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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Commie Award Winners: At0m0 Beerbaum and Orion

[A note from the Editrix:At the Herald, the real story is often found in the comments - and we occasionally recognize outstanding contributions with the “commie” or comment-of-the-week award. Today, for the first time ever this award is presented to two commenters - Orion and At0m0 Beerbaum for their responses to “Op/Ed: Catering to Corporations, [...]

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IBM Expands Sandbox – Leaves Scripts Turned Off

Why IBM treats software as second-class mediaby Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk IBM's Jessica Qin contacted the Herald last night with news that an IBM-sponsored sandbox had been expanded  to more than double its original size. The sandbox is located on the regions IBM 6 and IBM 7 – but when I visited the sandbox [...]

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Come to SLCC 2010: Hillsville, VA

Plan to attend the next Second Life Community Convention! by Pappy Enoch I been reading New (Fake) Wirld Notes by Mistophur Au (http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2009/03/conventional.html) how the city folks am fightin’ worse than a barrel of starvin’ pole cats about where tu have that SLCC corn-vention. Stop bein’ so dang ornery! I ain’t got the money tu [...]

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Post 6 Grrrl — Laura Leandros

[LauraLeandros, my first 'real' Post 6 model, was a little more than eager totake her clothes off for me.  In fact, when I teleported her to thephoto site, she came in a bikini, and stripped down before I could evensay hello!  She's a sweet gal from the UK who has a lot of energy, andeven [...]

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Plurk – Addictive Menace or Tedious Chore?

Tenshi is: trying to avoid the great Plurk web2.0 MMORPG by Tenshi Vielle Have you tried Plurk? Don't. All the cool kids are on it,and consequently, all the cool kids have forgotten any other lifethey may have had before Plurk's conception. Dishes? They can wait,someone just said they can't get into SL. I must react! [...]

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GoDaddy.com Whacks NicholasMafia.com Website!!!

Abuse reports lead to Nicholas Mafia website suspension by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Ego and pride are an essential parts of the SL mafia lifestyle – and rival gangs are quick to take credit for any misfortune that might befall their enemies. This could explain why an “associate” of the Nicholas mafia was eager [...]

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SLCC 2009: Location, Location, Location — Drama, Drama, Drama

Will anyone be there? By Tenshi Vielle Over last few weeks, the final stages ofplanning the '09 Second Life Community Convention have proved veryinteresting. There was a decision to be made – hold SLCC inSan Francisco or in Las Vegas. While NexeusFatale – a major project leader -  has claimed to have bowed to majority [...]

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Linden Lab Discriminates against Snails

by Happy Trails, Snail Activist Now I'm not one to complain, but this is about as much as I can stand.  Linden Lab does not cater to snails; there are no snail sims, there are no snail clothing stores, very few snail skin makers, and no snail sex ball makers.  There is one lousy snail [...]

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Op/Ed: Catering to Corporations, Running Over Residents?

by Tenshi Vielle It's not like the support quality of Second Life has gone down any further. It's stayed at rock bottom since last year's great insurgency of newbies thanks to Linden Lab's draw of corporations and those corporations' subsequent advertising measures. Some residents are fairly convinced that Linden Lab is losing its focus, and [...]

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