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Saturday, January 13th, 2007A couple of weeks ago I ran into Artilleri’s Antonia Marat and she told me that she was planning on getting a bigger place for her shop. I think Antonia is a wonderfully crazy designer, who has totally a style of her own that puts a definite signature to all her clothes, so I was [...]
Open source viewer: what impact to content creators?
Monday, January 8th, 2007I suspect the vast majority of readers will greet this announcement of the viewer source code availability with a shrug and a yawn, but for content creators, there must be an eerily similar feeling about this announcement as the recent CopyBot furor. If anything, this is perhaps worse in some senses because now instead [...]
Review Copy Policy?
Thursday, January 4th, 2007On her blog, Sol Columbia of Luminosity posted her policy about providing review copies of things she’s created.
I will give away free review copies of any releases under three conditions:
A review copy is requested via instant message, email, or a message on this blog
You have credentials, i.e. you in some way review products or have [...]
Green Betty
Thursday, December 21st, 2006Some stores just make shopping less about money than it is about fun. Not just wall of products, not just nice clothes. Antonia Marat’s home base, artilleri, has got to be one of the best examples of this. Her main store in Gama is a 1950s diner dream, complete with vintage prim gas pumps, and [...]
Stylish at Nyte
Wednesday, December 6th, 2006The first outfit I’ve bought when entering SL, was a pin striped suit by Nyte Caligari. Even now I still love it and do wear it quite often. Nyte has always remained one of my favourite designers in SL. Her smart casual style is very appealing to me and the individual items are so easily [...]
In the wake of CopyBot
Wednesday, November 15th, 2006The position of the editorial staff of Second Style has not changed since the last time this came up:
The editors of Second Style Magazine do not support or condone the use of any third party software to reuse or modify Second Life content whether for commercial or personal use unless explicit permission to do so [...]
Vending to Flashmobs
Monday, November 13th, 2006Marketing evil genius (and machinima dilletante) Shep Korvin (the creator of the infamous Lucky Chair, owner of LapGirl Lingerie) has a new viral marketing device he calls MobVend. The idea behind MobVend is fiendish and simple: The more people in a store, the lower the item price drops. Eventually, the vendor hits [...]
31 ‘dos in 31 days concludes
Friday, November 3rd, 2006First and foremost congratulations to Twiddler Thereian for making it through the hair-a-day challenge. A second round of congratulations goes to BabyDoll LaFontaine who was Twiddler’s competitive partner in crime. BabyDoll released a new latex lingerie costume every day in the month of October. You can view her list of releases here.
Twiddler has a complete [...]
Not slutty = No sales?
Sunday, October 29th, 2006The other day Ciera Bergman of Vitamin Ci wrote a provocative post on her blog, which got me (and at least one other person) thinking. Do Second Life designers have to sell sex in order to sell clothes? Ciera writes,
I remember when I first started Vitamin Ci…it was to cater to those people. The people [...]
Paper Couture puts the C in couture
Saturday, October 28th, 2006Sigh. After weeks and weeks of reading the House of Lu blog, I missed the opening of Paper Couture for Fall ‘06. I love it when designers realize that our relationship with a brand is fed by many things, including quirky tales of fictional paeoti mishaps written on a company blog.
Sadly, I have yet to [...]
Okay, not really a fashion story but…
Wednesday, October 18th, 2006Some time in the last twelve hours Second Life grew to more than one million residents. That’s nearly double the number of residents who were here when I first came in world just over ten weeks ago. While many argue that what really matters is the number of residents who have logged in within the [...]
Update: FYI for sellers & shoppers: new inventory bug
Wednesday, October 18th, 2006Update [CS]: The bug appears to have been fixed. From the Offical Linden Blog:
The bug causing the occasional missing inventory on re-log has been located and corrected. All new purchases will work as expected. All inventory purchased since 2006-10-11 and before 2006-10-17 18:00 SLT is being returned to the Lost & Found folder in your [...]
