SL Daily Buzz Re-Opens

It has been a very long time since I have posted on this blog. 

Our main goal was to address attacks that happened on a hater blog posing as a "SL fashion blog".  So some recent events have been brought to our attention and it seems it's time to crank things back up again.

If you'd like to reach me, I am in-world as Buzz Radikal. If you have seen me on your radar say hi!

Welcome back to the party!

OUPS!! .::MADesigns Hair::. COMPLETE Collection Giveaway!

KMADD accidentally gave away their entire men's hair collection to their kMADd Enterprise group just a few minutes ago. If you were one of those who had actually saved the attachment you would of been floored to realize that it was their FULL permission of their entire men's line.

Once Maddox DuPont realized what he had done, he closed the notices, send out a message saying the following:

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Group Despantio
Fri Oct 23 01:12:41 2009

"We will be despending the group and you may be ejected. Please do not take it personally - you will be able to join the group again next time you visit KMADD. We can not send you invite to each and one of you but we need to close this group. No IM will be answered. KMADD apologies for the inconvenience."

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Everyone was Ejected from the group. KMADD recently announced that there were over 22000 members in the group!

It has been quite some time since I have posted something but when I do, it's a whopper! To be honest it is a complete shocker.

It is the biggest mistake any creator in Second Life could make. I will say he did clear it out quickly so the damage has been minimized as possible.

Tell us what you think? Did you get it in time?

- Buzz

What happened to Aspire? Seven Months Later!

Well a great article was published over at Shopping Cart Disco where I just had to re post the article and the comment I made over there. Apparently the two who owned Aspire disappeared in to thin air never to be heard from again, walking away with money from people.

Note: Just to be clear, Aspire had a sim called Aspire Isle, a fashion magazine, and a modeling agency. All gone.

-------[ORIGINAL ARTICLE]-------

Aspire Disappears; Seven Months Later, Still Nothing
by Tenshi Vielle

So, I’m still catching up on what the heck happened in Second Life while I was busy battling RL drama. Apparently, Aspire Isle disappeared in September.

Why am I just now looking into this? A co-designer sent me this notecard:

Hi Tenshi,

I know of you through DIS group and through reading your blog. We also both had a store located on Aspire Isle. You seem to be a bit of a slueth and I’m wondering if you have heard anything about what is going on with that? In particular, the Shop Line thing. I paid roughly $27K in lindens for a one year subscription to that group. I’ve sent requests to Kristianne Matfield to be refunded….and I have as of yet gotten a response…or a refund.

Anyway, I’m sure the money is long gone by now, but of all things that gets dragged out into the open in the blog community, I have never heard any mention of this. Maybe I just missed it, I don’t know. So that’s why I’m contacting you, to see if you know anything of it.

Thanks!

Hrm. Come to think of it, I was owed an ad by Aspire, after the transfer.


I started poking around. Kristianne Matfield’s avatar still exists in SL, and still has a profile, (The Duality group says she was online 4/4/09) but when I tried to TP to my Aspire isle location - nothing. No server response - the island is gone. The blog went stagnant on September 3rd, 2008. No communication, no notices, nothing.

Granted, Aspire lost much of its luster after Bianca Darling sold it. Aspire was her baby, and the new owners just didn’t share the same passion for it as Bianca did. The sim was majorly automated - 20% proceeds were taken from my vendor sales via script, and interacting with the sim/owners/etc was simply not necessary.

Everyone who prepaid for the ShopLine service is getting nothing. All the advertisers are getting nothing. BabyHoney Bailey, manager, got nothing but flack after Kristianne and Bendover up and disappeared, saddling her with the disgruntled shop owners and advertisers.

When Kristianne and Bendover took over the magazine, the new issue under new management was slotted for May 1st but didn’t come out until August 1st. Kristianne and Bendover’s online prescense after that issue slowly tapered out to nothing. They stopped responding to messages. One of the photographers for the magazine was in the middle of a shoot for the next issue when Bendover disappeared from the shoot completely, never to be seen again. No statement issued, nothing. The editors knew nothing. Babyhoney Bailey took the shaft for everything.

People assumed that Babyhoney knew the story because she was the one closest to them - truth be told, she knew as much as anyone else. Babyhoney and Kristianne were friends outside of Second Life as well, but from what I understand, Kristianne stopped communicating with Babyhoney entirely. No more answering her phone calls. No answered emails. Nothing.

