Vale. This morning when you open the feed reader and view the posts related to Second Life, my first thought was "Lene. Are we in early April? Or again be December 28?"
And is that the news seemed to be the joke of the day is that Linden Research Inc, the company responsible (was going to put "the guilty") of SL just bought the top two online retail sites of articles related to our small virtual world, XstreetSL (formerly SLExchage), the most used, and Onrez ( SLBoutique before), the better.
The last straw.
To me this is a bad, very bad news. The problem is that the two will continue to open after the purchase, but Onrez closes on 11 February. And obviously my motives are selfish, is that I use both as seller and consumer. In my opinion, is claramentente Onrez superior, even though (or precisely because) it is the least popular of the two services. The interface to add products, change prices and add labels is simply tiresome than they have in XstreetSL method, the graphics are better and have the ability to customize your "shop window" of products. Not to mention they have a much more catchy name.
already made to combine the two services should ideally have the user base Xstreet Onrez with usability, but we know how to handle things the boys with the surname Linden, right? The recent history of Second Life is full of good ideas, potentially great ideas, but left half or poorly implemented directly. As the great graphic enhancement that was the purchase of technology of WindLight, which left half of the users with a computer that simply does not support the advance, or that have never ridden the most necessary to enjoy the new editor of heaven: the ability to exchange the configurations between users. So it is virtually impossible for two people on the same island and see the world as the source of endless IMs telling me "Hey, you. The skin you just bought does not look like the posters, so I assume that somehow how is your fault. " Or the introduction of voice chat system, creating a "ventriloquist" because they have not bothered to make avatars move his mouth while the voice sounds.
Because yes, the ability to add a robust online shopping in SL program itself is good news, but we'll see how it ends. If you end up. Or if we have another "Showcase", when they changed the site's most popular places (which was virtually unusable without looking for sex, heavy or farm freebies bots) with a new section of "Best of Second Life" handpicked and fully where it is virtually impossible to enter.
The bad news? Can you spell MONOPOLY? Where once we had two independent platforms vying to see who was the best service and had more customers and advertising revenues or two different systems to choose your product list that came closest to your requirements, now only be one way of doing things, and also run by the same people who have the world upside down day in and day out. Not to mention that now control the two major external systems virtual currency exchange and virtual real estate market, two key features that had Xstreet.
have also been charged with the best free system sales network in Second Life itself, because Onrez also offered a system that with their own listings on their website you could ride "vendors" to place in stores, and that a product update on the page you were all ready all inworld. And nowhere in the announcement of the blog, in forums, or in the FAQ they have published, make sure that the new Xstreet will have the same service.
And the latest bad news, Onrez was basically a free service for both sellers and buyers (unless you chose to advertise or buy more visibility, but as optional), while in Xstreet stay at 5% of your sales, addition to the advertising system they already have. What happens when the option to become official? Well, I fear that shall retain that percentage. One more chance to have the lindens to keep milking customers.
Back then, I know perfectly well that SLExchange / Xstreet is the online shopping system more popular, but using it is really a pain in the ovaries. Still a couple of weeks ago I deleted the 20 or 30 items I had left there before Onrez and totally change was a nightmare. Almost an hour and a half sailing through an endless series of pages asking me the same thing over and over again, when Onrez is (was) much easier, can be made from the same page. If there is something I am glad that this has caught me in the process of updating my catalog Onrez and now I have to change only 4 or 5 things. If I put all the skins as planned (and I had not done just because of laziness) gives me something. Because the term given for the change, about three weeks, will be a nightmare for people who have hundreds of items there.
The photo shows the post is one of the walls of my home / studio / skybox. Until this morning the only box that was on that shelf was to onrez and I fear it will not last much longer. A while ago I got a new version of the box to make sales Xstreet (had erased the old makes a lot of time) and put it on the wall next to each other. Because I'm not complaining, I will complain even more in the coming weeks, but this, like almost everything he does Linden Lab, is a fait accompli and unless you can build your own web trading system, as the boys from Armidi , will be the only option left.
