



One of the main concerns I had to come to Second Life was that almost all had cost and did not know how to get money. The first option was the camp, where they gave you some money by leaving your avatar sitting for a certain period but nevertheless the cost-benefit ratio was not good because they had to stay quite long periods to get a paltry amount soon you realize that was useless. The next alternative that there was work, but had the serious disadvantage that there are few decent jobs or paying if you have advanced knowledge of Internet and
With the ban on casinos things only got worse for those without a linden split in half and then there is no alternative until now: to become Premium user and have access to buying lindens with your credit card. However, there are several problems with these options Does the principal?, Simple: you need an international credit card! habemos and many people especially in Mexico and Latin America we do not want to use one on the internet or worse, we do not have access to this form of financing. Suddenly in your adventures in SL find that outfit you will never look good in the real world but your avatar perfectly fits provided hair and decide you want until you like in the real world you take a disappointment when you look at price and compare it with your marker lindens. If you are lucky to live in Europe have it easier because you can acquire some of the currency of Second Life through ATMs that some companies put in some popular sims old continent and work through cell phone SMS messages. But oh disappointment!, Do not live in either the U.S. or Europe but in Latin America, then you're doomed to be an outcast of the virtual economy if you have no special talent as design objects, clothes or being a DJ for a sim ... until now .
Some companies have begun to see the enormous potential of Second Life as a business platform despite optimistic forecasts nothing and decided to venture into the hitherto untouched market for the sale of virtual currency for Latin American avatars as you know we a culture quite reluctant to use a credit card over the Internet or just plain do not have access to one.
Mobilize your second life ...
The first company devoted to selling virtual currency for Latin America is Tuixén , a joint entrepreneurs venture between Argentina and Mexico that offer the sale of Linden dollars via cell phone text messages in virtually all of the Americas including the United States. This service has a website explaining the operation of the service in each country where it is available, which so far are: Chile, Argentina, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Mexico and the United States at: http://www.tuixo.com where to click on the flag country where you access to the site you're custom of your country and then receive instructions and cost of service in your own language. The service for Mexico, which is where I find myself basically works as follows:
1 .- SL located in a kiosk Tuixén are available in most popular sims (until now is in Mexico sim and La Frontera, see the complete list on its Web site) or you can go directly to local Tuixén in SL, just look for "Tuixén" with the search tool that brings your SL software.
2 .- The kiosk will give you a pin number, it is important that we scored very well for your work to the first transaction.
3 .- Send from your phone the following message: IN Tuixén [Space] your PIN number to your 7766 and your money will be charged to your account within a period not exceeding 3 minutes.
Currently the service is available for mobile Movistar and Iusacell / Unefon (coming soon available for Telcel, check availability on the page). This transaction will cost $ 13 pesos + VAT per message (comes with about 15 weight of your balance in total) which has in turn will get in Second Life L $ 50 ... let the calculator in your place!, I should clarify that as all service of this kind are no intermediaries such as service provider and phone company so definitely L $ 50 NO cost $ 13 pesos at the exchange rate prevailing on LindeX, but is an excellent choice if you need virtual currency to complete that piece of clothing or virtual gadget that you always dreamed of for your avatar without having to sign up as premium user with the corresponding monthly fee charged your credit card without having to spend hours sitting as oyster or worse, dancing or doing the most ridiculous things in exchange for a few lindens. This is also a pretty good choice to serve as an initial investment to start your business because we remember that to create clothing costs and anecdotally I can let you know that one of Mexico's most successful entrepreneurs started their business in SL dedicated to sports only an initial investment of L $ 300, so you might as well start being self-sufficient initial capital to fund your SMS messages.
Abramovic Romm Thank you for the information, He is the director of this project with which I have no relationship to the present you a useful alternative that I have ever tried and is really effective. Tuixén offers a free phone for any questions or doubts, available in some countries where it currently provides the service and will also clarify that in each country works with cellular carriers in each territory and cost according to each local market.
