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Did you ever wanted to have Amsterdam virtual in your own pocket. It’s possible thru Ebay!

http://www.ebay.com

A complete virtual sim in Second life for $20,000.00

It’s one of the most visitedplaces in the virtual world. This is not only of the realistic sim, but also thru the atmosphere that is on this amazing place! Even www.secondlifeinsider.com besteedde er aandacht aan. Serpentine is the official designer, an says that he AND Amsterdam grows in different directions. Don’t have the time anymore, and somebody has to take it over.
So somebody has been build since 2006 with this project and now he wants to sell it. Amazing work and money!

Frank

The Samwer hotties brothers

The German newspaper Frankfurther Allgemeine is reporting that the Samwer brothers of Germany have acquired a 10% stake in the virtual real estate and metaverse development company Anshe Chung Studios. The Samwer brothers — Oliver, Alexander and Marc — gained their claim to fame when they started an online auction site alano.de in 1999, which they subsequently sold to eBay for the equivalent of $50 million US. In 2000 the brothers founded Jamba!, which they sold to Verisign for the equivalent of $270 million US in 2004. They subsequently started a venture capital fund called European Founders Fund.
Reached for comment by the Herald, Anshe Chung would not indicate the dollar value of the initial investment, but it has been reported that venture capital firms have previously valued Anshe Chung Studios at over $2 million dollars US. This would suggest a possible investment of […]

The Journal of the Business Law Society at the University of Illinois College of Law is running a well documented article on Second Life’s Ginko corporation, which claims to have the equivalent of $475,000 US invested in it but which some have called a ponzi scheme, Meanwhile, Philip Linden has comparedGinko to the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh. Finally, someone is calling out Philip on this outrageous attitude. From the JBLS:
More curious than people’s willingness to give their money to Ginko, is that Linden Lab does not seem to find anything worrisome about the venture. Linden Lab’s CEO and founder, Philip Rosedale, believes that banks can exist within the virtual world of Second Life without regulation. Rosedale likens banks like Ginko to Grameen Bank of Bangladesh which makes small unsecured loans to the very poor to help them start businesses and work their way out […]

If you are coming from the Feb. 22 LA Times article… I dunno…just know that we really really hate the Lakers. Or as we call them, the Hollywood Fakers. If you already read the article, then let me save you some trouble, and suggest that you use this link for sex, cybersex, and beyond.
If you haven’t read the article by Alana Semuels, which has been long in the works, I guess the key thing to know is that it is a reasonable MSM attempt at covering the current growing pains in Second Life, as the meatspace corporations invade and the indigenous tribes protest. Cyberlebrities quoted include the ever sensible Second Life Liberation Army’s Marshal Cahill, the meek and soft-spoken Prokofy Neva, the oh so modest Urizenus Sklar, and Electric Sheep’s luddite ruler Sibley Verbeck and many others including Nimrod Yaffle. If you needed more reason to […]

The Register hating on Second Life
by Curious Rousselot, virtual correspondent
Shaun Rolph at The Register dissects the phony economics of Second Life and how the mainstream media has latched onto SL as “The Next Big Thing”(tm). Rolph concludes that based on churn rate statistics provided by Linden Lab, the population of returning residents is probably around a quarter of a million instead of the over 3 million ‘residents’ the Lab likes to flog on their website, and notes that retaining only 15% of the residents that logged in during October after 30 days is “a churn rate that might surprise and dismay executives from other industries”. Even more telling, the report suggests the SL economy “has a population about the size of Ilkeston, Derbyshire, or Troutdale, Oregon”.
Rolph speculates that with around 15,000 clients logged in at any one time and the small proportion of paying customers - premium accounts - […]

Mainland land market may be flooded soon
by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk
Jack Linden took time from an important search and rescue mission today to announce that the Lab has discontinued - without any advance notice - the subsidized “first land” purchase program for Premium account holders. First Land allowed Second Life subscription account holders a one-time below market purchase of 512 m2 of virtual land at L$1 per m2.
The surprise announcement seems to have come before the web site and knowledge base had been updated, and Jack’s announcement admitted, “The website and knowledgebase will be amended to reflect this change shortly”. There was no mention of grandfathering in existing Premium account holders or any sort of grace period. Somebody get the Lindens a PR firm. Oh wait - they already have one.
Jack also suggested the game gods intend to flood the mainland land market and promised “much higher levels […]

Former residents claim Valentines day eviction massacre in “The Tropicana” sim, hire SL/RL lawyer to arbitrate island land dispute
by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk
I met one of a rare breed Saturday. Joshua Sao is a 5 month metaverse resident who owns “The Tropicana” island sim yet cannot recall when he bought his island, or the amount of his monthly tier payments to Linden Lab. It is also difficult for Mr. Sao to remember exactly how many residents he evicted - although eventually Mr. Sao told the Herald he evicted “2 or 3 tenants” for what he claims is non-payment of rent.
However, a group of 7 turfed-out ex-residents have hired SL/RL lawyer Monday Beam to represent them - and say that rent was not due until the 24th. After the Valentines day evictions, some former resident of “The Tropicana” sought help from Linden Lab suggesting that they had been defrauded. […]