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Where are they now?: Second Life
Even the BBC can’t muster any enthusiasm for Second Life anymore: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8367957.stm Some of the comments explain the lack of retention rate… Second Life is boring! You can’t do anything without spending money, so for the person casually checking it out, there’s absolutely nothing to attract them.… Read the rest
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You Think Your Real Life Data is Kept Safe by Linden Lab? Think Again
https://blogs.secondlife.com/message/38377#38377 and because the likelihood is that Linden Research will delete this thread to hide the evidence, I’ll repost the salient post here: 1. 19-Nov-2009 19:13 in response to: xxx Re: Office Hours and Policy Making This assumes they’re actually interested in what the population in-general wants instead of them being interested in having the decisions they already made get validated.… Read the rest
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Second Life Viewer 2.0. How to reduce that first hour problem
LL have come up with the perfect solution to the first hour problem. They’ve reduced the window to 10 minutes, well if I were a newbie and was confronted with this when I came inworld I would think 10 minutes would be about all I’d stand before going for the x and looking for something less user unfriendly.… Read the rest
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Second Life: So Near And Yet So Far
Near is preparing to release a 3D shopping area called Near London. When I came inworld in 2006 , this kind of marketing and selling struck me as being the most optimal use of the platform for retailers. In 2006/7 there were a few token efforts at catalogue selling but the idea was never developed to anywhere near its potential.… Read the rest
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Diluting the morass – why the Facebook crowd will be good for SL
Second Life has around 750,000 hard-core users with around 500,000 who come in at least once every couple of months. It’s around 7% of the total number of registered accounts. These numbers have been pretty constant now for the last 12 months.… Read the rest
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Tweet of the Day
A tweet (From a non LL employee of course) XStreetSL currently unavailable – We’re adding a category for Stolen and Ripped content, labeled “Bargain Bin.”about 6 hours ago from web There’s nothing like a good reputation now is there?
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WTF? Second Life – A Thieves Paradise
So, Linden Labs are running true to form with their response to content theft on a grand scale. 4hrs after a major theft was reported to them they have still taken no action. Situation normal I suppose. From their behaviour you could quite easily believe that they don’t actually want anyone inworld to be under the impression that they care and that all the talk is just for the press. … Read the rest
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Using the word “Lame”
I’ve never been a big fan of the word as I’ve always thought there are better descriptions. I finally understand how appropriate the word can be. To me, the epitome of lame is those people who keep turning up in your life with different avatars and think you don’t notice.… Read the rest
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WTF? XStreet SL and the Halloween Spotlight Promotion
https://blogs.secondlife.com/community/commerce/blog/2009/10/22/halloween-spotlight-offers-virtual-tricks-and-treats Am I the only one that thinks it’s a bit tacky that LL organise a marketing event for Halloween and use items in their publicity pics from a merchant who didn’t even know the marketing event was happening because LL didn’t tell him? … Read the rest
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Shop Closure
The shop has closed. Most of my items are available through XSL and there’s a selection on Apez. If you fancy being an affiliate then in the next couple of weeks I’ll post the link to the affiliate vendor that you can grab and set up. … Read the rest
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PSC Actions and Events – 25 th July 2009
PSC Actions and Events 1. 11 July – national conference in Birmingham Justice for the Palestinians the moral issue of our time A one-off opportunity to discuss with internationally-renowned speakers including Dr Rita Giacaman, who has pioneered work on Palestinian health and resistance to occupation.… Read the rest
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PSC weekly update 26 June 2009
Israeli government defies Obama, continues settlement expansion… Whilst house demolitions continue apace Scottish TUC says ‘Foreign Secretary out of step with trade unions on boycott of Israel New! PSC factsheet on Netanyahu’s speech 40 aid agencies condemn blockade on Gaza Free Gaza boats – update Court case in Canada against settlement companies PLC speaker released from Israeli jail Doctors demand Yoram Blachar resign over Israeli torture Israeli group issues report on torture of Palestinians Israel sells Palestinian refugee properties B’Tselem’s documentation of Israeli human rights violations wins award 1.… Read the rest
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Second Life SL6B – Now We Are Six
With apologies of AA Milne of course 😉 © Alexia Cournoyer. 2009 All rights reserved. So, Second Life has reached its 6th birthday and once more the residents have come together to provide most of the content. I was invited to the press preview and managed to spend 4 almost lag free hours roving my camera over the builds.… Read the rest
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Templum ex Obscurum
© Alexia Cournoyer. 2009 All rights reserved. I went to Templum ex Obscurum. I didn’t realise just how many years it has been since I was last at Relic and it appears it has well and truly gone now 🙁 It seems that somewhere on The Nameless Isle is this organ but I couldn’t find it. … Read the rest
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PSC: Veolia Victory
From Omar Barghouti In the first smashing and convincing victory of the global BDS movement in the field of corporate responsibility and ethical compliance, Veolia is reportedly abandoning the Jerusalem Light Rail project, an illegal project that aims at connecting Israeli colonies built on occupied Palestinian territory to the city of Jerusalem.… Read the rest
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ISM Updates Digest 9th June 2009
1. Palestinian protester killed during Na’alin rally 2. Settlers attack Palestinian vehicle with rocks, wounding four, and set fire to land in Qalqiliya district 3. Infant dies as Israel prevents him from leaving Gaza Strip to undergo medical treatment in East Jerusalem 4. … Read the rest
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PSC weekly update 5 June 2009
1. UN hearings to be held on Gaza war crimes 2. Oxfam report calls for lifting blockade on Gaza, and ending politicisation of aid. 3. On Obama’s speech 4. See speech by Hana Joma at PCS Annual Conference, and report from Sawt el-Amel 5.… Read the rest
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*NDC* Big Bear Hug
He’s designed for those days when only a big bear hug will do. 🙂 He’s big at around 4m high but can be resized. There’s nothing nicer than plonking yourself down on his knee and giving him a big hug. The animation is specially made for this.… Read the rest
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PSC Weekly Update – Thursday 14 May 2009
Actions 1. Demonstrate this Saturday 16 May 2. Birmingham education conference 11 July 3. PSC BDS Workshop 20 June News 1. Protests as Lieberman visits London 2. Lieberman’s party proposes to imprison anyone commemorating the Nakba 3. Pope calls for end to Israel’s siege on Gaza and for Palestinian ‘sovereign homeland’ 4.… Read the rest
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URGENT Lieberman in London: Protest Wednesday 13 May 09 10.30am Foreign Office
AVIGDOR LIEBERMAN, ISRAEL’S OPENLY RACIST FOREIGN MINISTER, IS COMING TO LONDON to meet the British Foreign Secretary, David Miliband and the Shadow Foreign Secretary, William Hague, as part of his bid to strengthen ties between Europe and Israel PROTEST AGAINST ISRAEL’S RACIST FOREIGN MINISTER WEDNESDAY 13 MAY 10.30AM – 12.00 NOON FOREIGN OFFICE, WHITEHALL, LONDON Protest called by Stop the War Coalition, Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Jews for Justice for Palestinians, British Muslim Initiative, CND, Palestinian Forum in Britain.… Read the rest
