Exploring London in Second Life – with Designing Worlds

Join us at 2pm SLT today, Monday 27th February, at our beautiful studio in Garden of Dreams, as we pay a visit to London in Second Life. There are several version of London in Second Life, but the one created by Debs Regent (Debs Butler in real life) is the oldest and has rather special [...]

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They don’t know about us …

I’ve been aware for a long time now that Linden Lab, creators and maintainers of the Second Life grid, are completely unaware of large swathes of what happens here and – perhaps more significantly – what is important to residents to maintain their businesses (and cause them to grow), and what is largely irrelevant or [...]

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Celebrating Leap Day with a Party at Prim Perfect!

Wednesday 29th February is a whole extra day for us to enjoy -so we thought we’d do it at the Prim Perfect Headquarters in Costa Rica with a party! And there’ll be a rather special announcement at the party too – we’ll be holding the draw for the lucky winner of the Prim Perfect Hunt [...]

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What’s your favourite place for St Patrick’s Day?

We’re looking for readers’ favourite Irish-themed locations on the grid! Do you know a special pub or club that has an Irish theme, or a special way of celebrating St Patrick’s Day? Or perhaps you know a friendly Irish community, or a place that has beautiful Irish- themed landscapes? Would you like to share your [...]

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Taking to the Rails of Second Life with Designing Worlds

This week, Saffia and Elrik further explore the extensive railway tracks that spread across the continents of the Second Life mainland, in the company of Marianne McCann and Moundsa Mayo of the Virtual Railways Consortium. Taking to the Rails of Second Life, posted with vodpod In addition to seeing some amazing locos, riding the rails [...]

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SUYS – Bad Romance comes around again

Welcome to the second weekend of the February SUYS event! This month’s theme is ’Bad Romance’! Our designers for this week’s SUYS are: Ambiance Designs [SLurl] La’Licious Designs [SLurl] MudHoney [SLurl] Organica [SLurl] Second Spaces [SLurl] Trompe Loeil [SLurl] Remember – everything released for SUYS is just $150L or less, but only for this weekend! You can see pics of all the SUYS items over [...]

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If it ain’t broke … why fix it?

by Saffia Widdershins and Lette Ponnier Linden Lab have today announced some changes in their Third Party Viewer Policy. You may remember that the Policy was originally initiated in response to the “rogue” viewers that were causing enormous problems on the grid.  Developed by various people, they were widely used by griefers to violate intellectual [...]

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Happy Hunting goes into the Unknown!

The world of the Unknown Hunts that is – as we explore one of the most popular and innovative Hunts on the Second Life grid! We’re back in the studio today to film the next episode of Happy Hunting! at 3pm today, Friday 24th February 2012. We’ll be in our super set in the Designing [...]

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Rise to the Bell

Since 2007, AngusGraham Ceawlin has been a builder of community in Second Life. Over four and a half years, he and his partner Sharrah Brendel have been involved in creating and strengthening historically-focused communities inworld, including World War II roleplayers and a host of pirates and other period seafarers. He has even worked toward layering [...]

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Let’s talk about Kitely … on Designing Worlds: join us for a special taping!

Today, Tuesday 21st February at 1pm SLT, Designing Worlds will be taping two important shows in our beautiful studio in Garden of Dreams – and we want your input into the discussions we’ll be filming! Firstly, at 1pm, we will be taping a show about Kitely, the new grid that has caught a lot of [...]

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