Second Life's #1 Fashion and Gossip Rag
I hardly even know where to start with all this as there are about 20 screenshots and links floating around right now sharing this information. For the purposes of simply being straightforward I’m going to share this information as it floated across my world yesterday, and let all of you readers draw your own conclusions. [...]
For a long time it has been a complaint that it was difficult to purchase abandoned mainland. According to one of the Second Life Blogs you can now purchase land owned by Governor Linden for 1L per square meter. To make Mainland parcels easier to purchase, we have implemented a new system that automatically takes [...]
Picture of Felicity Blumenthal, Unrelated On July 3, 2010, ownership of Shopping Cart Disco has changed hands from myself (Tenshi Vielle) to Kesseret Steeplechase in what SCD hopes will be a successful venture. Kesseret has long been behind the scenes overseeing back end code and site hiccups. I will be occasionally on the site, hopefully [...]
Vote for this JIRA and help out the Gift Card Systems. Seriously, this is a fun issue. When you right click a vendor while wearing a gift card, you no longer see “Gift Card” as an option, it’s over-rode by “Touch”… which can be completely confusing for customers and completely absolutely frustrating for creators who [...]
I caught this on Youtube the other night, as many others have I’m sure. BECOME YOUR AVATAR!
Well, here I am on my shiny new laptop (Thanks, Hubby!) and I am attempting Second Life 2.0 Beta. I gotta say, guys – and you won’t be surprised – I am the crotchety old woman on this one. The one who just got a TV with a remote for the first time in her [...]
It’s happened. The Emerald Viewer has become so large that the Lindens are meeting with them to offer input and work with them, sharing ideas and implementation strategies, according to Arabella Steadham at her blog. The meetings include: A random selection of various Emerald Viewer developers, vigorously discussing the pros and cons of Very Important [...]
Oh, seriously. Now that we’re getting script limitations (understandably) I think the next step for LL is to attempt the ever-horrific fashionista’s nightmare… inventory limiting. Posted by Babbage Linden this afternoon: Second Life is a rich and engaging interactive world due to scripts. Every time you open a door, fly a plane, sail a boat, [...]
Note the bold. As we said in our recent Content Management Roadmap blog post, we believe that Resident-created content is the heart and soul of Second Life, and we want to help everyone continue to benefit from the amazing creativity that has been displayed by our Residents inworld. When content creators are successful, Second Life [...]
Linden Lab ditched the favoritism, highest bidder, or whatever they used to pick the last promo campaign. This time, they asked designers this past week to submit textures of items they would like to have in the showcase. Problem was, the designers were asked to submit 512×512 textures which obviously are not coded correctly in [...]
BBC News released an article today called “What Happened to Second Life?” “Screwed the pooch”? “Jumped the shark”? “Raped Social Network”? American Apparel closed its shop just one year after opening. Reuters pulled its correspondent in October 2008. When asked about his virtual experience, Pasick (Adam Reuters) says: “It isn’t a subject we like to [...]
Early morning lulz brought to you in illustration by Ina Centaur on Flickr. Flickr as of yet is not paying a percentage to Linden Lab for serving Second Life residents. I don’t think I’ve ever seen Linden Lab decide or attempt to put through new policies with such swiftness. 90 days? HOLD ONTO YOU HAT [...]
Late last week a survey cycled around asking various Second Life merchants what their opinion was on some ideas Linden Lab had for content creators. Needless to say, folks went up in arms. They went even more up in arms after there was an interview between Pixeleen Minstral and Pink Linden at the Hearld where [...]
I suppose this is an attempt to circumvent and have greater control over assets in SL, to contain content theft to something the Lindens can chew on. Do any of these proposed solutions appeal to you?
Last week, Linden Lab seized a few accounts of some more known SL folk – both content creators – to remove infringing comment such as Star Wars items (that were not being resold but were personal use) and Muppets (that WERE being resold, or were at one time). Emails were sent via “partyon.lindenlab.com”… fun little [...]
GO GO GADGET EMERALD! We just submitted a copyright violation claim to Google regarding a “neillife” viewer blog. This is one of several clients that have been brought to our attention that are in violation of our copyright. We intend to file similar claims at our discretion against any derivatives of our work which are [...]
It is with sadness that I announce NPIRL will be closing after 750 posts that introduced us all the the most amazing places, artists and content creators on the grid. I was a terribly lucky noob. I found NPIRL within my first week of joining SL, and if not for Bettina Tizzy and the NPIRL [...]
The New York Times is bringing light to Second Life Fashion once again. I love that Angie (Mornington), Grazia (Horwitz), and Shiryu (Musashi), three very upstanding Second Life folks, are given a spotlight for a few moments. From the article: It also provides entertainment. Style-struck cybervixens can shop at virtual stores on Xstreet, Second Life’s [...]
LL is pulling in its leash. We will create new guidelines and policies outlining the standards that third party viewers must meet in order to connect to our platform, as well as tools and programs to help the developers of third party viewers and the wider community learn about and comply with those guideline. One [...]
Poor Linden Lab. I feel like they’re the kid in math class who unsuspectingly had his shoes tied together and has just made a valiant attempt to stand up, only to fall flat on his face. (And this trick worked yesterday on the poor bastard!) Seriously though…. remember Linden Lab’s Content Management Roadmap, from August [...]
…so… LL made a new update. And with it… came ABSOLUTELY NO CHANGE LOG. We recently made several changes to the Second Life servers to address a potential security issue. To take advantage of the recent server upgrades and ensure that Second Life functions as you expect, we have released a new version of the [...]
Soft Linden rounded up people that were using the ill-fated NeilLife viewer and banned them from SL in a well-played move today. From Nexis Online: For those of you living in a cave the past few months, a guy named Neil threw together an Emerald clone and added some exploits. He ran around naked for [...]
