If you haven’t heard yet, Linden Labs (LL) the makers of Second Life have purchased the two premier web stores that provide shopping for in world items. If you are interested in the analysis the lovely Gweneth Llewelyn’s thoughts are the ones to read right here. My personal thought is that this isn’t that bad, it’s unlikely that LL is so stupid as to completely integrate into the client/server structure, if they did they would be killing their land business. However, it is possible that we are heading to more of a ghettoized envrionment with OpenGrid and other things built with the same technology. It will happen eventually, I just didn’t think it would be this quickly. My thoughts on that could fill textbooks so that’s a post for another day.

We as a company do sell on both SLX and OnRez and will continue to do so, but to really see our designs you should come to our mainstore. I’ll buy you your drink of choice, virtually of course.

So with the whole OpenSpaces aka Void Sim debacle I started looking at options, one of the open sim places I looked at was fairly good but I’ll talk about that another time and it’s still not ready for primetime. But in the course of looking for alternative building areas I came across the question we all have… how do I move items back and forth? The only real solution I found was Second Inventory. It has it’s quirks but it does work. For a legitimate use of moving your own creations to other worlds this is a legitimate tool, though it takes a long time to work for each item. More info is available on their site but I managed to move a full copy of my house to my OpenSim sandbox and it looked just like it did in SL. Pretty neat, if you can put up with the headaches. It also has the side benefit of being able to perform batch uploads of textures, something I’ve been wanting in SL client for ages.

Wrong Answer, Mr M Linden by Gwen, one of the smartest commentators on SL ever.

The Light at the End of Tunnel… by Veyron.

Think about these and I’ll comment later.