[Updated 4:55am PST, 07 February 2012] We will be beginning the maintenance scheduled for this morning momentarily. During this time, some regions will be restarted. Please save all builds and refrain from rezzing no-copy objects.

[Posted 4:20 PM PST, 06 February 2012] In order to address the issue described in this blog post, we will be performing maintenance on a section of our hardware. This maintenance will occur at 5:00 a.m. PST on Tuesday, February 7th. Some regions may be restarted during maintenance. Please monitor this blog for updates.

Courtesy Louis Platini's Metaverse Business, a Second Life/OpenSim analytics company that gathers publicly accessible in-world data for its clients, here's the top 50 most popular sims in Second Life for January 2012, listed according their average visitor count, the unique...

Some two months after launch, Star Wars: The Old Republic now has 1.7 million subscribers, Scott "Lum Lumley" Jennings notes, with over 2 million copies of the game sold. That's very impressive, and surprising to me: I was guessing the...

_____________________________________________________________________________________ COSTA RICA SIMS PRODUCTIONS – FOR IMMEDIATE...The Costa Rica Sims Estate is the most beautiful private Estate ever created in Second Life®, with the best community, with residents from over 45 different countries in 6 continents and offers more than any other Estate in SL™.

I just caught this photo submitted by iLeeoh to SL's Reddit group, where it's been up-voted like crazy, and couldn't resist meme-ifying it for your meme-ing pleasure. Consensus is it's a deer on a damn motorbike. Or as iLeeoh put...

I know that the site I have made is only a small community so far but despite my attempts to ask wall-fm to do something about fixing their users sites nothing has been done. I can access the site but my members cannot. I'm hoping that this will be rectified. I am considering deleting the site and would appreciate any comments or ideas. ReRead More...

Since Avatars Can Be Perfect, "Flawed" Hair Seems Stylish Miss Ophelia's Metaverse Manners: The SL Etiquette of Copycats, Copyright, and Crying Wolf Give a Warm Reception to coldLogic's New SL Mesh Fashions Last Names for SLers Return Soon -- Plus...

February is the month of LOVE - whether in the real world or in virtual spaces, such as Second Life. With this article, I kick off weekly articles that cover various aspects of love, whether it's taking your loved one to a romantic hot spot, giving dish on great (and no so great) dating experiences in-world, or talking with a couple that's managed to withstand the insanity of Second Life and stay together.

This week, it's all about romantic hot spots. Second Life is known for Read More...

Astrology for the month of February is ready for you to enjoy! 4th generation Psychic Medium Linda Lauren's Astrology helps you with choosing the right colors and the best day of the week to movRead More...

Costa Rica - photograph by Wildstar Beaumont

Join us at 2pm SLT today, Monday 6th February, at our beautiful studio in Garden of Dreams. Note that this is a new location – we’ve moved our gorgeous studio to the main Garden of Dreams sim now!

In today’s episode we are visiting the beautiful – and very fashionable – Costa Rica estate, in the company of Giancarlo Takacs, the founder of Costa Rica, MariellaAnna, who is one of the Events Directors and Mimi Juneau, the Doyenne of Fashion, who holds regular events in Costa Rica.

Costa Rica - photograph by Wildstar Beaumont

We’ll be exploring locations used to host some of the fabulous events hosted in Costa Rica, and talking about these, as well as the natural beauties of this stunning estate, and the importance that the real life Costa Rica has played in the creation of these buildings – whether it is the Opera House, the Music Temple, the Welcome Cente, the volcanoes … or the Costa Rican-themed headquarters of Prim Perfect, created by Dijodi Dubratt.

And it might just be that there’s a rather alarming surprise for Saffia …

Prim Perfect Headquarters - photograph by PJ Trenton

We will be screening this show in our studio, designed by Kayle Matzerath, on our new location in Garden of Dreams. Do come and join us there at 2pm!