Brazilian Solution for
Tuixén is not the only option available in Mexico buy virtual currency to pay in pesos without credit card as a second company is about to officially launch its service acquisition currency using a proven solution in the Brazilian market and once I talked about in this space: you can buy prepaid cards almost to the corner store.
service I speak of is LINDENCARD and is offered by Internet Architects, the creators of Mexcity, in partnership with Toditocard. A few months ago I suggested this method as the more practical to offer money to the Mexican avatars every day but felt we were more like most stayed in a ratote newbie status in the absence of valid choices to be made of lindens and the only Mexican supply of just sit 6 hours followed in exchange for just L $ 72. I see with pleasure that I was not the only one who had that idea and that a serious company with vision and IA had enough imagination and resources to implement it, which leads me to the conclusion that it does not take years in SL or not occupied as the first Mexican company authorized to offer Second Life by Linden Labs virtual services to succeed because I think it is more important to get to work seriously in a business strategy to pass it all the time giving interviews in all media assuming a sim as nice as useless in analyzing it as a business, as well as IA Tuixén are companies that have no more than two months in SL, but hey, at least it served to exponentially increase the number of Mexicans who use SL, which are all potential customers of both companies mentioned above ... well the saying: "No one knows for whom they work." Well, it was much roll and still did not explain how it works Lindencard.
Here we have the option of purchasing quantities of Second Life currency much larger than Tuixén. Basically what we have to do is buy a prepaid card Toditocard, which works well as Internet access prepaid phone (something that if you are a user of SL you should have left behind long ago as this thing just pulls with broadband) phone card long distance service and prepaid payment as some online music sites, newspaper subscriptions and now to buy linden dollars in Second Life. These cards have been sold in the Oxxos, 7-Eleven, on newsstands and other enclosed spaces and are in various denominations ranging from $ 50 to $ 300 pesos depending on the name is the number of lindens that you can buy, which according to a chart's own ATM are:
- A card of $ 50 dollars gives you L $ 350 (L $ is short for linden dollars, I'd got to say)
- The toditocard $ 100 pesos you get L $ 750
- cards $ 150 pesos you give L $ 1.200
- If you bought a card for $ 185 pesos have L $ 1.400
- A toditocard $ 300 pesos will give in exchange L $ 2.800
Again the same explanation that Tuixén: it is more than obvious that there are fixed costs to be covered for the service and make room for commercially viable so the pesos paid by the card does not become full in as if you buy lindens on LindeX, however is a quite reasonable alternative to using a credit card that not everyone has or is willing to use on the network.
Ok, you buy a Toditocard, now what do I do?. These cards are like prepaid cell phones, bring back a box of rubber that you scrape to get your pin, having done so, log in to SL and teleport to Mexcity, look there for ATM Toditocard (is between the beach and Garibaldi Square
Touch the ATM and you'll see one of those text messages in a blue box in Second Life, give and take that picture will open a web browser window with a form where you type the number of
We wish these two companies the best of success with these services where they are win-win for Second Life users to have more ways to acquire money to enjoy our second life and satisfy our consumerist frenzy in this world of digital fantasy.
When I had planned to dedicate this month to things much simpler and without relative importance compared to what used to write in this blog about my experiences in Second Life, fate takes a turn capricious and is again time to get serious in a situation really warrants it, and although it is a situation typical of the first life, is something whose importance has reached the realm of virtual world to raise awareness all the women we usually spend some time to live electronics a second life, who in a very particular, but not excluding those that do not should read this post from my blog.
We are in the month of October and this month has been designated internationally as a month dedicated to the fight against breast cancer, a terrible evil that had not been detected in time has claimed millions of lives of women around the world. To me in particular the word cancer is perhaps the one that gives me the chills for very personal reasons. Many people out of ignorance or laziness know the true extent of this terrible disease and even I can say that ignorance on the subject is more dangerous than the evil itself.
During this month, everywhere we see signs at bus stops, ads on television, radio, print and Internet campaigns to open up promoting awareness of the importance of preventing this disease with a slogan as simple as promoted by direct established stars of showbiz and sport shirts bearing the legend written in pink lettering: "please touch" in clear reference to the simple self with which we can detect early signs of the disease.
