Lousy Virtual Investments: Atomics do it too!

Remember how every atomic financial newspaper had a blast when our banks & stock exchange failed and the Second Life economy got a serious hit? ‘Second Life residents lost savings’, ‘Virtual economy is a scam’, … . I can’t recall if back then any of them wrote that this should serve as a warning for [...]

Wanna know why he paid you?

Peter Stindberg opened a new JIRA (What’s JIRA & how to vote?) issue, VWR-9597 ‘Optional text for payments to show up in transaction history’, which is a suggestion to Lindens to add the following functionality to our SLives & transaction history: An extra input field in the ‘Pay Dialogue’ where one can add the ‘reason’ for [...]

JIRA?! And how to vote on JIRA?

Jira?! What JIRA is for. Jira is a bowser-based bug, issue, task and defect tracking system, and project management software solution used for open source and enterprise projects. Lindens use it for internal communication on bugs & other issues, as well as for letting residents file bug reports, functionality suggestions and other issues. Residents can keep [...]

Second Life Business and Social Expo: call for track proposals

Whilst the Virtual Worlds Forum Europe in London that had to take place *now* was cancelled due to ‘an unrelated incident at the venue in which a member of the public was shot’ and Virtual Worlds London is ‘upcoming’ October 21-22 (Boss speaking!), the ‘Second Life Business and Social Expo’ that will take place June [...]

Second Life web resources for October 6th 2008

standard agreement for design related thingies - Ok, I could not remember the full title. But it’s a draft to start working from when making a ‘design’ agreement. Worth a read for those who charge RL money for SL ads, logo’s, … . Designers developing virtual-reality ‘Cocoon’ - Telepresence Options - Looks sweet, no? Did Lindesn [...]