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The Focus of Interest

The creation of new and exciting Internet Platforms is the primary goal of many companies these days. While they all search frantically for that one "gotcha" that draws paying customers like flies to...

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Ahhh … Gotcha!

From time to time we learn little snippets of information that totally clear up a previous misunderstanding. Today's post is a retelling of one of those snippets I encountered today. I think it might...

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Time To Push Second Life Forward – Virtual Landmarks

Second Life is a technical tour de force in many respects. But it also has some extremely backward features that need updating. Not long ago, an exceptionally good idea was floated on the SL Forums,...

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Yet More Virtual Landmarks

Barely released but already growing fast, Virtual Landmarks gives birth to yet another gizmo ... and a new Promotional Offer! So if you've been interested but weren't sure you wanted to invest, you can...

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Another WTF Moment

(Update: Apparently I’ve been un-banned, but again without any reason or notification given. So while this probably should be an issue to drop, I’m just stucking fupid enough to pursue it. After all,...

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The Height of Arrogance

Today's post is a thinly disguised rant about the way Second Life customers are treated. I've tried to pretend it's a centrist opinion piece about the manner in which a company addresses its customers,...

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Bias in Marketplace Listing Enhancements

Today's post deals with a suspected and now proven Bias in the way Listing Enhancements are displayed to visitors on the Second Life Marketplace. If you use Listing Enhancements to highlight your...

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Be Careful What You Wish For …

There has long been an element of any online platform that engages solely for the purpose of harassing and destroying the pleasure of others. In the virtual world of Second Life, this activity has been...

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SL Marketplace – Where To Next?

The Second Life Marketplace is well entrenched and has recently "completed" its first major enhancement (Direct Delivery). Assuming that the Marketplace Dev Team is hunting for their next task, today's...

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Parcels Dropped from In-World Search

Once again we have another incident of many Parcels being dropped from In-World Search. This time around it appears to have happened coincident with the rollout of the Magnum RC Server software...

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Wanton and Willful Fraud by Linden Lab

Never has the evidence been so clear and strong as it is now. Never has it been so obvious that Linden Lab is willfully and wantonly defrauding its customers. My first post in a long time is one I...

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Endings … And Beginnings

It's an old saw that in order for something new to begin, something old must end. Today's post discusses what that something old is in the case of DGP4SL ... and what the something new is as well.

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Old Sayings

Linden Lab announced this week that they are making Second Life available on their recently acquired Desura game shopping site. Today's post takes a step back and muses about the overall goals in place...

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TOS’ing My Hat In The Ring

It's been almost a month since Linden Lab changed the ToS for Second Life. After reading, watching and thinking through everything orbiting this issue, it's time I put my two cents into the mix. So...

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The Day After ToS’morrow

Now that I've decompressed a bit and gotten the spit'n'vinegar out of my system, today's post is a bit more contemplative about what I see as the logical follow-on from Linden Lab's new Terms of Service.

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The Failure Called “Full Ownership”

One of the strategies we see employed routinely by many companies (such as Linden Lab) is something called "Full Ownership". Under the aegis of Full Ownership, the management team .. and sometimes...

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Testing the New Terms of Service

Now that it's become obvious Linden Lab will not backtrack on their new Terms of Service, what can we expect for the future? How will we know when it has been applied? Perhaps more importantly, how...

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Dancing or Boxing?

Operating a company that is built around the creation and support of Internet-based User Community services demands a specific mindset in every day operations. If the company's management intends for...

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Nerfing Second Life Microbusiness

Through all the trials and tribulations infesting Second Life, the one factor of the platform that stuck around and provided the saving grace for it was the ability of Business-People to sell their...

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LL’s Terms of Service – Where To Next?

We've all wrung our hands quite enough. We've listened (or should have listened) to the guidance put forth by real-life attorneys regarding the ToS. So now it's time to figure out what we should do....

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