Photo: MedioTiempo.com
Even so traditionally masculine sport such as football's first division soccer in Mexico has been added to this awareness campaign by reaching an agreement by which all games played during the month of October be entered using a pink ball
cim * ab Foundation ( http://www.fundacioncima.org ) led by Alejandra de la Cima is the main profit organization that fights breast cancer with both campaigns and preventive measures such as the aforementioned association with FMF and also mentioned "Please touch" as well as raising funds to support poor women in the detection and treatment of this terrible evil. I highly recommend all readers of my blog and those who have an avatar in SL, which is not insignificant, visit their website to obtain more information and to be possible to support this noble cause according to their abilities even if the most simple: to spread this message that can help save many lives, starting with ours.
And Second Life could not escape that noble cause as a group of women survivors of this disease have joined a support group called "Take Action!" which has one location in SL located at: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Sorrento% 20City/92 / 160 / 0 / and has focused on creating a network of mutual support and information about the disease because this addition to being a terrible physical illness is also a very hard psychological blow to those who have had the misfortune of being diagnosed. Until today I have not found any sim Hispanic, much less Mexico, which has some support campaign to fight this terrible disease, which is not associated with any association or enterprise but is a clear message of general importance, so do a serious call to the makers of ALL Second Life sims Mexicans without distinction of any kind: Reform / Can Cun, Mexico sim, Mexcity, La Frontera , and I miss you to join this campaign rose lifesaving information. How?, You are best able to determine that they have shown that their creativity has no limits and can range from something as simple as a small poster to something bigger informative, colorful and original, as if they were able to place Mexican flags or giant gourd-shaped ornaments, that's better than putting in a selfless something in the islands, which serves to combat this real monster called cancer. I appeal to your good heart and creativity and all women will appreciate your effort.
Although there are many factors that increase the chances of contracting this disease, the mere fact of being a woman and is a risk factor in ensuring that all take our precautions and informed us, because the best weapon we have against cancer is early detection, significantly increasing the effectiveness of treatments, because I know that under my own roof I have a survivor who has won not once, but twice this terrible disease and is living testimony that if we can win this terrible battle, the same woman who gave me life, first life. The worst thing you can do is stay silent out of pity or shame. Request information autoexplorate, ask your doctor and go to organizations like cim * ab to give or receive support because if God forbid you become diagnosed with this evil, the worst thing you can do is face feeling lonely.
In solidarity with the global campaign to combat breast cancer, this blog changes its color to pink which is the official color of this fight and now I am compiling a simple shirt with pink ribbon to take to the virtual world important message.
A good friend of SL could be in the difficult situation face to face this terrible monster and dedicate all my love this blog pink for her. I know your great spirit and strength and I have faith in God that everything will go well and feel confident we will have lots of people praying for you and no matter how hard he could reach be the test, someone like you can only come victorious and stronger from something like this as well wrote Saul of Tarsus (St. Paul): "If God is with me, who can be against me?".
From Second Life with Love ...
Sasha
PD: I want to thank specially to Website http://www.mediotiempo.com used without permission because one of his photographs of the press conference of presentation of the pink ball. Read the full story at: http://www.mediotiempo.com/noticia.php?id_noticia=45343
The night of Thursday October 4 last night became a very successful event "Juebebes" organized by the folks at Mexcity. Unlike other sims, this place have chosen to go slowly dosing the entertainment of the island and have begun to do only 1 party a week and have been chosen precisely because they were held on Thursday the biggest day of probability of attendance (those who work or study you may not even have a chance to go out in RL as in a weekend even though I may at weekends) in addition to the event schedule begins in a more than adequate for a weekday it starts at 7:30 pm the dance hall. While still early testing with the music to establish their view channel exclusive streaming audio and therefore even begin with some technical flaws, little by little they are polished and the music program with which the environment encourages of Mexcity is totally different from what you hear in other places around Second Life, it is a purely Mexican program (for all sims of all countries can play rock or Punchis Punchis " as all sides begin to sound the same) and there were times where I felt flat in the" Far West "(for those who are in Monterrey or know my ranch, you know what I mean) by I chose what to get my hat to dance to the rhythm of
But if this is finally the Latin American market has reached a very acceptable option to buy Linden dollars to spend or invest in the game without having to obtain a premium account or owning a credit card .
