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The Second Life fashion community was hit by some shocking new year’s news, when Slink creator Siddean Munroe announced she was closing down her line of high quality avatar mesh enhancements for painful real life reasons: Following two stressful years of pandemic which I am sure we have all been affected by in one way…
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@phia.sims I’m Gonna Dance Dance Dance! 🔥 #secondlife #phiasims #fyp #wednesday #wednesdayaddams #addamsfamily #netflix #wednesdaynetflix #wednesdaydance #goth ♬ original sound – heyy https://www.tiktok.com/embed.js Remember that Wednesday dance I blogged last week? Turns out there's more to that story, and it's a smart way of leveraging and bridging social media and metaverse platforms. "The dance I…
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In keeping with Second Life's famous tradition of instantly riffing on the latest pop culture hotness, Phia Sims created an SL dance inspired by the one Jenna Ortega as Wednesday does in Netflix's Wednesday — watch above, compare and contrast with the original below. (Cajsa was ahead of the curve on this one.) Get it…
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In the platform game of Love, you only win when the final boss gets hugged. And while this looks like a fun iPhone game, it's actually an ad for Sky Pirates steampunk decor by D-LAB. Though come to think of it, this also shows how Second Life machinima is a great tool for pre-visualizing games…
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Happy Halloween! 🎃 SL fam have you ever tried @zepeto_official ? I was recently invited as an official creator and my little concept brand Super Fun reached Hot Creator status 🙌 Here's our @wednesdayaddams inspired outfit 🐈⬛🖤 pic.twitter.com/Q0dsLyrfuI — Truth Hawks (@TruthHairSL) October 31, 2022 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Truth Hawks, one of Second Life's most well-known and…
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When I blogged about J.P. Morgan investing in Linden Lab payments spinoff Tilia last week, I missed this point from Forbes columnist and longtime Metaverse expert Charlie Fink: Tilia is easy for developers to implement, and it’s simple and convenient for their customers to use. Transactions are instant and cost pennies, some of which go…
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French-fluent readers, the great Le Monde of France has a new article on a famous old story from the virtual world economy, part of a larger series on the topic: Comment Ginko Financial, la plus célèbre banque de « Second Life », s’est écroulée — i.e. "How Ginko Financial, the most famous bank in “Second…
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Loading… New Linden Lab offer, new SL user survey (above, take on laptop/desktop for best results): That’s right, as [last week] everyone can change their avatar name regardless of their subscription level. Not just the Premium subscribers that have always been able to do so, but all of our Basic accounts as well! This is something…
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Very good point from reader "Alelangel Verenova", responding to my survey on interest in Second Life's new Premium+ account offering, which will costs up to $25 USD a month: Here in Latin America there will be a major NO answer, basically because the exchange to our local money. It's an important amount per month, even…
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Lots of good reader feedback around the just-announced Premium Plus offering for Second Life. According to Luther Weymann, getting a Premium Plus in his specific scenario would not be a very good deal: I have a free account.I have a 2048 store in a private region for monthly rent.I have product development that I upload…
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