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The  Commerce Team is heads down this week working on more key features and  functionality for the new marketplace.  Below is a list of updates we  made over the last week. 

Feature Updates and Bug Fixes for SL Marketplace Beta

• We added a “continue shopping button” when a shopper comes to your detail page from search results
• SL  Marketplace Beta orders now show in your transaction history as “MKT2” -  Xstreet purchases continue to show in your your transaction history as  “MKT”
• You can now use bit.ly urls for links to more information on inworld items
• You can now use bit.ly urls for inworld stores
• We have added the “category tree” to the store landing pages
• Edit link has been moved back to the right in “manage inventory”
• The Carousel on the home page no longer rotates

Quick Update on an XstreetSL Issue:

Linden dollars showing on Xstreet or during a purchase as L$NA should be fixed.

Distributions Coming to the SL Marketplace Beta

This  week we will be introducing the distributions feature to the  Marketplace Beta, but this feature will function differently than it  does on Xstreet today. The new marketplace will have distributions based  on Percent's and not based on a fixed amount. The existing  distributions on Xstreet will be migrated over and converted to  percents. For more information, please see the Marketplace Wiki.

Be sure to refer to the the Marketplace Wiki for more specific FAQs, updates on features and other Marketplace project information.

We’ll  be reviewing the forums this week, as usual, but will have limited time  to respond during this busy time. In the meantime, the development  team will be watching the Issue Tracker, so as you find bugs, please  file them using the public JIRA, also known as the Issue Tracker. File them as Project: "3. Second Life Website - WEB" and Component: "Marketplace". More info on how to do that. A handy compilation of Marketplace bugs can be found here.

Friendly greetings! It's me, Torley (who?). You've asked and I'm answering! Following the launch of Viewer 2.1, I'm teaching you how to use features both big and small so you can get the most out of the new Viewer. Of particular attention is "Multiple-items on a clothing layer with multi-wearables". Let me show you!

Yes, that's right, you can stack up to 5 (five!) items on a clothing layer in 2.1. This largely reduces the need for workarounds like attaching prim tattoos or that other awkward one where a creator sells a "jacket, shirt, and undershirt" version of a clothing item. My gosh that was awkward, but it's fading into the past.

Some of these tips will be expanded upon in future posts (and embedded with text articles on the wiki help pages) and in some cases, my videos present bugs/shortcomings we're aware of and going to continue building on. ITERATE. In any case, I wanted to let you know that these are up right now, so check them out:

OMG NEW 2.1 STUFF!

• Giving inventory with the Share button - Mis-drag often? Tired of flipping tabs? This is better.
• Multiple items on a clothing layer with multi-wearables - As featured above.
• The sidebar Appearance Editor - Connects some things that were spread apart.
• Undo for accidental outfit changes - A little, good thing to know.
• I previously covered a lot of the everyday usability tweaks in "Nifty user interface tweaks in Viewer 2.1 Alpha" (so some stuff has changed since then, but it's essentially still true). Stuff that makes you go "Aha! Wish I knew that earlier…" is my vanguard.

Not entirely new, but I see this stuff asked about a lot…

Mysteries solved! Practical how-tos! And a couple classics updated for 2.1.

• Eyedropper tool to match textures and colors - Never used this? Worth a try to save time.
• Moving objects like furniture - For beginners, like if you've moved into a Linden Home!
• Saving textures to your hard drive - I see this often on the forums.
• Uploading textures - Same deal here. Remember, Viewer 2.1 removed the inventory's own top menus, so use the gear and + icons at the bottom.
• What "unknown creator" really means - I don't know when we're changing this to make more human sense, but at least you can have some insight into what's going on.

I'm delighted we have embedded videos back on the blog. Yoz Linden and I tested this amidst referencing Scott Pilgrim, which added to the excitement.

*ahem* What often makes great material for a video tutorial is stuff that's much easier to show than tell (removing layers of abstraction). As always, I gratefully accept comments here, and I also started a discussion thread for vidtut requests awhile back.

What's your fave 2.1 feature that isn't getting enough attention and should be better explained?

We  had a small release last week and have been fine-tuning performance in  preparation for our next release. Improving performance is a major  concern of ours and if you haven't yet, please download the latest Viewer. Search performance depends, in part, on Viewer  performance and every Viewer release improves Search performance.

Just released!

You may have already noticed this additional option appear on your in-viewer Search last week. If not, check it out! You now have the option to browse events straight from the Find window in Viewer 2.

