2008-08-28T02:30:39Z http://slbizreview.com/comments/atom.aspx Quick Blog tag:slbizreview.com,2008-03-12:887589 Brenda Archer 2008-03-12T05:16:39Z 2008-03-12T02:33:31Z http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/MISC-208, and it's the most popular feature request with 1048 votes. As it stands people are getting throwaway alts just to track extra groups! But that's less than ideal because reputation is tied to one's primary avie.]]> tag:slbizreview.com,2007-08-28:497499 CC Chapman http://www.cc-chapman.com 2007-09-01T04:13:45Z 2007-08-28T11:50:49Z
This was an experiment and one that we are still learning from for the next campaign we do for any client in Second Life. Sure, there is no ONE right answer for anyone, but I think there are some best practices that everyone is trying to figure out and the only way to move it forward is to share information so that we can all learn together.

Coke was very open with information to the community which we had hoped they would be. I hope other companies see this and follow suit on their projects. Both successes and failures because we all could learn from both.]]> tag:slbizreview.com,2007-08-20:486431 Tammy Nowotny 2007-09-01T04:14:02Z 2007-08-20T21:30:14Z tag:slbizreview.com,2007-08-02:462922 Prokofy Neva http://secondthoughts.typepad.com 2007-09-01T04:14:52Z 2007-08-02T14:42:00Z
"The casino folks are pulling out of SL, because they can't afford to maintain their holdings without income," wrote journalist and Second Life resident Shava Nerad on the Terra Nova blog Sunday. "They have their assets locked, apparently -- something that's been remarkably hard to substantiate."

So there are two incorrect comments here. One, you are confusing *cashing out* with "pulling out".

No, I am not changing anything I said; you're not understanding what's at issue.

If the Concierge list lights up with people wishing to sell islands, that's just selling islands; it doesn't mean they are withdrawing from Second Life. In some cases, people have multiple sims. They may shed one, and keep going. They may take the proceeds from the sale especially of an old-tier $195 island, which are very very much in demand, and go into business doing something else.

Another point is about this concept of "they had their resources locked". If this means their land is unable to be sold and they are locked into the game, we don't see evidence of that -- at least not yet. Those unable to sell immediately simply convert to other things. And I see some were indeed able to do this, especially on mainland sims -- they simply changed to other revenue-generating activity. I was amazed at how fast neighbouring sims and parcels that I see on sims where I own land either sold or converted to other operations nearly overnight, as if they had planned for it -- or as if they were simply very adaptable in this harsh and competitive environment, which is the case.]]> tag:slbizreview.com,2007-08-02:462838 Shava Nerad http://slbizreview.com/ 2007-08-02T13:45:17Z 2007-08-02T13:45:17Z
But at any rate, it's interesting that you are saying this, this week, as one of my sources last week was your Second Rant podcast on Metaversed last week.

You said that one of the first things that happened was the concierge support lines lit up with people selling their sims and that you didn't see a lindex dump at first but then you were seeing signs...

Have you changed your mind or gotten better information since?

I have seen, for example, the WSE companies that were involved in gambling adjust. But I have interviewed many people who report the situation above, not just you -- and in many cases they are the very people anxious to sell out and leave SL.

These are "casino folks" - they are people who ran casinos and were not well diversified, or who gave over land cheap because they had enough income from their casino -- I've heard lots of different stories this week.]]> tag:slbizreview.com,2007-08-02:462812 Shava Nerad http://slbizreview.com/ 2007-08-02T13:31:12Z 2007-08-02T13:31:12Z
Perhaps you mean a user interface design issue? In which case I'd understand the comment. But I think we agree this is a database issue.

My hope is that dividing out the various purposes for which one mechanism (the group) has been purposed might actually alleviate some of the scaling issues, allowing different sorts of limits.

For example, sometimes all you need is an announcement list, where one person is sending a notecard to an arbitrarily large audience. These groups might not need chat or permissions. This would eliminate the prospect of, say, a group used to promote a fashion designer's announcements.

It's simple, there's less load on the system, and you would be able to keep an arbitrary number of them active - it's no more than a mailing list, and it isn't dependent on each notecard being delivered in a second or two, so the operations can be queued at a lower priority.]]> tag:slbizreview.com,2007-08-02:462260 Ace Albion http://www.alwaysblack.com 2007-08-02T13:19:52Z 2007-08-02T05:35:28Z
Maybe groups aren't the answer. I don't see anything analogous to the way groups are done in SL in the regular world wide web. How do we manage?]]> tag:slbizreview.com,2007-08-02:462245 Prokofy Neva 2007-08-02T13:20:46Z 2007-08-02T04:54:42Z
Age verification is only about one thing for LL: limiting liability for litigation.

If they can force adult venues to verify, they swift the problem of child porn or obscenity outside the law on to those who verify. The purpose isn't to keep out kids or stop throways -- though that may be a side benefit. The purpose is about verifying those who wish to maintain adult venues so that they bear the heat from RL prosecutors, not LL. End of story.]]> tag:slbizreview.com,2007-08-02:462244 Prokofy Neva http://secondthoughts.typepad.com 2007-08-02T13:22:04Z 2007-08-02T04:52:10Z
Re: ""The casino folks are pulling out of SL, because they can't afford to maintain their holdings without income," wrote journalist and Second Life resident Shava Nerad on the Terra Nova blog Sunday. "They have their assets locked, apparently -- something that's been remarkably hard to substantiate."

This is largely untrue. While some casinos went out of business, they don't tend to be those who are the major players of SL, or even many smaller casinos. Major players just diversified, and smaller players reverted to rentals or dance clubs. Those with huge holdings had multiple types of income-generating projects anyway. Casinos were often integrated to malls/rentals/entertainment venues. It was an add-on for many.

The idea that there has been some huge swathe cut through the SL economy is a fanciful one, one that people who want a quick sound byte for RL media eager to take only a very superficial swab of SL can handle. The truth is far more complciated. The LindEx shows some dumps, and there will be big cashouts, but it isn't the doom one imagines.]]> tag:slbizreview.com,2007-08-02:462243 Prokofy Neva http://secondthoughts.typepad.com 2007-08-02T13:22:58Z 2007-08-02T04:48:41Z
If you run out of groups on one avatar, make a second and pile on more passive groups that you only need news from or only need to access when you have time.

Groups used to be limited to only 10; you can imagine how hard it was to have only 10. That necessitated those of us in land groups especially to have to make alts which got expensive (if they were to be tier-holding alts especially). Earlier people lobbied the Lindens and they finally moved to 25. They are keenly aware of the need for more group space, it's not a design issue but a database and scaling issue like many other SL problems.]]>