Yesterday, Linden Lab’s interim CEO Philip Rosedale and CFO/COO Bob Komin did a talk and Q&A session in Second Life focused on where things were at, and where things were going.
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The Virtual Whirl: Linden Lab goes back to basics
Second Life has just seen its seventh anniversary (called its seventh birthday, only it technically isn’t — the original birthday is in March, but the anniversary is in June. There’s history there)
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The Virtual Whirl: A brief history of Second Life
TechCrunch has announced more changes in the works for Linden Lab’s troubled Second Life virtual world. On the heels of a move that laid off 30 percent of its workforce, the company has announced that CEO Mark Kingdon will be stepping down and giving way to Linden founder Philip Rosedale in an interim capacity.
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Linden Lab CEO steps down
In just a few more days, the winner of the second annual Linden Prize is going to be revealed, and the ten finalists have been announced . The stated criteria for the Linden prize are projects that “[ elevate] the human condition through using Second Life ,” and ” that improve the way people work, learn, and communicate in their daily lives outside of the virtual world.” Therefore, I feel it only natural that I was rather astonished to see sionChicken/sionCorn in among the finalists, since it apparently does neither of these things
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The Virtual Whirl: Linden Lab short-lists viral poultry for humanitarian prize
The other day we covered a lawsuit by Corey Fahy (AKA Belial Foulsbane in Second Life ) vs Linden Lab , various third-party viewer developers, content creators and others. While there doesn’t seem to be any case to really answer (because you can’t copyright a name, method, process or algorithm, and Fahy seems ineligible for legal costs and statutory damages in any case) things definitely took a turn for the weird last week. Continue reading Fahy vs Linden Lab: This just gets weirder Filed under: Business models , News items , Opinion , Second Life , Legal , Virtual worlds Fahy vs Linden Lab: This just gets weirder originally appeared on Massively on Tue, 20 Apr 2010 12:00:00 EST
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Fahy vs Linden Lab: This just gets weirder
Linden Lab is in the throes of closing the official Second Life forums and is creating alternative discussion spaces in its Clearspace blog/forum hybrid .
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Second Life official forums to be replaced Tuesday
