Twinity citizens welcome The Princess of Yaximixche

The Princess of Yaximixche marked the start of her 90 days tour to new Virtual Worlds by visiting Twinity.




HRH arrived on the 1st December to London, Twinity.




During the 10 days visit, Princess Manqo received a rapturous greeting and Twinitizens demonstrated their affection with gifts and cash donations in Globals to HRH Princess Manqo Foundation.


The visit consisted in learning about life in Twinity and talking to their residents.




When The Princess teleported to Berlin, Twinity, a welcoming marquee was beautifully decorated with comfortable sofas of the best quality and she expressed her delight of the overwhelming surroundings at the Brandenburg Gate.


She also met Miss Monica Twinity, who gave HRH a first taste of fun in Twinity by showing around the magnificent and realistic buildings.


Also, informal gatherings with Twinitizens introduced Princess Manqo to the art of twinging, a mischievous and exhilarating flirting trick.

During a visit to the streets of London, The Princess described the feeling of being at home when walking by The Mall.

She said: "Since I saw the first line of trees I immediately knew we where by St James' Park and The Mall - It is truly remarkable the detailed work that one can appreciate on these buildings and it feels like traveling back on time and space".


The Princess also enjoyed the party life in Twinity and attended two events, one in the Red Corner Club and a birthday party in April's residence in the US.


As a glad surprise, The Princess received some dance animations from Monica, a very helpful and friendly member of Twinity staff.


In London, The Beatles Club made Princess Manqo feel at home again with a well replicated yellow submarine and the wonderful quality of music.


HRH discovered her clear reflection when looking at one of the mirrors in the club.


Christmas is a season that Twinitizens enjoy inmensely and the festive decorations are everywhere, even Twinitizens were proudly wearing their Father Christmas costumes for welcoming new residents.

As a result of such a warm reception in Twinity, members of the Royal Household of Yaximixche requested an area for building Buckingham House in London, Twinity. This place will be a welcoming area for Honourables from Second Life that would like to visit Twinity. Also it accommodates offices of the recently proclaimed Court of Justice of Virtual Worlds and HRH Princess Manqo Foundation. It is expected that information about Climate Change will be shown in the galleries of this new building. Moreover, The Princess will host formal events for Twinitizens as she has been doing in Second Life since 2007.

Twinitizens can join HRH Princess Manqo Foundation and The Court of Justice of Virtual Worlds in-world in Twinity for receiving news and event notices from The Palace as well. Also a profile of The Princess of Yaximixche is available in Twinity.

The Office of The Private Secretary has also produced a more detailed report on different positive and challenging aspects that The Princess would like to observe during her tour to different Virtual Worlds. This reports provides more insights into the first 8 minutes of a new resident, and also looks at appearance, social relevance, friendliness, lag, ownership, business, education, and environmental practices amongst others. The report has been presented to the Parliament of Virtual Worlds and it will be constantly updated after HRH ends each visit. Media officers and journalists can also download the comparison table from the Parliament's hansard.
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The Princess of Yaximixche present in the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (COP 15)

The Palace announces that before embarking in her second trip to new Virtual Worlds, Princess Manqo will make a stop in Virtual Copenhagen in Second Life to attend the important summit on Climate Change held in Denmark and organised by the United Nations, this next 7th to 18th December 2009.

The Princess intends having an active participation in the different talks and will be surrounded by undercover security guards in Second Life. This unusual appearance of HRH in this event is because the recent lack of security in Second Life has become an increasing risk for her safety; therefore, Princess Manqo has decided withdrawing temporarily from her activities in this Virtual World until better security measures are put in place by Linden Lab.

The Princess of Yaximixche is informed constantly on the new developments in SL security. HRH hopes that the appearance of new approaches to open source viewers encourages Linden Lab to establish a transparent, fair, and open communication with these hard working and selfless developers and together work for solving Intellectual Property and security issues, and at the same time increasing useful features for SL residents, landlords, artists and merchants.

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The Princess embarks in Metaverse trip

The Princess of Yaximixche will visit different Virtual Worlds from December to February 2010.

