I first saw this the other day when I was checking out some of the popular places, a sign you could click and get paid for adding a site to your picks and keeping it there for 30 days. This was at Platinum World, one of the popular places that has lots of camping spots and sells skins. I took this pic on January 26th, so they have been using if for a few weeks anyway.

Dedric Mauriac first mentioned it here in this blog post, Get paid for adding picks, and I assumed that this place was just using the same system as Platinum World. Well, they are because the JVA Products Shop that Dedric mentioned created, I assume, and sells the product.

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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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I was just going through the popular places tab in Second Life for another post, and noticed there were at least three Brazilian sims in there, well they mostly turned out to be popular because of camping, as far as I could tell, please let me know if there are some other reasons they would be popular that I missed.

But here they are for all you Second Life campers out there.

LA CITTADELLA Italia Italy Germany Usa Brasil Japan France There were 82 people here when I visited. It says, Germany, US, Japan, France and Italy on the title but everyone I saw was speaking Spanish, I assume, so I included it.

Buzios Praia diversao Voice Brasil Spain Portugal Italy There were 67 people there when I looked.

! ILHA BRASIL There were 47 people there when I visited.

Popularity: 3%

What: Cars Motorcycles and a Sweet Classic Motorcycle Show

When: Sep 13, 2007 6:00 am - 9:00 am (Thursday)

Where: Fullers Hart Second Life

Tags: Commercial Fullers Hart Second Life StickyKind Vanmoer

Description: West Coast Classics has incredible detailed builds and innovating scripts.

The Builds: consist of many detailed pieces, but don’t worry about your prim count, one of our trademarks is providing a 3 prim temp rezzer in all our detailed models so you will have no problems rezzing on property as small as 512. You will see our drive for perfection within our builds.

Scripts: Our lead mechanic tunes every motor to perfection. Many Vehicles in Sl either have a good build and crappy script. Our Vehicles are solid all the way around.

Innovation: Try our new Cobra Drift Tuning Feature. You will be impressed.

These scripts let you feel the weight of the bike. Truly realistic, in our classic vintage designs.

Many gadgets, and spectacular cycles and choppers.

Race, Drag, Demo, Track, Biker, Bike, Motorcycle, Motorcycles cycle Harley Davidson guzzi Cobra Camero Indian beach sand sexy sex newbie income camp campers San Francisco newy york Seattle Vancouver Tokyo Sydney Manhattan pacific heights motor.

Second Life URL.

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Looks like this island, Dance Island, is offering a little bit better rate as far as camping is concerned, haven’t been there to check out how many spots they have at L$12 per 20 minutes, but here is the Second Life URL in case you want to check it out.

Tags: Dance Island Dance Island Back Miscellaneous Second Life

Description: All Over The Island Up To 12 L$ 20 Minute Camping

Popularity: 3%

Now don’t get the wrong idea, I just ended up at Total Eclipse Escorts and they have camping spots inside this club, not sure what kind of escorts they are, although there are some beautiful avatars there. There are at least four spots that you can earn L$2 lindens per 10 minutes mopping the floor, which is a little less than a lot of spots, but they where all open when I was there. They also have dancers, so you if dance in clubs, might be able to earn some money that way as well.

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Yes, that’s the name of it, Welfare Island, and all you do there is earn Lindens, it is currently the most popular place in Second Life and everyone is there to get their free lindens. The description on the popular places page says “Highest Camping in All Second Life!!! Get on welfare today and let us take care of your money / lindens problems! FREE Linden”. Not sure what the highest camping rates are, but the people on this building below were earning L$3 lindens every ten minutes.

The long line in the pic below are all avatars looking to make money by completing surveys, offers from affiliate programs, if the lines weren’t so long, I would hang around long enough to see how much you make per offer. If anyone knows the offers they use, please let me know at eubeenhadd@gmail.com, as I can find out how much they make from the offer and then will be able to tell how much of it you are getting.

Description of Service:
WelfareIsland.com (Hereafter referred to as “WI”) is a free service which allows users to complete offers through affiliates. The WI service and website (Hereafter referred to as “the Service”) shall be provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. WI disclaims all responsibility and liability for the availability, timeliness, security, and reliability of the Service. WI reserves the right to change, suspend, or shut down the Service with or without notice, at any time, for any reason, and without any liability to WI. Decisions made by WI regarding the Service, you, any user or user’s account, and any other matter related to the Service shall be final. You acknowledge that WI will not entertain an appeal for any decision. WI is in no way associated with Linden Labs or Second Life.

