Ding, ding, ding, round number two

Lab Chat returns on January 21st – with Ebbe Linden (aka Ebbe Altberg, CEO of Linden Lab) answering more of your questions! Just to remind you, Lab Chat is the name of the new series that is aimed at providing Second Life users with the opportunity to have your questions put to Lab management and personnel. The second episode of Lab Chat, recorded in front of a live audience and then broadcast on numerous streams including Second...

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Breaking News - The Lindens are finally ready to talk to you - Lacy Muircastle reporting

Over the years I have heard a constant whine from 'Joe Resident' about how inaccessible the Lindens are, how they don't care about the virtual platform they created or the residents that inhabit the space, how it's all just a money making racket.   Now you have the opportunity to be heard, have your say, get some answers. On Tuesday, November 10th, the Lab announced the launch of Lab Chat,  “an opportunity...

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Post hoc, propter hoc - Lacy Muircastle reporting

The following article is my opinion and does not necessarily reflect the view of the publication. If anyone at Linden Lab deigns to read this article, I would like to make it very clear that I am an avid supporter of SL and the platform that Linden Lab provides, but that in my humble opinion you are doing yourselves a great disservice. Whilst the quote may very well be true, it doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t at least try to please as many people...

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SL 2.0 - FUD for thought (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt!) -- Gatz Inoue Martian reporting

SL 2.0 is coming Someday soon we might log into our beloved virtual world and see something like this on the login screen of our viewer: PRESS RELEASE - Linden Labs today announced that it will be shutting down the virtual world service known as Second Life.  This will mark the opening of Second Life 2.0, the company's new virtual world…. And so it goes...but for many of us the loss of Second Life isn’t simply the loss of a...

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PRESS PASS MEDIA: 7th Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education Conference- April 9th-12th 2014

7th Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education Conference is very pleased to announce our opening keynote: Philip Rosedale, CEO of High Fidelity and creator of Second Life.Ebbe Altberg, the new CEO of Second Life, will also present at the conference.We have an incredible line-up of speakers, panels, workshops, sim demonstrations, poster presentations for four days April 9-12thDaily updates at:http://vwbpe.org/conference/vwbpe-2014-calendarht...

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