Archive for 'News from Metaplace'

Metaplace Now Coins Spacebux

Jump starting a virtual world economy by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk While real world economists attempt to unfreeze the global financial system with fiscal stimulus plans, handouts to the needy, and anything else that might stimulate demand, the game gods of Metaplace are in the process of stimulating their own virtual economy – and [...]

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How SL Wins the Drama War with Metaplace

Did LL design the metaverse to create resident conflict? by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk I ran into a Second Life e-friend in Metaplace on Sunday – Robin Linden Harper had stopped by and left a comment on my profile. When I saw Robin was online, I hopped over to visit the garden world she [...]

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Second Life vs. Metaplace – A Tale of Two TOS

Alphaville Herald opens Metaplace officesby Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Within five minutes of my first visit to Metaplace – the latest virtual world from Raph Koster – I understood why Google had given it's Lively web browser-based virtual world the chop. Someone at Google saw the Metaplace beta and realized that they had been [...]

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