Author: Ciaran Laval

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BSM In Server Move Woes

The Bejamble Sales Monitor (BSM) system has ran into problems during a server move. Creator and website owner Cory Hancroft decided to move servers to cut expenses in order to preserve the system, the move will save USD$70 a month in fees but still comes in at a whopping USD$250 a month.

The move of course won’t impress inworld business owners who have experienced problems during the move, problems that were today still reportedly ongoing. The website is working fine but it appears that the new DNS records have not fully propogated and until they do, problems will exist.

Dans Belgar the Inedit owner has decided to end his relationship with BSM and is urging affiliates to use Hippo Vendors. Inedit currently use both sytems, Dans has set a deadline of January 1st for people to switch over. Personally I like the Bejamble system but I can undertand Dans frustrations and having to deal with the fallout of this move.

The system is user friendly, allows you to update or change items for sale very quickly and is not too script resource heavy, it ticks a lot of the right boxes so I hope it sticks around for a while yet.

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Frustrations Lead To Resident Created Petition

I was reading Nalates Urriah’s blog when I noticed a post about the commerce team. Now the commerce team aren’t exactly top of people’s Christmas card lists at the moment, they come in for a lot of stick, rightly or wrongly, and in many cases wrongly. However their communications are abysmal, although my understanding is that they are working on this as well as trying to get the Jira team to allow others to read marketplace related Jira’s. The changes to the Jira with regards to reading other reports are quite frankly, abysmal.

However back to the point, Nalates post linked to a petition that a Second Life resident has created, currently with over three hundred and sixty signatures. The petition is aimed at Linden Lab, rather than the commerce team and is basically a list of frustrations regarding DMCA, Abuse Reports that seem toothless and viewers that connect to the grid with capabilities of circumventing the permissions system to copy content.

At its heart, this petition demonstrates the lack of engagement with Linden Lab on these issues and again I have to say that Linden Lab’s communications are in all too many areas, awful. There are exceptions, the server team do a fine job but they seem to be the exception rather than the rule. They should be the example.

However the problem I have with the petition is that it’s short on suggestions on how to fix the problems.

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Machinima Expo Open Now!

I was asking on Twitter “What has happened to Metareality Podcast?” being as the site hasn’t been updated for a month, when I received the shocking news from @Draxtor:

“we all died of food poisoning and I’m speaking from beyond grave. Meantime – check @machinexpo kicking off today!!! ”

“Oh no! How terrible!” thought I, quickly followed by “Wait a minute …. they’d have got away with it if it wasn’t for those pesky kids!”

Therefore I found myself at the Machinima-Expo website. A quick step off topic here, if we could have Group pages similar to our profile pages, just think, not only could people follow this on Twitter, they could follow it via mysecondlife too! Where was I, oh yes, the machinma-expo. The expo runs from November 16th – November 18th and is being broadcast live 24/7.

The expo is taking place in Second Life, so you can attend there or via the website I linked above.

SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Virtual%20Reverie/227/31/23

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Second Life Cited In Divorce Case

I sometimes google news of Second Life, or Rod Humble, to see if there’s any news on Second Life or Rod Humble! So today I discover a story that claims that a man’s addiction to Second Life was cited in a divorce case. The story claims that the man, who can’t be named (and nor can his avatar) spent twenty five hours a week in Second Life.

He was also said to be addicted to watching porn on his computer, one would hope he was not partaking in adult activities in Second Life and then going for more outside of Second Life! There are claims that this may be the first case whereby Second Life has been cited in a divorce case, but it’s unfortunately not, in 2008 there was the Dave Barmy affair. This one involves all sorts of shennanigans, including a honey trap!

Then there’s a case that was apparently reported in the now defunct News Of The World, but made its way to the Huffington Post: Second Life Divorce: Woman Catches Husband In Virtual Gay Affair :

“I saw John’s little person having it off with another man in a dungeon on the screen,” said horrified Lisa, 28.

This sort of thing isn’t specific to Second Life, Facebook and other social media sites have been cited in divorce cases and I expect this to increase, especially as we embrace the digital world more firmly. The issue isn’t really Second Life, or Facebook, there will be far deeper issues involved in all of these cases, ones that will make more sense and should be taken more seriously.

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Unhinged Kicks Off

Unhinged Music Venue

SLURL To Shopping Area: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Port%20Seraphine/191/131/28

SLURL To Music Venue: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/WaterWorks/4/174/28

Unhinged, the month long event to raise money for Eku’s head, has officially opened. The aim of the event is to raise funds to pay for a prosthesis for Eku to replace a damaged bone, the full details can be read here. The event has kicked off with a twenty four hour DJ marathon, well different DJ’s are involved, but it’s going on for 24 hours so you have plenty of time to pop by. DJ’s include:

  • The Doctor, Bronxelf
  • Cruel Britannia
  • Sredni Eel
  • Grace Adamski
  • Lokii (the Lokapottamus, the Fapmingo, the Freakkitteh Herself) Violet
  • The Divine Ms. M
  • Siggy Romulus
  • Ailsa Muliaina
  • Aribeth Zelin

Unhinged Party Goers

The DJ’s are supported by hard working hosts too! For full details of the opening event (bearing in mind it has already started) go here.

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