Speaker 1: Look at that, it’s like a, oh hell. So how do you say that the first time, never is the best time, especially on your own time? How’s it gonna go, if you know that you’re living in your Second Life? It should be better than you thought, right?

I’m longing in, let’s begin. Why not do it with your brim? I’ve got my blue hair. What you gonna do? Hey, it’s up to you. In your Second Life with my blue hair. How’s it gonna be? You, that’s the key. In your Second Life with your blue hair.

Speaker 2: Well, let’s try this a second time. I tried recording this the other day, with some live shows in Second Life, just traveling around. But it appears that the sound from the Second Life play was just way too loud. You could hear anything that I said. So, with that, everything that I said is lost.

Well, maybe almost, maybe I won’t, but it’s pretty much pointless really. Today, I was listening to Second Cast, or I believe it’s Resnation now. And they were talking about a new search tool that the Electric Sheep Company is working on. So, if you go to search.sheeplabs .word.com, you’ll see a little area, a text box that you can type or something in.

Search. And what happens is you get all the results of any object in the world. And is that for sale that matches the name and either the title, the description, or the creator, or the owner of the object. This has a very huge impact on Second Life, with being able to find things set for sale. They have an avatar, or I guess it’s probably the DSL, that has an avatar that goes around on different sims. And there’s over 6,000 sims that they go to right now, and catalog all these items that are set for sale. And there are a few problems that I’m seeing so far. Some of the items may have been set for sale, but the current owner of the item does not have transfer rights, so they can’t sell it to you.

You can’t buy from them. So it’s pointless. Why is it in the database? Other items are… A lot of the items I’ve seen were freebie items, that you can just take a copy of them, but they were set for sale anyway, which seems kind of strange. But I’m noticing a lot of the freebie items have the same name and the same prices, and are being sold by different people.

So I think it’s like a default value that was set up before the person bought it, and when they resented they didn’t realize it was still set for sale, and they just put it down and it was for sale. Speaking of freebies, they don’t list any of the items that you can take a copy of, where everyone can take a copy. If they get that, you’ll probably get quite a bit more items that are set for $0L in the system, or at least marked for copy, I don’t know. But maybe they’ll figure that out later on, how to detect those and the properties as well for these items. The bulk of all these items that I’ve seen so far, that I’ve tried to teleport to and check them out, are actually set up in residential areas, or inside of buildings. So when you go and try to find this item to buy it, you’re potentially going to intrude on somebody or something happening that shouldn’t be happening. And you’ve also got to worry about the land banners, where you’ll get the security systems to say, you’ve got 10 seconds to move out of here, or you’re going to be teleporting home. Other areas I’ve noticed are set to block everybody, except for group members, or select a few members. And I couldn’t walk into those areas.

Of course you can buy the items still, but if you can move your camera around. There’s a lot of problems here right now. And I believe that this is a very early beta. It’s amazing that you can find things. One of the things I found out is a lot of people have items for sale that don’t want them for sale. I teleport to a friend’s place that I knew personally because I saw his name show up and something was set for sale. I went to check it out and it turned out to be a desk that he bought from someone else. And it was a no copy transfer item. So what that means is you also have the potential to lose items if you don’t check them first to see if they’re set for sale before you walk away. Of course this potential of losing items has always been there, but now with a search tool, if everybody starts jumping on here and finding things and they find your item, someone could potentially take that item right out of your hands. And if it’s set for sale at a price lower than what you paid for it, you’re really going to be losing out. But with that, I was also able to see all the things that I had set for sale by accident and didn’t realize it. So I was able to, take a few of those off of the market, which is pretty good. One of the cool things I’ve realized is, since they list all the creators, and you can search by a creator, I can see all the objects that people have purchased of mine, that are still set for sale.

Most of the time I don’t allow people to transfer, most of my items that I have purchased. So, if I search here for, uh, dedric, or react, click the little icon. So I see a blue hair podcast advertisement, free. Uh, let’s see, so far I’m the LA owner. I see a painting that I handed over to LA Bob and Waupack.

I don’t think she can sell that, but I might check it out just to make sure. Uh, texture map demo, that’s a free item I give away. And, uh, yeah, that’s where it’s still in, Free Be Bizarre. It’s out in the place that I, for a few objects out there, for the newbies to take, uh, street lights, more street lights, the street lights are free. Eh, somebody renamed my street light to, tall dash low print, I wonder what that’s about. Let’s see, there’s another one.

Then there’s a partridge family and a pear tree. That’s a freebie item that I made. Street light, Halloween candy, another freebie item.

Skype status indicator, another freebie item I give away. It’s my son, the point episode one. Uh, that was from my burn baby burn mission. But that’s a free item. So you can see if you have any objects set for sale by searching your own name.

And then you can also find a lot of objects that are set for sale. Um, one of the problems that they talked about on second cast, or, um, I don’t know what to call it, is it second cast or as nation? Anyway, they were talking about how, um, you have vendors in the world that don’t have a buy property set. You pay the vendor and it’s a scripted payment system that delivers an object to you. And I would say the majority of people use these systems to, uh, to send items to other people, to their customers. Um, I use them heavily and I sell about 90 different items. So all of my items that are normally for sale are not listed in this search engine here. Only my freebies that I set for zero L dollars are, uh, are actually showing up and those are actual items you can buy.

So they may be working on something with that to, uh, pull them into the search engine as well. But, you know, I’m, I’m not so sure about these items for sale because the bulk of them are just, they’re not in stores. They are not, um, they’re just in very private locations. Um, well, somewhere, there, there needs to be some way, you know, I, I’m, my mind is just drawing a blank of how they could do this, but the problem needs to be addressed. There’s no way to know if you are going to be invading someone’s privacy when you go to that location. Um, yeah, that’s, that’s, uh, that’s my biggest issue right now is that I’m, I’m being taken to locations that are, that seem to be very, very private or that, uh, I don’t feel like I belong there. So I think that I’m going to close with that, maybe I’ll find a song or something.

But, uh, anyway, keep it short. This is Deseret Moriac, uh, bluehair.potcho .com, uh, or Deseret.Moriac at gmail.com. And you can find me on the Woodbridge Sim and let’s just say that URL once again is search.cheaplabs .com. Alright, check you out later. Bye.

Speaker 1: A typical day in Second Life.

Speaker 3: Daphne, Daphne, where are you? I’m here. What is it? Does this skirt make my ass look fat? Well, it’s a regular mom prim skirt, so yeah, it does. Okay, then what about these pants? Are you bringing your dress shape? Oh man, what about this dress? Um, well, this top?

Speaker 1: Uh, this hair?

Speaker 4: Yeah, Tam, these shoes? Oh boy.

Speaker 3: How about my misty tool? Does, does my misty tool make my ass look fat?

Speaker 4: Tamra, let’s go shopping. I’m sure there’s something out there that won’t make your ass look fat. Like a sofa.

Speaker 3: A sofa? Oh yeah, if I sit on my ass no one can see it. Okay, let’s go.

Speaker 4: Coming soon to an MP3 player new you, Going Broke with Daphne and Tamra, the podcast that tells you where to spend your lindens.

Speaker 3: Read about it now at http://www.daphneandtamra .com. That’s http://www.dap .hneandtamra.com.

Speaker 2: Relief for 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.