Yes, you can make real money in Second Life. How? By earning linden dollars in-world. For those unfamiliar to Second Life, linden dollars, the in-world currency of Second Life, can be exchanged to US Dollars and vice versa and if you earn enough linden dollars in-world you can exchange it to US Dollars and withdraw it through PayPal or have it delivered to you in a check.

How do you earn linden dollars? Well, you can start by reading my post, Easy Ways to Earn Linden Dollars in Second Life. It does not list all the ways of earning linden dollars but it does list the easy ones like:

• camping
• completing offers
• joining survey groups
• joining contests
• getting a job
• becoming a creator

Now, once you have more than enough linden dollars you can venture to other ways of earning them like starting a business, investing in stock exchanges, providing and offering specialized services, etc. These will earn you more linden dollars but they’re not that easy to do and a certain amount of risk is involve in them. Examples are investing in Stock Exchanges and depositing in Virtual Banks because these businesses can, at anytime, close shop and run away with your hard earn linden dollars. (Update: Banks are no longer allowed in Second Life)

Anyway, you can absolutely make money in Second Life. If you wish to learn more ways then I suggest that you join the many business groups in Second Life. Most of these groups are free to join and once you are in, don’t be afraid to ask questions. Many of them are more than willing to help you.

You can also check out Second Life Linden Dollars Guide, a 95 page eBook on making money in Second Life. Remember that there are Easy Ways to Earn Linden Dollars in Second Life.

Toxic Jewelry at Kunapipi has a huge camping setup. They mostly used camping rugs and although the rate isn’t that high, in fact it’s quite low, but it doesn’t hurt to add them to your list.

If you have a hundred alts and you are running out of camping spots then take them here. LOL! The camping area is located at Kunapipi (236, 181, 501).

It seems that PGMA (President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo) just got into Second Life. Various news sources have confirmed that our (Philippines) President is now officially a Second Life resident. LOL!

Other personalities also activated their avatars in Second Life like Department of Science and Technology Secretary Estrella Alabastro and IBM Executive Vice President for Innovation and Technology Nick Donofrio. Honestly, I don’t know who they are but their titles sounds very important. LOL!

The avatars were created by Gabby Dizon of Flipside Games under the direction of IBM Philippines.

Now that she has an avatar in-world would she be the one controlling her avatar? Or will they hire or have hired someone to play her role as President? Or will she just be there for display purposes only? Makes you think and ask questions, right? LOL!

Anyway, I think the Filipino Second Life community is very excited about this and this might also encourage more Filipinos to use Second Life. This might even attract local businesses to set up offices in-world.

(Photo from Hackenslash)

I wasn’t doing anything important this morning so I decided to give the VPRS Kiosk Kontest a try. Besides camping and exploring, I am also an aspiring builder (we can dream right?) and this kind of contest is a great learning tool and a great way to exercise and develop some skills.

My idea for the Kiosk is to make it really simple and to use a maximum of only 5 prims. I already have a picture of the Kiosk in my mind so after putting together some basic shapes I was able to complete the frame of the kiosk. The next thing I did is create the textures. Using Photoshop and some Stock Photos, I was able to create the textures I needed for the kiosk, so, I logged back in and applied the textures I made to the kiosk. The end product looked like this:

The kiosk I made uses a log as base with wooden boards for the signs. Almost all of the textures are custom made except for the piece of wood that’s holding the big poster board.

It is only 5 prims and if you remove the big poster board then it will only be 3 prims.

The advantage of having a high prim build is that you can have more details, the disadvantage is that you’ll use more prims. With a low prim build, you can use textures to simulate the details you need. For my kiosk, I think I used 5 custom textures. 3 for the boards and 2 for the log.