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By ramenjedburgh It’s being pushed as a stand alone Second Life solution for enterprise.  I find this kind of odd on several levels and it raises some questions.  One, does it interact with the LL Asset database.  That is, can I take my virtual stuff to the stand alone server?

By John Keefer Linden Labs has modified its popular Second Life virtual world to allow businesses to get into the act behind the safety of their own firewalls. Linden Labs said it has more business-related products in the works and plans a Second Life Work Marketplace for early next year.

A private Second Life in a $55,000 box Some companies like IBM have an uncanny attraction to Linden Lab's virtual world, Second Life. They claim the software provides a 3-D collaboration space that's viscerally superior to what traditional mediums such as teleconferencing, instant me...

I missed a few weeks but I'm back and here to photograph! posted by Torley Linden on Beaumont using a blogHUD blogHUD map and teleport permalink

By SLHerald Lindens admits Copybot is bad - denies 155 other claims by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Linden Research has filed a denial-filled response to Eros, LLC and Shannon Grie's intellectual property rights complaint against the maker of the Second Life....

By Metanomics The presentation is slated for a mixed-reality event at the Moscone Center and in Second Life. Second Life and Linden Lab observers expect the demo to offer nuts-and-bolts into Nebraska specs, packages, and what ever Linden plans on calling the new stand-alone virtual world package.

By SLHerald Residents warned to avoid abandoned Game God penal colony by Pixeleen Mistral, Irrational Affairs desk Residents can visit the Corn Field without an account suspension now that the Second Life player prison has been opened to the public - at...

By Ciaran Laval I'm not sure how much Amanda Linden enjoys posting on the blog. Amanda is a serious grown up Linden, she's there for corporations and education, I envisage her in a business suit, maybe a little bit of power dressing. I wouldn't imagine her as a furry inworld, more of a business executive with...

By Couldbe Yue Linden Research have been spending most of this year positioning themselves in the media as a cleane Linden Research have been spending most of this year positioning themselves in the media as a cleane

By Daniel Voyager Second Life Burning Life 2009 stats released via Burning Life group in-world. Resident posted. I think Dusty Linden or another Linden may post 2009 BL09 follow up soon. I managed to find these stats for Burning Life 2008 posted by Dusty Linden on the Official Second Life Blog.

By Harper Technically, I’m not really an old stager yet.  There are folks around who have been on the grid since the days of Linden World, and who remember when Ruths covered the land — at least until they rezzed up fully.  I’m starting to feel like an old hand, though, as my knowledge of the Grid and what I...

By Metanomics An artist and curator of many Second Life art events, White Lebed, will join Dusty Linden to discuss Burning Life, the annual SL event connected to Burning Man. This year the event occupies 34 sims and provides a virtual reflection of the gathering in Nevada.

By Gwyneth Llewelyn Philip Linden on Radio ShowRequired Reading — Philip “Linden” Rosedale’s Mission Statement for Linden LabPhilip Linden Announces New Open Source Model for the Second Life Client © Gwyneth Llewelyn for Gwyn's Home, 2009. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us

By Daniel Voyager Philip Rosedale (Philip Linden) announced yesterday on the Official Second Life Blog his Next Chapter, that he will be starting a new company and that he will no longer be working full-time at Linden Lab anymore. Philip Rosedale will still be a chariman of Linden Lab and he will still do med...

By Gwyneth Llewelyn You can’t have missed Linden Lab’s recent announcement regarding the Community Partnership Programme, which will bring to each and every community in Second Life® the kind of “special agreement” that Linden Lab signed with the United Sailing Sims nine months ago.

By gamepolitics The creator of Second Life in Education, a wiki designed to document the educational uses of the online world, has received notice from developer Linden Labs that the site infringes on their trademark. Massively notes that one of the infringements in question centered on Linden Lab’s SL...

