Adult Hub To Voluntarily Remove Zindra Name

Today there was an Adult content user group meeting, the minutes of can be read here. The meeting being today quite frankly scares me because these meetings are now fortnightly and I swear it isn’t a fortnight since the last one! Time really is flying. Anyway there was some big news at the meeting regarding the controversial use of the Zindra name on the new Adult Gateway.

Serjourn Daxter announced:

This weekend I was approached by Counter Landfall, a member of the Zindra Alliance. We talked and looked into possible cooperation models. It became clear that the use of the Zindra name was a sore point for the alliance. I was also given an insight into the reasons. In the interest of buillding unity in the adult communities, I brought this issue up in my management team meeting Saturday. After some discussions, we passed a 16 to nil vote on to go ahead and profile what we are (an adult hub) rather than to use the Zindra name, that we understand has a value for the Zindra continent, but is of little consequence for us as a hub.

As a first result of the new cooperation, the Zindra yellowpages have now been placed in 4 locations in the central HUB sim, and will over the comming weeks be placed also in the 4 surrounding sims. ”

This is good news on several fronts and extremely encouraging to hear.

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Premium Member Reminder Email Error

Plenty of you will know about this, because you’ll have received an email like this:

We hope you’re enjoying your Second Life.  This is a reminder that your, Second Life Premium Annual Plan will be renewed on a certain date, at which time you’ll be charged a certain fee (USD).  You don’t need to do anything; renewal and billing are automatic.”

I’m not as eagle eyed as others as I thought “Bloody hell, they’re keen” as my renewal is months away, it was actually telling me the renewal was due earlier this year. Others received emails telling them their renewals were due in 2009 or 2008, which is easier to spot….. that’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it!

However there’s no need to panic, just keep your eyes peeled on your bills, you shouldn’t be charged, Linden Lab know all about it.

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Traffic Strikes Back – Revenge Of The Bots!

I’m not sure how long this has been going on for, but I’ve only noticed it today, I’ve also only noticed today a link to create classifieds that I thought had disappeared, so I may not have had my Sherlock Holmes like powers of observation on lately!

Anyway, it’s back … in places search at least, Traffic is rearing its head:

Searching places by Traffic order

Beware of Bots bearing gifts!

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Second Life News And Views

A couple of articles to compare and contrast, the first, which many of you will have read, is from Slate Magazine: Why Second Life Failed. The second, probably less widely reported, is from the Indian section of The Business Standard: Virtues and Veracity Of The Second Life. Both articles are inaccurate, the Slate article because Second Life hasn’t failed and the the second article because it draws on a history of Second Life that doesn’t paint a true picture of where Second Life is today, but it’s a wonderful read of what was, what could have been and what may be in the future if the cards are played correctly.

The problem with Second Life articles is that they wind Second Life users up, when we criticise Second Life, poke fun at it, it’s ok, when someone who seems to know little about the platform makes snidey remarks and says it’s failing, we go into full on defence mode. The truth about Second Life probably lies somewhere in the middle of the two articles.

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