Sounds like the money was burning a hole in Kristianne and Ben’s respective pockets.

As a retailer and former supporter of Aspire, I am annoyed to discover that I not only missed this happening due to lack of announcement, but that I am out of a shop space that I once enjoyed and am out the advertisement space I am owed. There’s no one to complain to at this point… there’s just nothing.


Source: http://shoppingcartdisco.com/?p=1041&cpage=1

-------[SL DAILY BUZZ REPLY]-------

Erin, I absolutely love what you said! May I quote you?

"Ethical people don’t just disappear, leaving staff, clients and the rest of the grid in the dark. Period." - Erin

I really don't really care what lame excuse people use to excuse their poor actions. Just know NOT to trust Kristianne Matfield and Bender Hamer as they have proven to be unreliable.

If what is being reported here is true what Moria said "Bianca Darling came to the first show they did and then passed her a notecard detailing everything she did wrong and telling her how terrible it was. I know she was very angry because she felt Bianca sold it to her and was still trying to run it."

I'd rip Bianca a new one. Who is she to pass out nc's about something she has nothing to do with? Or was it really that bad? Well who's fault is that? If it was so bad, clearly they were not prepared or shown how to do it. Who knows I was not there, so I really cannot say.

Ultimately that is no excuse for what these people did. As for what Anne Toole said, "Anyone done the math? A sim costs a lot. Used to cost more." Yes you are right it is expensive. But they should of had a proper business plan if that was the case. Clearly, they failed on everyone who was there supporting them without a word.

Despicable. SL is fraught with this kind of shameless behavior. One thing you learn is to pay month to month because no one can guarantee they will be around to fulfill those obligations.

Well I have to admit I was wondering what happened to Aspire, and it did seem like it just went silent. I am glad that someone has posted about it.

And just to answer Jenny's question about who is Babyhoney Bailey. She was the won who had been the first person to win the Miss Universe (now known as Miss Virtual World) contest. She had turned in her crown decrying that she was never given any of the prises that were promised her. She was also on the staff of Aspire at the time and they took a lot of heat for it. I really don't know if it was true or not, and honestly, I do not really care. Nor would I even classify Babyhoney Bailey famous.

As for Frolic Mills, either you hate him or you love him. Everyone seems to hate him because they are jealous of his success. However he achieved it, he did it, and there will be people out there who will want to tear him down for it. If Frolic Mils is as terrible as people say, believe me it is only a matter of time before the truth is out there.

From what I have been able to surmise is that most people who hate him are jealous of him. To be honest, I don't see why anyone would be jealous of him or even waste the energy to hate him. It is such a wasteful emotion.

If I had to pick anyone to dislike or hate it would be people who publicly abuse/attack other people just because they do not like them. There are only two people I know of who do this, and one got deleted from SL and the other one has ruined their reputation permanently, and have made themselves irrelevant because of it.

UPDATE: RUNWAY's Maggie Mahoney Comes Clean!

Well to be perfectly honest, I was quite surprised that Maggie chose to post on our blog. I appreciate that she took the time and effort to let us know that she was going to explain all the details of what has been going on with RUNWAY and her timeline. If you ask me, the most important part of that drawn-out saga of a response (well written as well) is this part:

As the magazine will now be closing permanently, the funds secured from the sale of the Bryant Park sim and other personal asset holdings will be used to reimburse advertising clients for prepaid ad sales, prepaid deposits on show services, and to pay the staff for their work on the April issue. My account as Maggie Mahoney will remain open to finalize all of that and then will be closed permanently. I will not be logging into Second Life for any other purpose and will do so only to handle closing business matters. If someone IMs and I do not respond, please do not take it personally. My focus will be to finalize things and then get on with my real life. Ocean closed his account the day we decided to close the magazine; mine simply stayed open to deal with the sim sale and finalization of assets as many were in my name, and for no other reason.