This, her second private visit to new Virtual Worlds in the Metaverse, involves a busy itinerary aimed at meeting residents of recently created Virtual Worlds, including charity and voluntary organisations, members of environmental groups as well as the general public and exploring options for extending The Princess's work beyond Second Life.

Over ninety days, Her Royal Highness will visit 9 Virtual Worlds focused on content creation and other sectors, including stops in Twinity, Blue Mars, HiPiHi, i-Citizen, ActiveWorlds, VastPark, Mycosm, Multiverse and Opensim grids.

The Princess of Yaximixche has visited Opensim grids, Wonderland, HiPiHi and Lively. Her last private visit was in 2008 when HRH opened The Palace of Gukumatz to the public in the extint Lively.

This will be the first main activity for The Princess of Yaximixche since failing gravely ill during summer 2009.

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The Princess asks for more real support to virtual educators in Best Practices in Education Conference

The Princess of Yaximixche attended to the opening ceremony of the Best Practices in Education Conference 2009. During the event Mr Pathfinder Linden talked about the challenges and praised the great work done by educators in diverse areas of knowledge. Mr Linden also requested to the audience for suggestions on how Second Life could help to increase the development of educational activities by real life organisations that work within Second Life.


Her Royal Highness received a warm welcome from the attendees present during the inaugural event. The Princess requested to Mr Pathfinder Linden more support from Linden Lab for the development of live educational events in front of an audience of eighty seven residents that was comprised by people from at least nine nationalities.

Conferences will be broadcasted by SLCN TV during the three-days event.

Nokia Connected Worlds listens to The Princess of Yaximixche

Her Royal Highness The Princess of Yaximixche attended to the December edition of Nokia Connected Worlds panel at 11 am SLT, on Sunday, 14th of December.

The discussion about the future of education and business in virtual worlds was moderated by Mr Hydra Shaftoe and the audience asked questions related to intellectual property rights, Virtual Worlds interoperability, community creation, builders certification, metaverse currency exchange or Virtual Worlds corporate development.

Panel members included Ms Darla Madsen (darlamack.com), Mr Digistar Brouwer (Nokia Corporation), Mr Pathfinder Linden (Linden Lab), Mr Frolic Mills (The Best of SL Magazine), and Mr Saloman Salomon (Honda Corporation).

The panel lasted one hour, and then the attendees enjoyed an after-party with Beatles music.

The Princess of Yaximixche expressed her concerns for the lack of regulation in Second Life financial sector. HRH Princess Manqo mentioned that Stock Exchanges in Second Life are helping business to fluorish and grow, however, the lack of transparency and auditing could cause a big damage to a sector that has already suffered deception from Second Life banks. Currently, dividens are paid to investors correctly and on time by companies listed in these Stock Exchanges. This only can be achieved with the support of the Stock Exchange managing team and also as a result of a competitive organisation and good operation of the listed companies. However, The Royal Purse has detected practices that could lead to a similar situation in any moment as in the case of Second Life banks.

Real life financial security laws might not necessarily apply in the same way in Second Life as this could cause innecessary beaurocracy that could lead to the disolution of Stock Exchanges and their important work in favour of entrepreneurs. Real life laws should be adapted to Second Life special circumstances, and in this case could constrain the existence of these Second Life Stock Exchanges. It is clear that some type of self regulation or community regulation is needed and not necessarily created but promoted and supported by Linden Lab, said The Princess.

The Princess and Mark Linden present at the Breast Cancer Virtual Convention

Her Royal Highness The Princess of Yaximixche attended this morning and evening the Breast Cancer Virtual Convention held at the Virtual Cancer Institute. The Princess is active supporter of the Association for International Cancer Research (AIRC) in Second Life and promotes this charity in the Expositions Gallery at The Palace of Yaximixche. Second Life residents can donate directly to AICR when visiting this section of the Royal Palace.


The Virtual Cancer Institute is the first oncological institute dedicated to information and learning for Second Life citizens. Doctors, renowned professionals and other members of the health sector can meet and interact with citizens from all over the world, in real time and cost-free.


The event "Meet the Professors, An advanced Course in Breast Cancer" was a pioneering big success in the first day and residents from different countries had the opportunity to ask technical and general questions about the past, present and future of cancer research. The Questions and Answers session was lead by Professor Pier Franco Conte from the Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia Policlinico di Modena in Italy and Professor Gabriel N. Hortobagyi from the University of Texas MD Andersone Cancer Center in Houston.


