SecondLife - How To Make Money In Second Life

Some people like to use sites that pay or reward you for online activity like shopping and filling in surveys.

MetaRL.com adds a virtual twist to the idea by giving you those rewards in your choice of virtual world, including offering rewards in the form of Second Life Lindens.

After a simple registration process, during which you enter your Second Life user name, you are offered a selection of ways of earning from the site including taking online surveys and playing online games. You can even gamble some of your virtual currency and win more.

Things change though and you’ll be pleased to note that Lindens are not the only currency available for conversion, as tastes change you will be able to convert your activity rewards for currency in Entropia and IMVU as well as Second Life. In addition to that, more and more ways of earning rewards are being added.

Doing really well out of MetaRL.com will take some dedication and focus. If you are planning a purchase, have a spare half hour at work or plan an hour of taking surveys then you can earn well out of MetaRL.

Rewarding yourself in Second Life for your general online activity is a tidy way of keeping things together online and if you are in need of some extra Lindens then MetaRL is well worth a look. 

Filed under: News, Events, Mixed Reality

Friday, June 22, 2007 from 13:00, the Netage Group Inc. streamed a live broadcast of its 10th Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders to shareholder avatars in Second Life; subsequently, a Business Presentation meeting was held and broadcast. This is, if not the first such General Meeting in Second Life, certainly one of the first. The presentation took place at the Netage Group premises in Second Life. Though questions and voting were not allowed during the meetings through Second Life, staff members from Netage were available on site to answer questions.

Netage Group Inc. is committed to exploration and exploitation of three dimension virtual spaces (3D internet, referred to as 3Di), and as such finds it appropriate to support businesses and ventures within that market (such as Linden Lab and Second Life) hence their interest in holding their General Meetings and Business Presentations there.

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Filed under: Odds and Ends, Mixed Reality

Here’s an article on a bit of interesting news for us all, disabled or not: The University College London, in collaboration with the Graz University of Technology in Austria are developing a new technology that allows people to drive their avatars by merely thinking about movement.

While this is geared toward helping those with movement disabilities such as paraplegics and sufferers of ataxia, how cool would it be to avoid the whole initial awkwardness of learning to move in SL (one of the greatest frustrations confronting potential residents) by just thinking about walking around? Clearly, mainstream adoption of this technology is years off, but it’s not too early to start brainstorming other uses of Thought-enabled Technology — I’m looking at you, QDot!

(Via GameSpot.com)

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Has Coca-Cola given Second Life residents carte blanche to remix and profit from the world’s most recognizable and valuable brand?

Filed under: Mixed Reality

With the registration of a couple of controversial Second Life residents, some are in a state of panic. Many feel that these individuals would hamper their convention experience. Another issue that has also cropped up is the entrance of “press” requesting permission to film. Due to these incidents, The Future United Group has decided to clarify their policies in a Community Standards Agreement.

By registering for SLCC, you would be agreeing to these policies. If you are already registered and feel that you cannot follow them, there is a limited time cancellation period that lasts until July 13th. They will cancel your registration and refund your money. Among the policies on their list are: not harassing other attendees, asking permission before taking photos or video, and not hogging the microphone during question and answer periods.

Are you registered for SLCC? Will you be cancelling or staying? If so, why?

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Filed under: News, Updates

Linden Lab have just run a rolling restart fixing a number of bugs and glitches. The restart commenced at 10:55am SLT (US Pacific) and ran to 1:30pm. This bundle fixes quite a few general irritants that have been affecting users in the last little while. Here’s the list of changes/fixes that were provided:

• VWR-796: llStopSound() not working
• SVC-21: Request for making identification of llOwnerSay messages possible
• VWR-1101: Active Gestures > New button doesn’t auto-open gesture
• Estate owners can now postpone a rolling restart for an hour
• SVC-242: Copyable objects are not appearing in inventory after being taken, are remaining, invisible, in world
• SVC-52: UTF-8 characters read from notecards are lost
• SVC-248: Viewer crash: Server sends malformed DeRezAck Packet (see VWR-176)
• A few simulator crash fixes

Fingers crossed that the grid continues to run smoothly through the afternoon.

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