SL Entepreneur Magazine seems an interesting website for wannabe Entepreneurs (or people that already do business in SL).
Lots of news and reports, freshy updates, and a cute interface. Good job, we’ll keep an eye on you folks!
Happy Easter, dear readers!!
Just a quick note: you may be interested in reading the exit interview of Philip Rosedale, ex-CEO of Linden Lab.
Long, but worth reading.
I’ll get back to my fantastic italian dinner here… I love Easter, it has strong “religious” meanings (for believers, and for non-believers like me), but I also love it for the food… damn it’s good!!
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I think they finally get my message: more documentation, more tutorials, more help for beginners.
This time they offer pack III, with 22 new tutorial videos.
Here you find the high quality versions of I, II and III release of videos.
Please, say thank you to Torley Linden. He deserves it.
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The official Linden Blog is offering new interesting videos for you, like how to play movies and webpages in your land. Check it out!
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As usually happens (see Google, for example), the founder needs an experienced CEO.
Philip Rosedale (below I’m at Linden Lab’s HQ in last july 2007) is stepping down as CEO of Linden Lab.
Here’s what he has to say about that:
We’ve decided to search for a new CEO, and I wanted to briefly talk to everyone here about the reasons for that decision.
I feel that the most important contributions I have made and will continue to make to Second Life are related to building both the product and the company through my direct contributions to vision, strategy, and design. As we grow, …read more
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One of the WORST things in Second Life is search ranking: it reminds me of the early web, in which you could win the first page on Altavista simply adding the same keyword a hundred times. Now SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is much tougher than before, because technics improved, and because there are millions of visitors (and revenues) at stake.
Now Linden Lab decided to improve search rankings (yes, it was time, folks!).
It is just a minor tweak for now, but it’s a sign!!
Also, SL ranking is not as simple as in web pages: in the early days of the web …read more
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Great stuff from the Official Linden Blog: 13 new video tutorials for you.
I think that “documentation”, or other educational material (like tutorial videos), are one of the most important factors for the success of a technology (in this case, Second Life).
I always parallel it with Linux: when I was a Computer Science student in Perugia, I loved Linux because I had all the documentation needed for any task. Instead of spending hundreds of euros (well, hundreds of thousands of italian “Lire”) in Microsoft manuals, I had all this stuff for free (and lots of people on IRC ready to help …read more
Good news: realXtend joins OpenSim.
I really hope OpenSim will eventually become an open standard for virtual worlds… and I also hope that Linden Lab will face this dilemma once and for all.
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Meta Linden (you probably didn’t know that every Linden Lab employee has an avatar with “Linden” as last name) just published the key economic metrics of Second Life for January 2008.
He says that:
“Concurrency, usage hours, and total resident-owned land continue to grow at a steady pace, while our count of Premium users dropped slightly again in January as we work on designing a better Premium offering.”
In my opinion, the growth will never stop; we still need to focus on clearer business models, and some tech improvements (the scripting language, the user interface, etc).
What do you think? What does Second Life …read more
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This is a little bit surprising, but it seems that Second Life Economy is strong, and growing day by day.
On this post, the official Second Life Blog outlines some interesting informations about SL Economy.
Both economic growth (in terms of Linden Dollars exchanged) and users went way up in the 4th quarter of 2007. Good news!
More informations on the article.
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