Posts Tagged ‘business’
The Road Forks
You can’t have missed Linden Lab’s recent announcement regarding the Community Partnership Programme, which will bring to each and every community in Second Life® the kind of “special agreement” that Linden Lab signed with the United Sailing Sims nine months ago. Back then, Linden Lab promised to do a similar thing for further communities that wanted the same arrangement. It took them a long time of “beta testing”, but now…
Supporting business in Second Life seriously
This article requires a disclaimer. I am by no means a disinterested party, but a heavilly biased one. My own company, Beta Technologies, has officially launching the Beta Business Park on September 15th, 2009. Obviously you will expect me to support the whole concept and not be too skeptical about it. But I still find it worthwhile to expand a bit on the reason why my company feels this to…
Linden Lab buys XstreetSL and OnRez Shop — why?
I’ve just posted this on the Second Life forums, where it will be buried for all time, so I thought I’d re-post here as a reference: I might imagine that the major reasons for prompting this buy-out have pretty little to do with “LL wanting to be a monopoly”, although I’m pretty sure that’s what the media (SL media mostly) will say. There is one practical side to it. IMVU…











