Entries from Thinking Tech tagged with 'secondlife'
Is SecondLife Virtual Money Real?
As I've noted before, converting money from SecondLife Linden dollars to real dollars depends on an exchange where people want to exchange real dollars for virtual dollars. As I read it, for $9.95 per month, you get a signup bonus...
SecondLife Has Legal Problems
In an easy-to-miss article, InformationWeek reported on legal challenges that SecondLife, the virtual world, is facing. Since people in SecondLife talk about the virtual world as if it were real (leading some to suspect that the only reason they need...
Instant Gratification in SecondLife
Let's get this straight up front: this post is not about sex. About 30 years ago, when I sat down at the keyboard of the Radio Shack TRS-80 (affectionately known by those of us who used it as the TRASH-80),...
SecondLife Profit and Residents
SecondLife publishes some statistics for you to review. I note that 283,000 people have logged in during the last 14 days, and 601,000 during the last 60 days. Here's the table: Logged-in Users Residents Logged-In During Last 7 Days 208,325 Residents...
Dell Sells In SecondLife
I rarely just quote someone else, but Ziff Davis says it better than I could. Ok, this has got to be one of the wackiest ideas I've heard in a long time. Dell now plans on selling PCs inside the...
SecondLife: Nissan Too...I got a Sentra!
I've been in SecondLife again. This time I found the Nissan car vending machine. Put in the code (which you get for free by sending an Instant Message [IM] to the right person), and select your color from the vending...
SecondLife: Toyota
To continue our tour of SecondLife (not that I'm obsessed with getting this, or anything)...here's an image of the Toyota showroom. There is a Scion behind me that is $L 300. Pretty cheap with signup, you get $L 1000, and...
SecondLife Again
Been in second life again. Walked around. Said "hiya" to a few folk. Teleported. Flew. No biggie. Still don't get it. I will.......
Getting SecondLife
I've been listening to marketing podcasts (if you don't know what a podcast is, stay tuned for later posts) lately, particularly casts like Across The Sound (below) from Joseph Jaffe. A few others like Managing the Gray by C. C....
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