Category: Economics of SL

Watch: This Bento-Based Hoverboard With Sick Maneuvers is Seriously The Coolest Item I’ve Seen in Second Life for Some Time

April 7, 2021

//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js Maybe I'm jaded or more recently out of the loop, but this hoverboard by Val'More using the latest Bento-based avatar skeleton tech is among the most eye-popping pieces of Second Life content I've seen in some time. I reached out to Val'More about how they created it and its amazing flip tricks, and haven't…
Catwa Head Mob Crush Perfectly Encapsulates Current State of Second Life (Comments of the Week)

March 29, 2021

Photo of Catwa sale mob crush by SL blogger Kirsten Corleone; large version is not worksafe. The L$1 sale of Catwa avatar heads caused the Marketplace website to crash due to heavy demand, provoking Linden Lab to remove the item from the store, and instead, make it available in-world on several sims… which also overloaded…
Linden Lab Bought the Web-Based Marketplace for Second Life Because Actually Shopping in SL is Such a Laggy Mess (Comment of the Week)

March 15, 2021

Good conversation on the SL Marketplace and the argument that it helped "kill" Second Life by becoming an Amazon-like web giant that crushed in-world stores — including this comment from oldbie insider Flipper PA: Disclaimer: I was the founder and coder of SLBoutique.com, one of the original web-based SL marketplaces. I eventually sold it to…
Second Life’s Web-Based Marketplace Hurt Second Life’s Community Like Amazon Hurt Small Town Stores (Comment of the Week)

March 8, 2021

What went wrong with Second Life? Bryan Ogden has an intriguing take in that post of the same name last week: The thing that killed SL IMHO wasn't a specific technical feature… It was web-based shopping for stuff. And point-to-point teleportation. It was an attempt to make SL convenient and consumer friendly. Why? When I…
Top Second Life Creator is Importing His Avatars into VRChat — And Successfully Selling Them for 10x the SL Price

January 27, 2021

What you’re looking at above may be the first sign of a larger trend: This furry avatar for VRChat is now selling on Gumroad for $40. That’s not surprising, given VRChat’s fast-growing userbase. What is perhaps surprising is that the very same avatar is selling in Second Life for a tenth of the price. That’s…
Black Friday Sales in Second Life: All Dutchie Adult Items 20% Off!

November 27, 2020

Update, 11/30: Black Friday offer now over! If you're planning your virtual world shopping trips for this Friday, famed SL housewares brand Dutchie (who we're honored to call a sponsoring partner here at New World Notes) will have a Black Friday sale — 20% off all Adult-rated items. This is actually Dutchie's very first Black…
Does the SL Community Care Enough to Clamor for Well-Optimized Mesh?

November 23, 2020

Pictured: Slink Redux body bundle, a rare example of popular SL mesh avatar content that's also well-optimized Last Friday I wrote about the new Black Dragon viewer update which checks whether a mesh avatar is well-optimized or not. Reader "Down With Underboob" (LOL) tried it out in SL over the weekend, to see how much…
Seraphim Secrets: How a Second Life Fashion Blog Earned 60 Million+ Views

November 12, 2020

Seraphim, the massive Second Life shopping blog, recently opened a Cuban-themed shopping sim in SL itself — click here to visit. This virtual island is a long time coming since the web site launched in 2011, going on to become the largest user-run SL blog by far. Raking in nearly 61 million reported pageviews since…
This Halo Lights Up If a Second Life Region You Visit Has Migrated To The Amazon Cloud — Or Makes a Womp-Womp Sad Trombone Sound If It’s Not

October 28, 2020

Second Life is finally, gradually being migrated to the Amazon cloud, region by region — but is your region part of that "Uplift"? Now available in the SL Marketplace, the free Fourmilab Cloud Halo cleverly comes to the rescue: To use the Cloud Halo, simply add it to your outfit. It is an attachment, worn…
Second Life Registrations Down in 2020 Despite COVID Concurrency Bump

October 22, 2020

Recent SL sign-up stats via Tyche Shepherd's Grid Survey – click to embiggenate Talking to Second Life data expert Tyche Shepherd about the Carmen King bump brought up another set of data points that aren't as fun. While it's true, as Linden Lab CEO Ebbe Altberg said back in March, that "[w]e are seeing an…

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