By Ⓟ Ari Blackthorne™ The simple matter of fact is: if you can hear it, you can copy it and steal it. If you can see it, you can copy it and steal it. As for copybot: it works the exact same way. If you can see it, you can steal it. it always has been this way on the internet. They really don’t care if you are here tomorrow or not. That, dear friend is the majority attitude on the grid. Copybot and entitlement attitudes were given their birth at the onset of the open-sourcing of the Linden Lab grid viewer. The cat already is out of the bag and there’s no setting him back in. I am most happy that Linden Dollars are tracked and transactions occur only through the server, because if anyone got their hands on that code, woe-be-the-grid.   [read the full post]

VirWoX is using NEOVIA's NETELLER e-wallet to enable users of the Second Life virtual world to trade Linden dollars with real world currencies. ... Neovia moves into Second Lifeisleofman.com Neovia Financial wins contract from VirWoX for Second Life virtual ...The Paypers (abonnement)

By CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) Join Second Life founder Philip Rosedale, Linden Lab Chief Product Officer Tom Hale, and Cornell University Economist Robert Bloomfield to discuss where virtual goods are headed, what makes Second Life’s virtual goods economy different, the challenges and opportunities of an econ...

Second Life "residents" have done more than $1 billion in transactions with one another to date and spent one billion hours online, according to the virtual ... Linden Labs: Second Life users log over one billion hoursNeowin InformationWeek -Joystiq (blog) -Virtual Worlds News

While often used for social or gaming purposes, virtual worlds (like Sun's Wonderland, Linden Lab's Second Life, and others) are being tailored for ... NCSU researchers to study how to measure impact of virtual world ...Local Tech Wire all 4 news articles »

By Ren Reynolds Not if you contracted in Second Life you don't. Common practice in virtual worlds and in particular Second Life is the payment for services using the in-world currency.  In the case of Second Life the currency is Linden Dollars (L$), these are defined in the terms of service thus:

gee, this is pretty compelling! beautiful painting. altho, i notice the rl version has no lower lip piercings. ;) by Sextan Shepherd posted by Torley Linden on France Creation using a blogHUD blogHUD map and teleport permalink

Linden Research was sued on Tuesday for allegedly hosting a virtual Canal Street on Second Life. ... U. of Texas System Buys Land in Second LifeChronicle of Higher Education (subscription) all 2 news articles »

Linden Labs, the creators of Second Life. But gamers should hold off before flooding NATO offices with job applications: the virtual world solicitations are ...

By Ⓟ Ari Blackthorne™ Does it mean I agree with all or even any of it? The answer to that questions doesn’t matter, does it? I am a guest in Linden Lab’s house. Does it mean it all makes me happy? It doesn’t matter. I am a guest in Linden Lab’s house. Does any of it make me angry as hell? God, I hope not, I am not so conceited as...

By Juliana Triadafilopoulos Linden Lab announced mid-week that its AvaLine: Dial an Avatar service completed its beta program (launched in May) and is now available for subscriptions online. It claims that use of the AvaLine application “makes it easier than ever to connect with the real world.” For 1,200 Linden Do...

By Daniel Voyager Philip Linden Keynotes Philip and M: “Evolution, or Revolution M Linden Keynotes Philip did not create a virtual world. He created a platform so we could all create a virtual world server crash rate down 60%, viewer 40%) Bringing more of the web into SL, more SL to the web

By Gwyneth Llewelyn Second Life Client Becomes Open SourceWalking on a tight rope with the SL clientPhilip Linden Announces New Open Source Model for the Second Life Client © Gwyneth Llewelyn for Gwyn's Home, 2009. | Permalink | One comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: "neil life", gwyneth llewelyn

Other companies are going online in a more virtual way. Linden Lab's Second Life is a virtual world known for its 3-D imagery and wacky avatars. ...

If twitter is the tech-story turned mainstream media darling of 2009, then San Francisco-based Linden Lab's virtual reality world “Second Life” (SL) was ... and more »

By Eric Reuters Enter Metaverse Ink, which its creators say is the first search engine to find objects on both the Second Life Grid and in OpenSim worlds. “Linden Lab’s search is bad, it’s like AltaVista in the old days,” said Metaverse Ink co-founder William Cook (Second Life: Felix Wakmann), a computer...

