There is a new lottery in Second Life, called SL Millions. The driving force behind this lottery is Lederberg Investment, a group run by Mar Lederberg, who seems to live in Geneva, Switzerland. Here is the deal: you buy one ticket from them for 500 L$ and get the chance to win 1.000.000 L$ per month. The other million …
Monatsarchiv: Februar 2007
Feb 16
New profile pics
I finally took the time to let take new pictures from me for my profile by a photographer. Without further adago here they are: I’ve placed the colored picture in my profile. Those nice pictures were made at the Serenite Gardens, a very nice setting there. The photographer was Melodious Source, I can recommend her without doubt. A great artist …
Feb 13
Where BMW is, Mercedes-Benz will follow — and vice versa
I’ve stumbled right now about an article by Pham Neutra from the 9th February. It again shows that the saying in the topic is absolutely right. BMW shows in world their clean energy technology only so far right now. And Mercedes-Benz? Well, according to a press notice from the 15th of February (seems to be published too …
Feb 13
SL roundup
After not posting entries for some days, I’ve got to dequeue my queued posts now. So, with no further delay here they are: SL had terrible problems yesterday. They bunch varied from not being able to login to problems with teleporting up to problems with the assets. So it was unsafe to use the inventory at …
Feb 09
Sinner’s paradise — closed
Today there was a group notice for all members of Sinner’s paradise. It was closed at 09:00 am SLT by the owner, Hunter Tempura. She said, she thought about it over one month, but she came to the decision. The reasons? You could only speculate about them. Perhaps too much griefers attacking the sim again and …
Feb 07
Article about “The new economy in Second Life”
Yesterday there was a very good written article about “The “New” New Economy in Second Life” in the German web magazine Telepolis written by Karin Wehn (English: Google). It is a very good written article about the economy — or the lack of — in Second Life, what SL is, why Lindenlabs did not herald the 3rd …
Feb 03
“Where can I get a job…?”
Arg! Newbies are coming around in masses again at all places recently. I’ve got no problem with this. But some of them are just getting too much annoying! I’ve noticed quite a change in the last few weeks about the newbies behaviour; some of them are still good mannered, though they are the minority, it seems. …
Feb 03
Serverside to be opensourced within three years — or so
I’ve stumbled about an interview with Mitch Kapor through a blog entry of Prokofy Neva about a possible happening decrease in land prices. Seems the interview has been edited since then, but the lines Neva cites where there. Definitely. So… Mr. Neva is upset about the possible opening of the server side. Well, I can understand him (and …
Feb 01
SL simulator clone started
It seems that after opening up the client code some people just cannot await the arrive of the server code under an Opensource license any longer and took matters in their own hands right now. Enter: Opensim. This is first project that I know of trying to reimplement the server side parts of SL, written in C#, …
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