Some features of note:

1) Featured
The editorial team at Linden has stumbled across a few events we wanted to bring to your attention, so we've include one of their selections up top. If you have an event worthy of notice, please send in your  suggestions!

2) Choose a date
By  default, you'll see events listed starting with the top of the current  hour. If you're planning ahead, we have a convenient drop-down calendar  for you to choose another date.

Browse by interest
3)  You also have the option to simply select an Event category. We’re looking to expand categories as well and we welcome your suggestions.

Additional fixes included:

• Performance tweaks
• Teleport not triggered for specific locations in viewer search
• Changes to filtered words (Which included this fix WEB-2023)
• Multiple repeat Destination guide entries on web search
• Profiles missing images

Release next week!

The  fix for WEB-2378, finally, is coming along with a number of tweaks to the world pages, like visible html tags, table misalignment, classifieds tracking, and broken group links. Also coming next week, is an updated FAQ with additional information on how Search works, including suggestions for all of you who would like to appear higher in listings for your keywords.

We're working hard to increase the frequency of releases and enable the Search team to deploy when needed in order to fix bugs in a more timely manner. Thanks for your ongoing patience and understanding.

On a related note, thank you to everyone who is talking about Search  publicly, in social media, comments, and in forums everywhere. It's a tremendous resource and we value your input highly. Please keep it up!

In case you were wondering... your Transaction History, found in your Account section on http://secondlife.com, shows "your Linden Dollar (L$) transactions for the previous 30 days". You can filter by date range and export your transactions for  record-keeping purposes.

What do "MKT2" and  "MKT" mean?

Since your transaction history includes Second Life items you've  purchased on the web, "MKT2 Item Purchase" refers to items purchased  from the Second Life Marketplace, which will eventually replace Xstreet (the old marketplace), whose purchased items are shown with "MKT Item Purchase".

To see exactly which items were purchased, go to Marketplace Order History (still in-progress so stuff may be missing) or Xstreet Order History.

Here's an example of what it looks like:

Keep up-to-date with Marketplace & Commerce news!

I've put the above info on a wiki help page. More video tutorials coming this week (Yoz got videos working on the blogs again, yayzerama), stay tuned fellow avatars.

Recently, I posted an update here on our blogs about on Linden Lab’s strategy. I mentioned my desire to hold an inworld meeting for questions before the end of July, and today I’m happy to share some details on how you can participate!

On Friday July 30th, join myself and COO Bob Komin (BK Linden) at 10am SLT/PST at Linden Estate Services for an Inworld meeting with the Residents of Second Life. It was announced this June that I would be returning as interim CEO and I’d like to take this opportunity to address some of the excitement, concerns and questions that have been circulating for the past few weeks. The overall goal is to open up the conversation with the community about our upcoming plans around the development and future of Second Life.

If you would like to attend, please fill out this form with your Second Life name and email address no later than 5pm SLT/PST on Wednesday, July 28th.  Admission to the live event will be decided by a random draw and the winners will be notified on the 29th by either an email or notecard with instructions on how to RSVP. Please keep in mind that the event will be in English and that both myself and Bob will be using SL Voice.

We are attempting to make this event as inclusive as possible so that those who are interested will be able to participate. We have partnered with TreetTV in order to provide live video and audio streaming of the event. In addition, we have asked Virtual Ability Island to provide a transcription of the event so that those with hearing impairments can follow along. You can also submit questions throughout the event to the SL Twitter account. The final 20-30 minutes of the event will be devoted to answering some of those questions.

I'm looking forward to hearing from the community on Friday, and keeping in touch with you as we move forward.

Thanks,

Philip

UPDATE: For those who didn’t get drawn in the lottery to attend, you’ll be able to watch, listen, and read the video, audio, and text transcription of the event live as it happens at http://slevents.treet.tv/slmeeting/. Treet.TV will stream the entire event, and Virtual Ability will provide a live text transcription in a dedicated IRC channel on the Treet.TV page.

Attendees will be able to direct questions to Philip and BK via an inworld IM to our moderator, Wallace Linden, and we’ll also be taking questions on Twitter: just direct a Tweet to @secondlife.

For those who were selected to attend, please arrive at the event a few minutes ahead of time and plan to get started at 10am PST. As noted above, Philip and BK will speak for approximately 30 minutes, and the second half of the hour will be devoted to questions, before we wrap up at 11am. We look forward to seeing you inworld!