By Daniel Voyager When I first arrived on the MG I was taken to the Teen Grid Transfer Station located in Baffin where Kate Linden spent time with me and invited me into many awesome SL groups and things I should know on the Main Grid. I remember saying OMG OMG OMG to myself when I looked at the Map, Events Tab and Sh...

By Chris Crum There is also a mini-map, which lets the user zoom in for extreme close-ups. "Handy for those large gatherings where all of the avatar dots just seem to pile on top of each other," says Linden. "It's also more fun than you ever knew you could have with your scrollwheel."

By Eric Reuters Linden employee “Phoenix Linden” joined in, saying Apple doesn’t release information about their proprietary video card drivers in a timely fashion, making it hard for Linden to keep the Mac version of the viewer running smoothly.

 OH In yesterday's session on Second Life, the creator of Second Life, Philip Linden, popped in to the virtual session. Linden stated that he believes Second Life will replace a portion of business travel in the coming years. He sees Second Life expansion ...

  USA The initial reports showed Linden Labs, known for creating the virtual world Second Life, valued from $450 million to $590 million; the business services firm SugarCRM at between $195 million and $252 million, and the molecular diagnostics startup XDx ...

subscription), CA As for game titles, Warcraft accounted for 44% of total minutes played by non-casual gamers in April, outpacing Linden Labs' Second Life by almost an 8-to-1 margin. Still, players of Midway Games' Lord of the Rings: Shadows of Angmar spent the most ...

Second Life plans to clean up the streets of its virtual mainland by providing stricter control of adult content and sending racy material to a separate faux continent. The announcement comes as Second Life creator Linden Labs moves to enhance the ...

By Eric Reuters Linden Lab and OpenSim developers shared the stage at an SLCC panel called "Open Software For Open Worlds," and said there was nothing in the works to support buying virtual goods and services with Linden dollars anywhere but on the Second Life Grid. Linden Lab and OpenSim developers shar...

By Ⓟ Ari Blackthorne™ I see the MetaCard and all the European Linden Dollar Exchanges all over the place. From Further Clarification on Bots and Camping - Land and Sea - Second Life Blogs] The thread on the Second Life “Land” blog is growing daily. There’s enough there t

By johnwaugh Update your viewer For Second Life residents Dessie Linden has announced:  “The third iteration of the 1.23 viewer, Release Candidate 2 (RC2), is now available for download as a mandatory upgrade. As always, this RC may be installed along side any official viewer, and remember… on Thursd...

By Ciaran Laval I'd love to give you the skinny on the lowdown on today's adult content brown bag meeting that I was invited to by Blondin Linden, the only problem is that Linden Lab decided not to invite me in the end without having the courtesy to tell me.

By Landsend Korobase X doesn’t really care about or read Second Life blogs, and doesn’t care about “who” I am or even what I do, he just likes talking to me for me. He doesn’t require my opinion on the future of Linden Labs or how to get work in-world, or where the cool places to hang are, he just enjoys his Second Life a...

By rss@youtube.com (GallySL) Author: GallySL Keywords: Torley buying acheter $L base second life tutorial video; Linden Added: April 28, 2009

By Ari Blackthorne™ Our favorite Linden, Torley has posted links to the SL Quick-Start Guide, available in PDF format for download. Hurray for Torley, still at it with helpful tips and tutorials and all thing edification-wise regarding the gris, viewer and Second Life in general.

By communities@secondlife.com Andrew started working with Philip before Linden Lab or Second Life even existed, and in addition to describing what he’s currently focused on, he shares some interesting stories about the early days, including how he went from launching rockets to helping to build the virtual world. Ho...

By johnwaugh ” We do think this will make Second Life more attractive to all kinds of users, including those focusing on business and education,”  a Linden spokesperson told  Virtual World News. “Fundamentally this is about giving Residents more control over their Second Life experience. For those w...

