[Calling All Bloggers!]

Free homesteads for regular contributors of consistenly high quality original content?  Just throwing it out there.

[Welcome to the New Second Life Community Platform]

@Torley - Having fun with alt names is the main reason why I have alts. 

[Welcome to the New Second Life Community Platform]

Ooooooh, look! I can actually use this on my Blackberry! PS: Who is Mustache Sideways?

[Maturity Changes in the Marketplace]

I was under the assumption that there is a flag of some sort on TG accounts that places an underwear covering texture on any skin worn.  Is this incorrect?

[Maturity Changes in the Marketplace]

Gavin.Hird wrote:

Will these guidelines be detailed enough to also apply to goods sold in-world? I mean there is no point i locking them out of the marketplace if they can purchase the "forbidden fruits" in-world.

There's a marked difference between a sale taking place on SLM and a sale taking place inworld - SL is not a direct intermediary in the sale.  The same restrictions will apply - technically.  Will Lindens be actively policing the G mainland for adult products for sale?  No.

Further, will this keep a TG resident with a MG alt from buying a transferable adult product and transfering it to their TG account?  Nope - because inworld objects do not have any kind of rating flag.  Even if a content-rating flag could be added to objects/textures/snapshots by their creators, it would not cover anything made prior to that point by creators who are no longer on the grid.  Nor could it be protected against circumvention on copybotted items.

With no personal judgement made against Linden Lab, this is a "due diligence" action on their part to protect the company as much as possible.

[Getting Immersed in Second Life]

Hey, one side!  One side!  It ain't a party until the bunneh's in the house.

Hahahaha, hi Rodvik!  You have no idea what good it does our hearts to see the CEO engaging in the very world we all know and love.  I am having an extreme squee moment right now, and I hope that it lasts.  Moreover, I hope that you continue to see and explore the many things that SL residents have done with the raw materials provided by Linden Lab.

We're a passionate bunch, we are, and we can be cantankerous and contentious sometimes because of it.  But we truly love this place, and want it to be as amazing as we know it can be.

I hope some day to meet you inworld.  And I have this very good feeling that might be quite possible.

Welcome to our great big, sometimes disagreeable, mostly dysfunctional, but nearly-always awesomesauce family!

[Bringing Teens to Second Life’s Main Grid]

I find it amusing that anyone seriously makes the argument that today's teenagers are so underserved by pr0n on the web (and BitTorrent, etc) that they would have any desperate burning desire to cam into a virtual parcel to watch low-resolution digital people bump pixel bits.  This is the 21st Century, people.

If you're worried about bumping into a "good kid" on the grid - that is, one who is transferring from TG and doesn't already have one (or more) alts on the MG - and accidentally besmirching your reputation as an upstanding SL citizen - if you're chatting someone up on a G sim, offer to teleport them to a M or A sim.  The "good kids" will be unable to do so.

This, however, will not protect you from the "bad kids" - i.e., the ones who have been around us all along, ever since signups have been free and anonymous.

I guess what I'm saying here is that if you haven't exercised at least a minimum of due diligence before getting freaky-deaky for the past few years at least, then the TG merger is the least of your worries.

And I'm guessing that the number of people who have intentionally built their Personal Adult Xanadus on M parcels bordering a G sim can be counted on half of one hand.  Fortunately, there's plenty of M-rated land sims and sims and sims away from the nearest G plot - and they're dirt cheap.

[A Farewell From Jack]

Best wishes to you, Jack, on whatever awaits you.

Come back and see us sometime?

[Join the Second Life Advertising Beta!]

Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.  Seriously... they can't see that SL Marketplace is directly competing against Second Life?  Then they wonder why sim sales are decreasing.

The point?

Truth be known, I would say that even some of the most popular brands in SL that have had sim-sized stores have never been entirely self-supporting - at least not consistently.  And as the economy continues to flinch along, subsidizing one's labor of love out-of-pocket - or partially, at least - becomes more and more difficult to justify.  Sims get sold off or closed, shops reduce in size.

But I think, with a handful of exceptions, content creators like having an inworld store presence.  I don't think that the Marketplace will ever supplant that.  The Marketplace serves two exceptionally good purposes - and one of those is to give new content creators a place to make their products known and establish a name before investing in land for a shop.  The Marketplace is certainly easier to find than a 512 shop somewhere on the grid - especially when inworld search continues to run poorly.

[Join the Second Life Advertising Beta!]

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I can't quite tell the prices here -- are they really saying it would run me $12,000 US to run an ad on their auction page for a month?

The way I calculate it, it's $0.10 CPM - CPM being "cost per mille" or 1,000 impressions.  If you're looking at a month long advertising campaign with an average of 600,000 impressions per month, then - and someone correct me if I'm wrong - then you're looking at $60 per month.