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We Are Freak! We Buy Land!
Bots crush humans in land competition — L$1 mainland gone in under 10 seconds by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk A friend has been holding one of the most inconvenient bits of virtual land imaginable – a 576 m2 diamond-shaped sliver of land on an extremely steep underwater hillside located in the Torch mainland sim. [...]
Full StoryVanity: The First Deadly SL Sin
“Mirror, mirror, on the wall, Who’s the fairest of them all?”by Sigmund Leominster It’s a curious feature that there is one particular piece of furniture that doesn’t really translate from RL into SL – the mirror. Here in the Metaverse, people don’t really need to see themselves, thanks to the miracle of the third-party point [...]
Full StoryBots Make Mockery of Traffic Statistics
50k of traffic – but nobody is homeDoes bot abuse explain population growth and stagnant economy? by Amazing4u, concerned citizen Teeing up the Avro, Honi, and Enzo bot clans in a skybox over Liberty Central S Just thought I’d drop you a line and a photo of so-called Bot abuse. I went looking for a [...]
Full StoryMusic Not Politics – An All-Weekend Live Music Event
by Jessica Holyoke Starting Friday night, Money Island and the neighboring Money Tree Island and Freebie Island are holding a 48 hour event celebrating live music. Chelseamarie Noel While listening to the silky smooth stylings of Chelseamarie Noel, I had a chat with Throughthesewalls Moody, a promoter/manager of live musical acts on Second Life. Throughthesewalls [...]
Full StoryThe Wurkin’ Girls of Little Paradise
Pre-teen girls modeling for L$25/hour – plus tips – say SL needs “more wadies who wanna dopt widdle ones” by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Tabitha and Yoshiko twirl in place live modeling clothes — Sonja0606 Eichel disrobes and is ejected from Little Paradise Recently, I visited the Little Paradise sim – and discovered a [...]
Full StoryThe Fashionista’s Guide to IP Anonymizers
Fashionista drama means everyone can take hints from the goons and griefers by Tenshi Vielle When one is browsing the web and doing nefarious things, wouldn’t you just hate to leave a trail of IP address footprints that will show up if, say, you were dumb enough to post on a website as both your [...]
Full StoryOne Year In SL – Why the Wild West is Failing
by Soul4sale Ferraris I turned one year old this weekend. I first rezzed into SL on March 15, 2007 for the same reason most everyone else has in the last year – I was bored, and it was free. After a year of traipsing around its digital landscape, I’ve formed several hard opinions, and they [...]
Full StorySo Long Phillip Linden
by Jessica Holyoke I was planning to write an article about the dying art of immersion outside of roleplay when this came across the wire. Reuters http://secondlife.reuters.com/stories/2008/03/14/exclusive-rosedale-to-step-down-as-linden-lab-ceo/ has the exclusive report of Phillip Rosedale being replaced as CEO of Linden Lab. While he plans to stay on as Chairman of the Board, Rosedale will continue [...]
Full StoryLL’s Super-Secret Corporate Facebook Network
Facebook might not be totally secure from SL residents by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Philip Linden’s page in the secret Lab Facebook network After a time in the virtual news business a reporter starts accumulating stories that might be better left untold – and in the name of maintaining a generally civil society these [...]
Full StoryTier Nation: The 26th Group
Linden game gods violate laws of nature to party By Prokofy Neva, Kremlindenologist today 26 groups – tomorrow – 513? Our game-gods imposed a curious kind of metaversal democracy on us yesterday, in their accidental wisdom, creating a ginormous entity called “Concierge Party Group” inworld with 6,926 members. Wait. Make that 6,727. Because the chat [...]
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