Archive for 'Virtual Products, Services and Reviews'

Teleplace/QWAQ Liquidated By Financial Singularity?

But transhumanists rejoice as open source software immortality saves Turing Church Online The assets of Teleplace are being liquidated after the business-oriented 3D virtual meeting place hit a financial singularity which prevents the venture’s continued operation, according to a mailing sent to potential creditors – including the Alphaville Herald’s own part time typist/technical advisor Mark [...]

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One Man’s Story: The Second Life Economy

Selling virtual drugs, guns, clothes, and wheels while camping for L$s by Frankie Antonioni. Since early 2008 I have been in business in Second Life, and by March of 2008 I had two stores running. In August of 2008, I had about 19,000 L$. Both of my stores sold drugs and other goods: clothes, cars, [...]

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Vatican to Launch Virtual World

New-Media Strategy Makes Catholicism Hip Again  By Journey Yellowlist, Herald Religion Pew Desk  Even as His Holiness Pope Benedict launched a frontal assault against media in general and virtual worlds in particular, the Church has rolled out its own competitor to soon to collapse once-heralded Second Life.  Ex Cathedratm will soon launch using a dedicated [...]

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Carbonite Makers Cave to Blizzard Directive

by Dr. Legion, staff reporter We recently posted a story about a dust-up in the WoW community over the new Blizzard policy about addons — user made enhancements of the game interface. According to the new policy, addons can not be sold and donations can not be solicited in world. Now one target of the [...]

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Intellectual Property: A Tiny Affair

Who owns the rights to pictures of Tiny avatars? by Kris Dibou an example of the disputed illustrations As I was working on a story for the Herald (regarding a fellow who was writing a children’s book on heart health) including illustrations make from screenshots of Tiny avatars in Second Life, I received this note [...]

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NASA Wants An MMO – For Free!

RFP asks developers to create a game for fun by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Friday, NASA released an RFP seeking a partner to help create a massively multiplayer online game to help teach science and engineering. The project has been seen as an exciting opportunity since it was initially announced in 2007 – a [...]

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Assessing Coke’s Virtual Thirst Project: Win, Fail, or Just Another SL Dud?

Broken Crayons: Was The Virtual Thirst Contest The Last Gasp of the Crayonistas? by Urizenus Sklar I don’t know, I’m asking. I missed the event announcing the winner of the Coke Virtual Thirst Contest, and I don’t know how that event went down. As I disclosed earlier I was on an advisory panel for Coke [...]

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The Re-Invention of Philip Linden

By Prokofy Neva, Kremlindenologist [update: photo credit for the picture below - Tara5 Oh. The original picture and Tara5's interview with King Philip can be found here: here] Mrs. Linden’s little boy is growing up. The fair-haired, Donnie-Osmond-cute repository of our hopes and dreams, “El Chefe” who says we can “blame it all on him,” [...]

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Jimbo Quality Enhances Leadership Image

Jimbo buys presidential quality hair by Jimbo Quality After my last article, I sensed that there was something missing from my campaign to become President of Second Life. I sensed that the people had expectations of me that I wasn’t meeting. My team hit the streets and conducted extensive research to find out what my [...]

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Gorean Radio in SL: Beyond AM, FM, and XM, there is BDSM

Community Radio Even a Kajira Could Luff by Urizenus Sklar, Media Mogul/Critic As the Second Life mediascape continues to diversify, a number of in-world radio stations have emerged. Of course such radio stations have been familiar to us at least since the days of The Sims Online, where there were a number of radio stations, [...]

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