Podex, AnsheX, DXexchange down, other exchanges wait for good news

by Maria Korolov
Hypergrid Business

While VirWoX and CrossWorlds exchanges are hinting at some good news to come, the Podex, DXexchange and AnsheX virtual currency exchanges have shut down, victims of the new Linden Lab Terms of Service prohibiting third-party currency exchanges.

“Let me inform you that Podex was suspended by Linden Lab,” Podex CEO Jacek Shuftan told Hypergrid Business this morning.

He said that all of his accounts that were related to the Podex Exchange have been put on hold by Linden Lab earlier today.

“I really believed that the new Terms of Service is meant to protect avatars from the risk of fraud,” he said. “That was my goal as well so I was looking forward to cooperate with Linden Lab. I could not imagine that over one night they would want to destroy our cooperation and everything what I built for 6 years of my virtual life. They did. I believed that they would answer my requests to start discussion. They did not.”

If any customers still have pending transactions, he added, they should contact support.

“I personally promise that they will not lose their money,” he said.

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5 days left until SL10B Community Celebration applications close

Reblogged from Daniel Voyager's Blog:

There are just 5 days left and counting until SL10B Community Celebration applications end officially so hurry and apply today. There are still roles to apply for to make the Second Life 10th birthday the best and successful yet.

The latest news from Linden Lab this week on SL10B is that there are fun things planned and there will be more blog posts soon on the official SL blog.

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Lionheart Festival Plans Roaring Along

Reblogged from Mistletoe Ethaniel's Blog:

The post-Fantasy Faire shindig I'm planning, the Festival of King Richard, is roaring right along (see what I did there?). I'm getting more and more merchants (good ones at that!) and have almost filled my booths. I still have a couple Priority booths left and the rest are the regular ones.

Merchants will set up on May 3rd, and the gates open on May 4th.

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The Fantasy Faire has raised L$3, 583, 791 so far

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As of 3pm SLT total donations is L$3, 583, 791 for The Fantasy Faire 2013 which is just incredible and amazing. Great support and huge interest so far this year for the popular SL Fantasy Faire happening right now. The Fantasy Faire runs through to Sunday 28th April 2013.

Start your Fantasy Faire adventures at Fairelands Junction and explore the wonders of Fantasy in Second Life.

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Exodus: passing the torch

Reblogged from Living in the Modem World:

Recent updates to the Exodus viewer have been a little slow in some respects. This is in part hardly surprising - at least one member of the team (Geenz Spad) has been up to his eyeballs in working on the materials processing project. However, other factors - such as real life commitments  - have meant that other members of the team have also been unable to focus on the viewer perhaps as much as they would have liked.

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Main Grid regions drops below the 27, 500 mark

Reblogged from Daniel Voyager's Blog:

According to the latest post from SLUniverse Forums on New SL Sims in past week thread it's seems like the total of main grid regions have dropped below the 27, 500 mark which is very concerning and alarming. The sad news I think is that SL regions still continue to drop further down into the red each week. I hope for things to pick up soon.

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Sunday Funnies – April 21, 2013

The Faire Is Open!

Reblogged from Fantasy Faire 2013:

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The magic portals to the Fairelands are finally open and all the adventurers, guests and visitors are welcome to come and share the enchantment!

The Fairelands consists of ten sims, all connected together so you can trek from one to another and admire the fantastic views. Eight of the sims are dedicated to shopping, one is the final destination of the upcoming Key of Hope hunt and one is the Fairelands Junction with portals to all the others.

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SL projects updates Week 16 (3): server, viewer, and Aditi summaries

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Server Deployments week 16

• On Tuesday April 16th, the SLS Main channel received Monty Linden's HTTP updates, which were deployed to BlueSteel and LeTigre in week 15, after having previously been on Magnum for testing - release notes
• On Wednesday April 17th, the three Release Candidate channels (BlueSteel, LeTigre and Magnum) all received the same package after a planned deployment to BlueSteel and LeTigre had to be abandoned due to scheduling issues.

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SL projects update 16 (2): Server releases; region crossings

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Second Life Server (Main) Channel Week 16 Deployment

On Tuesday April 16th, the SLS Main channel received Monty Linden's HTTP updates, which were deployed to BlueSteel and LeTigre in week 15, after having previously been on Magnum for testing.  These updates can be briefly summarised as:

• More complete and more correct headers on texture and mesh fetches - these should ensure the viewer is better able to handle objects as they are downloaded to it…

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