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SL In Deep Recession – Economic Indicators Implode!!!

Group creation and uploads drop 20% in December LL panics, “temporarily” disables land statistics? by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk The Linden Lab spinmeisters webmasters have chosen to “temporarily disable” convenient display of Islands owned and added on the  Economic Statistics page – perhaps hoping to draw attention away from the virtual economy that is [...]

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PN Occupies Justice League Unlimited Base

Justice Hall set afire, defaced — 9 JLU superheros defeated by 3 PN griefers by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk In the wee hours of New Years Day 2009, the Justice League Unlimited’s base was overrun by 3 members of the PN griefers, who defeated 9 JLU members to take control of the Hall of [...]

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Wikipedia Helps You Create Your Own Bots — For Free!

Wikipedia links to ready-to-use Copybot V4 download by Kris Dibou, part-time bot   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CopyBot – external links section includes open source copybot So you've visited some of the big stores in SL, and noticed the models who look exactly like avatars, but never say anything; in fact, they may even have a tag over their [...]

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Pop Bots of Second Life

e-Business demands bots! by Idoru Wellman, e-business consultant   bots done right – a stylish addition to any business A flair for witty and artistic placement of population boosting bots — pop bots — can enhance not only your in-world shop’s traffic, but is also crucial in projecting a professional image. The Herald visited several [...]

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Auntie M Linden Looks Back Into the Future

by Auntie M Linden, noobie metaverse CEO Greetings all! Auntie M Linden here.  I’d like to wish you, your Gorean ‘families’, online mafia friends, alts, ex-partners, furries, and reformed griefers a happy and healthy New Year. As we come to the end of the year, I thought I’d share some of the wonders of Second [...]

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Post 6 Grrrl — Dreams Lightcloud

[A while ago a friend ofmine noted that my Post 6 people have generally longer been in world than thosebefore and I had to admit that I choose 'older' avis on intention. Though Ilove the innocence of newbies stumbling around and marveling the beauty andsometimes weirdness of a new virtual world, it is those with [...]

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Considering Other Grids — The Baba Yamamoto Interview

by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk To gain some insight into the growing number of competitors to metaverse service provider Linden Lab, I visited Baba Yamamoto Saturday afternoon. Mr. Yamamoto has been involved in open source reverse engineering of the Second Life protocols for some time, is one of the administrators of the libsecondlife library, [...]

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Winter Magic by Black Swan

by Bunny Brickworks It'sthe time of the year that you open your closet and wonder what to wear to getinto the right mood for the holidays. Of course, it should be something sexy,glamorous and extraordinary. The only time of the year when even the grittiestNeko girls take off their tattoo layers and dive into the [...]

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Post 6 Grrrl — Clover Vella

[When Clover rezzed in front of me in this winter wonderland she calls her home, I could not stop and stare and that incredibly beautiful face. She looked like Mrs. Claus in her green and red dress and it was crystal clear she would be my Christmas Post 6 Grrrl. And during our photo shoot [...]

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Nicholas Mafia Hit Job Video Shocker!

Avatar killing, mafia webcam face painting documented on YouTube by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Christopher Cord's alt account puff Jigsaw a victim of gangland slaying?Sunday, a wise guy from the Nicholas Mafia dropped by the Herald offices with a tip about a YouTube video account of a cold-blooded Second Life avatar account killing. The [...]

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