If you’ve been away from SL for much of the day or don’t follow the value of the L$ against USD, chances are you haven’t heard of the insane movement on the LindeX that’s gone on for the better part of this afternoon. Sell orders over the past few weeks have been elevated to begin with, and were made worse with the lay-off announcements from Linden Lab earlier last week. While best sell orders averaged between...

Linden Lab recently sent out a survey concerning advertising on Second Life’s website and what I’m assuming is the roadmap for in-world advertising as part of the client.  I didn’t manage to save any of the questions verbatim, however as far as I know, a number of merchants were sent this survey as well. It asked about things like advertising budgets, total monthly income from business, advertising on sites like XStreet...

There’s been an awful lot of controversy lately centered around the change in fee structure at XStreet.  By and large, low priced items, demos and freebies are taking a hit – particularly those who rely in some large part on the service for $L in world, but also with those who provide quality free content, such as skins, scripts, unique gadgets, etc. With that said, while I do hold sympathy for these individuals, I can...

Some time a couple weeks ago, Stroker Serpentine posted on SLU about the ‘Thieves’ Motherload’ – he had been passed a ‘golden nugget’ while attending Burning Life, and subsequently found that it was packed with not only some of his own items for sale, but thousands of skins, animations, clothing and accessories by other creators.  All of these items had been ripped through a security hole relating to...

I’ve been really busy lately.  I’ve been spending less time hanging out with friends, posting to forums, following general SL related news and blogs, mostly because pretty much every day has been in some way about work. Workwise, I have two major projects slated for completion this month, along with a private project that could take me through to the end of August, and a smaller incidental project i hope to finish this weekend....

or both? Anyone who’s kept an account in SL for a while will have experienced an overall theme of negativity when it comes to overall operation, pricing, policy change, availability of alternatives, management of intellectual property, scalability, stability, interpersonal drama, so on and so forth. A lot of it is even warranted. I will be the first to admit i tend to be a very negative person.  But I try to be objective about my...