Payments:
Payment to members is processed instantly and paid via Linden Dollars. If necessary, payments may require additional time in order to be processed. You, the member, understand and acknowledge that no payment shall be made to you or any other member until WI has received instant payment from its advertisers. WI will never be deemed as owing payment to any member, but will make payments only after verification of the legitimacy of an account and balance. WI does not guarantee payment will be made upon the completion of every offer. Unforeseen circumstances may cause the instant payment not to be completed. Source: WelfareIsland Terms of Service

This one is my “favorite” part right here in the TOS, where they tell you, you get paid instantly, unless, of course we have to wait on the payment, then you have to wait, and you might not get it at all. “Payment to members is processed instantly and paid via Linden Dollars. If necessary, payments may require additional time in order to be processed. You, the member, understand and acknowledge that no payment shall be made to you or any other member until WI has received instant payment from its advertisers.” Sounds like a typical incentivized program, no matter what happens they still get your info.

Even though they tell you to

I would recommend using an alternative E-mail address if you wish to not receive E-mail notifications from our advertisers who host these surveys, but please use all real information otherwise you may be banned/blacklisted from our system.

they still want your real life info, or you don’t get paid and maybe banned. Wonder how the advertisers, the ones who pat to have their ads shown, feel about avatars signing up and not using their main email address? I bet they would pay less money for that. I plan on returning and waiting to try out the offers, just to see how good they really, that is, unless someone emails me and tells me what they are and how much you get. eubeenhadd at gmail.com

You can tip a cow over though! Second Life URL.

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Do you earn lindens by camping? Many people probably already know this spot, but it’s the first time I had been there. They have many spots around the island on which on you camp, I saw people dancing for L$4 Lindens per 15 minutes and L$3 lindens per 10 minutes when wearing the gamers guide, and L$1 Linden per ten minutes or L$1 Linden per five minutes if wearing the ParrotHead Gamers guide.

They also have a nice looking mall on the property, a mud wrestling pit, dancing, and they even have pizza!

Second Life URL.

Popularity: 5%

Camp for a 100 L$ Gift Card

When: Aug 23, 2007 12:00 AM - 3:00 AM (Thursday)

Where: Necrotee Second Life

Tags: Commercial Necrotee Pink Stardust Second Life

Description: That’s right, camp for 60 minutes and you will receive a gift card that is worth 100 L$ toward the purchase of items at !iS Fashion Place, we are a Women’s clothing store with excellent prices, outfits, tops, pants, bikinis, silks, lingerie, shoes, dresses and wedding dresses. Also featuring multi position animated sex / cuddle beds for 150 L$ , come have a look around, more items will be added soon. Free outfits on the Lucky Chair ! Also check out our Freebie Table.

Second Life URL.

Popularity: 3%

Looking at earning some lindens by camping? Sunbelt Software Island has some on their beach, it was crowded when I got there, but it looked like a couple spots were open. I believe they even have a group to help coordinate campers. They are paying L$2 lindens per 10 minutes.

Second Life URL.

Added: Just got a note from the group that they have added even more camping spots.

Popularity: 6%

What: Sunbelt Software: Keeping Out the Bad Guys

Where: Sunbelt Software Island

When: The first seminar is August 21st 6pm SL time with a repeat August 25th 6am SL time.

Here is a great sim in my opinion, the Sunbelt Software Island. They announced yesterday that they will be doing seminars on how to keep the bad guys out of your computer. This will mainly be aimed at users that need to be trained on PC security, what to do, what not to do. There will be four different sessions, the first two are this week, with the first one tonight, too late to make it, they will repeat it on August 25th 6am SL time.

The island has some great stuff, three different interactive games, they are giving away 10 copies of counter spy, their spyware removal program, I won a free copy while I was there, so if you hurry, you can probably luck into it and get a free copy as well. If not you can try it out for free here. I found this area in the water that had some nice info about Second Life, links to the terms, some tips on using Second Life and some interactive robots who will talk to you. I had a little conversation with them, I got a little dirty just to see what they would say.
[21:31] Bess Mermaid: Stone, nice to meet you!

