Posts in the "Business" Category

• Second Life Sweatshop: A Pool of Cheap Labour?

  Business
  

  Are Second Life residents easily exploitable? An entrepreneur from London recently chanced upon Second Life after reading an article about it on BBC News. Reading up on the Second Life economy, he saw a niche which would save him thousands of dollars: Paying SL residents much less to do the same job, in return for [...]

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• Linden Lab reveal their Policy on Third Party Viewers

  Business
  

  Linden Lab have published their policy upon which third-party viewers which connect to Second Life must adhere to. It’s kinda an interesting read if you have too much time on your hands, suffer from insomnia and need help falling asleep, or write a blog. In my case, all three. Third party viewers gained prominence around [...]

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• SL Viewer 2.0 and Other News

  Business
  

  Having been part of the testing group for the “new” Second Life Viewer 2 for several months, I pretty used to using it by now and for anyone who’s finding it difficult to get to grips with: relax – it’s easy once you stop clinging to the old format. The new viewer represent a much [...]

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• Will Linden Lab Sell Our Souls?

  Business
  

  At the moment, Linden Lab are profiting from its userbase in several different methods. The bulk is provided from buying sims and tiers, but then premium accounts also raise a healthy revenue. Every purchase and cashout of Lindens incurs a charge, as does transactions on XStreet SL. Classifieds in world and upload fees provide a [...]

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• Gemini Cybernetic CDS: Second Life’s Orwellism?

  IP Rights
  

  When it comes to computing, things are never 100%. Codes contain bugs and and things have a nasty habit of just breaking when you really need it not to. Even when something seems totally secure, like GMail, then someone else, such as Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser, will open up backdoors which will lead to exploits [...]

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• Censorship and the Metaverse

  Linden Lab
  

  A somewhat underlying theme of the web revolves around it being this community which promotes the free and equal access to information and production, as well as disintegrating the levels of hierarchy and institution. It stems from the early years of the internet when the World Wide Web was advocated by the political activists on the 1960s, [...]

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• M Linden’s Social Issue

  Business
  

  Mark Kingdon, the CEO of Linden Lab and known as M Linden in Second Life, left an interesting statement on the SL Blogs regarding the recent acquisition of Avatars United: “When we talk to the users who sign up but then decide not to stay, they say they left, in part, because they had a [...]

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• Avatars United: Second Life Picks Up A Facebook

  Business
  

  More surprising than it should have been, Linden Lab’s fascination with Facebook continued with its announcement last week that it had acquired the seemingly dormant Avatars United – a social networking website centred around virtual world characters and avatars. The announcement on the Second Life blog has seen a flurry of activity from residents keen [...]

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• SL Mesh Imports – Will It Backfire?

  IP Rights
  

  Linden Lab are preparing Viewer 2.0 for Public Beta which may or may not include the elusive mesh importing function which was proudly showed off at last year’s Second Life Community Convention. Mesh imports will pave the way for a new level of content within Second Life, much in the same way as sculpties changed [...]

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• Legend City Offline

  Business
  

      There was a fair bit said about Metaplace shutting down their virtual world over the New Year, but you know who else shut their doors? Why, our lovely friends at Legend City Online have shut down their grid, and removed their website. Well, sort of. If you go to the Legend City Online [...]

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