between September and [...]
Full StoryOp/Ed: Facebook, IslandLife, Second Life, Lively, Metaplace – Why Worlds Fail
by Jessica Holyoke As previously reported, IslandLife, which looks a lot like Metaplace, has opened on Facebook. Metaplace is a virtual world that closed at the end of 2009. Metaplace looked a lot like Google's Lively, which also closed. What does IslandLife in Facebook and the failure of Lively and Metaplace mean? Consider one world that hasn't [...]
Full StorySecond Life metaLIFE Market Grows at XStreet’s Expense
by Coke Supply Ever since XStreet was taken over by Linden Lab, there has been a demand for independent sites that offer the same services due to resident fears that Linden Lab would run their site into the ground. Now that the Lab appears to be doing just that with the introduction of their new [...]
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