Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s article on the online version of the Scientific American might just have been shared by less than 7,000 people on Facebook, but that’s possibly the whole point of the article: it makes a plea to keep the Web neutral. A tough call which only appeals to what Prokofy […]
Yearly Archives: 2010
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When Philip “Linden” Rosedale announced, once again, that he’d be leaving Linden Lab and was actively searching for a new CEO, leaving Bob Komin to replace him temporarily, some of my friends saw this as a clear sign that Linden Lab was shutting down Second Life® — and point to […]
It’s been a busy, fun week! Starting with an interview with Jack Linden and Dusan Writer on the last Monday talking about meshes, Noam Chomsky on Metanomics last Tuesday, and the actual launch of meshes on Wednesday… it was fun! Well, meshes are out. In spite of my pessimistic descriptions, […]
Ironically, just a few days after writing my other post, imagining that after a rough summer, with lots of media drama around Second Life and Linden Lab’s ever-annoying attitudes to frustrate their userbase more and more, we would enter a period of relative calm until Christmas (when LL is supposed […]
It’s been a long summer around here, but it’s now over. For the first time in 5 years, I managed to take some vacations — which for me meant spending 4 days with my parents in the Portuguese Highlands, where the country is rough, the people are rough, and Internet […]
The title won’t make any sense for native English speakers, who have the equivalent saying: “tempest in a tea pot”. The meaning is the same: “making a fuss about nothing important”. But sometimes we fail to see what is important and what is not. I’d like to invite you to view […]
Linden Lab has announced at the SLCC their continuing support of the open source efforts: the launch of Snowstorm, the project for a new viewer (based on the Snowglobe 2.X codebase) which will get Lindens and third-party volunteer developers working much, much closer together to develop what Philip Linden hopes […]
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? […]
My apologies for the past rough 48 hours. I have to admit that I was getting tired of the old 2008 theme! While I was browsing for a WP theme on Theme Forest, for a client that doesn’t want a theme that “looks like a blog”, I thought it was […]
Well, with the untimely firing of Qarl Linden, following in the steps of Pastrami Linden, it seems that Philip didn’t really mean that meshes would “merely” be postponed. They seemed now to be completely gone from the drawing board and its existence at the ‘Lab relegated to merely another one […]