At the end of the evening, Mr Mark Linden gave a touching speech supporting the organisation of high quality events that enrich residents with the latest scientific knowledge. The Princess was gladly pleased for the moral support provided from Mr Linden and his charm in answering questions from the audience. The SOS group were respectfully and pacifically demonstrating their frustration for the increase on Open Spaces prices by showing their flags during Mr Linden speech.

The Princess of Yaximixche urges financial transparency from Linden Lab

Her Royal Highness The Princess of Yaximixche had an emergency meeting with Second Life residents who are worried for the effects of the price increase in Open Space Sims. Amongst the points discussed were the effects on business and charities. Also the shocked residents felt compelled to do something right away and they have organised many protests arount this virtual world to give voice to the discomfort of this unilateral decision taken by Linden Lab.

HRH Princess Manqo urges Linden Labs more transparency and the publication of their financial accounts as they describe themselves as a private company where earnings are re-invested in the improvement of Second Life. However, their recent decisions will have damaging effects that have not been considered.

Linden Lab recent action gives the impression that their profits will increase as open spaces sims will be abandoned and returned back to Linden Lab ownership allowing them to re-sell this land and making more profits. Linden Lab is not considering the effects on many young and fragile organisations that have fluorished in Second Life and the distress their decision is causing.

During the meeting with The Princess, a temporal shut down of Second Life has been proposed by the group of worried residents for the 1st of December from 00:00 hrs until 23:59 hrs SLT and a massive sell of Linden Dollars. Second Life residents that feel the need to maintain their social interactions during the Second Life shut down have been suggested to visit the Gukumatz Palace in Lively Google as meeting point.

Her Royal Highness encouraged all parties, SL residents and Linden Lab, for more communication, understanding and proposing constructive solutions with transparency. With the non-stopable growth of Second Life, new forms of governance have to be created as well, in order to include the resident-users perspective in future decisions from Linden Lab.

Gukumatz Palace is open 24x7 and can be accessed from The Princess of Yaximixche website.

The Princess of Yaximixche builds new royal residence in the Virtual World of Lively

After a recent visit to the new Virtual World of Lively, Her Royal Highness The Princess of Yaximixche asked to her Private Secretary the creation of a new royal residence. Builders immediately started with the design of Gukumatz Palace following the requirements of HRH Princess Manqo.

This new royal residence will help in raising awareness of The Princess activities in Virtual Worlds such as tackling climate change, the protection of the Amazon Rainforest and helping people in need.

Gukumatz Palace offers a new art gallery that at the moment provides information supported by multimedia about the Amazon Rainforest deforestation and its effects on climate change.

Visitors can also admire the lavish Chinese and brown drawings room decorated with local plants and ornaments in order to maintain a low ecological footprint in this building.

The "Five Threes" painting is a faboulous artwork kindly donated by local residents and it is center piece to one of the rooms.

During her recent stay in Lively, The Princess was deeply touched by the warm welcome of Lively citizens who were also concerned about climate change. HRH Princess Manqo discussed with some visitors to Gukumatz Palace about the recent nature disasters in different points of our planet. The Princess of Yaximixche was also greatly surprised that many of the Lively citizens are Second Live citizens.

Gukumatz Palace is open 24x7 and can be accessed from The Princess of Yaximixche website.

The Princess of Yaximixche remembers the September 11 victims

The Royal Press OfficeThe Royal Press Office announces that The Princess of Yaximiche will remember the victims of September 11 events in private this year. This is in contrast to last year when Her Royal Highness marked the 6th anniversary with a touching visit to the memorial service in Melissa's Blue Angel Police and Fire Memorial Community Garden.

"The Princess will be remembering the victims and their families privately and in her own way, they are always in her heart and prayers."

HRH Princess Manqo, is continuing with her engagements in real life and Virtual Worlds.

"The Princess has not been able to login into Second Life due technical reasons in almost two months and she has been missing Second Life citizens and friends dearly, however, Her Royal Highness continues with her duty of raising awareness of the importance of tackling climate change, the protection of the Amazon Rainforest, and helping people in need in Virtual Worlds and real life. HRH Princess Manqo is counting the days for her return to Second Life".

