Archive for 'News from Second Life'

Randy Filmmaker Reveals Cyber-secrets!

Sunday screening of “My Avatar and Me” proves arrow button key to Second Life bliss!!! Actor/director Mikkel Stolt will host an online presentation of the “documentary fiction” My Avatar and Me Sunday on constelation.tv. The film is billed as a journey into cyberspace which becomes a magic learning experience. Based on the trailer, the story seems to revolve around [...]

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Black Cloud: “Brutal and Long Lasting” Mafia Wars Coming

I had just stepped off the plane on my way back to the Herald offices in Jessie sim after several weeks of intensive training on “The Bonnie Situation” – the newest Herald racing yacht – when my iMojowire 4 started buzzing. There was breaking news from a mysterious source who calls himself  “The Black Cloud”. [...]

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Informations : Mutual aid Fair / Salon de l’entraide

Salon de l’entraide sur France3D Lalabel Demina — CEO Evenementia Principe : Réunir en un lieu, le temps d’une semaine, un maximum de structures d’entraide irl ou sl (associations ou autre) qui sont installés sur SecondLife. Ces structures peuvent être française ou étrangère. Chacune de ces structures auront le droit à un stand d’exposition de [...]

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National Geographic Channel To Feature SL on ‘Taboo’

More publicity for Linden Lab – what could possibly go wrong? Second Life’s well known sex-bed entrepreneur Stroker Serpentine, his Second Life virtual family, and his real-life family are to be featured Monday May 2 on the “Fantasy Lives” episode of National Geographic Channel’s Taboo series. Stroker Serpentine and his real life typist In addition [...]

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Why The New Signup Site Is Not Helping SL

Hubris and sensipoo Iinden follow the path of the SL noob to displayname nirvana Hoping to counter a worrying trend of declining interest in Second Life, the Lab unveiled a new signup/orientation and dumbed-down “basic” viewer a week ago. Is mass acceptance of the walled garden of cyber delights just around the corner? Perhaps not. [...]

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Will Scratch Cards Save Second Life?

Linden Lab Enters Gambling Business by Journey Yellowlist, Herald Gambling Desk San Francisco based Linden Lab, maker of the Second Life disaster virtual world, announced today that it was killing its ridiculous and insulting failed to get enough traction from its virtual-pet campaign and will switch to a sure-fire, lag-free revenue stream: Metaverse-themed lottery tickets [...]

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3 Sims That Will Make You Want To Return to Second Life!

by Cayce Urriah, Mandalorian Reporter Hoi Herald readers! It’s been some time, but with the total concurancy of SL dropping, it’s time for your favorite helmeted journalist to step in and show off some of the best sims in Second Life again. Even as griefers pummel the grid, even as Redzone revivalists plot to gain [...]

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SL Population Crash Continues

How can player concurrency sink to 2008 levels despite 10,000+ new accounts per day? According to Tateru Nino’s SL statistics charts, the last 12 months have seen a 12% drop in concurrent online Second Life players, with concurrency levels falling to July of 2008 levels. Sadly, there is no sign of a turnaround in sight. [...]

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SLCC 2011 — Lab Prepares For Repeat Resident Chalk Assault?

Will the news that the 2011 Second Life Community Convention is to be held in San Francisco sometime in August lead to a run on water, buckets, brushes and other cleaning supplies as Linden Lab shores up it’s defenses against a shrinking customer base?  The Second Life mainland in real life – SLCC 2009 The [...]

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Could Sims 2 Baby BBQ Seriously Help SL Survive?

Or will Second Life users’ hate and fear of change destroy the metavese? by Omelet ex-Linden, concerned shareholder Recently I was talking with my last two inside-the-Lab contacts – Sensipoo and Hubris Linden – about Second Life’s trajectory, which inevitably ends in oblivion. As usual, Sensipoo Linden broke into tears at the thought of criticism [...]

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