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When I noted that Linden Lab’s private estate revenue in SL has fallen to 2009 levels, famed steampunk land baron Desmond “the Guvnah” Shang stopped by to offer his thoughts in Comments: « Cutting back on land mass is actually a…
After a month long absence from social media, Linden CEO Rod Humble posted an update on his SL profile, updating the company’s plans for returning last names to SL avatars, along with other features to names, such as titles: Speaking…
Serendipity Haven has a fairly funny field guide for satirically spotting Linden Lab staffers in Second Life (which I first spotted on SL’s Reddit group.) The post is largely for the yucks, though there’s an underlying assumption I often see…
Over on Reddit’s sub-community for Second Life (be sure to subscribe!) « Jeran » wonders why Linden Lab is doing such a poor job advertising Second Life, pointing to recent fails like the outdated, odd-looking vampire screenshot on the front page. « [W]e…
Iris Ophelia’s ongoing review of virtual world and MMO fashion Shortly after I posted my five point checklist for flawless and Photoshop-free SL snapshots last week, someone on Plurk shared a Linden snapshot done to advertise the company’s « New Year,…
Karl « Qarl » Stiefvater has declined to work any further with Linden Lab on incorporating the code to his useful alignment tool into the official SL viewer. This comes last week after the Linden vet donated the code; since then, Linden…
Second Life lost 879 private sims in 2011, according to Tyche Shepherd’s indispensable Second Life economic analyses. I double-checked this data with her, and this amounts to a drop in total land revenue for Linden Lab from about $62 million…
Immersiva, the landmark art space created by a Toronto artist known in SL as Bryn Oh, has lost its former patron, and may be close to leaving Second Life entirely. A last-minute bid to win patronage from Linden Lab has…
Remember that supremely useful alignment tool for SL building created by ex-Linden Karl « Qarl Fizz » Stiefvater, which I wrote about in 2010? (See his demo above.) As you may have read, Karl recently contributed the code to Linden Lab, in…
At the close of 2011, founding Linden Lab executive Ginsu Yoon wrote a heartfelt and eloquent look back at his time as Linden’s VP of Corporate Development and humor-having lawyer from between 2005 to 2009, during which Second Life was…
Want to make a tax deductible donation before 2011 ends to an important non-profit educational project by a Linden Lab alum, partly inspired by a related SL project? Check out the Monroe Work 2012 crowdfunded project, led by my pal…
Next year, Linden Lab will end a 9 year corporate history as the developer of a single product, Second Life.
As we head into the new year, I’d like to share some highlights from 2011, as well as a glimpse of what’s to come in 2012. First, if you haven’t already, I hope you will explore our recently launched
Open forum question of the week: What simple features or simple changes to existing features would significantly improve the Second Life, for new and established users? By « simple », I mean, « Would probably take one-two Linden Lab employees less than a…
Frank Ambrose Leaves Linden Lab: Senior VP’s Departure Second Senior Loss to Second Life Team in as Many Months SL Insider: 70% of SLers Don’t Regularly Explore SL, But Mostly Stay in Their Last Logged-In Location Marketplace Survey Results: Linden’s…
Written 14 December, 2011 Phoenix Gets Mesh! The Phoenix team has just released a mesh-enabled version of their Phoenix viewer! Download now! If you’ve already downloaded, download again, as the first mesh version had a couple of bugs that have been fixed in the just-released update. So cool to see mesh!
Frank Ambrose, who was appointed Linden Lab’s Senior VP of Global Technology in 2008, left the company last week. He joined LinkedIn’s Linden Lab Alumni group then, is no longer listed among Linden Lab’s managers and board members, and I…
Here are some variations to the Linden Lab logo from 2002, just shared by my pal Hunter Walk, one of the founding Lindens, who departed the company in 2003 to become a bigwig at Google and then YouTube. Hunter led…
Nalates Urriah makes a very good point about the game development tools showcased in Linden Realms, the new game area created by Linden Lab: They could be abused for some pretty clever (and annoying) griefing and Spamming purposes. For example,…
The Linden Endowment for the Arts blog has news of a machinima contest this month, with entries based around the theme « black and white » (however you want to interpret that.) Deadline December 15 — direct submission link here. If you…
Iris Ophelia’s ongoing review of virtual world and MMO fashion Linden Lab has a mixed record when it comes to creating images to showcase Second Life, especially since they have an incredibly creative and talented pool of users to draw…
What is this I don’t even: Got this e-mail from Linden Lab recently, thanking me for the monthly payment on my mainland office… which I actually didn’t pay.
