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May 14th, 2008

Linden Lab is hiring!

With a gorgeous post, Linden Lab is inviting people to check their job listings.
Working at Linden Lab should be cool, I think… but I’m not sure that their salaries are competitive.
Fact is that this company is one of the “stars” of the moment, even if they’re still small, compared to Google or Amazon or Yahoo.
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May 9th, 2008

The new virtual land store is open!

Great news from the official Linden Lab blog: the new virtual land store is open (in beta).
You can find all the informations to register and use the beta version on the blog post.
I think that the land store needed a refresh, and a better usability; I played around a little bit with this new one, […]

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May 8th, 2008

EVE Online: a virtual democracy

What Second Life is missing is a real “virtual” democracy, in which residents can vote and be elected. It’s something that you can see on Erepublik.com, a quite new web-based game in which you, as a virtual citizen, engage in economy, politics and war.
Now EVE Online, another huge virtual world, is opening up for democracy: […]

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May 5th, 2008

Linden Lab earns about 50 millions USD per year… or 40?

Wagner thinks that, given some approximation, Linden Lab is earning a gross of about a hundred millions a year, and pays about half of it in expenses.
Let’s take his calculations (he honestly says that he’s not an expert of the matter), and modify them according to my little and humble IT experience:
Linden Income
a) There are […]

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May 5th, 2008

Philip Rosedale: Second Life will become the web

In an interview available on the Guardian website, Philip Rosedale explains what he thinks about the future of Second Life:
“… I think that it’ll become more pervasive, especially if we open it up and standardize it. I’m not necessarily saying that this one company will control all those servers. No. We’re working on systems where […]

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May 3rd, 2008

Land video tutorials from Linden Lab!

If you have doubt, questions, or are a bit confused about LAND, watch out Linden Lab’s Land video tutorials, which include: basics, land use, region and parcel prim limits, selling and buying parcels, land options, parcel access controls, property lines and land owners, joining and subdividing parcels, terraforming.
Let me know if you find them useful!
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April 28th, 2008

Philip Rosedale video interview about the new Linden Lab CEO!

Reuters shows a video interview of Philip Rosedale on why they’ve chosen Mark Kingdon as the new Linden Lab’s CEO.
Short, but interesting!

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April 24th, 2008

Ignore Second Life at your own peril!

http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/04/mckinsey-compan.html

McKinsey & Company, a famous management consulting firm (wikipedia), is deeply involved in virtual worlds, and Second Life.
From a news source:
An unnamed senior consultant told the Times Online that companies “absolutely”  should be “experimenting in virtual worlds” to attract customers under 30 and were “ignoring them at their peril.”
I agree: virtual worlds, and social networks, […]

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April 24th, 2008

Mark Kingdon is the new Linden Lab CEO!

Linden Lab announced that Mark Kingdon (avatar: M Linden) is the new CEO of Linden Lab !
This is what Philip Rosedale says about him:
He is a person with the rare and unusual combination of business leadership, creativity, and passion for Second Life that we were looking for. In terms of history, he has a background […]

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April 20th, 2008

Creating animations in Second Life

A great video tutorial from Linden Lab on How to create animations in Second Life.

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