You can see that the groundwork to pass total ownership to the staff was in place or being put into place. Maybe my choice of not calling in the staff to discuss things was a mistake; hindsight is always 20/20. In all honestly, neither of us wanted to sit there and listen to hundreds of questions, say goodbyes, etc.; we had faith in this group of people that we had worked with, some upwards of a year or better, that they would continue on their own independently, not jump ship and side up with BOSL. I was very disappointed personally to learn that they did not have the courage and faith in themselves and each other to do what we felt they would do. If we had known that it would have come to all of this - we would have just closed it, sold the sim and other assets, paid the bills, and left without giving anyone the chance to keep it going. That was our mistake.

Source: http://www.runwaysl.com/blog/?p=1150

I respectfully disagree with Maggie's assertion that she laid out the groundwork to properly hand over the magazine to the staff. Sending out a message to the staff does not cut it. If you really wanted to transition the magazine over you needed to put people in to place who would want to take it over, and make sure they were well prepared, and properly trained to do the job!

Maggie and Ocean's decision to leave SL and RUNWAY was done in haste, very sloppy and as we know, poorly done. It all turned out to be quite a mess because of the way they did things.

Maggie is correct, if she just wanted to shutter the magazine she should have unwound the business properly as she now says she is doing. But what made Maggie think that her staff was prepared take over the magazine to the level she suggested or even wanted to? After all, SHE DID NOT TALK TO ANYONE DIRECTLY! As we all can see from her 'last' posting there is a lot of work when doing a magazine. Not something that someone can be just thrown in to doing. That was clearly demonstrated with all the details Maggie posted if you took the time to read the entire thing.

The complexity of the magazine and the liabilities is something not just anyone would want to take on when they can't even TALK TO YOU!! LOL! How laughable! Maggie clearly admits she did not talk to anyone about it. The log of messages of people frantically trying to sort things out is clearly an indication that the way she did it was wrong.

It could have been simple. Really simple. But no. Maggie and Ocean threw havoc and chaos in the wind as the staff tried to walk through the storm they created. She should have arranged a meeting with the key staff that she wanted to take over the magazine. Or at least the top two, namely, Thalia and EmmZ! If she really wanted the magazine to live on she could have handled this. But, quite honestly, we can see Maggie really did not care at all. She decided to leave in a rush and left everyone attempting to rearrange deck chairs on the Titanic. When you do not have the ability to communicate and provide transition and an adjustment period for people, it is going to implode as it did.

As for Frolic Mills, it is proven by the atttached messages in Maggies 'last' blog that people did in fact go to Frolic Mills. They later changed their minds when they realized that Frolic Mills intended not to keep RUNWAY in its current form.

I am still convinced that if Maggie had done the proper thing here and communicated with her staff they could have easily transitioned everything over given time and genuine interest. Clearly Thalia and EmmZ did not know how Maggie felt about Frolic Mills or how he would want to change the way RUNWAY Magazine was setup.

Finally, we see that Maggie Mahoney and Ocean Bates did not really care enough to do things the right way. That is to keep the RUNWAY Magazine going. Sadly, they made a laughing stock out of RUNWAY Magazine and themselves. I certainly understand if none of her former staff want anything to do with them. What a damn shame. But the truth is Maggie and Ocean are leaving everyone else behind and they have no plans of coming back.

Maggie Mahoney and Ocean Bates, best of luck to both of you, and may Maggie overcome her breast cancer and have 100% recovery.

BOSL FIRES BACK AT MAGGIE MAHONEY!

Well you know I am not one to take sides, but I believe that Frolic Mills is stating the truth about what happened in this press release. This is based on what was posted by the actual staff of RUNWAY themselves.

I also saw the original post where Maggie stated clearly that SHE LEFT IT UP TO THE STAFF to decide what to do next. Sorry Maggie Mahoney, you can’t decide one thing. Run off with the advertiser’s money, not pay your hard working staff and get away with it! You ran off with their money, you are a THIEF!

You do not deserve any kind of consideration after what you did to everyone who trusted you, had faith in you, and worked for you and conducted business with you. Shameless!


See the press release below.

* REPOSTED PRESS RELEASE BELOW *

“OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE Re: Runway Magazine
BOSL NEWS - BOSL ANNOUNCEMENTS

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE
Re: Runway Magazine

Maggie Mahoney
just made a press release accusing BOSL to have taken advantage of the RUNWAY
Staff by quickly ‘moving’ to get the magazine.

I find this quite
interesting since it was the staff who invited me to their meeting, and it was
their decision to let BOSL run it. I offered to help out specially because of
all the outstanding contracts she left unfulfilled and for which she gave no
refunds at all.

