Social Media and Virtual Worlds Commentary
So in the end, Emerald Viewer project collapsed because Lonely Bluebird refused to step down from the team, even though Linden Lab’s demanded for him to be removed from the team. Though the other two devs gracefully stepped down (Skills Hak and Discrete Dreamscape) after Linden Lab gave the ultimatum, it seems things were getting [...]
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It’s hardly surprising that the developers of Emerald Viewer have dropped yet another faux-pas. If anybody is in more desperate need of good PR than Linden Lab, it’d be the people of Modular Systems who can’t seem to help but come across as a bunch of bratty kids. There was the debacle over privacy, and [...]
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As the cost cutting continues at Linden Lab and revenue continues to be flat, it seems to be grim days for Second Life with many wondering just who is left in the office running things behind the show. Yesterday’s announcement of Display Names confused a number of people who don’t see why LL are announcing [...]
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On paper, it’s a good idea. There are plenty of users out there who have registered onto Second Life with their cute Yahoo! handle “sexychick1984″ or “machoman123″, spent a few weeks looking around and then realising that in comparison to their fellow residents, their name is pretty silly. If you were good friends with the right [...]
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In the least surprising move of the year, Linden Lab Interim CEO Philip Rosedale announced in his keynote speech at Second Life Community Convention that the Teen Grid is to shutdown in yet another cost cutting measure being implemented by the Lab. The reasons to scrap Teen Grid simply outweighed the reasons it should stay [...]
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Second Life, like the internet as a whole, is pretty much anarchy. Except there is somebody at the top who’s allegedly keeping an eye on it all, but it’s sort of like that absentee father who drops in once every couple of years just so the kids don’t forget who daddy is. Honour’s blog post [...]
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No surprise there, really. For all the talk about a roadmap to protect the merchants of Second Life and clamping down on Third Party Viewers, my own blog (and a few others) were bombarded by somebody spreading spam of a new copybot client they’re selling. But that’s hardly the Lab’s fault.. What is the Lab’s [...]
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Anyone who joined Second Life before mid-2007 may remember the Avatar Rating System, which allowed you to rate other users on their Appearance, Behaviour and Building skills. The system was dropped by Linden Lab to relieve the load on the servers. The system was supposed to separate good avatars from bad avatars, but it inevitably jut became [...]
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The return of Philip Rosedale to the reins of Linden Lab was met with rapturous applause by a sizable majority of Second Life users, but quiet scepticism from a notable minority. I think everyone across the board likes Philip as he’s the one who made it all happen – he’s heralded with nurturing SL into a leading virtual world [...]
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Look who’s back, back again. Philly’s back, tell a friend.. Just when you think it can’t get any worse at Linden Lab, it does. Today saw the news that Mark Kingdon (M Linden) stepped down as CEO to be replaced in the interim by the founder Philip Rosedale (Philip Linden). Obviously that raises all sorts [...]
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