Interesting post from New World Notes on a new style of camping site in Second Life, Puerto Banus is paying models to walk up and down the catwalk wearing their traders’ designs and other designs in SL, referring to is as ‘earn as you go’ job, if you can call camping a job, rather than sitting in a chair somewhere just to boost traffic. This sim is constantly in the top 20 in foot traffic, so it’s certainly boosting it’s traffic, but it has the added functionality of being able to see the clothes in action on the models.

When Tateru and I began our search for genuinely popular communities in Second Life, free from camping chairs, we briefly scratched our heads over Puerto Banus, a place that’s consistently crowded and in the Lindens’ Top Twenty sites by foot traffic. On my first visit, I saw dozens of fashion models striding along a row of catwalks in a kind of fantasia Miami Beach locale. Must be big hangout with fashionistas, I thought, and teleported off.

Tateru wasn’t as amazed: “It’s just camping chairs.” Source: Model Camper: Free money site adds ironic new twist to camping chairs

He even noted that it seemed that every avatar there was afk, away from keyboard, so, he says, Second Life itself was virtualized. A comment from Vint Falken noted another camping spot, one that let you roam around and actually do stuff while you were camping. It’s an Italian energy drink sim, and all you have to do is attach a can of energy drink and while you are in that sim, you are earning some free lindens. Neither mention how much you earn or give slurl’s to the camping spots, I will find them later when I am inworld and add them to this post.

The slideshare embed below is called How to make money in Second Life, and it is kind of funny, it still has references to casinos and shows a Ginko Financial terminal in the next to the last shot. Don’t do it buddy!

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