Or – if you can’t attend in person – tune in at 2pm SLT on Monday for the live show on http://treet.tv/live – where you can now chat with other audience members and even some of the participants during the show – or catch it later in the week on our shows page on the Treet.tv web site at http://treet.tv/shows/designingworlds- our very own version of the iPlayer!

Costa Rica - photograph by Wildstar Beaumont

 
Valentines Day is a subject that can vary widely, depending on who you ask. Many women will eagerly look forward to recieving gifts of chocolates, flowers, and trinkets. Children will giggle and poke fun at their peers, blushing at the tiny paper wishes, printed with animated characters, or stuffed animals. And Read More...

Costa Rica - photograph by Wildstar Beaumont
Join us at 2pm SLT today, Monday 6th February, at our beautiful studio in Garden of Dreams for a very special show, as we celebrate our 150th Episode! Note that this Read More...

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A few years ago, I wrote about models to pay for content creators in this age where everybody wants to share content for free — except for the entertainment industry, of course, that seems to look upon 2012 as the year to come down with a legal jackhammer on top of anyone doing something that can be remotely called “piracy” or “content theft”, even if the Internet is destroyed in the process. Back then, I left the question open on how exactly to achieve that.

Two years later, I pursued this same topic, by showing how Second Life®’s economy model, based on micropayments, might provide an alternative source of income for content creators. Not because I “speculated” that it might be possible, but by just looking at the extraordinary amount of evidence from a virtual world whose economic furnace is driven by the Linden dollar, possibly one of the most successful model of micropayments ever devised. Two years ago, I challenged Linden Lab to extend the Linden dollar towards other non-SL services — not only allowing it to be used on OpenSimulator-based grids, but also to allow micropayments on webpages.

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Love is in the air
Everywhere I look around
Love is in the air
Every sight and every sound

Love is in the air and Champagne Sparkling Couture wishes everyone a very Happy Valentine’s Day with a free gift for there customers!Read More...

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Contact lenses which focus 3D screens directly into people’s eyeballs could be on sale as early as 2014, says U.S. company Innovega.
The tiny ‘screens’ sit directly on users’ eyeballs and work with a pair of lightweight glasses with a built-in translucent screen.
The experience is equivalent to a 240-inch television viewed at a distance of 10 feet, says Innovega’s CEO Steve Willey.
Via www.dailymail.co.uk

NEW @ MIMI'S ! Egoisme, a photo by mimi.juneau *Mimi's Choice* on Flickr.

New fur jackets of Egoisme in 10 gorgeous colors.
Sexy , unisex pants in silver, gold and copper.
Egoisme rabbit fur coat and copper giraffe pants
lingerie: Sensuelle @ Mimi's
nails: Purplemoon @ Mimi's
skin: Bella, Redgrave next door Mimi's lol

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BREAKFAST AT MIMI'S ! The pictures !, a photo by mimi.juneau *Mimi's Choice* on Flickr.

Thank you to all people who attended my breakfast show !
Here are the pictures made by Tillie Ariantho ! My god this girl is fast and good !!
See you at the next breakfast !
www.flickr.com/photos/tillie/sets/72157629187841213/show/

A few of us friends got together at Club Eclectricity for some games. Club owner, Izzy, has some of the best games and tonight it was a round of Pictionary while most of us kept one eye on RL TV Super Bowl game and the other on the SL Pictionary game. I won the first round and Izzy won the second round. We finished our games about the same time the Super Bowl finished up and it was pay off time. "He who shall not be named" was the game day bet loser so had to don the costume of Emma's choiceRead More...

CUPID's BALL
Tuesday February 7, 2012
7:00PM to 9:00PM slt
@ The Chill Lounge
DJ DIBOU
Charity Richez, hostess
Attire: Sexy Classy Cool
Event Sponsor = SL Enquirer, Lanai Jarrico, CEO
Produced by Black Soul Rhythms Radio

SLE's Chill LoungeTeleport: http://slurl.com/secondlife/San%20Jose%20East1/226/84/42Read More...