The Princess visits Wonderland : The Education Grid

The Princess of Yaximixche, Princess Manqo, attended the launching of the Education Grid organised by the Immersive Education Initiative in Second Life.


The Education Grid is part of the Sun Microsystems´ Project Wonderland, an alternative platform to Second Life. Despite that at the moment is in its early stages of development, amongst the aims of the Education Grid, is providing services to Second Life and other platforms like Croquet.


More than 60 cheering avatars participated in this breaking-point event in the life of Virtual Worlds. And after receiving some initial guidelines, participants downloaded the software and were able to connect to different servers around the Globe hosted by different universities.


Her Royal Highness was welcomed to the Education Grid by Mr Nigel, who patiently explained different interesting and useful features for educational purposes. During the visit, The Princess of Yaximixche wore local customes available in the Education Grid such as an elegant long sleeve green shirt, dark green trousers, an stylish blonde hair style and blue eyes similar to the colour Her Royal Highness wears in Second Life.This new platform will help in raising awareness of the importance of tackling Climate Change, the protection of the Amazon Rainforest and helping people in need in Virtual Worlds and Real Life, duties of Princess Manqo in Virtual Worlds.

The Princess of Yaximixche calls for transparency and more support to the Second Life non-profits sector

The Princess of Yaximixche has attended the "Metanomics : Non-profits in Virtual Worlds" discussion organised by Professor Robert Bloomfield and Metanomics, and broadcasted live on SLCN.TV, last 28th April at 11:00 am SLT.

Ms Susan Tenby, Senior Manager of the nonprofit TechSoup, and American Cancer Society's Randal Moss hosted a discussion of the challenges and opportunities facing non-profit organizations in virtual worlds. Participating actively during this discussion, The Princess raised her concerns about transparency, “How can we make Second Life a safer place for non-profits in order to avoid fake charities or scams, but at the same time giving freedom and support for people interested in doing charity work or creating new charities based only in SL that could after certain time migrate to RL? We have to consider that SL is reaching not only an American audience and charities from Europe or Asia might be missing the chance of using SL for their activities. Also, there is people who dont have a charity but wants to start new charitable projects.”

By attending this event, Her Royal Highness called for more transparency and public disclosure of financial reports from current organisations involved in Second Life charity campaigns in order to improve trust in all these volunteering organisations that are doing such a titanic work. The Princess of Yaximixche is aware of the growing activity of different types of charities but at the same time is concerned about the real impact that these organisations are having in real life needs. With this, The Princess is trying to secure that now and in the future 100% of the money goes to support people in need instead of going to pockets of "hidden wolves under a sheep skin" organisations that might be using charitable organisations to make big profits as it has unfortunately happened in real life. Organisations that promote charity campaigns are essential part of an important process, however, the amount of profit they are obtaining from the non-profit sector might be excessive, therefore a call for more transparency and public disclosure of information is required.

Are non-profit related companies taking advantage of the public's trust with their sharp practices?

The Princess of Yaximixche also called for more volunteer and support not only from Second Life residents but also from organisations and corporations that can enhance and raise the charity work profile.

Statement from HRH The Princess of Yaximixche on the Life 2.0 Summit private visit

The Royal Press Office

Her Royal Highness has demonstrated interest in supporting a healthy multidimensional expansion of Virtual Worlds.

This week The Princess of Yaximixche was amongst the avid audience present at the public event "Life 2.0 Summit" produced by C M P T e c h n o lo g y/Dr. D o b b ' s Journal. During four intensive days, Her Royal Highness participated actively in different sessions despite the time difference between Europe and USA and received answers to the following questions:

-What could be the platform business models that will emerge when Virtual Worlds meet Augmented Reality?
-What could be the likely business models when the different Virtual Worlds platforms reach standard protocols?
-Could be possible that we will see in the future Real Life robots controlling avatars and what will be the effect on Virtual Worlds?
-What other metrics will be necessary for monitoring sims and will search engines provide statistics of keywords?
-Why is important for companies like [name of the speakers company] to mimic Real Life activities into Virtual Worlds?
-What challenges have companies like [name of the speakers company] found in communicating their message in Second Life?
-How many visitors or customers are using [name of the speakers company] facilities for business?

