Recently, many Second Life merchants have started removing their items in XstreetSL.com in response to Second Life’s new Roadmap on Managing Freebies in XstreetSL. The roadmap includes adding listing fees on both freebies and regular items listed in XstreetSL.com. This is the Commerce Team’s way of reducing clutter in XstreetSL.com’s marketplace.

A monthly listing fee of 99L$ will be charged for Freebies and 10L$ will be charged for items priced 1L$ and above. For me, I see these charges as additional cost in operating a small business in Second Life. For example, I have, more or less, 300 active items listed for sale in XstreetSL.com. Multiplying that with 10L$ will get a result of 3,000L$ which is almost twice the amount of my monthly land rental fee of 1,600L$. [...continue reading New XstreetSL Roadmap Drove Away Merchants]

Finally, Ozimals has released their initial entry to the virtual AI pet industry in Second Life and this is the Ozimals Bunny. Currently, Ozimals Bunnies are in their Open Beta stage and you can grab an Open Beta set for FREE in XstreetSL.com. Either click on this link, Ozimals Bunny Open Beta Collectible Package, or search for Ozimals in XstreetSL.com.

The Ozimals Bunny Open Beta set or package contains everything you will need to start raising and/or breeding your own Ozimals Bunnies. The package contains the following items: [...continue reading Open Beta Ozimals Bunnies]

Owning land in Second Life cost linden dollars and even if you are just renting land, like me, it will still cost linden dollars. That is why I’m always looking for ways of earning or making linden dollars to help pay off my monthly rental fees. Besides from creating and selling items one of the many ways I’m earning linden dollars from my place is by hosting RezAds.com AdBoards.

Hosting a RezAds.com AdBoard is very easy. It’s just a matter of rezzing your choice of AdBoard on your land and that’s it. Of course, you’ll have to register first as a Publisher with RezAds.com before you can host their AdBoards because if not then they won’t be able to send payment to you for hosting their AdBoards. [...continue reading RezAds.com, Earn Linden Dollars Hosting AdBoards]

I stumbled upon this website today while searching for more information about content theft in Second Life. This particular website features and sell a program named Inventory Backup. It uses the term backup but it’s actually nothing more than a copybot program because a true backup tool will only allow you to make backup copies of content you created.

One of the selling point made by this particular program is that it is legal and was approved by Linden Lab’s legal team. Now, the funny part is if it’s legal and approved by Linden Lab then why is there a sign in there in-world store saying something about a dispute with Second Life? Makes you think otherwise eh? [...continue reading Inventory Backup aka CopyBot]

I have not posted anything about camping in Second Life for many months because , 1. I don’t camp for Linden Dollars anymore and 2. there is a new policy about camping, bots and gaming traffic but still there are many places that offers camping. One of this place is 55 Creations Camp Equipment which is a shop that sells camping equipments. They have camping dance pads, camping beach towels and all sorts of equipments for camping.

Camping Devices at 55 Creations

Obviously, I didn’t look at the other stuff they have for sale because I wasn’t really thinking of buying anything. I was just there to check out the camping devices and to see if they are active. [...continue reading Looking to Camp for Linden Dollars?]

Greenlife Emerald Viewer’s latest update introduced new features like being able to back-up your scripts and notecards, expanded avatar attachment points, built-in animation overrider or AO, enhanced physics on avatar breasts a.k.a. bouncing boobs, etc. These are all great, useful and functional features but the most controversial (if we can call it like that) is the bouncing boobs effect especially on female avatars.

Curious, I signed up for a new account and created a female avatar. Logged in to Second Life using the Emerald Viewer and enabled the bouncing boobs effect. It kinda didn’t do anything so what I did is I enlarged the female avatar’s breast by sliding the breast size bar all the way to the right in appearance mode. Even with the enlarged breast size, they weren’t that bouncy. Ha ha ha! [...continue reading Enhanced Physics on Avatar Breast]