Metaverse Aid – join the team
Back in October 2007, this site started generating a positive cash flow. After covering all costs, the decision was made to put excess funds to good use. Kiva was chosen primarily for its brilliant model of helping people help themselves, but there was also the tie-in of Kiva having a Second Life presence.
Since then, [...]
Competition winners: ‘The Unofficial Second Life Building Guide’
Over the past fortnight we’ve run a competition, with five copies of The Unofficial Second Life Building Guide.
Twenty-one people entered, with some excellent suggestions of new builds in Second Life. Using a random number generator, I’m pleased to announce that the five winners are:
Cary
Alberik Rotaru
KerryJ
Kim Flintoff
Rayn Juran
Thanks to Killer Guides for the prize of five [...]
Our new Second Life HQ
We’re really proud to announce the opening of our new in-world presence in Second Life. It’s been quite a number of months in the making. Our aim with the new presence was to have a multi-purpose facility that could be used for in-world information sharing.
Our old presence had its limitations although we had a [...]
Reminder: $5000L on offer for forum sign-up competition
A couple of weeks back we relaunched our forums and there’s been a number of people sign up and start contributing. For any forum’s success there needs to be a critical mass of participants and there’s certainly not that yet.
To help get things kick-started we have a competition running. Any person who signs up on [...]
Weekly newsletter now available
Over the past few months we’ve had a number of people ask if we could supply a regular virtual worlds newsletter – we’ve now created just that. If you subscribe to it, you’ll receive all the stories published that week in a newsletter format.
To subscribe look for the section as shown above – it’s on [...]
Relaunching our forums (and a competition)
When we first launched in late 2006 we also had forums, which were moderately utilised on those first months, particularly by the ABC prior to the launch of ABC Island. We closed the forums down mid-2007 due to lack of activity and some technical problems with the platform we were using.
I’m really pleased to re-launch [...]
