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ZoHa Islands 7th Anniversary Party!!

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We are very excited to announce that ZoHa Islands is having an Anniversary Blowout!

Date: Saturday, Nov 1, 2014

Time: Noon to 8pm SLT

We want to accommodate all time zones, so we are running this party for eight solid hours! Please join us for this fabulous line up of live musicians, DJ and tribute band!! Come party with us and rock your pixels off! We are celebrating!!

Here is the entertainment line-up:

12 Noon to 1pm SLT: Gweeb Resident (live)

1pm to 2pm SLT: Luvofmusic Resident (live)

2pm to 3pm SLT: qqquartzzz Resident (live)

3pm to 4pm SLT ℳƛƔЄƝƝ ӇƲƝƬЄR (mavenn) (live)

4pm to 5:30pm SLT: Malia Gustafson (Malia Skytower)-Lightning strikes tribute band

5:30pm to 8pm SLT: DJ Buzrd (buzrd.draconia) awesome and amazing DJ

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Kudos to our awesome Deelish Wishbringer for pulling this huge event together! Dee is our Business District Manager. Please be sure and see her to place your business in this amazing area.

Here is some information on some of the artists scheduled to play:

qqquartzzz Resident:

Quartz is a Canadian singer, songwriter and musician who performs all his shows with passion and an emotional connection to the music he sings. Quartz plays keyboard, lead, bass and acoustic guitar. His genre is typically classic and progressive rock, from the cassette years to now, and he brings a repertoire of over 200 songs including his own compositions. He sings with backtracks or purely acoustic; both are excellent. In addition, he also does an amazing live tribute to Elton John show.

Luvofmusic Resident:

Luvofmusic was born and raised in Chi-Town (Chicago, Illinois). Being a real life singer, she brings experience and a professional feel to her SL gigs. She started singing at a young age and had a few generations of music playing all the time in the house. Some of her influences include, Amy Winehouse, Erykah Badu, Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday, Janis Joplin, Frank Sinatra, Marvin Gaye, Donny Hathaway and Sam Cooke, just to name a few. She loves singing Jazz, Blues, R&B, Rock & Roll and some Pop. She may even throw in a country songs!

We will post the location as it gets closer but please put this on your calendar and come celebrate with us!!

I remain respectfully yours,
Suzanne Piers, ZI Social Media Manager

Haunted Halloween Tour

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[Ed note: I fixed the link. It now contains the correct SLURL.)

I received an email that the premium gifts from Linden Lab were available, and in the same email was information about the Haunted Halloween Tour in SL. Naturally, I had to go check it out.

Created by Linden Lab, this has to be one of the scariest, creepiest, grossest haunted/horror site that I’ve seen so far. I decided it deserved a v-blog. But even if you watch the video you MUST go and experience it for yourself. Warning: This is NOT for the faint of heart nor the faint of stomach!

Go to the Portal Park and enter the Halloween portal. But be prepared. This will be something you won’t soon forget!

Enjoy!!

I remain respectfully yours,
Suzanne Piers, ZoHa Islands Social Media Manager

Ebbe Altberg Discusses the New Platform!

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Second Life’s TV show Designing Worlds‘ Saffia Widdershins and Elrik Merlin interviewed Linden Lab’s CEO Ebbe Altberg. Filmed during their 250th episode, Saffia and Elrik had an in-depth and candid discussion with Ebbe about many things, including the new platform, the future of Second Life, among other things.

Ebbe revealed that bringing back last names is on the horizon. He stated that while it’s not an active project on the moment, it is high on the list and will be coming back at some point in the future. He also discussed possibly bringing back community portals, which would attract users directly into a creator’s experience from RL.

He also discussed how bringing real-time facial expressions to avatars in SL is also a project, but that this technology is very much in it’s infancy and will take time for the hardware (such as 3D cameras) to become more common before this can become a reality.

Ebbe also had a long discussion about the new platform. He indicated that it has not yet been named, and said they have a code name for it as they’re developing it. However, they are keeping it secret because they are not sure the name will become the platform’s actual name. Linden Lab doesn’t want it to get branded with that name if that is not what is going to be used. It could potentially be very confusing. So for now, they continue to call it “the new platform” publicly.

Ebbe also emphasized that this new platform is NOT a replacement for SL; but is a completely new environment incorporating new technology. It iss easier to build new using the SL platform as a jumping off point, rather than trying to make the old platform work with the new technology. He stated that the new platform would be in the spirit of Second Life, with user generated content, and to make it easier for new users to interact with it.

He stated that they are at the point with the new platform that they are getting close to launching an avatar in the new world (hopefully by the end of the year), and indeed working towards possibly having an alpha test ready for specific invited users by mid-2015.

When asked if the viewer for the new platform will be open source, Ebbe stated that at the present time, they do not plan to open source the viewer. However, they are looking at possibly having plug-ins to be used with the viewer for customizations without the code being open source. He hinted that there might be a possibility for open source in the future at some point.

Ebbe also discussed cross-compatibility. He said that indeed some content would be able to cross to the new platform, but not all. They wanted the new platform to be forward thinking and future oriented, and not have to be written to allow for older technology. He stated that mesh would be transferable into the new platform, but that there would be a completely different scripting language used. He also indicated that avatars would be able hop between worlds using your avatar’s identity and Lindens. [Ed. Note: I got the impression that you would have two different avatars, one in each world, but that you could transfer the identity and lindens, not the avatar itself.]

