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Competition winners: ‘The Unofficial Second Life Building Guide’

October 12, 2008 By

Over the past fortnight we’ve run a competition, with five copies of The Unofficial Second Life Building Guide.

Twenty-one people entered, with some excellent suggestions of new builds in Second Life. Using a random number generator, I’m pleased to announce that the five winners are:

Cary
Alberik Rotaru
KerryJ
Kim Flintoff
Rayn Juran

Thanks to Killer Guides for the prize of five copies of the guide. Winners – we’ll be in touch via email very soon with your prize.

We have another competition coming up in the next month, so there’s plenty more opportunities to win!

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Our new Second Life HQ

October 12, 2008 By

We’re really proud to announce the opening of our new in-world presence in Second Life. It’s been quite a number of months in the making. Our aim with the new presence was to have a multi-purpose facility that could be used for in-world information sharing.

Our old presence had its limitations although we had a number of groups utilise it for events. With the new build, we hope to increase that focus – if you’re from a non-profit group, education or health support group and need a venue for a meeting, research project or other event, contact us. We’re also happy to hire the venue to for-profit entities, though that’s not the focus.

The whole layout is pretty spartan at present – well be adding further aspects as time goes on but keeping it simpler makes it easier to customise things when an event is underway.

A big thanks to Encore Design Group for their work on the build – they were consultative and very understanding of the extended development timeframes. A disclosure here: EDG Designs are intermittent advertisers on The Metaverse Journal.

So it’s over to you – comments, questions and debate welcome. And here’s to more Australian community events.

Check it out in-world

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Reminder: $5000L on offer for forum sign-up competition

August 10, 2008 By

A couple of weeks back we relaunched our forums and there’s been a number of people sign up and start contributing. For any forum’s success there needs to be a critical mass of participants and there’s certainly not that yet.

To help get things kick-started we have a competition running. Any person who signs up on the forums between now and the end of August goes into the draw to win 5000 Linden Dollars. It’s not a huge prize but if you’re looking for a virtual worlds community to be part of anyway, it’s certainly a nice little incentive. If you’re not a Second Life user you can easily cash the Linden Dollars out for US dollars (we’ll explain how).

So jump in and register and join the community.

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Weekly newsletter now available

August 1, 2008 By

Over the past few months we’ve had a number of people ask if we could supply a regular virtual worlds newsletter – we’ve now created just that. If you subscribe to it, you’ll receive all the stories published that week in a newsletter format.

To subscribe look for the section as shown above – it’s on the right hand side of our front page.

Filed Under: Australian News, TMJ Site News

Relaunching our forums (and a competition)

July 19, 2008 By

When we first launched in late 2006 we also had forums, which were moderately utilised on those first months, particularly by the ABC prior to the launch of ABC Island. We closed the forums down mid-2007 due to lack of activity and some technical problems with the platform we were using.

I’m really pleased to re-launch the forums which can be found here or via the ‘Forum’ link at the top of this site. The focus is widened and the actual design fits better with the overall site.

On the downside, due to a database corruption I wasn’t able to import all the previous posts into the new forum – it’s literally a blank slate so if you’d previously registered, you’ll need to do so again. Sorry!

If you’ve got a point to make, an event to promote or just want to mix with other virtual world residents, please use the forums – that’s what they’re there for.

To celebrate the relaunch, we’re offering 5000 Linden Dollars to a lucky someone who posts on the forums by the end of August 2008. We’ll get a random number generator to give us a number – the person who posted that number post will be the winner. Example: if the random number was 77 – the person who posted the 77th post wins the prize.

So jump in, start a discussion and maybe you’ll be rewarded for your efforts beyond the rewards of forum interaction ;)

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Five jobs on offer at Metaversum (Singapore or Germany)

July 13, 2008 By

Metaversum, creators of Twinity, have a bunch of jobs up for grabs.

The roles are varied and can be based in either Singapore or Germany – check our jobs board for more info.

If you’re looking to recruit, why not use our free jobs board yourself?

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Introducing The Metaverse Journal book store

July 1, 2008 By

Please bear with me while I make an announcement of self-interest. As part of the ongoing process to make The Metaverse Journal an ongoing viable financial concern, we’ve set up an Amazon book and clothing store.

You can access it at any time by clicking on the ‘Shop’ link at the top of this page. We’ve chosen a large bunch of key virtual worlds books as well as some clothing from Amazon’s range and every time you purchase something we get a small percentage.

If you’ve got a book or other item to suggest for addition, do let us know in the comments.

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