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M Poster Linden: Second Life Is Great For Meetings
Crap Mariner – now an official ProkStar thanks to this post pointing out the Lab’s iffy record on DMCA enforcement – shares a video account of life after the Lab for M Poster Linden.
Full StoryChainsaw M Linden Gets The Chop – Philip Linden Steps In
Linden Lab CEO M Linden is stepping down, after axing 30% of the Lab’s staff in recent weeks and pulling a surprise no-show for his speech at the Second Life 7th Birthday celebration. Philip Linden has been named interim CEO in a move that raised the hopes of residents with short memories, but left those [...]
Full StoryPhilip Linden Covers For Speechless M Linden
Why M Linden missed his chance to talk at SLB7 Will Philip give the same speech again today? Players braving the lag at the Second Life 7th Birthday celebration yesterday were treated to a second speech by Philip Linden after M Linden was unable to attend his own speech due to an emergency. Speculation about [...]
Full StoryCaroline Southmoor — Post 6 Grrrrl
[Again, my luck holds, and Post 6 finds beautiful models without my having to leave the house. One of our Post 6 Models from a few weeks ago told me about this week's Post 6 Grrrl, and my wife, who also knows her, introduced us. Caroline Southmoor is as kind and outgoing as she is [...]
Full StorySecond Life 7th Birthday
Fake cake & hot date with the fortune teller by Pappy Enoch, Famous Fake Banker & Star Reporter I done up and gone to the 7th birfday party for Second Life. I heared from Mistophur Au that the pictures o’ nekkid gals was tossed out, but you knows SL. Who needs pictues? I’d find [...]
Full StoryPhilip Linden’s LoveMachine Sprays Hates All Over Second Life Viewers
A call for bids titled “Create a custom SecondLife client for LoveMachinists” at VWorker.com will certainly create a fine frisson among Linden Lab fans desperate for good news – until anticipation turns to horror as Philip Linden’s LoveMachine unexpectedly runs backwards and sprays hate all over current Second Life client software. This does not seem [...]
Full StoryOp/Ed: How Supply Linden Games The L$ Currency Exchange
by IntLibber Brautigan Under a normal market, where there is a healthy flow of cash in and out of a given economy, those operating currency exchanges make significant profits in ways most people do not realize. With the LindeX, for example, the spread, i.e. the distance between the lowest sell price vs the highest buy [...]
Full StoryFinancial Wizard to Prop Up Linden Dollar
No more Ups and Downs with First Bank of Enoch Holler by Journey Yellowlist, Herald Financial Desk There are storm clouds on the horizon of Second Life, given recent instability with Linden Lab’s virtual currency, massive layoffs at the firm, and CEO Mark Kingdon’s panic inducing reassuring words that the ship is sinking for all [...]
Full StoryL$ Exchange Panic – Spacebux Value Slides!!!
On the Lindex currency exchange, the value of the L$ fell sharply yesterday as the average L$ per $1.00 USD rose to 279.76 – well above the recent average of around L$ 262. With price levels not seen in over 4 years, the market panic led to a statement from M Linden – "recent weeks [...]
Full StoryIt Has to Be Said: Time Beats Money?
I have been taking a break from Second Life lately by playing the MMO Allods Online. Its a free to play MMO similar to World of Warcraft developed by Russians. Seeing how their players respond to a situation is very telling on how MMO’s and virtual worlds might be paid for in the future. World [...]
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