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Bob Komin leaves Linden Lab
Bob Komin, Linden Lab’s CFO and COO has departed Linden Lab after a more than two-and-a-half year stint through some pretty tough times at the company.Komin turned the company around from Q2 2010 to Q1...
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Linden Lab shuts down viewing of Second Life bug reports
Okay, I’m a bit taken by surprise on this one, but let’s quickly take this from the top. Firstly, Linden Lab has added a simplified reporting form for Second Life JIRA issues. That part is pretty okay...
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Amaretto vs Ozimals: Wow, what a doozy!
I must confess that, while I was still keen on the progress of the lawsuit between Amaretto Ranch Breedables and Ozimals (et al), very limited access to court documents and the relatively slow progress...
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The new management line-up at Linden Lab
For a very long time now, Linden Lab’s corporate information only listed three people. Rod Humble, CEO; Jeff Petersen, VP of Engineering; and, Lisa Berry (General Counsel). There’s been an update, and...
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That’s just plain embarrassing
A short time ago, Linden Lab announced that Second Life was available through Amazon, along with a number of content bundles. I have to confess that I find this development plain embarrassing for a...
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Linden Lab explains removal of Amazon special offer
Linden Lab pulled down the Starter Vehicle Pack that was a part of its Friday launch of Second Life on Amazon within just minutes or within a couple of hours of the announcement of its availability,...
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Just how do you identify an alt online?
Alts (AKA alternate accounts) exist in pretty much every online and offline service, from Second Life to Social Security. Usually, identifying an online alt is just a little bit easier than identifying...
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Second Life’s new ToS makes perfect sense
Second Life’s new Terms of Service make perfect sense, and are pretty much exactly what they need to be. It’s just the communication about them that are rubbish. Okay, maybe the legal team as well....
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Your thoughts: What rights does Linden Lab need in the ToS?
Alright, all of you armchair Second Life lawyers. Let’s turn the whole debate about Second Life’s new Terms of Service on its head, because looking at this from another perspective might be very...
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The Internet as a utility
Some people – indeed many people – feel that the Internet should be a fundamental utility and be handled in a similar way to other basic utilities. I find it hard to disagree with that, but in many...
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What ever happened to marketing and PR?
So, what ever happened to marketing and PR? As an art and a science, did they even make it into the 21st century, or did they fall into a ditch somewhere, and we never noticed? Before we get started,...
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Where’d the comments go, anyway?
It’s occurred to me that some of you – perhaps even plenty of you – haven’t been following along in the particular social media outlets where discussions and explanations of my Web-sites’ extended...
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The left, the right, and the voter
“Left” and “Right” are two of the most commonly used political designations in this, or indeed in any, country. And you know, they actually used to mean something once. Back in revolutionary France,...
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George Brandis and The Stopped Clock
The saying goes “even a stopped clock gives the right time twice a day”. The implication is that no matter how wrong you are, how broken your reasoning, or how unfounded your opinion, once in a while...
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An unexpected side-effect of Google Maps
The other day, travelling from an unfamiliar part of town back home through heavy traffic, I decided to just let Google Maps call the shots. I could have navigated myself, just using major routes that...
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Elliot Rodger and sexism
Earlier this month, Elliot Rodger (22) made a short video and wrote a 137 page manifesto before going on a killing spree in Santa Barbara, killing six people before dying himself. Rodger is variously...
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Who does Linden Lab pay attention to?
That seems like a fairly simple question on the surface, and – in many senses – it actually is fairly simple, with fairly simple answers. You have to think it through a little bit to actually get to...
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The Second Life Terms of Service are a part of the problem
The Second Life Terms of Service (ToS) comprise over 45,000 words, spread across roughly 20 documents (including Wiki pages), all of which you must warrant that you’ve read and understood and agreed to...
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Communications blackout – iinet’s communicators fail company and customers
Last night’s widespread outage of iinet, Australia’s second-largest Internet Service Provider, was bad enough. For hours, many of iinet’s customers had little or no access to the assorted services that...
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So, there’s that.
It has been rather a long-time coming. I first went premium with Second Life just four days after creating my account (if memory serves me well, which it often doesn’t). It’s been quite the ride. Last...
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