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Financial crisis in Second Life ended? Linden Lab launches Linden Dollar Authorized Reseller Program

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Stop the presses! Linden Lab is out with a (potential) solution for the crisis! I was doing some slight corrections on a post announcing my company’s participation in a public exhibit at Portugal’s National Museum of Ancient Art, with an OpenSim-based reconstruction of Lisbon before the 1755 earthquake, when all […]

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How to create your own financial crisis

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[Update (again) Since 2015, the L$ Authorized Reseller Program has been cancelled] [Update 2013/05/07 6 PM GMT — Linden Lab has just announced the launch of the Linden Dollar (L$) Authorized Reseller Program] Software features turn into products Nine years ago, Linden Lab revealed a series of new features for […]

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Linden Lab buys XstreetSL and OnRez Shop — why?

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I’ve just posted this on the Second Life forums, where it will be buried for all time, so I thought I’d re-post here as a reference: I might imagine that the major reasons for prompting this buy-out have pretty little to do with “LL wanting to be a monopoly”, although […]

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Fighting the L$ downward spiral – a solution

The L$ falls, and there is nothing we can do about it Readers of these pages know that I have no formal training in economics, and a one-semester-course in macro-economics definitely does not qualify me to talk about the economy of Second Life. Thus, I’m no Castronova wannabe 🙂 But […]