Archive for 'Virtual Business, Finance and Economics'
IRS Says Virtual Greeters Are Real Employees
Electric Sheep Company VP Giff Constable confirms IRS ruling by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Misty and Maia are employees – not contractors This weekend, the Second Life Herald learned that the Internal Revenue Serivce has ruled the greeters employed by the Electric Sheep Company for the CSI:NY metaverse/television cross promotional event are ESC employees [...]
Full StoryMinnu Model Skins PhotoSourced from Renderosity???
Metaverse shocker — pirated skins being sold in SL!!! by Tenshi Vielle, fabulous fashionista – courtesy of shoppingcartdisco Do you remember a while back, when we were talking about “what ifs” regarding stolen content across virtual worlds? I think the best case has to be Renderosity.com artists’ work being bought then redistributed without their permission [...]
Full StorySlexchange ATM Script Cracked?
Secret requested when Secret is unknown by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk UPDATE: According to über-scripter Day Oh, the bytecode/scripting exploit described in this story is real, but was fixed a month ago. Mr. Oh told the Herald that when crossing between regions, sometimes sims would randomly send sim-to-sim packets to clients. If scripts need [...]
Full StorySL Fashion – Copying or Inspiration?
by Tenshi Vielle I’ve noticed a lot of confusion about copying and inspiration from other designers, whether it be in real life or in a virtual world. Let’s look at the subject and “where the line is” — it might help all of everyone clarify where they stand. Maximilian Milos had an experience last year [...]
Full StoryNew, Improved Copybot Demonstrated
Remote-controlled bot copies prims, linksets, textures, clones avatar profiles and outfits & saves copies to the user’s hard drive by Proper Prim [UPDATE: Apparently a similar (or perhaps identical) copybot is being sold on slexchange here. Should slexchange remove this user-created content? Might the Lindens decide to have a word with bot creator Marki Young? [...]
Full StoryFighting the SL Way – Copy & Resell For Free
Content theft in Second Life on the riseDon’t like someone? destroy their business by Tenshi Vielle, fabulous fashionista Resident content theft runs wild while Philip and Robin Linden have gone missing Content theft has been absolutely rampant in Second Life lately. It’s like scabies – once you think it’s gone, a whole new bunch of [...]
Full StoryAd Farmers Face Game-God Induced Drought!
Resident urged to conserve ads as abuse reports fly!!!Visual Spam cleanup – or ban on unreasonably land value increases? by Jessica Holyoke fewer roadside attractions? Jack Linden announced a new ban on Ad Farms this past week. While advertising is still allowed, it will be an abuse reportable offense when “it crosses the line into [...]
Full StoryBankplay Banned – High Interest L$ ATMs Must Go !
Linden Lab reacts to Ginko Financial by declaring permanent spacebuck bank holiday? by Jessica Holyoke take the money and run Tensions mounted at the SL Capital Exchange/JT Financial as Linden Lab reacts to the Ginko Financial Collapse. Ken D Linden posted on the Second Life Blog today a new policy in regards to the in-world [...]
Full StoryExpensive SL Classified Ads Ineffective – Save Your Money
Scientific Metamorph Sky Shop experiment shows increased traffic without matching sales by Michelle Morphett THE QUESTION: As the proprietor of the successful Metamorph Sky Shop retail store, I’ve always been curious about how Second Life’s search engine affects my business. Does paying for an expensive classified ad increase teleports from it, and does it increase [...]
Full StoryMotorati Closes: Second Lifers Just Crash Test Dummies?
by Urizenus Sklar, Michigan Business Desk SLNN has reported that Pontiac’s Motorati Island is closing less than one year after its grand opening. It is kaput. No more. Expired. Pushing up daisies. Finished. Naturally no one is saying why, but it is a sad day on the SL business scene, since (as I argued in [...]
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