Archive for 'Virtual Products, Services and Reviews'

Banned CopyBot Girl GeForce Go’s Identity Revealed?

Is a former cornfield resident an alt for GeForce Go? by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk nimrod Yaffle’s sister? Reports at the Second Citizen web site forums indicate that CopyBot salesgirl GeForce Go may have had an alternate identity – the well known nimrod Yaffle. These reports have raised some eyebrows since nimrod was originally [...]

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Cory Linden Stands With Crowdsourced Libbers

LL to address CopyBot rights management issues sometime next year? by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk the (now missing) GeForce Go removing Copybot vendor from Manitoba sim “i will NOT be adding anymore products until LL amends SL to entirely negate copybot and similar technology – lip service to the TOS is not enough. second, [...]

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Is LL’s Copy Protection Pwned?

Content shall go forth and multiply by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Metaverse citizens who hoped to make a living selling objects may want to consider a different line of work – a new tool is making the rounds that makes it trivial to defeat Second Life’s copy protection of objects – as well as [...]

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Is Linden Lab Shepherding Electric Sheep to Greener Pastures?

Why reverse engineer when you have the API handed to you? by Isaiah Truth When the Herald broke the news that LL had given an inside tip to a special developers’ list enabling some to get an unfair advantage in purchasing the dwindling supply of low cost private islands, a chastened Philip Linden said he’d [...]

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SLBoutique Zeros Commissions

Second Life content creators plan to break out party hats and hooters to celebrate by Pixeleen Mistral, Virtual E-commerce desk Saturday night, SLBoutique notified sellers that the web-based shopping mall is dropping its sales commission to zero – metaverse content creators who sell their virtual wares via the http://www.slboutique.com/ web site will net a few [...]

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SL Herald on a Prim

Pr0n on a prim coming soon? by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Suitable for wrapping fish – the Herald on a prim Jeffronius Batra told me he planned to start selling HTML-on-a-prim once he “figures out the mechanics of selling things in SL” when I called him from Joe’s Bar in Athabasca. Athabasca is a [...]

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SecondCast #30: Privacy and Private Jokes

Johnny “Jazz Hands” Ming is back, with the latest episode of Second Life‘s favorite podcast, SecondCast. In Episode #30 we talk to Mark Barrett, who created the SLStats.com site, which has caused no small amount of controversy among SL residents. SLStats, until Mark altered the site, tracked how much time you’d spent in Second Life, [...]

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Taking a Chance on Chance Takashi

A special profile to benefit the American Cancer Society, by Walker Spaight Chance Takashi “This is The Observatory, my first big build in SL,” Chance Takashi tells me when I meet her in the Caledon Highlands. “Or anywhere, really.” It’s an interesting addendum: the metaverse, for Chance, is broad enough that a “build” could exist [...]

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SLStats: Is Big Brother Watch-ing?

by Pixeleen Mistral, Herald National Affairs desk SNOOPYbrown’s closest friends: Nobody yet. Only people that you have hung out with for at least an hour are considered your friends.– SLStats.com SLStats.com reveals that SNOOPYbrown has no friends *sniff* Poor, poor SNOOPYbrown Zamboni. Here it is August 1, 2006 and SLStats.com doesn’t think he has any [...]

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The Sophisticate: Fashion Designer Grace Winnfield

by Emerie Mauriac Grace Winnfield On a random visit to Grace Winnfield’s shop at Pierce (6, 62, 58) [< -- SL link] I met Grace herself, who at the time was less than 60 days in-world but no less impressive a designer for it. Grace came in with a plan, and with obvious talent. As [...]

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