Linden Lab – Page 211

May 18, 2011May 19, 2011

SPONSOR SPOTLIGHT — Antique Artistry

Antique Artisty

Fatima Ur and Incanus Merlin are Co-owners of 17 fabulously Victorian themed residential sims laid out for renting or leasing; and Antique Artistry Antiques, dedicated to Fatima’s buildings and garden items.

They have created a wide range of Victorian era homes and everything you need to live a Victorian style Second Life, including household and garden furniture, everyday items (for example, china place settings, lamps, vases, jewellery, tables, chairs, furniture sets, antique cookers, kitchen items like pots, pans, canned goods – in fact, virtually anything you can think of that would make your Victorian Second Life as real as possible!) Continue reading “SPONSOR SPOTLIGHT — Antique Artistry”

May 18, 2011May 18, 2011

Private Island Fluctuations

A couple of weeks ago, the legendary Tyche “Statto” Shepherd reported that the grid had shrunk by seventy two regions, although more concerning was that the grid had lost seventy four private regions, two Linden owned new regions had saved the day!

This was picked up as a sign that Linden Lab needed to do something, losing seventy two regions isn’t good. However if you follow Tyche’s stats (and they are awesome) then you’ll see that this has been a trend in recent months, with private regions being shed from the grid, but there are also weeks when private regions increase, so it’s not all doom and gloom.

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May 18, 2011May 18, 2011

SL Advertising Beta To End May 31st

SL Advertising Beta has ended, it officially ends on May 31st, but if you go to http://advertise.secondlife.com/ you’ll see the following message:

“Thank you for your interest in the Second Life Advertising Beta program. Based on our evaluation of the SL Advertising Beta during the last six months, we have decided to discontinue the program on May 31, 2011.

Thanks to all of the Merchants who have helped us test this display advertising beta and for all of your helpful feedback. Your participation and insights will help us drive our ongoing efforts to help you promote your products and services to Second Life shoppers. We look forward to partnering with you on future promotional endeavors.”

Part of the problem as far as I’m concerned is that Linden Lab didn’t promote this very well.

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May 18, 2011May 18, 2011

Direct Delivery Edges Closer

I may well be about to embark on a blog frenzy! I have quite a few issues to address! However I may get bored, or want to go fishing in WoW or shoot things in Eve-Online! Where was I? Oh yes direct delivery, the new, and rather worrisome delivery method for the Second Life Marketplace.

Basically how it works now is that you load a boxed object into a magic box inworld, go to the markeptlace website and then link the item so it can be sold. Users then have to accept delivery of the item inworld, this part has always been potentially troublemsome and on the old XStreet people were warned that they shouldn’t be afk when purchasing.

The new system will do away with the latter problem, it’s likely to introduce new problems but they should be able to be ironed out if all works well. Basically it seems, we’re going to have an incoming and outgoing folder for the marketplace, if you have questions Brooke has started a thread on the official forums, here. However it’s well worth reading the direct delivery FAQ! Really, if you’re a merchant, read that.

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May 17, 2011May 17, 2011

Zindra User Group Meetings Still Crawling Along

If you’ve never been to the Zindra user group meeting, you won’t quite understand the issues of the people who do attend. They have issues with lack of visibility, lack of promotion, Linden Lab’s apparent fear of adult content, which is odd as Zindra is no holds barred adult, but Amanda seemed panic struck when residents asked for an adult discussion forum at the resident tools user group meetings, and we know from articles like this over at Massively, that plenty of people find the whole adult issue to be unseemly.

Yet every Monday, regulars come to try and make things happen, to me it’s like Groundhog Day there, I went months without attending these meetings but when I started to go again it was still all about a Zexpo, or an event, or who had control of a group, but to be fair to the guys who attend, they keep trying to make headway, they of course all come to see Blondin:

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