Katherine de Leon and John Hurliman at Cull TV HQ Cull TV, the new, user-curated music video streaming service from Linden Lab and Second Life alum, has only been live for a few months, but it’s already helped an indie…
Linden Realms, the « game prototype » area in Second Life that Linden Lab has been Beta testing since last month, is officially open today: Read about it here.
Written 29 November, 2011 Return to SLeezyWood I should know better than to seek destinations at the Linden Showcase. I’m usually disappointed.
Articles récents
- NWN Comment of the Week: Steampunk Land Baron Desmond Shang on Why Losing SL Land is Healthy for SL
- Since Avatars Can Be Perfect, Flawed Hair Seems Stylish
- SL Bloggers Group Back in Business in SL and Social Media
- New Novel About a Man Who Falls in Love With Siri
- Who’s Your Most Valuable Twitter Follower?
- Where Was I?
- Chey Gets Distracted
- Miss Ophelia’s Metaverse Manners: The SL Etiquette of Copycats, Copyright, and Crying Wolf
- FB Users Spent $1.85 BILLION on Virtual Goods in 2011!
- Badass SL Avatar Inspired by Hellboy Movies is Badass
- How Reddit’s Virtual Community Helped a Real Community
- Chey Goes to coldLogic
- Give a Warm Reception to coldLogic’s New SL Mesh Fashions
- The Short But Friend-Filled Life of a Hot Facebook Bot
- Love Me Notes – Love in Less than 50 Words
- Be a Rat in the New Second Life RPG by Grendel’s Children
- Indie Game: The Movie, Documentary on Indie Developers of Fez and Super Meat Boy
- Last Names for SLers Return Soon — Plus News & Updates
- Uncanny Valley Theory: The Effect Occurs When We’re Passive Viewers, Not Interactive Participants
- Epic Second Life Clockwork Orange Outfit is Epic
- SL Estate Revenue Falls Below $5M/Mo, Lowest Since 10/09
- SL Estate Revenue Falls Below $5M/Mo, Lowest Since 10/09
- Why Reddit Rules Over Facebook and Twitter: It’s the Pseudonymity, Stupid
- New World Notes Highlights from Last Week: Kinect and SL, Google+ and SL, Avatars vs. Hollywood, and Much More
- Why Lindens in Second Life Seem Arrogant & Out of Touch
- Iris Rants: Don’t Let Fear of SL Content Theft Cause Paranoia Over Alternate Designer Identities!
- OpenSim Study on Virtual Treatment for Phobia Needs Cars!
- Sim Deathwatch: SL’s Hardcore Hard Alley Hits Hard Times
- NWN in Japanese: Bryn OhのSLアートがクラウドファンディングを通じて、1日でUS$6000の寄付を獲得！
- Explore OpenSim & SL Regions on the Web & Convert Others for Web Use With Avatars Via the ArchTech Engine
- Google Reportedly Allows Second Life User to Keep Google+ Account Named For His SL Avatar
- Ask Miss Metaverse Manners About Dealing With SL Content Theft Accusations!
- Tokyo University Developing Real Time, Open Source Kinect-to-Second Life Software
- Have Furries Fairly Fled Second Life for Furry Forums?
- Have Furries Fairly Fled Second Life for Furry Forums?
- How to List Your Avatar Name Next to Your Real Name on Google+ (Which I Generally Recommend)
- How to List Your Avatar Name Next to Your Real Name on Google+ (Which I Generally Recommend)
- How to Photograph Photoshop-Free SL Water Reflections
- Google Now Allows Fully Pseudonymous Google+ Profiles — But Only Those Known by a "Meaningful Number" of People
- Do Hollywood Actors Fear the Rise of Avatar-Based Acting?
- A Klein Bottle Comes to Second Life (Again)!
- OpenSim Active Users: Now About 15,000 (Same as in 2009)
- Second Life Redditors Wonder WTF is Up With Linden Lab’s SL Poor Ads — Please Tell Them, Lindens!
