Polls

Lively: Second Life killer?

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

Google publically launched “Lively” which everyone and her grandmother is comparing to Second Life. This is not the right comparision - Lively is actually far more similar to IMVU than Second Life.
There’s no user generated content. There’s no economy. And while embedding a 3D space on your website is kind of fun and novel, [...]

Prim shoes with walk sounds: good or evil?

Thursday, December 13th, 2007

To celebrate On Your Toes, I thought I’d see if shoes with walk sounds inspire love or hate among the Fashionista readership. It seems to be the newest craze sweeping through virtually every shoe designer. Bling, sounds, even animation overrides. Is it something you really want? Or just so much virtual noise pollution?

Die bling die

Friday, November 9th, 2007

I recently received some review copies of beautiful jewelry from Ellana, but several pieces had a bling script inside of them. If you didn’t already know, the official editorial position of Second Style about bling is “strongly disapproved.” But residents (for some reason) seem to love jewelry with bling. That means most every jewelry designer [...]

What men and women want out of online friendships

Saturday, October 20th, 2007

Have you ever visited the Daedalus Project? It’s run by a researcher at Stanford University named Nick Yee. Nick runs online surveys about behavior patterns exhibited by players of massively-multiplayer online games. It’s generally more focused on games like World or Warcarft, but from time to time, Second Life creeps into a survey or [...]

New poll: What’s your favorite SL e-commerce site?

Friday, October 5th, 2007

I decided it was time for a new poll. I’m curious to know what your favorite Second Life focused e-commerce site is: OnRez or SLExchange. If you’re a fashion shopper, which one is a better shopping experience? If you’re a fashion designer, which one do you pick to showcase your items out-of-world and why?
Please [...]

Fashion Challenge #6 Winners

Sunday, September 16th, 2007

Congratulations to our four diversity showcase challenge winners: top vote winner Cherry Tokyo (modeling one of her own kimonos!), Georgette Whitfield, Noelle Eilde, and Violet Xingjian. Thanks to all of our participants in this challenge. I’ll have a new fun challenge running soon (think lolneko :-). Meanwhile, our winners will get a cash [...]

New poll: Are you excited about voice?

Thursday, August 2nd, 2007

In honor of the general release of the voice feature on the main grid, I made a new poll. What do you think?

Fashion Challenge #4 Winner: Yenneffer Dielli

Monday, May 21st, 2007

Congratulations to our newest Fashion Challenge sexy safari winner, Yenneffer Dielli. She wins L$250, a L$1000 gift card to Catwalk City Mall, and the right to name the next fashion challenge theme! Thank you for sending in your photos and voting. I will be working on a way to make the next challenge’s [...]

Fashion Challenge #3 Winner: Lux Yao

Thursday, April 26th, 2007

Here’s our newest Fashion Challenge winner, Lux Yao! Congratulations to her. Since Lux happens to be a model for Miriel, she asked that the prize be given to our runner up — and I will honor that request. The next fashion challenge theme will be set soon!
Lux Yao

Fashion Challenge #2 Winner: Betty Doyle

Monday, April 2nd, 2007

Thanks for voting everyone — the poll is closed and our winner of Challenge #2 is Betty Doyle! I will be contacting her soon to deliver her prize and ask her for the next theme. It should be posted in the next few days…
Betty Doyle

Poll: Should we continue to publish full text RSS?

Tuesday, March 20th, 2007

A lot of third party aggregator sites have picked up the RSS feed from Second Style Fashionista and it’s starting to bother me a little that they’re not just publishing the first paragraph or two and no pictures. They’re publishing the entire article with lots of text ads around it. If anyone is [...]

Fashion Challenge #1 Winner: Shizuka Hayashida

Thursday, March 15th, 2007

Congratulations to our first Fashion Challenge winner, Shizuka Hayashida. It was a pretty close vote, too! Everyone who sent in a photo — thank you! We’ll be starting another challenge shortly.
Shizuka Hayashida