By dshiao Amanda Van Nuys, Linden Labs’ Director of Enterprise Marketing (and known in-world as Amanda Linden) has an interesting blog posting titled “Working in the Virtual World.”  Amanda describes her use of Second Life for work-related meetings and collaboration.  A neat physical/virtual...

By t linden SEARCH FOR THE GOLDEN HEARTS..and other Happy Valentine’s from Linden Lab! It’s Valentine’s Day and Second Life is aflutter with love! This year, in addition to the Kiss a Linden, Kiss a Volunteer event and an unveiling of a newly revamped Cupid Linden avatar, we invite you all to explore yo...

By Gwyneth Llewelyn Very likely the highlight of the show will be the interview to Philip “Linden” Rosedale. In spite of the usual answers to “why did you create Second Life?” a few of Philip’s insights are brand new. He also gives us an idea on his new daily routine as strategist and developer at Linden Lab.

By Jeska Linden This year we’re celebrating Valentine’s Day by continuing our annual tradition by awaking Isle of View, it’s sister island Isle of ViewToo and Hugsville for Teens (on Teen Second Life) back from their wintery sleep. We’ve also got lots of freebies and other Valentine’s Day goodies — incl...

By slconceptual I got to page 5 before I gave up looking for any mention of XstreetSl, let alone Second Life. So I changed the search term to “Skybox Second Life” - without the quotes. It’s been a little while now since Linden Labs bought XstreelSl.com and OnRez.com, and mostly

By Frank Ambrose (FJ Linden) A quick update on a couple of our data access layer projects - HTTP Dataserver and Agent Inventory Services.  Both of these projects are close to completion, you may recall from my previous posts that we are trying to simplify messaging protocols between the Simulators and back end databa...

By Patrick Philippe Meier Visitors in Second Life (SL) can exchange their real dollars for Linden Dollars and vice versa. The size of the SL economy has been estimated at $300 million or more, meaning its virtual economy is larger than the gross domestic product of some real nations. There is more trade in Linden Doll...

By Everett Linden Linden Prize Application Translation Project        Happy New Year!  I hope that one of your New Year’s Resolutions was to finish and submit your Linden Prize applications, because time is running out to be one of the top ten finalists we’ll announce, able to show the world what hard work...

By Mike Fahey Second Life is a large virtual world where the majority of the content in the game is generated by the user. Linden Labs lays the groundwork, so to speak, but nearly everything you see while wandering about Second Life came from the mind of one of the game's residents, from clothes and hair to...

By Katt Linden If you have story ideas for the “Stories from Second Life” series, please email them to presscontact@secondlife.com with “Stories from Second Life” in the subject line. Special thanks to Torley Linden.        Hi, Katt Linden here to introduce the next installment of Linden Lab’s new podc...

By Katt Linden Hello, this is Katt Linden. I’m here to welcome you to a Linden Lab podcast series, “Stories from Second Life.”  These are stories about individuals working in Second Life and the projects they are working on. Download the mp3: Stories from Second Life: Studio Wikitecture

By rikomatic The deeper meaning of Philip Linden's hair:  if hair is such an important component of the user's experience of virtual worlds, what does it say that Philip Linden has awful hair?  Is he too visionary for prim hair? Is he missing something?  What kind of hair would you recommend?"So, my fi...

By Wagner James Au Of course, there's only one virtual world where your avatar can actually look like Obama Girl or Sarah Palin. Linden Lab's metaverse is teeming with political activity and real world social advocacy groups, so it's no surprise that election day will be rocking in SL. An unofficial Obama gr...

3 New Levels in Second Life Educational Openspaces Educational Islands. 3 New Levels in Second Life Educational Openspaces Educational Islands In my ... Second Life Gambling Update. Linden Labs has released and updated gambling policy. ...

By rikomatic The FFRC has announced its call for proposals by makers of rich content in Second Life.  The grants foundation has awarded Linden to organizations and individuals who enrich the lives of SL residents with educational events, arts, virtual sports, cultural events and just fun things to d...