The Tuixén 100% Mexican company is about to launch its new service Linden purchase via SMS text messages via cell phone, much like some services already operating in Europe. In the next entry in this blog will have more information regarding this service to be officially released as of October 10 of this and have an exclusive interview with the director general of Tuixén, Romme Abramovic, who kindly took care for this servant to send me information on this project make it known to scoop, to give us more details of how it will work, in which countries will be available and the cost will be handled, but now they advance to be available in the United States, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Venezuela, Argentina and Mexico and can obviously be used with most cell phone companies of these countries and the best sims in America. Stay tuned.
Originally this post was going to try about my misadventures my inventory and ordering landmarks but a number of factors combined to speak for something a little deeper and serious and has the potential to affect everyone equally.
I just got the mail from my avatar a "statement" of Banamex saying that my account additional protection needed to click a link to validate the authenticity of my identity or else could not do transactions in your system Bancanet. E is excellently written and seeing everywhere easily pass as an official communication from the bank including the address where he was sent except one small detail: as far as I Banamex managed accounts in Linden Dollars and save my account in SL account has no money of any kind, much less am a client of Banamex (remember my e-mail is my avatar). That my love is what is called social engineering and basically refers to the weakest component of the security of an information system is the human user himself. What does this mean? Basically that movies have misled us by making us believe that hackers are antisocial geeks a lot of comics fans are extremely intelligent 8 monitors and then they're typing as insane things incomprehensible to most fatal to enter computers Pentagon, FBI and in general to any computer they want. While certainly there must be that kind of hackers who know them all, all in mathematics and programming languages \u200b\u200bis that reality is always easier breaking into a system by attacking the weakest link, or its user and without having much knowledge of technology but rather with social engineering is nothing that tricked people to consciously submit information (or the key to it) to someone who should not. Quickly I remembered having seen the subject in my class e-commerce and e-business and giving a quick glance at my articles in these subjects found that one of the more hackers world famous, a certain Kevin Mitnick says that social engineering is based on four fundamental principles are:
* We all want to help.
* The first movement is always trusted the other.
* We do not like to say No.
* We all like to be praised.
By talking with friends and friends avatars in Second Life, apart from my own experience in this digital universe that continues to be an information system, I realized that there is a high potential risk that our security is breached widely varying ways and not necessarily through the use of very complicated scripts like copybot I've mentioned here, but quite simply using the power of persuasion
Here I present a series of hypothetical scenarios and real both of which I had learned from other avatars in SL who some of these things have happened or have knowledge that someone would eventually use them against other avatars to cheat them somehow. All these scenarios are, according to some experts in systems that I have consulted and who have avatars in SL, the potential to become a reality at some point by someone smart enough and by their nature are technically feasible based on current characteristics Second Life system. Serve this post as a warning to keep his eyes open and not blindly trust everyone to the first and foremost, to maintain some reservations about our real information by the very nature of the system as well say that "information is power "let's not give anyone the privilege of having some kind of power over us.
SCENARIO 1: THE GIFT
One day, one avatar (known for a long time or a perfect stranger, no matter) sends you an item as a gift. Clothing usually have clearly identifiable icons in your inventory as such, unless it is the classic legend "I am a (a) ... (add here the insult that strikes your fancy)" anyone can add are harmless, the problem is with another class of objects that are not always what they seem. Some jokes may be simple but others may have the potential to become highly humiliating and make you a bad time. Is from the classic balloon someone gives to another avatar and that dress you high into the air without stopping, the classic "flower" is actually an animation of flatulence and generally anything that tell us the name that is one thing and reality is somewhat different. Heard around the case of an insanely jealous avatar that sent him to another which he said was his great friend, a subject who claimed to be a jewel, the other to receive it thinking it was a gift of good faith of his "friend" puts it in reality was an animation that made it very unpleasant positions dance and shout to the 4 winds and nonstop "I'm a bitch."