The Princess of Yaximixche met Real Life and Second Life developers and received multiple and constants words of support and encouragement for her environment activities in Second Life. After the event every day, Her Royal Highness provided guided tours to interested visitors who requested to have a special visit at The Palace of Yaximixche showing the activities of HRH Princess Manqo Foundation. Her Royal Highness was very pleased for the good organisation of this event despite technical limitations and constant sim crashes, however, she was also concerned of the rudimentary and unwelcoming treatement to international members of the audience by the committee officers. According to evidences, organisers did not warn neither provided a clear guidelines of behaviour at the beggining of the event. Her Royal Highness was not exempt of this appalling treatment:

1.One example was the initial request of the committee who asked the audience during breakfast sessions to wear a "complicated-to-use" nametag that caused spamming in the main channel during talks and that caused annoyance and dispair in attendees. Even Her Royal Highness provided caring support and guidance to citizens who requested for help to wear such device. As everybody was wearing a tag, The Princess of Yaximixche decided to wear her own environment awareness non-for-profit tag without causing any spam in the main channel. However, the committee requested Her Royal Highness to remove it as for their perception "she was selling".

2.Also sessions of Q&A during talks and tours were completely chaotic and many questions were left without answer causing frustration in many attendees. Her Royal Highness repectfully asked one or two questions when the audience was also asking during these sessions. The committee unexpectly and irrespectfully requested Her Royal Highness by private IM "Manqo ask questions at the end ... you are causing too many disruptions".

3.During the event many avatars showed their creative side by wearing attractive costumes such as oversized hats. Even one of the event organisers did. For this reason, Her Royal Highness considered appropriate in wearing her haut couture hats receiving a lot of praise from attendees for her demuring and classic style. Her Royal Highness seated on the edge of corners to avoid visual disturbance when she considered one of The Princess of Yaximixche´s hats could cause any obtstruction, and also she requested beforehand comments from the committe on this.

4.The event had an approximate audience of 65, 55, 60, and 42 avatars from Monday to Friday. A similar number of audience enjoyed scripting and sculpty lectures during weekend sessions. The Princess of Yaximixche was interested in meeting and talking to all of them, however, establishing private conversation during presentations certainly could be distractive and during the breakfast networking sessions there was not enough time available. For this reason Her Royal Highness requested friendships after reading their interesting avatar profiles in order to maintain contact for further communication. She was delighted that many of them joined HRH Princess Manqo Foundation group and visited this website to learn more about Her Royal Highness activities in Second Life. Due the existence of multiple tags in such a small amphitheatre, certainly it was a difficult task to avoid duplicated requests of friendships to the same person in many cases. Her Royal Highness also received many times duplicated requests that she patiently accepted or rejected it. However, new friendships were also on hand during tours. Her Royal Highness received a considerably big number of teleporting requests from her new acquitances and she gladly accepted to provide this support to fellow attendees as the committee showed a lack of planning or rehearsal for these learning journeys held at sponsors facilities.

The committee was more concerned in pleasing their sponsors marketing objectives rather than being good hosts by creating a unforgettable experience for visitors and potential customers. Some attendees had to use alternative avatars in order to continue in this event as the committee decided unilaterally that some questions or behaviours were not appropriate. Additionally, the committee did not provide any justification of avatar ban cases or simply they refuse replying to any request for explanation.

Her Royal Highness was delighted in learning about the future of Virtual Worlds from experts such as Xconomy, Acceleration Studies Foundation (Ogoglio, Photosynth), Forterra Systems, SLBrowser, Gridocity, Linden Lab, Electric Sheep, Code4 Software, Sun Microsystems, Clear Ink, Eolus, Involve, ESC, AWA, IBM, libSecondLife, Croquet Consortium (Croquet video), Maya Realities, Borland Codegear, Tateru Nino, Multiverse, Pixeltrix, Questar, Intel, and Weather Channel. She also praised the interesting guided tours around different successful Real Life companies established in Second Life.

*Note: Click on links to access material provided during each speaker presentation. Any organisation interested in providing a link missed during crashes, please feel free to request it IN-WORLD.