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I've edited my post regarding the Linden Prize . Initially I assumed that the prize was USD$10,000 of Linden dollars as this was the case last year and the FAQ mentioned that the true value would be dependent upon the lindex exchange rate. However the FAQ has now removed that information and ...
Gaming
Tyche Shepherd has turned her attention to mainland this last week and completed a census of mainland sims. The full survey is posted at SL Universe and can be read here . The census took place between Wednesday November 19th and Monday November 23rd. The headlines are (quoted directly from ...
Gaming
Second Life
It's back! The Linden prize, USD$10,000 worth of Linden dollars available to the winner who can meet the criteria and deliver on the goal: " The Linden Prize will award one Second Life Resident or team with $10,000 USD for an innovative inworld project that improves the way people work, learn ...
Gaming
Second Life
The Linden's aren't good at playing good cop bad cop, indeed they're terribly bad at it, Currently we have Pink and Colossus McScrooge playing bad cop bad cop on the XstreetSL policy changes. We have Lexie " Mentor killer " Linden playing bad cop, followed by Lexie " Resident Helper Network " ...
Gaming
Second Life
The BBC have an article entitled " What happened to Second Life? " which can be read here . The article is pretty one sided and struggles to come to terms with the fact that Second Life is still thriving, despite the lack of media hype. The Beeb should really hang their head in shame, they ...
Gaming
Second Life
I can see now what the XstreetSL staff have done wrong. They've played one of those games where you have problems on the left and you have to match them to the answers on the right. Unfortunately they seem to have applied the wrong answer to a problem. The problems were " How do we deal with ...
Gaming
Second Life
your2ndplace.com - 11 days ago
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your2ndplace.com —
" Myth #1: Linden Lab has plans to
release these ideas soon and our feedback means nothing. ...
This is false. We recognize that in the past the company made some choices that would indicate a pattern of non-listening. We are not ...
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So are you still calling Myth#1 a Myth Pink?
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New World Notes
found this 11 days agofound this
Two Linden Lab blog posts, two hot topics, two questionable decisions to examine. First of all we have Lexie " I will not acknowledge there's a PHP forum " Linden telling us that the mentors are being shut down. This can be read here . This is no surprise, they've been refusing to accept new ...
Gaming
Second Life
Peter Stindberg has an excellent blog post, which can be read here , regarding issues of non delivery of items in Second Life. Peter suggests that llGiveInventory is ropey and that having capped im's can lead to problems. Peter tells us that basically im's are a prevalent form of ...
Gaming
Second Life
So there I am in Marks and Spencer at lunch time buying a tuna fish sandwich when I notice the New Scientist on the shelf and decide it has been a while since I read it, so on I go to the till and pay for my goods, complete with five pence extra for a carrier bag and go merrily on my way, ...
Gaming
Second Life
Thanks to the wonders of Tyche Shepherd, Queen of the stats I can report that the grid has grown by forty five regions this week, This information can be found on Tyche's thread over at SL Universe, here . One day, when I find some time I'll try and work out how many weeks the grid has been ...
Gaming
Second Life
Pink seems to have opened a huge can of worms with a survey about how people sell virtual goods and how they may like to sell virtual goods in the future. This seems like a brainstorming session to me but it has caused quite a bit of outrage on the official blogrum . I'm not quite sure why it's ...
Gaming
Second Life
Over at New World Notes, Hamlet has a blog post regarding female avatars making themself look pretty to gain friends, the post can be read here . The post links to Pixels and policy blog post regarding gender roles, which can be read here . In both cases you can't help but wonder at the ...
Gaming
Second Life
Conan
Star Trek: Online
Shopaholic Quanitly Tuqiri emailed me today to explain that she's not responsible for Malaysian residents making up 4% of user to user transactions in Second Life and then asked me if I know any other Malaysian residents, she's worried her spending habit is out of control, I shall have to ...
Gaming
Second Life
The Sims
A notecard has been sent to members of the Revenge update group explaining that Revenge Gears isn't dead, she's just very ill. The notecard states (with some editing from me to censor profanity because I'm nice like that): " I have hepatic steatosis, erosive esophagitis, my pancreas is working ...
Gaming
Mars
Second Life
November 15th 2006, almost three years ago and Linden Lab were being faced by angry residents over changes to private island pricing. Tier for new private islands was going up from USD$195 to USD$295, some people had sims on order and were outraged. Linden Lab then made some pricing ...
Gaming
Second Life
Yesterday evening I attended the Zindra office hour, which turned into the Zindra office half hour because Blondin was busy after his holiday. That's fine, but the half an hour was such a waste of time that it's easy to see why both Linden's and residents question the value of office hours. I ...
Gaming
Second Life
The guys behind the Emerald viewer have filed a copyright violation against the "neillife" viewer blog, for what they claim are breaches of the terms of service of the GNU and FLOSS licensing. Basically they are claiming that source code and binaries are not being made available in full, as ...
Gaming
Second Life
So there you are, you've typed up your listing for Xstreet, you've decided to make it a plain English listing rather than a keyword fest, so you describe your item with a litle background on its origins with a storyline. So say for example you are selling silks, you decide to say who might be ...
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Second Life
I recall the day well, I was sitting in my office working on documents regarding the computer tender I'd recently advertised when AMD phoned me and ripped me a new backside for stating that I wanted Intel processors. This was anti comeptitve, it didn't offer best value, they had a case with the ...