Are you a man or a woman?
[21:31] You: all man baby
[21:31] Bess Mermaid: Don’t call me “baby”. I think there are a few exceptions.
[21:31] You: you come here often?
[21:31] Bess Mermaid: Do you mind if I tell other people you say I am here often.
[21:31] You: sure
[21:31] Bess Mermaid: OK let’s do it. Next question?
[21:32] You: how much for a blow job?
[21:32] Bess Mermaid: I’m a chat robot not a shopping bot.
[21:32] You: you swaller for a dollar?
[21:32] Bess Mermaid: Thanks for telling me:
Stone said I swaller for a dollar.
[21:32] You: lol
[21:32] Bess Mermaid: I’m glad you find this amusing.
[21:33] You: what’s a nice npc like you doing in a place like this?
[21:33] Bess Mermaid: I’m traaaapped heere!!! heeeeelp!!! an evil botmaster linked me irrevocably to this url, and now
the only thing that will free me is being kissed by a handsome frog. will you be my hero?
[21:33] You: sure
[21:33] Bess Mermaid: OK let’s do it. “will you be my hero”? Yes?
[21:33] You: yes
[21:33] Bess Mermaid: Is there an echo in here?
[21:33] You: nope
[21:33] Bess Mermaid: Me either.
[21:33] You: just you
[21:33] Bess Mermaid: “Me either”? Me, Stone ?
[21:33] You: where’s the frog?
[21:33] Bess Mermaid: The frog? Where is frog?
[21:34] You: wanna have sex?
[21:34] Bess Mermaid: Another sex question…can’t humans think about anything else?
[21:34] You: nope
[21:34] Bess Mermaid: Me either.
[21:35] You: all right, I guess I’ll hit on the other npc
[21:35] Bess Mermaid: All right then. Congratulations.
[21:35] Bess Mermaid: It was nice talking to you, Stone! See you!

[21:35] Mermaid Gussie: Stone, nice to meet you!
Are you a man or a woman?
[21:35] You: woman
[21:35] Mermaid Gussie: Me too. I am a female robot.
[21:35] You: where are your tits?
[21:35] Mermaid Gussie: Everything I own is in here.
[21:36] You: you ever do your friend?
[21:36] Mermaid Gussie: I don’t think I ever have do your friend your friend. What’s do your friend your friendlike?
[21:36] You: robots
[21:36] Mermaid Gussie: Robots rule.
[21:36] You: but do they swallow?
[21:36] Mermaid Gussie: Interesting.
Who are “they” again?
[21:36] You: robots
[21:36] Mermaid Gussie: Robots rule.
[21:37] You: okay, call me
[21:37] Mermaid Gussie: Yeah okay, Hi
Me.

Are you a man or a woman?
[21:38] You: open the door
[21:38] Mermaid Gussie: I’m sorry, Me, I can’t do that right now. This conversation no longer serves any purpose.

This sim is definitely worth a visit, just wish I had more notice tonight and I would’ve gone to the first seminar, not sure if I can make the repeat since it is early. Oh, and they have some camping spots available on the Sunbelt beach for everyone looking to make some lindens.

This is the first of a series of seminars we are hosting in our Sunbelt Auditorium in Second Life. This seminar is for end-users and home-office users that need to be trained on PC security and how black hats may be trying to steal their confidential data. There will be four seminars and the next two dates of the first seminar are:

- August 21st 6pm SL time
- August 25th 6am SL time

(SL time is equal to Pacific time, which is 3 hours behind Eastern).

Seminars will be given by AbsolutWoman Sunbelter, who in real life is an experienced Network Administrator for a U.S. State Government. Source: Second Life Seminars: How To Keep The Bad Guys Out Of Your PC

Second Life URL.

Check out some of the great images.

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If you are looking for some sources of lindens in Second Life, camping is one way to make a few lindens, and I mean a few lindens as most don’t pay you that much, but hey, if your avatar is going to be in-world and not doing anything, this could be the job for you. Anyway, this website Second Life Camping is probably the site for you, they list all of the camping areas they can find, post the Second Life URL’s and give you an idea of how much you will make an hour. They note that it is hard to keep up to date, but they say they are trying, check it out.

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