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!
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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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, will be HUGE, and companies can’t ignore them NOW. Investing in them only when they become the most important thing in the world will be too late.
What’s your take on this?
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 in art, economics, and business. He has been in successful and highly regarded leadership roles at two companies that are bigger than Linden Lab: PricewaterhouseCoopers and Organic. He is a well-loved people leader who is fearless and can weather challenges and change.
Wikipedia says a little …read more
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A great video tutorial from Linden Lab on How to create animations in Second Life.
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Read this article about fashion, and how real world brands are behaving in Second Life, both looking at their initiatives, and the relations with other people (other fashion designers, mainly).
The problem, in my opinion, is the law.
Fashion is perfect for Second Life: fashion is not just about the product and the quality, it is mostly based on design, and exteriority. This means that many people are investing, or playing, with fashion design in Second Life.
Sometimes it happens that SL designers copy real world models and clothings. Sometimes it happens that they have frictions or lawsuits against fashion companies.
The article tells …read more
Seems Superb, Showing SL Statistics, Seriously, Shy Softy Sophomores!
Ok, no more “S” words, I swear!
Linden Lab just released some nice graphs, showing interesting Second Life statistics.
What I infer is:
1. The Gambling Ban didn’t affect the growth rate;
2. Land mass is rapidly growing (so why reduce price, morons?)
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[important disclaimer note: the term "fascist", as in the geek/computer science world, means "doing something by authority, without respect for people's rights" or "doing something in an extreme way". It has no links with (and no reference to) real life fascisms of the 20th century]
It seems that Linden Lab will significantly cut land prices, to 1000 USD per island (now it’s at 1675 USD), at the end of April 2008.
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I think this is a “fascist” move: it will cause serious economic damage to thousands of small “virtual” entepreneurs, which invested in Land and/or are in the Virtual Estate business.
I’m …read more
From the Official Linden Lab blog, some tips for a better search ranking in Second Life.
I loved the post, since it’s very useful and well-written.
My comments on every point (italic is a cut the original):
Keywords Matter – “Think about which words Residents might type to find your listing or products and make sure to include these words in your listing“.
I add: think about the language, and you’ll add precious new words to it.
Phrases Matter – “pool, swim, board, dive” is not as good as “swimming pool, diving board”.
It’s very difficult to guess the right phrase. Spend your time on this …read more
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Good day, Lindens!
This time, Linden Lab brings some cool video tutorials for voice chat maniacs!! Check ‘em out!
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