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February 27th, 2008

realXtend joins OpenSim

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.
Tags: linden lab, opensim, realxtend, second life, virtual worlds

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February 24th, 2008

January 2008 economic metrics, by Meta Linden

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 […]

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February 14th, 2008

Metaversical Valentine’s Day

I quite hate Valentine’s Day, like in general any recurrence (I want to say “I love you” when I, and NOT the calendar, feel to).
However, people in general love Valentine’s Day, and I fully respect this point of view.
Second Life, of course, has lots of things going on for Valentine’s Day: read the post on […]

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January 4th, 2008

How much is Second Life worth? 2,180 millions USD!

We can’t say it for sure, but I tell you my take on that:
SECOND LIFE IS WORTH 2,180 million USD.
Here is why.

First of all, I don’t take speculations into account and, apart from that, 5 billions USD is waaaay too much, even for Second Life.
Metaverse Millionaires, such as Anshe Chung (her company AnsheChung.com, and her […]

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December 13th, 2007

Linden Lab’s CTO resigns: farewell, Cory Ondrejka [Cory Linden]!

One rumor, two rumors, and then we realized it is for real: Cory Ondrejka (Cory Linden in Second Life) is leaving its job as a CTO for Linden Lab.
He wrote the Linden Scripting Language, and was, among other things, famous for his “flying spaghetti monster“.

Philip Rosedale (here a picture I’ve took with him in last […]

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