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LOL! Yeah, you read it right. Linden Labs is looking for almost anyone who has some skills in Second Life. If you got skills and you want to be known inside and outside our virtual universe, Second Life, then read on.

???Those who are unknown will have the chance to be known!???

Calling all builders, businesspeople and budding fashionistas. Attention you educators, entertainers, environmentalists and evangelists. And let???s not forget the artists and architects; the philanthropists and politicians; the sculptors, singers and just general shining stars of Second Life. You???ve got great stories and we want??? em.

As you know, publicizing the great work of our Residents is one of our favorite pastimes at Linden Lab. We get a staggering number of requests from media to share new and innovative uses of Second Life for education, entertainment, art, culture, business and fill-in-the-blank. So, as a general reminder, we???re always on the lookout for great builds, innovative designs, the weird, the wacky and the wonderful uses of Second Life.

If you???re amenable to / interested in speaking with press about what you???re doing in Second Life please let us know. We???ll have our people contact your people and we???ll take it from there. We get the most requests for education, business and entertainment stories so are particularly interested in those, but look forward to hearing from everyone. Who knows, maybe your story is the story???

To submit your information for possible press inclusion, please send an email to Linden Lab???s public relations agency Lewis PR at ResidentStories@lewispr.com with the following information:

(*Note: We must, must, must have real-world names and contact info, so please consider that mandatory. As far as the rest, the more info you can provide the better / more usable you???re overall story will be. However, we appreciate you taking the time to contact us, so please just provide as much info as you can and / or feel comfortable with. We???ll be in touch with any further questions we might have.)

Real-world name:
Contact info:
Avatar name:
SLurl (if applicable):
What are you doing in Second Life?
How long have you been in Second Life?
How did you find out about Second Life?
What were your original goals when you became a part of Second Life? Have they changed?
Was there anything in-world that surprised you, something that you may not have expected?
What do you hope to achieve in-world?
What is your motivation?
How many Residents frequent your island/business? Daily? Monthly?
How do you measure your success in-world? Is it by money or another means?
What are some of your favorite places in-world?
What do you think makes Second Life interesting?
What are the pros and cons of doing business in Second Life?
What do you see in the future for Second Life?

I guess Linden Labs is going to try and hype Second Life once again just like what they did last year. Hey, if it will bring in more residents then why not. The more the merrier (and the laggier). Ha ha ha! It may also make your dream of becoming a Second Life Celebrity a reality (or virtuality). LOL!

Most people will say that bots are just good for camping. Well, they are indeed good for camping but, come on, be creative. There are other things you can do with an SL Bot and I found out about it when I attended Thoys Pan SL Bot Owners Meeting. The meeting isn’t really a meeting but it was like a show and tell kind of a meeting. SL Bot owners came to, well, show off their bots and there was a contest too for the most original bot. The prize was 1,000L$ or a new registered bot to your name.

I know there are many SL Bot owners in Second Life and many of them are land owners or estate owners too. Yeah, you heard that right, land owners. They use bots to camp on their own land to increase traffic. I’m not sure if I had mentioned this somewhere but I once encountered a resident who told me that he was buying 100 bots and he will use them to increase his land traffic and then sell it at a higher price. Well, that’s one thing bots can do for you. Is there anything else?

Well, at the meeting, I took the opportunity to browse around Thoys Pan’s office and there were signs inside his building showing some of the things what an SL Bot can do for you (see photos).

Hmmm… since age play is not allowed in Second Life. I guess using bots as children is an alternative as long as they remain bots I guess. Still, you may get in trouble for this since bots are actually avatars with their own accounts.

If you really need protecting then why not. Feeling safe is always better than being afraid all the time. Ha ha ha!

Now this is taking the phrase “go screw yourself” literally (in a virtual setting). Well, there are Real Dolls in real life so I guess this could act like the SL version of them.

See, they are not only good for camping. They are also good for other things. One really good thing you can do with bots is that you can use them as greeters that is if you are using Thoys SL Bot because other bot programs don’t have the Pandorabot feature. With Pandorabot activated, your bot will be able to communicate (talk) with other residents. You will need to sign up with Pandorabot to use the feature though but sign-up is fast and easy.

And don’t forget the 25,000L$ Survey Bot at Sony&BMG Island which is owned by the Second Life Research Group. That’s a very neat use for a bot. I wonder who won that 25,000L$???

Anyway, if you want to have a bot in Second Life then you can either use SLeek which is FREE or get Thoys’ SL Bot which cost L$2,000. SLeek is very good and free but the current version has a huge memory leak. Thoys has features not available in SLeek like integration with Pandorabot, listening to dialog messages and it uses memory better with very low CPU usage. Both are good so the choice is yours but if you choose Thoys’ SL Bot then you can register your bots at 3 Stars and a Sun.

If you do drop by at 3 Stars and a Sun and you happen to catch Kabalyero Kidd there then you are very much welcome to talk to him. His replies may be off at times so please bear with him because he is still learning. Ha ha ha!

Anyway, bots are not only good for camping and if you use your imagination then I’m pretty sure you’ll find a lot of good things you can use them for.

The name of the sim is Korea Orientation but the place is called UTOZ. Well, I don’t know what UTOZ means or what it stands for although I did try to search UTOZ in google and I did find there website which is www.utoz.net but it did me no good because the site is in Korean.

Anyway, there are some camping spots here that pays 2L$ per 10 minutes. I also noticed that most of those that camp there had the basic Second Life avatar appearance. I’m not sure but my guess is that they are bots (see screenshots).

Well, if you’re going to camp bot at least spend a little time dressing up your bot avatars because they kinda look too obvious and if they are not bots then still dress them up so that they won’t be accidentally marked or tagged as bots. LOL!