As we have told lately, Lindenlab is working on direct delivery for the Secondlife Marketplace.
Yesterday Lindenlab does some changes to the wiki with Instructions, so i decide to let you know what will happen the next weeks and of course how the changes will affect your life. I think it will not take long until everything is in the start because of the many problems with delivery. I personally think Lindenlab doesnt fix it so you will love the new crab idas.
https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Marketplace/Direct_Delivery_Beta_Instructions
As i heard and now seen myself the user isnt only faking the marketplace reviews with alt accounts, ripp off affiliate buyers who pay more then 1000 L$ more then in his store, also he remove the right to use the expensive buyed tool if you dont tell him exactly what are you doing, he is comint to you and looking what you create, he is sending you warning notecards over and over again and let you explain everything and when you dont response in 10 minutes he disable your account and you can never use the tool again.
Lindenlab is informed about this big fraud please remember it if you plan to buy such a item, Sculpt Studio creators are also involved and creating now a own product a review you will find here shortly
This is part 2 of this article http://www.vienna-freebies.de/2011/10/20/lumberjack-mesh-creation-tool-rip-off/
Vienna Freebies wish every customer and friends a happy New Year 2012 and hope we will see us next year too
Vienna Freebies wünscht allen Geschäftspartnern und Freunden ein Frohes Neues Jahr 2012 und wir hoffen uns nächstes Jahr wieder zu sehen
Zeist/Niederlande (pts015/24.10.2011/11:45) – Mit dem heutigen Tag verschlüsselt Ixquick, die “privateste Suchmaschine der Welt”, automatisch alle Suchanfragen. Ixquick war im Jahr 2009 die erste Suchmaschine, die SSL-Verschlüsselung angeboten hat. Jetzt beschreitet die Suchmaschine wieder neue Wege, indem sie die SSL-Verschlüsselung zum Standard macht.
SSL-Verschlüsselung, auch als “Secure Sockets Layer”-Verschlüsselung bekannt, wird von vielen Sicherheitsexperten als der sicherste Weg, im Internet zu surfen, gelobt. Die Verschlüsselung durch Ixquick verhindert Lauschangriffe von Internet Service Providern (ISPs), die gesetzlich dazu verpflichtet werden können, große Mengen an persönlichen Daten über ihre User speichern zu müssen.
“Schnüffelnde ISPs oder Hacker könnten zu einer enormen Bedrohung der Privatsphäre mit Orwell’schen Ausmaßen werden”, sagt Ixquick-CEO Robert E.G. Beens. “Deshalb haben wir beschlossen, unsere Webseiten zu 100 Prozent auf SSL-Verschlüsselung umzustellen, um die Privatsphäre unserer Nutzer bei ihren Internet-Recherchen zu schützen.”
Alle Besucher von Ixquick.com und der Schwester-Suchmaschine Startpage.com werden von dem neuen Verschlüsselungs-Service, der sie automatisch auf eine sichere Webseite umleitet, profitieren. Die Benutzer sehen die Buchstaben “https” in der URL-Leiste. Damit wird angezeigt, dass alle Daten in verschlüsselter Form übertragen werden. Jeder Hacker oder Lauscher, der sich Zutritt zu der Verbindung verschafft, sieht nichts als Kauderwelsch.
Andere Suchmaschinen wie Google, Yahoo und Bing folgen mittlerweile dem Vorbild von Ixquick und bieten ebenfalls SSL-Verschlüsselung an. Allerdings kann der Privatsphäre-Vorteil durch die Verwendung von SSL bei anderen großen Suchmaschinen irreführend sein, da diese Suchmaschinen ihrerseits sowohl die IP-Adressen ihrer Nutzer als auch umfangreiche Datenmengen über deren Suchanfragen speichern.
“Wenn Sie Ixquick.com oder Startpage.com verwenden, wird Ihre IP-Adresse nicht erfasst, Ihr Besuch nicht aufgezeichnet und es werden auch keine Tracking-Cookies auf Ihrem Browser platziert”, erklärt Beens. “Tatsächlich erheben wir überhaupt gar keine Informationen über unsere Nutzer. Nothing. Nada. Null!”
