Speaker 1: Blue Hair, Episode Number 7.

Speaker 2: Well, I haven’t gotten too much this week in the way of doing anything in SL, really. But I’ll talk about a few things just to get another podcast out. One of the things I saw was from PodPoet Clinic Wamp, and he invited me over to the IBM Sim to see what they have. It’s called a Code Station, and what it looks like is a giant maze, and you get little robots, and you get to drive your robot through the maze to catch bugs and to get out of the maze. So it’s pretty interesting, but the cool thing is that you can start programming the little robot with an API to have it do all this on its own to be much quicker and efficient in finding the bugs in the way out, and you can just sit back and watch it do its thing. There’s also a contest board where you can see who’s caught the most bugs, I think.

I remember hearing something shout out that somebody would catch bugs. I didn’t get the program my own by just yet. I really did not have the time.

Schoolwork is really catching up with me and everything else. Alright, that’s all I have about that one. The microphone and speaker set that I was working on for the Cisco Sim with Banana Stein is packaged up, and I am actually in the middle of putting it on my sales servers such as SL Exchange, SL Plotique, my Jeb and InWorld servers. I also have an Albertek gift server, SL Query for 1-1, Meta Mart, and what else was there? Apes.biz. So, what the heck did I just say? A lot of people probably don’t know all these systems, and I just love collecting everything.

Ah yes, an S3 as well. Alright, so let’s go down the list. SL Exchange. Ever hear of it? If you haven’t, put this website into your browser. SL and then the word exchange.com.

Now what is this? Is it lets you search products on a website and buy them to have them delivered to you in the world. It’s very good because it lets you search for products and browse through categories. Much easier to find stuff than in the Second Life Client with the Classifieds. You can also sell products through SL Exchange, but they do take a bit of a percentage off the top for any product that you sell. It’s not much, I think it’s like 2-3%, I haven’t looked in a while. And the service has been around for more than a year, perhaps 2 years.

It’s pretty stable and very reliable. SLB, or also known as SL Boutique, so you can type that in your browser, SLBoutique.com. That is pretty much the same thing as SL Exchange, except that they do not charge a commission for any product that you sell through the website.

They both have their differences. SL Boutique is through the electronic sheep company, or as SL Boutique, I believe it’s an independent person who owns that. What else is there? Apes.biz. Apes.biz is a different kind of website. It’s not like these product websites that I just mentioned, but you can sell products on it through the web. What it’s primarily for in regards to products is you can have in-world vendors that can be managed through the website and in-world servers as well. SL Boutique and SL Exchange are free for you to purchase servers to host your products, whereas Apes.biz, you can either get a free version that charges you a commission on each sale, or you can pay for the full product, which I believe is maybe around 3,000 Lendons. I’m not showing the price, but if you buy the full perm’s one, you don’t have to pay as much or you don’t pay anything at all. I really got to look into that, but for now I just go with the free one, because I’m lazy.

I don’t want to keep switching everything over to the upgraded ones. Apes.biz is also pretty big on renting. You may see a lot of signs for shops that you can rent out at these big malls, and a lot of them go with Apes. You can manage all your shops with Apes. I believe Apes is also doing banking and… Oh man, what else was there? Let’s just hit on the other side.

Let’s see. Apes.biz It’s loading, loading, loading, loading. What’s it say? They do banking, leasing, vending, and sell their own products, formfactsupportATMs. You can send an instant message to any one in the world through their website. That’s kind of cool. Sell Lendons.

Every website does that too. It’s mainly banking, leasing, and selling your own products. What else did I name? SL Query and 411. I believe I talked about them before. Actually, let’s go with 411.

Are they…? 411 and SL Query are really the same in what they can do. You can use the ResoBox in the world to drop everything in it. You can search in the world through a website or through a HUD that you’re wearing to find out where other products are. Let’s say I want to find some shoes. I would attach the HUD to my avatar.

Then I believe it’s like slash 411 space and then you just type what you want to look for. Shoes. The HUD will show a page of the places that sell shoes. You can page through each one.

Next page, last page, whatever. Same thing goes for SL Query. SL Query offers a little bit more options in that you can go to the website and enter in more details such as adding pictures and more descriptions. Those would only be seen on the website itself. Using the HUD to search, you would just see the product listings and how much… You don’t get to see the prices for them but you do get to see the names of the products and locations.

Maybe you do get to see the prices. It’s been a while since I’ve seen this. What was next?

Metamart. I believe I talked about that before so you can hunt back at a previous podcast. What else was else? I’ll protect gift server. This is a pretty interesting little server in that if you want to give items away that are transferable, well, that are not transferable.

So let’s say I’m just walking along and I see something great that I want to buy but I want to buy it for my life. But the item says Copy, Modify, No Transfer. Now this has me stealing mad because I really want to buy this for her. And I don’t want to go to some website to gift it to her and I want to give it to her on an anniversary.

So what do I do? Well, the person who is selling this item can use an Aubertek gift server to sell a voucher for the item. Now the voucher I can hand to my wife and when she clicks it, it talks to this Aubertek gift server and the gift server sends her the product in World so that she can open it and now she has Modify, Copy, No Transfer rights on the product.

So that’s how Aubertek works. It’s been a very handy product for me. I found it very useful. I usually use it for lucky chairs and one of the biggest things is some of these DJs want to give out gifts and such that people can win at dances and all kinds of events. So the vouchers are great for that. I don’t have to worry about giving full perms or full permissions on all of my items before I hand it over to the DJ and hope that they set the permissions back correctly.

All I do is I give them gift vouchers instead and they in return give the gift vouchers to somebody else. They are no copy. You can modify them.

So that you can change the image to be like your store’s logo. And they are transferable. So that’s awesome.