By ReleaseTeam Announcing the Second Life 1.21 Viewer! As many scripters are aware, this 1.21 viewer brings you the ability to compile scripts using Mono. (Learn more about Mono in a video tutorial by Torley Linden.) It also includes new LSL functions ...

By Robert Bloomfield the Second Life® Community Convention. (It was also the office with the passes for the Linden employees—sorry for keeping you from them, but thanks for being so patient while the interview went about 20 minutes longer than expected. ...

In the picture above Ryan McDougall now senior software developer with RealXtend, Tomi Kujanpää (LudoCraft/realXtend Art Director & Avatar Specialist), Hannu Hollström (ADMINO technologies) have a drink with Gene Yoon (Ginsu Linden), VP of Business Affairs, Linden Lab at The...

By sbrunozzi Wow, this is great: a tool from MIT to help developers learn how to create things and let them interact in Second Life, thank to numerous contributors. The tool, Scratch4SL, is very easy to use even without any programming skill, ...

By Jimmy Daniels Linden Dollars Guide Top earners in Second Life make more US Dollars with their SL ventures than most players in the real world. Why aren’t you part of it yet? Still need in search of a great business concept? Haven’t found the right scripts yet? Got no idea what really pays off? The Second Lif...

While many residents, including this blogger, hung up their Wacoms, Torley Linden has an instructional video that just might help us out! Using ArtRage, a program that offers both free and paid versions, Torley shows us how to use the ...

By Daniel Voyager New Updates for TSL5B: (updated 24th at 2:15pm SLT) Confirmed that M (Mark Linden) will be doing a Live TSL Talk on Thursday 3rd July, 2008 at 11am SLT at TG Mulimedia Stage, bookmark it on your calendars. As seen today, there are no ...

Reno News & Review, NV - One model for the sort of virtual environments often used as teaching tools is Linden Research, Inc.'s web-based program Second Life. Second Life is not a ...

By Hotspur O'Toole This is the basic, out of the box way Second Life displays movies in world. This is essentially the same method that Torley Linden gives in his tutorial video (not flash streaming, just displaying a regular movie file). ...

Virtual Worlds  India - May 13, 2008 The primary aspect that connects Sun and Second Life is open platforms. Linden Labs, the founder of Second Life just provided the infrastructure that would ...

Learn how to read configuration files with Linden Scripting Language (LSL) in Second Life (SL). After viewing this tutorial, you will be able to:Create a scriptRead each line of a note cardSkip over commentsSkip blank linesNotify the owner of the lines with unknown settingsUnknown set...

By Paulo Glossary of SL lingo. Because when you say "dragged out of inventory into the sandbox" instead of "rezzed," avatars laugh at you. (tags: secondlife language). LSL Tutorial - Second Life Wiki. Guide to Second Life's Linden Scripting ...

Torley Linden has released a lengthy video tutorial on using the Second Life Wiki: Related storiesMarch 20, 2008 -- 22 more Second Life tutorial videosMarch 5, 2008 -- Second Life release series of micro-video tutorialsFebruary 28, ...

By Brian Ashcraft Linden Labs founder and CEO Philip Rosedale is stepping down. The Second Life developer will seek a CEO with more management and operational expertise. Rosedale will stay on as chairman of the company's board. Even though SL has been the victim of hype machine backlash, the company says tha...

By Atticus ‘A Speed Guide to Virtual Driving in Second Life: Find out how to use Linden Scripting Language to control virtual vehicles in Second Life.’ » http://www.devx.com/webdev/Article/35357. animated in the following video: ...

By Jo Grant Converted to Linden Dollars, quite substantial, I'm sure. But when people offer to pay me, I tell them to give it to charity instead. I get paid well enough for my day job not to have any great desire for moonlighting. ...

Piet has started a Qwaq Second Life Liason group with Kat Lemieux, a Director and Founder of The International Space Museum in Second Life. “Kat has been a wonderful mentor for me here in SL,” Piet told me. Henrik Bennetsen (formerly Henrik Linden), from Stanford, was instrumental in getti...

