Warnings and Caveats
I tend to write about Second Life, both its pluses and minuses. I sometimes write about Social Media, or Technology, or ideas that just need to be written out. As always, feel free to comment on any post you find within (that is still within the comment time limit).
Marketing, Lying … and Fraud
Filed under: Linden Lab and Second Life, The Project to Save Second Life
As a young lad, one of the strongest insults a peer could level against someone was to call them a “liar”. At that tender age we didn’t realize the full range possible of deceitful utterances. As I’ve matured, I have come to understand in greater depth how people must at times say something we know to be a lie. However I’ve also learned when the line between a needful lie and a convenient lie is crossed. Linden Lab apparently erased that line some time ago and is now in a state of full denial, believing that they are immune to fallout from their own misdeeds.
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Slow Spiral Into Demise
Filed under: Linden Lab and Second Life, SL Marketplace
Back on November 11th of last year an issue was reported using the Linden Lab’s recommended method. They have specifically (and repeatedly) requested that we Customers and Residents of Second Life use their JIRA system. They’ve also requested that we provide as much detail and specificity as possible when filing a JIRA Issue. They admonish that using any other method may or may not be very reliable, and that filing an issue through JIRA was guaranteed to notify the proper parties and receive top-notch response times.
Well … that ain’t exactly what’s happened. (Suprised? You must be a newbie then.)
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Happy Holidays
Filed under: DGP4SL Info, Internet Life and Humanity
First of all, I would like to wish all of my customers, friends, (SL) family and the random folks that I bump into or share bandwidth with on Second Life an upcoming few weeks of intense bonding with good friends, family and loved ones … all sans conflict, strife and unplanned episodes of dishware hurling. In other words folks …
HAPPY HOLIDAYS from Everyone at
DG Products for Second Life
Now lets all go out there and enjoy the fact that we’ve survived another year and that we have the joy of family and friends with which to share that bountiful reality.
(Will someone please hand me that eggnog … and the “upgrade” bottle as well? Thank you!)
Quickie – In-World Search Is Working Again
Filed under: Linden Lab and Second Life, SL In-World Search
Just a quick note to let everyone know (in case you hadn’t noticed yet) that Second Life’s In-World Search appears to be unfrozen again. It is important to note that while it was freed up about a day ago (from this posting), the results went wildly awry for a bit and have just now started to settle down again. This leads me to believe that they are using a 24-hour pipe to calculate whatever it is they’re calling “Traffic” these days.
So now, in a giant loop that describes history (in the exactly same way as it’s been defined for eons), we are back to where we were just under two years ago … Parcel Search Rank is in large part due to “Traffic”. However, what they are using the make that calculation, whether it is the old-style avatars on site over a set time, or something new having to do with sales, shopper behavior patterns, or whatever else … it’s time to fire up your Traffic Generating ideas folks.
So get your concerts booked, your live bands hired, your dance floors rolled out, your art exhibits arranged and your hunts enrolled. It’s time to amp up your traffic folks, because your rank in In-World Search depends on how many avatars come snooping around your shelves.
Traffic Jam!
Filed under: Linden Lab and Second Life, SL In-World Search
On Tuesday, November 15th, sometime in the afternoon (Second Life Time), a fundamental mechanism of the Second Life platform … broke. Well at least the official explanation is that something broke, but after thinking about it some and looking at the collateral damage, I’m wondering just how unintentional the change and how difficult the repair.
Late Breaking News: Linden Lab has just posted this on their Second Life Grid Status blog: http://status.secondlifegrid.net/2011/11/23/post1485/
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A Place To Dream
Filed under: Internet Life and Humanity, The Project to Save Second Life
“So this newbie walks onto a Sim …”
It looks like the intro to a really lame joke, but it’s actually the set of circumstances that leads to someone asking the most oft asked question around Second Life. The exact words vary from asking to asking, but no matter how you string the words, the question is still the same.
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Looking Forward – ANS and Direct Delivery
Filed under: Linden Lab and Second Life, SL Marketplace, Technical Info, The Project to Save Second Life
(Warning: Today’s post will eventually turn into a geek-fest. If you’d like to read up to the point where it starts leaking out your ears then skip to the end, no offense taken.)
The Second Life Marketplace will soon (eventually?) switch over to a product delivery mechanism called Direct Delivery. Today’s post will look at what is involved in the current delivery process as regards the ANS system and how Direct Delivery will and should impact it. (And if you don’t know what ANS means, read on and I’ll explain.)
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What Is This Fascination With Display Names?
Filed under: Linden Lab and Second Life, The Project to Save Second Life
In case you tried to tune out the daily catastrophe that is Second Life today, you missed a good one. Actually it started yesterday, but because Linden Lab has this habit of rolling out “fixes” and then going home for the day, it didn’t raise their attention until today. (So that’s one day gone in the path to “rapid and responsive customer support”.) Now that they are aware, they seemed poised to enact a half-fix, undoing the changes they made yesterday but ignoring the 100′s of thousands (if not millions) of transaction records already incorrect.
Confused? Well read on and I’ll happily explain. Just pardon my somewhat unpleasant demeanor about this latest fiasco, I’m still fuming yet again over yet another boneheaded move made at Linden Lab. So dive in and mind the spikes … I will try and point them out as I add them to this post.
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Marketplace Sales Reports – An Update On The iGlom RDS
Filed under: DGP4SL Info, New Products, Technical Info
Not that long ago I wrote about a new system I was testing called the iGlom Redelivery System (or RDS). When I first reported on it, there was a plan to implement sales reports but none had been made available yet. Well I just spent some time looking over the new Merchant Sales Reports and I’m happy to say they look sweet. I got permission from the developer to post these screenshots from the RDS Manual (available from the iGlom.com website).
There are six types of reports: Totaled by day, week, month, payer, receiver and product. The daily, weekly and monthly reports detail the sales by day, week or month for each product sold and can optionally include a Units Sold graph for each product. They also include two summary sections, one that totals all sales by product for the period selected and the other that totals all sales by day, week or month. The payer, receiver and product reports can be filtered by a portion of the name.
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Search Tidbit
Filed under: Linden Lab and Second Life, SL In-World Search
Just a quick note about In-World Search in Second Life. I recently set out four new in-world vendors to sell the new Magic Flyer teleporter … but I left 3 of the 4 named the same. On the next search update my rank dropped 5-7 places for my primary words and 20-25 places for my secondary words. OUCH!
Lesson Learned: Do NOT duplicate Object Names for those objects marked to Show In Search. PERIOD!
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