Corona Speedway Series 2009
As you may have heard recently, Podcast Island was sold to Itazura Radio and therefore renamed Corona Cay.
As proud residents of this sim, SLPN in the future will be bringing various and awesome events to the island of Corona Cay, just as we did with Podcast Island.
One of the cool things that we already have planned is the Corona Speedway Series (CSS (its a geek reference)). Which will be kicking off in style on the 24th of January 2009 at 6 PM SLT.
We figured we would kick off the competition is style and offer a juicy prize. The winner of the inaugural race will win a months rent FREE at Corona Cay, if you haven’t seen the sim, go take a look and you’ll see that it is indeed an awesome place to live.
We’ll see you there!
Twitter + Plurk = The Awesome
Thanks to the magic of Ping.FM, SLPN Updates are now back on Twitter and now available via Plurk.
For a while we used to use the Twitter Tools plugin for updating Twitter users of when new podcasts on SLPN were out. The problem with this method was that it created an extra MySQL call and sometimes caused problems with the database. The decision was made to turn off Twitter Tools when it caused some instabilities to the website when a new updated version of the website came out.
I figured at this time that I should give the website, Ping.FM a go. What’s so great about Ping.FM?
It can update multiple locations at once, which means when a new update to SLPN is out, we can use the service to automatically update users who want to check out our content, the moment it is released.
Also, because Ping is always offering more and more ways for updates to be published to, SLPN will be available in more and more places soon.
Advertising Rates on SLPN Returns
Advertising oppurtunities on SLPN have not been available for a number a while now. The reason for this was that when we made the transition from moving hosts, the plugin that we used to power ads on the site came up with some weird mysql call error and so there either had to be a fix or a replacement.
A couple of months later we found that replacement and decided to get some advertisements on via various advertisement networks like Comission Junction while I would rewrite the pricing plans for the website.
Now, there was discussions on how to make the pricing better for a world like Second Life. I came to the realisation that people would like to advertise, but the rates are too high usually for them to make a commitment.
So we now have new pricing plans for advertising on SLPN
Why are we doing this?
Simply put, we believe that cheaper advertising rates are more appealing to virtual world businesses. For similar websites with traffic like ours advertising rates can be double the cost for advertising or even more.
Website Advertising Rates
468 x 60 - L$225 per 1000 impressions
150 x 150 - L$150 per 1000 impressions