By Caleb Booker This week's guest on Metanomics was Robin Harper, (known as Robin Linden in Second Life), the Vice President of Marketing and Community Development for Linden Lab. You can view the video or download the audio via the links above, as well as subscribe to the feed over at SLCN for all future ev...

By Stone Culdesac Real Lawyers in a Virtual World Real lawyers making real money from Second Life. Second Life Drops the Hammer On Gambling Looks like the end is in sight for people earning a living using gambling and casinos in Second Life as Linden Labs has posted a new policy concerning gambling inside SL.

By magnusgrafex Linden Labs has announced that although they did nothing to combat the QuickTime vulnerability in Second Life, Apple Inc has finally released a patch for the flaw. Linden Labs is strongly urging that you patch Apple QuickTime because ...

By Caleb Booker Also known as "Hamlet Au" in Second Life, he was Linden Lab's official "embedded reporter". Currently he runs New World Notes and writes for GigaOM, as well authoring several books: "Second Life", "Second Life: The Official Guide ", and an upcoming book "The Making of Second Life: Notes f...

By Caleb Booker Stroker has 20 employees in real life. Some are paid in USD, some in Linden Dollars, but they are registered employees of the company earning regular paychecks. He also has 14 in world employees who are compensated in Linden Dollars or land.

By pacificrimx Also included is coverage of the new First Look Windlight viewer and how to use Avatar Imposters to boost performance in crowded areas. Worth checking out. The “Official” Second Life blog has a great tutorial video by Torley Linden on the Lag Meter feature: This video tutorial covers: Wher...

By Caleb Booker IntLibber Brautigan: "I don't see the Linden Dollar as a fiction or as a license. The Linden Dollar is 100% fake as the US dollar is," he stated, which caused quite a bit of feedback in the backchat. "This is my real-life job, this is my real-life living, and these are real dollars I'm pulling ou...

By Stone Culdesac 6th Linden Labs will be upgrading the server systems making up Second Life on Tuesday, November 6th. This update has a number of bug fixes and some new functionality. Changes: llGiveMoney() will now be throttled to limit disruptive ...

By Jason Lee Miller The gods of these worlds are by no means collectively imagined, nor are they anthropomorphic or democratic. Lawyers don't deal in world-gods, so they label them differently: the virtual world providers. An example would be Linden Labs, which runs Second Life.

By Tateru Nino Median concurrency for the day was 37274. The Grid Stability Index for the day was 1.37 (lower is better). Linden Lab introduces new liaison staff: Patch Linden, Kosmo Linden, Trinity Linden, and Kate Linden. ...

By Brian Ashcraft Avatars are important, but confining. One avatar in one game won't necessary be usable in another. IBM and Second Life developer Linden Labs have joined forces to figure out a way to make avatars interoperable. An open avatar would allow individuals to keep their same basic appearance and d...

By Stone Culdesac Here are some video tips and tutorials for Second Life, this first one is another from Torley Linden, more inventory management help, Second Life Tutorial - More inventory management tips. Second Life Tutorial - More inventory ...

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By Jeff Heaton Find out how to use Linden Scripting Language to control virtual vehicles in Second Life.

By Jimmy Daniels Torley Linden started this off by posting a video of how to turn the typing animation and sound off, something I have been doing for awhile, it is so much better without it. Here is the video: SL TuTORial - How to turn off the typing animation and sound Posted to Technology Videos [...]

By Michael McWhertor Granted, I've never actually "played" Second Life, as online social interaction is two spots higher than attending a Russian-American "bear" cuddle party on my list of enjoyable pastimes, and the closest I've come to partaking in Linden Labs' eyesore of an alternate reality was an abo...

By Chino Yray Free Linden Dollars: New to Second Life? Looking for hassle-free Linden Dollars? I’ve listed a summary of where you can get free lindens in Second Life without camping for long hours, no escort service needed and most of all, no need to get a boring job. (I don?t like women or even guys preten...