Thanks,

Wallace

Fall fashion week is right around the corner, and we're looking for a few events to feature that reflect the unique creativity and innovation of our Residents. So if you're holding any fashion shows or other fashion-related events in September, please let us know in the comments below. Tell us what's happening, where and when, who's putting it on, and how to get in touch with you, and provide a link to any related Web pages or product listings, if you can. We'll be using some totally unscientific methods to choose a handful of events to feature on the Destination Guide and in other places, and we expect to see you decked out in your finest come September. See you on the runway!

The Commerce Team brought over 95K products which had Keywords: xxxx or Keyword xxxx.  Images were migrated and any missing products will be showing up shortly.

We are suspending regular data syncs from XstreetSL to the SL Marketplace Beta for the time being. When we are closer to the completion of the SL Marketplace Beta we will announce the next data migration.

Refer to the the Marketplace Wiki for more specific FAQs, updates on features and other Marketplace project information.
As you find Bugs, please file bugs using the public JIRA, also known as the Issue Tracker. File them as Project: "3. Second Life Website - WEB" and Component: "Marketplace".  More info on how to do that. A handy compilation of Marketplace bugs can be found here.

Head over to Second Life music venue The Velvet on Tuesday, July 27, for an advance screening of 'Burning," a film from the band Mogwai and directors Vincent Moon and Nathanael Le Scouarnac, who you can also check out on La Blogotheque. The inworld screening takes place at 12 noon PST, via UStream, and will be followed by Vincent Moon and Mogwai's Stuart Braithwaite answering questions submitted by fans. Jump inworld on Tuesday and hang with other Mogwai fans for the screening at The Velvet in Second Life.

Today I’m pleased to announce that Viewer 2 (Version 2.1.0) has left beta to become the official release Viewer for Second Life! As mentioned in previous blog posts, our focus over the past few months has been on improving the stability and performance of the Viewer. After the beta release, the crash rate was far worse than our previous 1.23 Viewer and this is something our engineering teams have worked hard to correct. We’ve been closely monitoring crash rates and other key metrics and carefully tuning our code to provide a much more predictable and stable inworld experience. Over the beta period, we’ve watched crash rates decline steadily and we’re confident this release, Version 2.1.0, will be a great improvement over the previous release.

Version 2.1.0 is not just about stability and performance improvements, we’ve also introduced some great UI and usability enhancements in response to your feedback. Check out the Version 2.1.0 release notes for more detail, but here are some highlights:

• Customize the bottom bar - Right-click on the bottom bar to show/hide the buttons you wish to have displayed.
• Resize the chat bar - Click and drag over the right side of the chat bar to resize the field to your desired width.
• Choose between sliding the world or overlaying it with the Sidebar - Many users didn’t like the squeezing effect that took place on their world view when they opened the Sidebar. In response to that, we’ve added a new preference (under Advanced > Automatic position for: Sidebar” ) that allows you to choose which Sidebar slide behavior you prefer.
• Camera controls clean-up - The pan and orbit controls have been brought back together in one view, so you don’t have to toggle between the two.
• Avatar appearance editing in the Sidebar - You can now edit your outfits and body shape right from the Appearance Tab in the sidebar.

We’ve also introduced a new voice feature - Voice Morphing!

Voice Morphing is a long-requested feature that allows you to change your avatar’s voice to match any number of tones and characteristics. You can change your voice to sound like a robot, furry, monster, or even a different gender! Voice Morphing adds a new dimension to avatar customization, allowing you to be whoever you want to be in Second Life, in both appearance and voice! To learn more, check out the SL Voice Morphing Microsite.

Resources
Download Page
Release Notes
Viewer 2 Forum
Jira
SL Answers
Knowledge Base
Twitter (#slviewer2)

Hi everyone,

I wanted to announce some changes to the event known as Burning Life.  After seven years of support, the Lab has decided to transition the organization and ownership of the event to the official Burning Man team effective immediately.  Burning Life will be renamed BURN 2.0.

As we shift our focus to usability, the basics of running Second Life and ultimately, doing less better, we thought this was a good opportunity to take a project that has run pretty well since it’s inception and return it to the community who inspired it.  Over the years Burning Life has shown us again and again how creative and innovative Second Life Residents are.  From music and performance, to intricate installations and the occasional snail ride, Burning Life has been a joy and a surprise to experience, and I feel confident that this legacy will live on as BURN 2.0 continues to be organized and run by a coalition of passionate Residents.

For general information and communication, the BURN 2.0 team will use the SL group BurningMan 2.0.  Members of previous Burning Life groups will be encouraged to join the new official group.

Finally, http://www.burn2.org will be the website for news and information about this unique community event.

Thanks,

Philip