Ixquick kombiniert Ergebnisse vieler führender Suchmaschinen, Startpage wiederum erhält nur die Google-Suchergebnisse und liefert sie unter absoluter Wahrung des Datenschutzes an die User. Über den Besuch der Nutzer werden keinerlei Aufzeichnungen gemacht.
Die automatische SSL-Verschlüsselung ist nur die neueste Ergänzung der wachsenden Familie von Datenschutz-Funktionen, die Ixquick insgesamt zur privatesten Suchmaschine der Welt machen.
Über Ixquick “Die privateste Suchmaschine der Welt”
Ixquick ist eine preisgekrönte und von unabhängiger Stelle zertifizierte Suchmaschine, die vollkommene Anonymität bietet. Es ist die einzige Suchmaschine, die einen kostenlosen Proxy-Dienst und die erste, die eine SSL-Verschlüsselung im Portfolio hat. Ixquick hat das begehrte EuroPriSe-”Gütezeichen” für herausragende Privatsphäre- und Datenschutz-Praktiken erhalten. Die Suchmaschine wurde darüber hinaus von Certified Secure zertifiziert und ist bei der niederländischen Datenschutzbehörde registriert.
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Last week, a new Facebook application borrowing on Second Life’s theme of an alternate, digital reality, announced it’s launch. Much like Second Life, Dot Friends is a virtual landscape where friends can hang out, chat, buy virtual products, but .Friends ties in a Facebook users’ profiles, allowing a more seamless transition into their offline worlds.
“While Facebook is a great platform for keeping in touch and meeting new people, it’s still missing that offline element of interaction that helps us make connections that much closer. .Friends builds on the incredible platform that Facebook provides and adds a virtual-layer that makes it that much more fun to hang out with your friends and meet new one,” says Jonah Balfour, Dot Friends’ Content Manager.
If .Friends users start to hit off in this virtual setting, they can start a private conversation, or even start up a real-life video chat thus lifting the veil on the digital avatar.
With Dot Friends, “you customize the ‘virtual you’ just the way you want and hang out with your Facebook friends and make new ones.” Although the premise highlights creating “the virtual you”, there are no guidelines or suggestions that a user’s avatar resemble their real-life physical appearance- thus allowing the user to reinvent themselves more so than recreate.
Like other massively multiplayer online games (MMOG), .Friends focuses on a user building his/her reputation through buying more social goods- in this case clothes, accessories, or drinks (for themselves or others). A user earns more virtual cash every time he/she logs into the application or when he/she gets friends to sign up for an account. In the short-term future, look for users to have the option to purchase more virtual cash, most likely through Facebook Credits.
Dot Friends was established in February 2011, and is led by CEO Ido Hardonag with funding from private investors.
http://www.facebook.com/DotFriendsCommunity
This week, Linden Labs lost its focus on Second Life. According to New World Notes, Lindens would rather invent new online games from scratch rather than invest in its sole product to date, Second Life (SL). SL is profitable today, but not forever. A proverbial cash cow, SL will be drained of cash as land prices fall and people and businesses abandon ship.
When did Second Life lose its mojo? The signs are all around us. Metanomics and Dresden Gallery are history. Mass layoffs at Linden Labs (LL); a whole new “gamer” team runs the show. Big business ditched Second Life. Out of the Fortune 100, only 2 remain: Dell Computer and a few embarrassing prims on IBM Events region. CNN/Time-Warner quit SL TODAY 27Dec2011! Dedicated SL reporters from Reuters, New York Times, and Wired? Gone!
When early rumors surfaced about SL’s decline in 2008, Lindens promoted Second Life as The Educational Platform. But 1 year ago, Lindens closed down the teen education grid, a big flop, and cancelled all educational discounts on SL land. Abandoning yet another promising dream. Now, New Caerleon, SL’s premiere arts community shuts down, because nonprofits lost their discounts too. Makes one wonder.