By Jason Lee Miller Because, you know, nobody ever games the system in the real world… …but it does show one of the big questions that are going to face many more online worlds, as events within the virtual worlds end up in real world courts. Linden Labs Marc Bragg Virtual law social networks

By Glen D. Bragg responded by filing a lawsuit which cites Second Life's terms of service as unfair and "one-sided." To make matters worse for Second Life parent company Linden Labs, Chief Executive Officer Philip Rosedale was named the defendant. Linden Labs filed a motion to take Rosedale's name...

By Joe Lewis Linden Lab’s virtual world has enjoyed a generous amount of publicity as companies have begun launching themselves within the game in an attempt to market products and services to an interactive online audience. Tags: Second Life, Online Gambling, Virtual Worlds, Online Advertising

By Eloise Pasteur Filed under: Linden Dollars, BusinessYesterday in Second Life we: Spent $1,502,000 at an exchange rate of L$268.7 to US$1Exchanged $223,000 at an average of $9,300 per hour. Market buys were $157,000 Market sales were $65,000 Limit-limit buys were $1,600 The busiest times were 1am, 9am...

By Ian C. Business journalist H.S. Ayoub recently submitted to Internet Stock blog SeekingAlpha a write-up on his experiences in Linden Lab's Second Life. Obviously the fellow focused more on the business aspects of the metaverse. He covered the recent activities of Cisco Systems, IBM, American A...

By Ian C. Business journalist H.S. Ayoub recently submitted to Internet Stock blog SeekingAlpha a write-up on his experiences in Linden Lab's Second Life. Obviously the fellow focused more on the business aspects of the metaverse. He covered the recent activities of Cisco Systems, IBM, American A...

By Eloise Pasteur Filed under: Linden Dollars, BusinessYesterday in Second Life we: Spent $1,573,000 Exchanged $230,000 at an average of $9,600 per hour. Market buys were $175,000 Market sales were $52,000 Limit-limit buys were $1,800 The busiest time was 5pm when about $18,000 were exchanged, there w...

Philip Rosedale is the founder and CEO of Linden Lab, the company that owns Second Life. (Within Second Life, he is popularly called Philip Linden. ... Can Congress Tell a Virtual World from the Real One? The Heartland Institute Philip Rosedale: The Man Behind Second Life U.S. News & World Re...

I found 2 very interesting points when reading the Linden blog post about the client open sourcing."A lot of the Second Life development work currently in progress is focused on building the Second Life Grid - a vision of a globally interconnected grid with clients and servers published a...

By noemail@noemail.org (Steve Rubel) Commerce, or at least the potential for it, is also a key motivator. According to Second Life creator Linden Labs, residents spent $9 million this year - much of it with each other. Business is growing in the 3D community at a 12% monthly clip and is up 287% year-over-year. Small as it is, it show...

 NH - Nov 15, 2006 Users can interact with each other, engage in a free market economy with Second Life's currency, known as Linden dollars, and add any new features they feel ...

By johnny Johnny and the Secondcasters interview Philip Linden a.k.a. Philip Rosedale on the 3rd anniversary of Second Life and the 6 month anniversary of Secondcast. Topics range from the new open user registration to the changing culture on the grid and the “Get in Philips Pants” contest. Send your p...

By johnny The CEO of Linden Lab, Philip Rosedale (Linden) answers questions asked by the Secondcasters. Questions were submitted by Second Life residents. The interview will be presented in two parts as episode 10 and 11. Download SecondCast Episode 10

By kotaku.com Linden Labs, the makers of Second Life, have scored another round of funding, to the tune of $11 million. The company's not profitable, and doesn't know when it's going to be profitable, but this cash should keep them in servers and admins while allowing them to create Japanese and German v...

By lsmith Only instead of a jail, it's a giant, empty cornfield that Linden Labs uses as a virtual "timeout" according to Clickable Culture (we grabbed the image from there, too). The cornfield is a place where temporarily suspended accounts are sent, folks the game has banned are just unable to log...