Visionaries and a changing world — the challenge for Linden Lab is how to get the two together. Early last year, Philip “Linden” Rosedale has been keen to announce to everybody who cared to listen that “Second Life was about building a country” — with its own society and economy. […]
Yearly Archives: 2005
22 posts
In a previous article, I tried to think a bit about marketing efforts in Second Life. Recently someone asked me in IM: “so, are you a Linden now?” and I was utterly baffled why they were asking me that. Sure, like perhaps half of the residents, I applied for a […]
Recently, a few people looked up my blog to get an idea on what I’m currently doing using Second Life® as a “platform”, and commented that they were expecting more information about that here. Well, there is a reason for almost everything, and the first thing that came to my […]
The “older” you are in Second Life®, the more you understand the changes that this world is subject to. Some call it “accelerated change” ? virtual worlds being what they are, there are ways to simulate real processes much quicklier than in “real life”, thus, the hectic and ever-changing nature […]
SecondLife 1.7.0 release scheduled for Monday, October 24th, 2005In our continuing efforts to improve the Second Life experience, we will update the Second Life grid on Monday October 24, 2005 from 6:00 AM PT to 2:00 PM PT. During that time Second Life will be unavailable. The release notes for […]
Many of you are now tired of listening to me talking about the old Neualtenburg Projekt (yes, with a K, to use the German spelling), currently known as the City of Neufreistadt, and about several of its aspects. While it is not a “city” — a better description, due to […]
This is just a reminder to my faithful readers that the Second Life Community Convention is taking place in New York City, at the New York Law School, during October 8 and 9, 2005. The fun part of it will not only being able to attend it physically, but virtually […]
At the last Town Hall meeting, where Philip Linden explained to us how Linden Lab will “facilitate” the selling of L$ for US$ in Second Life®, he mentioned how worried he is about competitors catching up with SL. As a matter of fact, he mentioned the word “competitors” several times. […]
Just for fun, I remembered one day to set the Thinkers’ with a challenge: what would you do if you were VP of Marketing for Linden Lab®? Since then, I’ ve certainly discussed this idea with many people in-world. One of the resident’s favourite pastime is to tell Linden Lab […]
We all suffer daily with the problems of Second Life’s IM chat system, and the issue is pretty simple to explain: SL’s IM is obsolete. Even ICQ, when it was launched as the first ever instant messaging system, had more functionality and ease of use. Linden Lab is well aware […]
I know I’m playing with fire here, but I’ll still post some of my thoughts on the subject. When I started as an utter clueless newbie – and I definitely had a much harder time figuring out things out than most of the current batch of new residents – I […]
It’s true – I’ve been one year in Second Life?. Like any old cliché, it really looks like it was much longer than that. I’m not even sure where I did spend my time when there wasn’t Second Life for me to connect to. Definitely not watching TV – I […]
It was bound to happen sooner or later – paradigm shifts demand it. Old technologies do not disappear from one day to the next, they get assimilated, until it’s hard to understand where one stops and the next begins. Sometimes this happens overnight, and we don’t even notice what has […]