- Newt Gingrich, SL Fan, Likely to Be GOP’s 2012 Candidate
- Top Five New World Notes News From Last Week
- How to Stylishly Celebrate Chinese Lunar New Year in SL
- Here’s the Vampire That Should Be On SL’s Homepage
- Sim Deathwatch: Cartoonimals Leaving SL on the 14th
- Good Marketing Tips for SL Fashion Bloggers
- World of Skyrim Actually Much Smaller Than San Francisco
- Bryn Oh’s SL Art Crowdfunder Raises USD$6K in One Day!
- How to Shoot Spectacular Second Life Screenshots: Iris Ophelia’s Way… Versus Linden Lab’s Way
- Politic Against SOPA and PIPA
- OpenSim Gaining Regions… But Not Gaining Many Users
- Coliloquy Launches Dynamic Interactive Fiction E-book App
- New Year, New You! Contest Winners
- Richard Garriott Built Virtual Worlds to Leave the Real One
- Protest Today Against SOPA & PIPA, Which Threaten SL
- Stop SOPA!
- Peter Greenaway Acclaims SL Artist Bryn Oh, Donates to Crowdfunder to Re-Open Immersiva — and So Can You!
- SL Insiders on Alignment Code Controversy: No Personal Animus, Karl’s Code Will Be Integrated into the SL Viewer
- Prim-Based Game Minecraft Exceeds 20 Million Registered Users, Almost 5 Million Paying Customers
- Made in Hawaii: Tetris Battle, One of Facebook’s Top Games
- SOPA Seems Dead, But PIPA Still Threatens Second Life
- Blogger Maintenance
- Claiming Staff Bias, Ex-Linden Karl Stiefvater No Longer Helping Linden Integrate Alignment Tool into SL Viewer
- Aurasma: Virtual & Real Augmented Reality for Smartphones
- Top 7 New World Notes Posts Last Week
- Iris’ 5 Point Checklist for Flawless, Foolproof, & Photoshop-Free Second Life Snapshots
- EFF Confirms: SOPA & PIPA, If Passed, Would Jeopardize Second Life and Its Users (And Here’s How to Take Action)
- Second Life Lost 879 Private Sims and $500K to $2M in Revenue in ’11 — I.E., Why Tier Costs Won’t Likely Lower
- What Went Wrong With Multiverse: VentureBeat’s Take
- Sim Deathwatch: Without Funding, Bryn Oh’s Landmark Immersiva Art Space to Close Soon
- Could SOPA Strangle Second Life? Sadly, Seems So.
- What "Other Products" Will Linden Lab Launch in 2012?
- Youthful Opportunity: Most Who Visit SL’s Site Are Under 34
- How to Handle PR Crises on the Virtual Community of Reddit
- Announcing the New Year, New You! Image Contest
- Second Life Mesh Stats, January 2012: 22% Sims Have Some Mesh From 240 Daily Uploaders for 140K+ Total Objects
- Second Life Has an Official (If So Far Unused) Google+ Page
- Raph Koster’s Tip for Low Budget Game Development
- Lovely Tribute to Burning Man, Which Once Inspired SL
- Want Qarl’s Alignment Tool for SL Building in the Official SL Viewer? Then Vote On It!
- Reddit’s SL Community Among the Top 10% Largest (But Could Be a Lot Larger)
- Want to Play a Massively Multiplayer Storytelling Game?
- Skyrim Dragonslaying: Such an Anti-Climax (So Far)
- Top 8 Posts from New World Notes Last Week
- SL Fundraising Scandal Strongly Suggests Need to Work Directly With Real World Non-Profit Organizations
- Iris Ophelia’s Top 5 Talked-About Posts in 2011: Gender Bending, Avatar Race, Virtual Fur & Other Touchy Topics
- Erratum
- The Lindens are Stingy With Resources
- Tipodean Converts Second Life & OpenSim Content to Web Using Latest Version of Flash & Unity
- Top 50 Most Popular Second Life Sims for December 2011
- Multiverse Becomes Open Source MMO Platform After Closing
- Does Tintin Take Us Past the Uncanny Valley into a Future of Hyperreal 3D Graphics?
- A New Way to Count Prims
- Survey Suggests Substantial Market for Cloud Streaming Second Life — Which an Expert Says is Feasible at $99/Year!
- Best of New World Notes 2011: My Favorite 10 Posts
- SL Viewer Performance Comparison: Linden’s Still Best, Exodus & Mikshake Best of Third Party Viewers
- In NWN Survey on Improving Second Life, Plurality Call for Making Mesh-Capable Viewers Mandatory for All Users
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