Linden Lab has announced a new freebies policy for listing products on XStreet SL. There will now be a fee for listing freebies. Within the next 90 days the policy will become active. While freebies will not actually be removed completely, they seem to be highly discouraged.

Basically the Monthly Listing Fee will [...]

It seems like only a short time ago that Linden Lab made the Second Life Viewer open source. Since then many developers have created viewers that violate the terms of service in the virtual world of Second Life such as allowing unrestricted copying of objects, etc. It has become such a problem that [...]

We have written about the changes that Linden Lab has made to policy on traffic bots. The Second Life traffic score will now be changed in the way it effects search results. This is partly due to problems in the calculations. To correct this traffic will now be total minutes spent on [...]

We have written before about President Obama visiting Second Life.

Well now one of his advisers Kevin Werbach will be appearing Wednesday (tomorrow) on the virtual Metanomics show in Second Life.

The topic will be: “The Age of Obama: Virtual Worlds, Open Government, and Policy”. The show will begin at 1pm Pacific time. [...]

We wrote earlier how ridiculous and ironic it was that Taser was suing Linden Lab and a Crack Den in Second Life for the virtual use of stun guns.

Apparently it turned into a bout of bad press for Taser and the lawsuit has been dropped.

Don’t Tase Me Bro

I have 4 words for you “don’t tase [...]

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As a recognized member of the press in Second Life, I received the below transcript from Pete Linden regarding the upcoming changes to adult content.  Questions were answered from Cyn Linden, Ken Linden, and Jack Linden in-world on a variety on topics such as the segregation and censhorship of adult content in Second Life and the [...]

1. Not Enough Women -
One of the best things about Second Life is the diversity you find there. Including well…. a ton of beautiful women.
Now I like hanging out with the guys as much as anyone else but I like to talk to women and be around women. I miss it and notice [...]

Linden Lab recently commented on their New Advertising Rules in Second Life. Claiming victory they point out that prior to the policy put into place on October 1, 2008 about fifteen to eighteen percent of parcels in the virtual world were mainly used for advertising and now that number has dropped to under two [...]

In dealing with the protests and backlash over OpenSpaces pricing and policy changes, Linden Lab and CEO Mark Kindon has come under fire. Linden Lab announced on their blog that another announcement will be posted tomorrow regarding Second Life OpenSpaces. Now that is some great information.

Save Our Sims Video Protest:

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