Alicia Stella

It'd be cool if they add Real Name to profile or in place of/on top of av names inworld where group tag goes.

I got lucky though and they had my real name available when I joined 3.5 years ago. Alicia Stella in all my lifes!

The Lab is comfortable, they make money. The system crashes with less than 100,000 users logged in at once. If it was *actually* popular with the types of login numbers as WoW or Facebook it would crash and never come back within a few minutes.

So while the Lab is trying to look more appetizing to new residents, the world itself can't hold any more. So even if all new registers stick around, the system fails and only the hardcore main residents will stay through days and days of bogged down asset systems.

Remember the CSI NY/ SL tie in? So many new users joined that SL was lag city for a few days. How do you think their first experiences were? Not able to teleport, spend money, and being told in dialog menus not to do anything important with any non copy items for chance of losing inventory. I'm sure they were thrilled with this new world.

LL needs to stop manicuring the lawn and rebuild the house before the roof caves in.

After opening a customer's profile and clicking the Instant Message button, I sent a message to them. After it sent I realized that the name it returned for the BUSY message was totally incorrect. In the tab for that IM conversation in Communicate window I noticed it said "Loading..." instead of a name.

I closed the IM tab and re-opened IM from his profile. The text I had sent was not there. It was sent to the wrong user. And I had to say it to the right guy again.

Mid 2010 my guess for release. And good or not after paying someone a bunch of money to develop something, there will be great pressure to release it for better or for worse. Nobody likes wasting money. ;-)

A better way to sort friends in SL is worth completely re-learning the UI for me. When you have 300 friends and no sort or folder tools, you have only as many friends that are online at that moment and shown in bold as far as I am concerned.

And we could all use a better landmark and favorite location system starting with a simple back button like a web browser. OnRez viewer had it off the bat because it just makes sense. The local chat teleport slurl hack is lame and pretty much embarrassing at this point as a solution.

SL Viewer 2.0 is not to make SL more user friendly as much as it is meant to make virtual worlds feel more like the web. LL wants us to stop thinking of SL as a MMO and start looking at it as the new 3D web.

So essentially in a few weeks I'll be updating 100 instruction manuals for my own products in Second Life? Like every time it says "Select from the Pie Menu..."

Grrr.

I am looking forward to better friend filtering, I can't anyone in my 300+ list of friends.

I give away freebie full perm scripts and objects.

Someone gets them free from Xstreet or my store.

Someone makes the items into entirely new objects and links a prim created by me last, leaving me listed as the "Creator" for the entire thing. They use my full perm scripts and erase existing code, adding their own.

They sell this new item in SL and on Xstreet claiming it to be from Alicia Stella, a name I have spent years and thousands of RL dollars promoting. Or they send the item out to thousands for free as a "Gift from Alicia Stella" and is passed around forever.

LL is alerted of this and has clear records of all activity and can clearly see the multiple violations.

LL does nothing about it, ever.

Damage is done constantly. My name is dragged through the mud.

And it continues forever.

Content created in SL needs a watermark or timestamp; a digital record of when the object has been edited or created and by whom. And a database of content creators and merchants RL info should be kept so I can take the RL legal actions needed to rectify the situation.

This is one of a billion possible scenarios in the current climate and why SOME type of new regulation is needed and why LL continues to promise it. LL agrees*, they've just been too slow to act.

*http://www.massively.com/2009/08/05/a-second-life-roadmap-content-management-intellectual-property/

Dashboard and parts of Xstreet are too wide for 1024 resolution screens. I hate scrolling side to side to see everything. Time for me to get a newer computer maybe.

I'm a little fuzzy on the whole celebrity likeness stuff. I understand 100% about brand names and styles copied from real world trademarks and all, but does anyone truly OWN their own likeness. I doubt Angelina Jolie is going to sue anyone for selling avatars that are meant to look like her. And as long as the seller doesn't have her in an identifiable outfit like the Tomb Raider garb, I don't see how LL can stop creators from selling avies that look like real people. An avatar that looks like Wall-E shouldn't be sold because it infringes on Disney's TM, but if it looks like Barack Obama in a suit I don't see what the problem is. How do the Obama mask sellers get away with it every Halloween in the real world? Other than that the move by LL makes complete sense, and I appreciate the time we have to make adjustments.

Oh and I noticed the way things are worded, not only does this affect the listings on Xstreet but also includes the items in-world. See this from the FAQ they set up in the Knowledgebase:

Do the Listing Guidelines apply to inworld content as well as listings on Xstreet SL?
The Listing Guidelines -- and especially the new branding guidelines -- apply to Xstreet SL listings as well as the content in Second Life that is associated with the listings.

Us Fake Businesses make more money in SL than them there 'Real' ones anyways.

I figured it out!

Because of all the media stories saying *everyone* is leaving SL since Reuters announced they were, companies now believe you must actually transform your sim into a Reuters branded environment just to close down; like it's a rule.

The fact that this sim is under the Thomson's umbrella of brands is purely coincidence.

Let us not forget "The L Reuters" sim closure of recent weeks.

(I'm being silly.)