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...
View ArticleAhhh … 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...
View ArticleTime 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,...
View ArticleYet 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...
View ArticleAnother 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,...
View ArticleThe 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,...
View ArticleBias 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...
View ArticleBe 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...
View ArticleSL 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...
View ArticleParcels 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...
View ArticleWanton 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...
View ArticleEndings … 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.
View ArticleOld 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...
View ArticleTOS’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...
View ArticleThe 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.
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleTesting 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...
View ArticleDancing 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...
View ArticleNerfing 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...
View ArticleLL’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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