SL Land prices are tumbling. People who bought into SL land at peak prices are screwed. Says Poison Toocool: “Linden Labs is totally trashing people’s investment now… people who bought land for $10Ls a square meter [sqm] now find LL selling mainland for $1L a sqm… People are losing out. I have a friend who bought mainland for $400 US and sold it 3 or 4 years later for like $90… criminal.” US $1 is about 260 Linden Dollars ($260L).
Last year the buzz was Voice Morphing and this year Mesh graphics. Technologies with so little impact, that most of us easily ignore them. Mesh is trendy with machinima makers. But since mesh clothing has to be custom fit to each avatar; it’s completely unworkable commercially. And, Kristens Viewer, the darling of many SL creatives, has ceased development because very few of us would pay for the 1 programmer needed to maintain that feature-rich SL Viewer.
SL’s technology is what it is. Fantastic for artists, builders, DeeJays, and musicians. A dream come true. But business friendly it is not. Notoriously unreliable, especially SL voice. But there are alternatives: FreeSwitch is a industrial-grade voice system which readily integrates with OpenSim, based on voice technology proven to work for a hundred years, ye olde telephone. Duh!
OpenSim ah OpenSim… proliferating roll-your-own versions of SL. Numerous and inexpensive new worlds. And the technology is free! There you find oodles of free prims for your inexhaustible creativity.
Major SL institutions are planning their SL escape. I can’t find one who doesn’t have a post SL plan! You should too. OpenSim is calling. Cheap or free land, if you provide your own hardware. Friendly communities. Lots of activities. http://tiny.cc/i0rjl And no threat from Linden Labs running your life. Same technology as SL. Loads of content is transferrable: all your clothing designs, image textures, animation files, LSL scripts, and sculpty textures are easily transferred. Free uploads! Find your OpenSim community! Enjoy your Third Life!
via The End of Second Life is Nigh – CNN iReport.
Da hat sich wohl was hinter den Kulissen abgespielt. Die selbst ernannte Deutsche Second Life Community, zusammen gesetzt aus den grössten Idioten in Second Life hat sich jetzt nicht nur in Second Life ins aus geschossen, jetzt hats auch innerhalb des Vulkans geknallt und die Reezdays wurden einfach abgesagt. War aber auch nicht anders zu erwarten gewesen.
Christmas is coming, and for those not seeing family out of town (or whom need a break after seeing too much of certain family), there are numerous holiday and winter themed events and places on the Grid. From the Fifth Annual Winter Festival at Areo Pines to “Who Melted Frosty?”, there are too many to count. And of course we have the Christmas events at the featured music clubs, whom deck the walls in a different light.
via Second Life Newser: Events this Week in Second Life from Dec 20th to Dec 26th.
[Posted 8:26am PST, 21 December 2011] We are beginning this morning’s maintenance on the AGNI main grid, which will require an extended period of region restarts. We expect this maintenance to be completed by December 25, 2011. We will update this when work begins, as well as throughout the process.
[Posted 6:15 PM PST, 21 Dec 2011] We are beginning this evening’s maintenance on the Agni main grid, which will require an extended period of region restarts. We expect this maintenance to be completed by December 25, 2011. We will update this when work begins, as well as throughout the process.
via Second Life Grid Status Reports » Blog Archive » Critical OS Upgrades – Region Restarts.
Today in world The Official Kirstens Viewer Group got a message from Sylvia and Lee aka Dawny and KirstenLee. The end of the Crowdfunder effort has come to an end and we are about 79% short of the goal. Lee will be closing the group.
There is a farewell message on the blog. And Finally…
There are some interesting and in some ways disturbing statistics in the article. It seems there were 3,000 to 4,000 regular users per month. The average number of downloads were 6,000 to 8,000 per month. But, only a couple hundred of us chipped in to continue the viewer. Sad, imo.
The Niran Viewer is based on Kirsten’s Viewer. It is very different from Kirsten’s and as best I can tell has a different feature set. But, it may work for you.
My best to Sylvia and Lee.