RUNWAY MAGAZINE is in financial liability and will no
longer have any working servers inworld. My only intention with acquiring this
magazine was to rescue the good name and reputation of the publishing world, and
to help the RUNWAY staff keep their jobs. There is no other advantage.

But, since she has made it clear that she does not want BOSL to be
involved with RUNWAY MAGAZINE, I will now gladly return it to all the staff
members.

Maggie Mahoney resigned from RUNWAY and left it to her staff
with full permissions to do as they pleased. Therefore, Maggie Mahoney has no
longer any rights over RUNWAY MAGAZINE nor logos and should not be heard in any
future decision making.

I wish all the Runway staff the best of luck.

And as for me, I will do what I do best. I will create my own branding
of fashion excellence.

Sincerely,

Frolic Mills
BOSL CEO”

RUNWAY'S Maggie Mahoney a Thief?!

Maggie Mahoney, CEO of RUNWAY Magazine, has decided to close RUNWAY MAGAZINE after taking advertisers money and not paying her staff for the April Issue of RUNWAY MAGAZINE.

Ocean Bates and Maggie Mahoney should be ashamed of themselves if this is actually true. I have been carefully following the RUNWAY Magazine blog and found the obituary that she posted about herself and found it very disturbing. Who else has ever written their own obituary? Not anyone of right mind, just creepy.

It has also come to my attention that NO ONE ON THE STAFF was told she was closing the magazine. They all found out on from a lousy blog obituary posting. It was Maggie and Ocean that took the lindens and screwed over everyone who has also poured time, effort and love into that magazine. To turn around and just ditch everyone who has worked so hard and so long for her is terrible. Even if Maggie does have RL medical issues, this is not the way to handle things.

As for Frolic Mills apparently seizing control over the RUNWAY Magazine, I think Maggie should consider how poorly she left the entire staff, not talking to them, not working with them to transition them to work on their own. Perhaps Maggie should have considered her staff that she claims to have cared for and loved so much to have treated them better and the magazine like this.

If you look at the current issue, it is 100,000,000% better thant it was even 6 months ago. RUNWAY Magazine was finally on the level of BOSL magazine in terms of quality. Maggie, if you are really cared about RUNWAY MAGAZINE and not your ego you would have handled things differently and communicated with your staff better. You only have yourself to blame for destroying one of SL's best fashion magazines ever made.

Maggie, do the right thing pay your staff, and refund advertiers and designers who have paid you for future advertising that you now will not be doing. No one would have ever expected someone so well respected like you to screw over everyone like this! Shame one you!

Source: http://www.runwaysl.com/blog/

Source: http://shoppingcartdisco.com/?p=990&cpage=1

Banned from SL, Jason Feingold departs InV Daily!

Like you didn't see this one coming. It's been awhile but we have finally been able to confirm a few things. Firstly, Jason Feingold is no longer listed on InV Daily's list of staff. If you know where to look he's not officially on their staff list.

Secondly, Jason Feingold and all the alts we knew about are ALL GONE. We do not think this was because Jason Feingold wanted them all to be gone. We believe, as from a few sources, who all spoke with us on the condition of anonymity that he was banned because of TOS violations.

As much as Jason would like us to think he chose to retire his account and ALL his other alts. We do not agree based on several sources we spoke with inworld.

Jason Feingold had a lot invested in Second Life. We here at SL Daily Buzz believe he was removed as per SL TOS. Why would Jason Feingold retire all of his known alts all at the same time?? You know it was a great cover story, but it is just a cover-up to the real reason why he's gone.

Now the latest is that Jason Feingold is now stating he's going under ground. But let's be honest, he's a moron. We'll know who he is when he shows up again.

In case you're wondering Deepthroat Thespin, Dwayne Palianta, and Kid Trenton are all known alts of Jason Feingold and they are all no longer in Second Life as well. I am sure there are others, if you know them please let us know. But all of these alt's are no longer in Second Life the same time as Jason Feingold.

At least we won't have to look at Jason Feingold wearing those white fuzzy boots anymore! But if you see someone wearing them at a club, steer clear of them!!

Finally we wanted to wrap this posting with another great video featuring the late Jason Feingold, on where he might be right now in real life. Cheers! - Buzz