Grey People in Big Brother!

 

Have you ever wondered what happens when the asset servers go down on Second Life? Apparently the Big Brother sim, Kingdom of Media had it’s access to the asset server shut off for a full 2 hours. People were able to teleport to the Island but were unable to teleport out or even communicate outside the sim.

Below are screenshots capturing this rare event.
 

Another New First Land Sim!

Anma is the newest First Land simulator to come online in the metauniverse of Second Life. Half of the sim was released on Saturday October 7th, 2006. The rest of the sim has yet to be released. Anma could be named after the American Naturopathic Medical Assocation. Or after a San Diego area rock music group, Anma with those great hits of “Harblefest” , “DRINK COFFEE Tofer”, and the ever popular “Lofl Butt Plug”.

The more likely reason this sim was named Anma is its Japanese meaning. According to wikipedia Anma is a “form of Japanese massage which has its origins in China.” and is “often practiced in fairly communal business groups in feudal Japan.”

Click on the image below to visit Anma.

LindenLabs Corporate Migrates; but why can’t the Forums?

Lewis Nerd wrote regarding Linden migrating their corporate blog to WordPress.com:

Interesting.

You pay a third party site to run a blog for you – but wouldn’t do that with the forums.

The problem is the same – you don’t have the time or the inclination
to do either properly – so why didn’t you just save the forums – as
many wanted, indicated by prop 1781 which was ignored, and the various
other threads on the subject?

I’m still waiting for Philips response after the recent Town Hall on this subject too.

Lewis

Lewis, from my experience with other companies a corporate blog is a much easier way to get information out to customers and potential new customers. One of the main reason this is true is because current relevant news and press releases can be displayed directly on the frontpage. Within a web forum users would have to dig for the same information. This can be troublesome, especially if you are not familiar with the forum layout or how to locate the news.

Taking the blog off of Linden’s server and putting it on wordpress.com is a wise move. Everytime SecondLife is offline the website inadvertently suffers from a type of DOS attack that isn’t intentional. Too many users trying to use the website and then the web forums to find out information caused them to go down. What makes wordpress.com different? I’m not sure about their servers and structure – but I’m pretty sure they have the resources to keep the page open and probably have the ability to reallocate bandwidth during the heavy usage times.

I was under the impression that the reason Linden started closing the forums was because they felt that the residents could do a much better job self governing and operating their own sites. Users started to migrate to other locations even prior to the announcement. While I agree that it was wonderful to have a single location to go to, I could understand why Linden would want to downplay the forums and allow Liaisons and Helpers to spend more time answering questions in the SL world and less time making sure people are following forum rules. Since the switchover I’ve encountered more Lindens in world – perhaps its just a coincidence, or maybe it’s something more.

Second Hand Land Journal 10/5

I took a 3 week hiatus from land sales to spend time updating the 3D Lighting product line. Since most of the products have been updated I’m turning my attention back to the virtual land business.

Times are Changing
It seems there has been a few chances! Huge changes. For starters, all if not most of my old Plot Pals friends seem to have dropped entirely out of the land business. Unless they have changed to alts that I’m not aware of, I haven’t crossed paths with any of them.  Another change is the amount of new land baron wannabes, some who haven’t even spent the time to change out of their newbie skins and clothes! I was even approached by a newbie today who asked if I would sell my property for the underrated price of 1512! While the estates were listed in the Land Sales tab prior to my hiatus,  now there seems to be way more of them listed and less mainland. I’m sure it’s my eyes deceiving me. Secondlife’s economical data states that the average price of mainland has declined since August. Is there anyone else having the same hard time finding good deals at 5.7 and below?

First Land News
Linden Labs opened up three new mature First Land sims this week. Jirasan and Paektu were brought online on Sunday while Kuwol made its way on the listings on Wednesday. If I’m not mistaken this is the first time in over 3 weeks that new first land sims have opened. The demand for first land seems to be at an alltime high. Each sim is near capacity except in areas within the sims that Linden hasn’t released. This seems to be a new trend for Linden. Previously when a first land sim was brought online the entire sim was cut into 512 pieces and placed on the listing. The new sims each have five 4096sqm chunks left unclaimed.  I wonder if Linden will eventually release these as first land… or is it possible that these mysterious plots will find their way on the auction listings?

 Random Thoughts

Congrats to Guy Linden for the promotion to Land Guru.

More Auctions, YAY! Who outbid me on that terraformable plot?!

I still hate banlines.

Have any of these “Freebie Warehouses” considered setting up outpost vendors in first land sims?

This is kind of land related: I was customizing a lighting product for a new customer on their estate land. When suddenly the items I was working on vanished. Another reason I dislike estates: Estate owners have the ability to purge prims at a whims notice.

Second Life Blog

Greetings from the inside of Second Life. My name is Wrestling Hulka, I’m a controversial land owner and business person who lives and works fulltime inside Second Life. For those who don’t know Second Life is an online ‘3D Virtual World” that has a fledgling in-world economy. The tagline for Second Life is “Your World. Your Imagination,” which pretty much gives Second Life’s residents full editorial rights to how they conduct themselves. You are free to build your own environment.

I’m the owner of 3D Lighting which offers cheap alternatives in club lighting and supplies. Yes, I said clubs as in Night Clubs. There are thousands of such establishments inside of Second Life where people dance to music and chat with fellow residents. My club lights are probably inside half of these clubs.

I’m also the owner of my own Second Life land business called, Second Hand Land. Second Life allows users to buy and own their own virtual property. I purchased a significant amount of land tier and I am able to buy and sell land on the open market.

I hope to use this blog to discuss about Second Life and respond to the official Second Life Blog.