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Pink Linden’s Commerce Survey Scares Merchants
Pink points out Apple takes 30% of iPhone App revenue – will LL follow suit? by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Pink Linden It is hard to blame Second Life merchants for being concerned about the virtual goods' retail landscape – the Lab has a long history of changing the rules of the game [...]
Full StoryResidents Displaced as AzureIslands Takes a 5% Haircut
Sim closures blamed on Linden Lab price increases, bad economy by Pixeleen Mistral, National affairs desk Evidence that the virtual land market is not immune to real life economic woes appeared this weekend when a number of residents were informed that their parts of the metaverse will be closed by the end of the month. [...]
Full StoryOpen Letter to Your Boss about SL
Help promote serious business in Second Life by Pappy Enoch I done read the “Open Letter to Your Boss” that them Linden Gorillas put up on the Interweb thing and them Lindens done left out a thing or two. So I took a crack at that-there letter myself. A city feller from a college (not [...]
Full StoryL$ Economy In Summer Slump?
Q2 in-world economic results by Jessica Holyoke If you haven't noticed on the log-on screen, the Lab has released their numbers for the economy this past week. Now the Herald Stat Department is able to provide the results of the SL Economy. User to User Transactions are the big story for T Linden as it [...]
Full StorySion’s Surprise Chicken License Fouls The Nest
Sion Labs may revoke your right to continue paying for virtual chicken food by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk A Second Life chicken food monopoly is apparently not enough for Sion Zaius – the latest Sion Labs chickens include a surprise End User License Agreement that remains hidden until *after* your purchase. The stealth EULA [...]
Full StorySecond Life Shoppers – Be Smart, Get Slapt
Resident-run alternative to Linden game god’s Xstreet shopping site by Coke Supply WhenLinden Lab purchased the Xstreet shopping site in January, there wasconcern that the management of the site would be less than stellar. A group of entrepreneurs composed of long time Second Life residents- Lord Sullivan, Kosta Cela, Bykoff Sontse and Constanza Amsterdam -decided [...]
Full StoryEx-Copybot Merchant Ignores BuilderBot Threat – Says Piracy Will Continue
by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Reformed Copybot reseller Nimrod Yaffle shrugged off the BuilderBotthreat to the in-world L$ spacebux economy and promised to continueselling his own pirate creations – flintlocks, bandanas and leatherbaldrics. The vote of confidence was in sharp contrast to the whingingcontent creators that swarmed RightAsRain Rimbaud’s blog monday, afterthe publicity-starved Rezzable [...]
Full StoryLinden Land Stats Coverup Enters 5th Month
Lab too embarrassed to publish land data?by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk In February, Linden Lab halted publication of resident land “ownership” statistics after what is believed to be thousands of regions were returned by players reeling from October’s surprise OpenSpace price increase. In the aftermath of the negative economic news and removal of the [...]
Full StoryMystery Inside Investor Sells Stake in Linden Lab
Someone unloaded their Linden Lab holdings – but who? by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk With reports circulating that an individual investor's equity stake in the Lab had been sold to Stratim Capital, the rumor mill can be expected to go into overdrive speculating about exactly which insider sold their shares – and why. Stratim [...]
Full Story1st Quarter Second Life Economic Results In: QPC holding steady for now
by Jessica Holyoke After weeks of waiting, Linden Lab recently finally released the numbers needed for the Herald's Economic Department to report Quarter 1's Quarterly Profit per Capita for SL (QPC). Or at least, most of them. For as long as the Herald has been publishing the QPC, it has been based on an average [...]
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