Linden Lab To Print L$ Spacebux For “Linden Prize”

Plywood cubes may also be available by Curious Rousselot It was November 10th 2008 when Robin Linden realized that there was only one way to make all this grief and protesting over price hikes go away. The Lab would have to offer *Big Prize Money* to some lucky resident for their most excellent contribution to [...]

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Who Will Save Paris 1900?

Paris 1900 in grave danger — reports of OpenSpace landowners flight by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk DATELINE Fri Nov 7 06:27:53 2008 — Paris 1900 (9,175,16)YadNi Monde: I am generally pleased to announce, this time i am not. Laurent Savon, actual owner of Paris 1900, cannot afford land tier anymore and he is going [...]

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CNN’s SL iReport Hub Vanishes!!!

Experts blame alien abductions for site’s destruction by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Metaverse experts dismissed the possibility that Second Life is a hostile environment for mainstream marketing efforts and media outlets, pointing out that alien abduction is the most likely explanation for the disappearance of CNN’s in-world “iReport Hub”. CNN iReports Hub Nuked! Almost [...]

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sl herald celebrates 5 years of being the herald

the virtual newspaper birthday party that rocked so hard it crashed two sims by pixeleen mistral, lower case grrrl we’ve been running short on uppercase characters here at the herald, but i’ve been assured by audrey from typesetting that this is a temporary situation which has nothing to do with cack-handed jack linden’s unique approach [...]

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So Dark the Con of Jack

By Kris Dibou So dark the con of jackDaggers digging in my backUnder cloak of negotiationLies the lies, premeditation Change the name keep the pricePacify us into miceOh the destruction being wrought!The lack of humanity in thought As the societies passed beforeOur death waits at Linden’s doorsFor profit commits genocideAnd the seas disappear on the [...]

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Land Prices, Blockades May End War in Second Life!

Combat diminishing between armies, New Jessie on the brinkMilitaries must work together to save combat in the metaverse by Vegna Fouroux New Jessie in grave danger It was the best of times and the worst of times. The two major alliances of SL (The Ascendant Iniative and The Iron Symphony) had put aside their turbulent [...]

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Op/Ed: US$2,356,250 Reasons For LL’s OpenSpace Policy

Open Space sims and how Linden Lab got it right – for themselves by Maximilian Proto, Department of Random Guy Posting After Linden Lab introduced a new pricing policy for its highly popular Open Space (OS) sim product, residents joined to celebrate the cherished tradition of feverishly complaining about price increases (“they’re making it too [...]

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Something Wicked This Way Come

by Fiend Ludwig In a sum-up of the 20008 Second Life Community Convention (SLCC), Eric Reuters reported that “notably absent from the conference were any real-world businesses from outside the virtual worlds industry,” but that “the breakout star of SLCC was the burgeoning virtual world educational community.” As the platform matures, Second Life is proving [...]

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Yes You Did Protestors!

by Jessica Holyoke   Yesterday, M Linden announced a dramatic change in plans for OpenSpace Sims. http://blog.secondlife.com/2008/11/05/a-letter-to-second-life-residents/  In light of the protests and the different ways OpenSpace sims are used, OpenSpace sims, those used as parks and ocean front, will remain the same price.  In the future, various restrictions will be applied to keep these [...]

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Macsnob Halasy — Post 6 Guy

Don’t get me wrong, I love the gritty Neko guys with their heavy tats, their cigarettes casually hanging from the corner of their mouths and the high-prim belts stuffed with anything the urban guy needs or doesn’t need but it is a nice change to see a male avi in a suit. Especially if it [...]

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