The interview is featured on the Living in a Modemworld blog, and includes a written transcript of their discussion. In addition, the blogger, Inara Pey, includes interesting graphics and embedded videos to highlight the transcripts. It is well-worth a visit to her blog to see it. What I did was listen to the video and follow along by reading the transcript.

The video interview is here below.

I remain respectfully yours,
Suzanne Piers, Social Media Manager

ZoHa Island Business District and Sandbox V-blog

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In my second attempt at a V-blog, I decided to take you on a tour of ZoHa Islands’ Business District. ZoHa Islands is the only estate in Second Life to offer a set of sims that are connected to form a large business district. You can purchase parcels of almost any size and prim count to accommodate businesses large and small.

Part of the package offered to businesses who rent parcels in our business district is free advertising in the advertising boards located at both the main office and the business district office.

Also, if you’re not sure how to operate the tier payment kiosks, I have demonstrated that in this video. I hope that those new to ZoHa Islands will find that helpful.

I also discuss the ZoHa Islands sandbox, which is a wonderful place to rez items out, create builds, etc.

I hope that you enjoy this video and hopefully I will continue to improve as I move forward.

I remain respectfully yours,
Suzanne Piers, ZoHa Islands Social Media Manager

My Very First V-Blog!

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So this weekend I decided to try something different — record and post a video blog, or a v-blog. I decided to try X-split Gamecaster to record gameplay in SL, and it worked really well with one problem — I had difficulty with the sound. I kept getting an echo. After a lot of frustration and experimentation, I realized if I muted my speakers I could record a voice-over as I video recorded my travels in Second Life, but this meant that I could not hear in-game sounds, but yet in-game sounds recorded on my video recording. (If anyone has any ideas about how to fix this, I’d love to hear them. You can email me on my gmail account at suzannepiers821 or contact me in-world.)

What was interesting was when I played the recording back, all of the in-world sounds were there, which I could not hear as I was exploring. The video I recorded ended up being over 30 minutes long, and I tried to edit it into two videos to post on two different days, but alas my video editing skills are in the infant stage, as well. I need more practice (and a decent video editing software!).

I decided, since it was nearly October, to visit a site that has some haunted stuff. This was called Halloween 8th Year Haunted Mansion, rides, Zombie Hunt.

Here is my very first v-blog. I know that it is too long, and the last half drags a bit, so feel free to fast forward through the end if you’d like. I’ll work on improving my skills for next time. Meanwhile, here’s my very raw video blog.

Enjoy!

I remain respectfully yours,
~ Suzanne Piers
ZI Social Media Manager

Happy 7th Anniversary, ZoHa Islands!

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ZoHa Islands Main Sales Office and Tier Payment Center

ZoHa Islands Main Sales Office and Tier Payment Center

We are excited to announce that 2014 is ZoHa Island’s seventh year of providing the best estate land in Second Life! In honor of that milestone, ZoHa Islands is throwing a party!

Save the date: Saturday, November 1, 2014 is when we are holding our big bash. Plans are still in the works, but it includes fun, dancing, and live music! We will try to hold it in the mid-late afternoon so as many as possible can attend. We are definitely cognizant of the wide variety of time zones represented in SL and in ZoHa Islands residents, so stay tuned to this blog as plans develop.

Zoha Islands General Pictures_006ZoHa Boa started out with just a few sims in 2006. As his reputation grew, so did the size of his landholdings. As the business continued to grow, ZoHa decided that he needed to hire an operations manager, and that is where Deuce Marjeta comes in. Deuce was hired in 2008 in the role of Operations Manager. Prior to that, he worked for Surreal Estates for four years, and owned and operated his own estate company, Massine Estates, for three years. At the time that Deuce was hired, ZoHa Islands had about 90 sims.

Fast forward to 2014, and ZoHa Islands is one of the top estates in Second Life, boasting 813 sims and going strong. We offer a variety of sim and parcel choices for just about every budget. You can have grass or sand, land on an adult sim, an entire homestead or a full-prim sim.

ZoHa Islands Business District Office

ZoHa Islands Business District Office

ZoHa Islands is one of the few estates to offer a Business District with a dedicated Business District Manager! If you place your business on a parcel in our Business District, you get not only an awesome piece of land that you can purchase and own with owner’s rights, including setting your land to group, putting your own music stream in, etc. you will get a full-service manager plus free advertising in the kiosks at the tier payment centers, and a link to your shop on our website! We have just about any size parcel for your business that would work for you. The pricing is reasonable, too.

ZoHa Islands Sandbox -- Grass Area

ZoHa Islands Sandbox — Grass Area


ZoHa Islands Sandbox Builder's Level

ZoHa Islands Sandbox Builder’s Level


One of the nicest perks of being a ZoHa Island resident, is access to the ZoHa Islands dedicated Sandbox. This is a quiet sandbox, and has several levels for serious builders. If you need a place to build without lag, and you’re tired of crowded sandboxes where you have to elbow people to find room, then the ZoHa Islands sandbox is the perfect place for you. If you simply need to room to rez out a build you purchased, then you can use it for that, too.

ZoHa Islands is the place to be for your home or your business. We thank our current residents and business owners from the bottom of our hearts. We couldn’t do it without you. We would like to celebrate our success with you on November 1st. Please save the date, more details will be forthcoming!

I remain respectfully yours,
~ Suzanne Piers, ZI Social Media Manager