Capital Exchange & Second Life
I see that SL Capital Exchange is suspending trading in Linden dollars. Today I see they announced: On July 16, 2014, I filled out the first form for the Skill Gaming Application for Capital Exchange...
View ArticleSecond Life Performance: Render Muting
We have and are hearing lots of complaints about how some number of avatars lag our Second Life™ experience. If you open up the Viewer Stats (Ctrl-Shift-1) and look at server performance (Simulator:...
View ArticleSecond Life: Viewer Managed MP
We have known for a short time that a revised Market Place tool is coming to Second Life™. Yesterday the Lab posted that they have a Beta Version running in ADITI, the preview grid. The announcement is...
View ArticleSecond Life News 2014-47 TPD
This past Friday was the Third Party Developers meeting. Chakat NorthSpring has a video of the meeting: Second Life: Third Party Viewer meeting (21 November 2014). These meetings are consistently...
View ArticleSecond Life’s Viewer Managed Marketplace
December 12, Friday, there will be a meeting for discussion of the new Marketplace features. It seems few merchants know much about the coming change. The announcement is here: In-World Feedback...
View ArticleSecond Life’s Capital Exchange Game
This is an ongoing saga. Capital Exchange is a stock market simulation game caught in the Lab’s rules for Skill Gaming. For months they have been arguing with the Lab’s attorney (s). There is a new...
View ArticleSecond Life: Euro-Dollar Exchange Rate
Someone in the forum is thinking now is the time to cash out their dollars for Euros. It might be. But, it is not a simple decision. Both market and personal factors set when is best. Today the...
View ArticleSecond Life: Viewer Managed Marketplace
VMM or Viewer Managed Marketplace, is getting close. There is a recent wiki page that was created in November 2014 that has just updated. The beta testing information is still there. It instructs one...
View ArticleThe End of Second Life?
Everything ends. It is just a matter of when. We hear this story of Second Life™ ending all the time. It is not new. Lots of Chicken Little. That SL has not ended, does not mean it won’t. The sky COULD...
View ArticleSecond Life VMM Transfer Limits
The Viewer Managed Marketplace (VMM) is coming to Second Life™. Soon. The Lab will transfer products to the new system with some limits. Kate McLaglen put in a support case to find out the limits....
View ArticleLinden Lab’s Communication Problems
For years we have in Second Life™ have complained about how poorly Linden Lab communicates with users/customers. Over the last couple of years that has improved. But, there are still areas in which the...
View ArticleSecond Life: Fast Money
It is splashing across the Second Life™ blogosphere that the Lab published an announcement: Faster Credit Processing & Upcoming Changes to Fees. The Lindens think 75% of the SL users taking money...
View ArticleSecond Life Money 2016
When it comes to currency exchange Americans tend to be ignorant of how it works. Europeans that travel are much more knowledgeable, at least in my experience. That knowledge difference seems to have...
View ArticleSecond Life: Lindex 2016-05-26
There is more and more being said about the Lindex and the current trend in exchange rates. I was curious about trend so I’ve been graphing it. The raw data comes from Linden Lab. Tyche Shepard...
View ArticleSeraphim HUD
Strawberry Singh has recently released a video on the Seraphim HUD and website. If you are into Second Life shopping and like to catch the shopping events you want this HUD. If you are a merchant...
View ArticleSecond Life Scams
A basic idea in the free market and civilization in general is theft and misrepresentation are bad things. I suppose that is why we love politicians. So, when we find a place where theft and lying are...
View ArticleSecond Life Marketplace Changes…
On the 22nd there was a Web Users’ UG meeting. I missed it. But, Grumpity Linden posted a list of Marketplace fixes, Recent Marketplace Deploys. Quoting: You may have astutely noticed that we had...
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