The lesson: never accept foreign objects and familiar people, more trust Have you ever tries to dress your avatar directly to the first, try to first pull them from your inventory into the world to see if reality is what you said it.
SCENARIO 2: THE FALSE MIND
a couple of months ago the world of Second Life was shaken by the news that one of the "banks" metaverse largest of the "Ginko Bank" had gone bankrupt, leaving hundreds of avatars without large amounts of lindens they had saved (remember that the linden is convertible to real-world currency) as it had chosen to withdraw their savings institutions actual monetary savings on this "new" way in the virtual universe that promised to pay interest above market rates. By breaking Ginko ran out of their lucrative interests and worse, without your original capital in exchange for getting a "bonus" cash in a few months for amounts not paid ... it goes without saying that the creator of this financial institution, who their clients knew little or nothing of him in the real world faded away as easily as the simple act of giving "log off" to your SL account and removing all those Linden dollars as hard cash. What if Linden Labs can track money movements from that account?, yes, but we must also note that launder money in second life is much easier than in the real world. Just simply create a few clones avatars (and in previous posts I mentioned how easy enough to do that because only one email account) having a shop of some sort, instead of making a transfer of an avatar avatar simply spend money all those lindens that the fraudulent account (or can and in fact to make it better should be more than one place) clone your avatar shop which to be investigated when you can simply claim not to know the type in question and that he has no control over the goods it sells which is a valid argument and presto, instant fraud. The case of a savings account, bank or whatever you call it can be easily repeated as one of the major drawbacks of SL is that a serious and responsible for the real world that wants a presence in the metaverse is identical to a shell company created abusadillo avatar by renting a site and construct a building that looks created by a professional (eg a sim created by real and serious companies like Zenith or Internet Design Architects in no way different from a sim created by a "John Doe" any .) "In real life you would trust a large sum of money to an unknown type with appearance rather than sitting on the dubious bench in a public park just for the fact that promises cuidártelo and pay you interest? ... So why Second Life should be different to that?.
SCENARIO 3:
I have often talked about what I'm skeptical about romantic relationships in Second Life that go beyond the screen and I recently received evidence that makes me doubt further and show that my position from the beginning was
SCENARIO 4: Pirates a GOOD IDEA
One day you think of a great idea that can revolutionize business in Second Life can be a script, a piece of clothing, a gadget, a building or even a comprehensive concept business, what is the first thing you doing, you tell your best friend in SL who blindly trust in the real world. I do not know is that in fact these "friends" see the potential of your idea and unknowingly have one or more avatars clones which implement it and steal it without "physically" with a rather complicated script plagiandote ssino a concept (or if they are very brazen, they will themselves openly and even fighting with you for any excuse). The problem is that intellectual property in itself is a rather ambiguous concept in the real world, second life we \u200b\u200bare in a land without law in this sense he never could win a lawsuit for plagiarism of something in this universe (to start , "demanding to whom?). For finish grinding, according to the terms of service of Second Life (those endless paragraphs of text incomprehensible that forced us to select the option "I accept" to continue using SL recently) said inter alia that everything in your account and in your inventory after all is owned by Linden Labs, That includes any object, pledge, script or texture you've created. Serve this as a simple warning to anyone with eyes to read, that everyone draw their own conclusions on this scenario.
There are more scenarios where we can be victims of social engineering, just presented these because they are the most common or that I have evidence strong enough to say they are or could be real, so I suggest that you precautions and measures you enjoy your second life but with the caution of today's world where we take three locks on the door of our home and we got off the car without putting the wheel lock, alarm and closing out the insurance, because in addition to an unintended effect of this blog is that he had thought no one of these things will surely come to mind performed by ...
Have a nice day!
Sasha