Posts Under SL Economy Category
Humble Governance
Early this year, my good friend Hiro Pendragon pointed out that I’m no good at predictions any longer, because I happen to be so disconnected from Second Life® these days that I “lost touch” with it. At the time he wrote that, I was actually shocked. I have one job which is about development content and applications for Second Life exclusively, and, unlike many Metaverse Development Companies (who have dropped…
Innovation, yes, but wrong turn
These days, I have to humbly admit that I cannot keep up with the whole of Second Life. So I just read what others, who still can, write about SL, while remaining at my little corner of the virtual world and do my own things which nobody cares about But there is something I have noticed in the past few months. Like a crescendo finishing at SLCC, Linden Lab has been…
There are still financial institutions in Second Life…
Well, I have to admit that I was baffled today. A site I’ve subscribed to, long time ago, sent me an email saying that “their company was undergoing an IPO”. I just went… wow! A start-up company that did fancy web-based classifieds for Second Life® businesses, was already able to go IPO?? Hooray for the United States of America, where pretty much any mom-and-dad corner shop can go IPO if…
Attention to all my shoppers: my vendors stopped working!
Over six years ago, I designed my own web-based vendor shopping software, before these became popular (mostly thanks to the original SLEX, which was renamed as XStreetSL, and later became SL Marketplace). This was never completely finished — it was pointless to “compete” with SLEX anyway — but I always used it for my own in-world vendors, since SLEX never supported those. Today, Emia Core noticed that she could pay…
Linden Lab turns residential; OpenSim embraces business and education
I’ve just read Prokofy Neva’s very insightful post on the official end of Second Life Enterprise — both as a product, as a division of Linden Lab, and, well, as being part of LL’s vision. Prok was very straightforward and asked the question to Philip directly: has SLE been dropped? The answer was “yes”. So of course we already knew that Linden Lab is turning back to where their core…
King of Spades Out, Ace of Hearts In
Wow, what a ride! The Second Life Birthday events are usually full of drama (mostly regarding of what constitutes “art”, and bickering among the organisation managers, usually a mix of residents and Lindens… and where the Lindens, close to the end, sometimes have to kick the residents out and do whatever they need to do to get it rolling). This time, however, it was a box full of surprises. When…
[Reset] and do a 180º turn
Today, Linden Lab turned another page on the history book for virtual worlds and entered another chapter… or, to be more precise, they turned a page back. Which is surprising. Linden Lab normally doesn’t do that. So, what happened? First of all, I feel terribly sorry about the long list of Lindens that lost their jobs. Some of them have been around for eons and were good friends. Some, which…
Too tired of “virtual is not real”
For some silly reason, I’m unable to post a comment on http://mashable.com/2010/05/03/second-life-users-file-class-action-lawsuit-over-virtual-land/ so I’m pasting my comment here instead: Jolie, I really appreciate that you’ve posted the data with the numbers on your article It avoided a lot of the typical “get a second life” one-liners and “why are people taking this serious? it’s just a game” kind of comments. They were fun when they were a novelty… a decade ago…
A for Apologies?
Ok, I admit it, this year’s April Fools’ “joke” was probably in bad taste and definitely went out of control… and I guess that multiple apologies are in order. However, the end result was curiously quite positive, so bear with me for a moment… My problem is that I’m not famous for my sense of humour, so it’s often not easy to find a theme to blog about on April 1….
Speculative Splitting
Well, drama aside, I just wanted to refresh a suggestion for the Road Ahead for Linden Lab®. It is deeply buried inside the long list of comments on my recent post. I cannot take credit from the overall concept, because I saw it suggested somewhere else — and sadly forgot to keep a link for it, because I didn’t think it was worth considering at that time. A couple of…
F for Fail
[Ok, so, you should be wary of what you read on April 1... don't take this article too seriously! Nevertheless, I seemed to have been rather insulting to many of you, so I wrote a new article with some apologies — and some surprising news!] The past few days I have been rather frustrated with Linden Lab’s technical support. While I’m sure that I will get the answers I require…
Obsessive about Real Identity?
I had started to write this in mid-October but never finished it… and the database crashed at some point while I was in the middle of writing it, losing almost all of the article In the mean time, the recent interest in this topic, as well as M Linden’s announcement that they would allow people to register avatars with their real life names, as well as Wallace Linden’s strange article…
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