So with a tear, and remembering all his relatives, tonight will begin to update my products on Xstreet.
And is that the news seemed to be the joke of the day is that Linden Research Inc, the company responsible (was going to put "the guilty") of SL just bought the top two online retail sites of articles related to our small virtual world, XstreetSL (formerly SLExchage), the most used, and Onrez ( SLBoutique before), the better.
The last straw.
To me this is a bad, very bad news. The problem is that the two will continue to open after the purchase, but Onrez closes on 11 February. And obviously my motives are selfish, is that I use both as seller and consumer. In my opinion, is claramentente Onrez superior, even though (or precisely because) it is the least popular of the two services. The interface to add products, change prices and add labels is simply tiresome than they have in XstreetSL method, the graphics are better and have the ability to customize your "shop window" of products. Not to mention they have a much more catchy name.
already made to combine the two services should ideally have the user base Xstreet Onrez with usability, but we know how to handle things the boys with the surname Linden, right? The recent history of Second Life is full of good ideas, potentially great ideas, but left half or poorly implemented directly. As the great graphic enhancement that was the purchase of technology of WindLight, which left half of the users with a computer that simply does not support the advance, or that have never ridden the most necessary to enjoy the new editor of heaven: the ability to exchange the configurations between users. So it is virtually impossible for two people on the same island and see the world as the source of endless IMs telling me "Hey, you. The skin you just bought does not look like the posters, so I assume that somehow how is your fault. " Or the introduction of voice chat system, creating a "ventriloquist" because they have not bothered to make avatars move his mouth while the voice sounds.
Because yes, the ability to add a robust online shopping in SL program itself is good news, but we'll see how it ends. If you end up. Or if we have another "Showcase", when they changed the site's most popular places (which was virtually unusable without looking for sex, heavy or farm freebies bots) with a new section of "Best of Second Life" handpicked and fully where it is virtually impossible to enter.
The bad news? Can you spell MONOPOLY? Where once we had two independent platforms vying to see who was the best service and had more customers and advertising revenues or two different systems to choose your product list that came closest to your requirements, now only be one way of doing things, and also run by the same people who have the world upside down day in and day out. Not to mention that now control the two major external systems virtual currency exchange and virtual real estate market, two key features that had Xstreet.
have also been charged with the best free system sales network in Second Life itself, because Onrez also offered a system that with their own listings on their website you could ride "vendors" to place in stores, and that a product update on the page you were all ready all inworld. And nowhere in the announcement of the blog, in forums, or in the FAQ they have published, make sure that the new Xstreet will have the same service.
And the latest bad news, Onrez was basically a free service for both sellers and buyers (unless you chose to advertise or buy more visibility, but as optional), while in Xstreet stay at 5% of your sales, addition to the advertising system they already have. What happens when the option to become official? Well, I fear that shall retain that percentage. One more chance to have the lindens to keep milking customers.
Back then, I know perfectly well that SLExchange / Xstreet is the online shopping system more popular, but using it is really a pain in the ovaries. Still a couple of weeks ago I deleted the 20 or 30 items I had left there before Onrez and totally change was a nightmare. Almost an hour and a half sailing through an endless series of pages asking me the same thing over and over again, when Onrez is (was) much easier, can be made from the same page. If there is something I am glad that this has caught me in the process of updating my catalog Onrez and now I have to change only 4 or 5 things. If I put all the skins as planned (and I had not done just because of laziness) gives me something. Because the term given for the change, about three weeks, will be a nightmare for people who have hundreds of items there.
The photo shows the post is one of the walls of my home / studio / skybox. Until this morning the only box that was on that shelf was to onrez and I fear it will not last much longer. A while ago I got a new version of the box to make sales Xstreet (had erased the old makes a lot of time) and put it on the wall next to each other. Because I'm not complaining, I will complain even more in the coming weeks, but this, like almost everything he does Linden Lab, is a fait accompli and unless you can build your own web trading system, as the boys from Armidi , will be the only option left.
So with a tear, and remembering all his relatives, tonight will begin to update my products on Xstreet.
