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Picking the Toaster with Pella Tully
Prokofy Neva, Tech Talkback Dept. Limbering up to cover next week’s Virtual Worlds 2007, a conference in New York that promises to be a kind of 1964 World’s Fair, I dropped in on CNET after getting one of GreeterDan Godel’s group messages. Pella Tully (Caterina Fake is her RL name), co-founder of Flickr and Yahoo [...]
Full StorySCANDAL!!! SL’s Next Top Model… Has a Twin?
Copycat drama in the SL fashion world – SHOCK! by Tenshi Vielle, Fabulous Fashionista models from the “tilde” group BooBooKittie Haight, proprieter and brains behind Catwalk City, has a problem. Her brainchild, the “SL Next Top Model” (SLNTM) contest, has a competitor with exactly the same name plus a tilde: “ ~SL Next Top Model~”. [...]
Full StoryGiuliani Campaign Dances Into Second Life (Sort of)
[Editor's Note: The following is an unpaid political announcement received this evening at the Herald offices from virtual political operative and Second Life resident GenJCChristian Homewood. Had I not been going about my usual duties of picking up Pixeleen's cigarette butts planning tomorrow's coverage, I might have missed it. Fortunately, we are able to bring [...]
Full StoryCrowd Sourced Fun at the Herald!
by Onder Skall Game Set Watch recently posted “Perpetuating Game Naming Stereotypes For Fun/Profit“. It was a contest to come up with the world’s most stereotypical game name. The results were pretty awesome. I think “WWII: World War II” was my favorite. Of course, these things never stay contained, and soon Kotaku commenters were coming [...]
Full StorySearching for Nirvana
God and the weather (channel) in Second Life by Jimbo Quality, on temporary assignment to the Herald spirituality extreme sports desk Jimbo Quality and friend [Editor’s Note: We had hoped feared that correspondent Jimbo Quality had been lost forever in his ramblings around the grid, until we received the following dispatch, scribbled on cocktail napkins [...]
Full StoryGoons’ Ban Game – SL Relay for Life Fund Raising
Public invited to purchase words that may not be spoken – for charity0h d4mn 1t 1 h4t3 l33t sp34k by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk careful what you say Some of those that frequent Baku sim or hang with the W-Hat goons are known for a willingness to push the limits of community tolerance up [...]
Full StoryBig Business Ads Blight Second Life
Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Virtual Estate and Inworld Business Remember how Philip Linden used to tell us that big business would never put up billboards in Second Life? That these wealthy corporations coming into SL wouldn’t be *need* to put up billboards because they’d just stay on their own islands? Remember how he said in [...]
Full StoryIs LL Breaking Inworld Business?
By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Broken Toys Repair & Doll Hospital Three things came together today that sent a number of inworld business people thinking clearly: the Lindens are breaking inworld business because they don’t need it anymore. Or…are they? They don’t need the handful of “positive Linden flow” inworld businesses that used to make [...]
Full StorySL Full?
Please take a number and go window shopping at one of LL’s favorite web sites by Anechoic Nicole, staff writer we hope you like jammin’, too. Some of those hoping to join Second Life yesterday were sorely disappointed with the results of pushing the “Join Now” button on the Second Life Website. Instead of walking [...]
Full StoryKelly Linden’s Naked Beta Grid Romp
Linden staffers go naked in PG-rated beta grid wednesday – better skies and rain in forecast by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk No clothes on the PG-rated beta grid wednesday Kharma Dharma reported wednesday, “I logged into the beta grid about 45 mins ago to see what was happening and 99% of the avatars there [...]
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