I recommend this product to anybody who wants to allow other people to transfer their items that are commonly no transfer. Okay, so I think the other thing that I started talking about was, jevn. You have to be a user and you have probably seen jevn. You have probably used jevn and not even realized it or you probably have realized it because most vendors have that little sign on them. Let’s say jevn and that is jevn. What is jevn? Well, as may ran, I don’t know if she’s the creator, but she is the owner of the system right now in the script or extort in there. And jevn allows you to have network vendors in the world.

There’s no websites involved. You raise a server, put all your items in it, and then you can walk around to all these different sims and written malls and display your vendor and the vendor will communicate to that server and display the products that you have set up in the server at that vendor. You can set up as many vendors as you like, but I believe that the limit is around 40 per server. You can raise as many servers as you like. So if one server has too many vendors, just raise another server and have those vendors connected to the next server. One of the things that people like to do is to have two separate vendors side by side, but with a different set of products.

Well, that’s easy. You just create another server, but put different products in it. So you see how this builds on and you can modify the vendors to be your own look and feel. So it looks just like your style of store.

Okay, so I think I’ve talked enough about selling stuff in servers and I don’t know, stuff like that. And I think that’s what we’re going to see what else we have. Well, today Robbie showed me a subway that’s Robbie Reptile. I was over in the Rothbard Sim looking at a skyscraper that he had just set up. It was actually a pretty cool skyscraper, but I don’t remember who made it offhand. And he said the guy was famous.

I wish I could remember. Okay, so anyway, the subway system here is pretty interesting in that it goes across three different sims. You walk down into the subway and it’s very detailed and there’s a car and you, when the car arrives, the door is open, you walk in, please, please click a seat and sit down right away. If you don’t, as soon as the subway takes off, you’re going to appear to be going right through the walls and drop right to the floor. So a friend of mine did that and she landed on the third rail, got electrocuted. And I think she was paying too much attention to her iPod. So sooner or later we’re going to have to make some rules about not wearing your iPod when entering a subway station.

Yes, I can hear you laughing now. Okay, so what next? I have to start redesigning my Landon Higgins. So the store is now torn down or moved away, actually, and now I have a big giant round cylinder thing. And pretty much, I think the idea here is that when you arrive at a store, it’s best to be able to see everything without moving around. So that should be good.

It’s just chock full of gadgets and everybody will be able to see it all at once. And I think last but not least, I have been working on a, what is it? Okay, I’m not sure if they’re still called second cast, because now when I go there, it’s called Resnation. So second, second cast.com is another podcast.

And when you enter their website, you now are redirected to Resnation.com. Okay, there is a contest going on and anybody who has a podcast or anyone who knows much about recording audio, they want to get in on this. It’s almost over. The contest lasts until, not the 27th of February. So how many days is that? Today is the 24th.

So you got one, two, three days left. And let’s do it midnight on the 27th. Wait a minute. So is that midnight? Okay, so 11.59 on the 26th and then the first minute of the 27th. It’s no longer, I don’t know.

But just get your things in. What is the contest? Well, I mentioned the last podcast that I was joining up with a Relay for Life with Elieva Bean. And we did have an event today and we started kicking off a lot more ideas. And Dr. Fran and I actually came up with another idea for a pretty interesting event.

I’ll have to tell you about it next time. But let’s get back to this contest. Relay for Life. Second cast is looking for promos, giving some information about the Relay for Life within a second life.

You need to keep your promotion or promo down to 20 seconds or less. And you need to use these facts. The first one, fundraising weekends, February 17th. Alright, so that’s already passed but you still have to say that. Or mention that it started at that time. The second fact, the main event starts July 28th. And if nobody knows what the main event is, that’s where your runner actually runs around a track constantly.

Or at least one runner on your team must be running on the track 24-7. Or however many days it is. It’s more than one day. The next fact is the SL Relay for Life website is http://www.slrfl .org. And if you check out their website, it’s still on the main page. But if you can’t get to it, look for resnation.com. That’s the article to look for.

It’ll give you a lot more details about what’s going on. The five entries will air on secondcast.com from March until the main event in July. And the maker of the best promotion will receive, get this, 100,000 Lendon’s. How much money is that? I don’t know, is that like $300 worth?

Let me see. 1-0-0-0-0-0-0. 5-5-2-6-6 equals $1,000 .00. And that’s $1,000 .00. So imagine, if you can put that together, 20 seconds for $375. But that’s if you win.

But come on, you gotta try it. That’s like $18.00 a second or… $18.00. Well, it’s a little bit more than $18.00 a second of your time. So come on guys, do this.

Make an audio advertisement of some kind for Second Life Relay for Life, 20 seconds, and then send them to feedback at secondcast.com. It doesn’t take long at all to do that. It doesn’t take long to do it. But I’m going to go ahead and play my entry for you guys to listen to. Please don’t be discouraged by it. I bet you can do better or even…

I don’t know. I’d really like to hear what you guys do too. If anybody wants to send them to me, also, I’ll play them on my podcast as well. So, alright, well, I’ll see you guys in a minute and I’ll let you listen to the promo right now. Before I go, this is Dedrick Moriak with the Blue Hair podcast over at Bluehair.podshow .com, and you can read my blog at dedrickmoriak.wordpress .com. And if you want to send me an email or send those audio MP3s to me you can send them over to deadrick.muriac at gmail.com but please, please make something do it right now right after this podcast get your little recorder out and record 20 seconds worth of those facts and send them over to feedback at secondcast.com until then this is deadrick muriac have a great second

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Speaker 1: music Life is an event by the American Cancer Society to raise millions each year for cancer research. Fundraising has started within the world of Second Life on February 17th and continues up to the main event on July 28th. You can find more details on the website at slrfl.org.