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Joe Linden: Game Over – EA’s Rod Humble: Game On
ex-Electronic Arts VP levels up to revolving door Linden CEO position in January Management shakeups continue at Linden Lab as Joe Linden (a.k.a. Joe Miller) – VP for Technology and Platform Development at Linden Lab – disappeared from the Lab’s executive management team web page, and no longer appears in the Second Life avatar search. [...]
Full StoryRap News Asks Hillary Clinton – How Does It Feel To Be Leaked On?
How Ad-supported user-generated content subverts the mainstream media [UPDATE: TheJuiceMedia have pointed out that they depend on donations to fund their productions and do not sell advertisements, so some clarification is in order. I am not suggesting that TheJuiceMedia have adopted Google's ad-supported free services business model. Instead, they are subverting the model by taking [...]
Full StoryProkofy Neva vs. Robert Wright – The Video
Conspiracy theorist denies hearing voices in her head Over the years, many have wondered if the rhetorical excesses of Second Life resident Prokofy Neva might be the result of an overly immersive approach to online roleplay. Sadly, this does not appear to be the case, as Catherine Fitzpatrick (the real life typist for Second Life’s [...]
Full StoryWill Twinity’s Avatar Sex Sell?
Metaversum GmbH promotes virtual sex – urges players to "get laid" The Twinity virtual world newsletter and web site are now playing the cybersex card hard – a turnabout after several years of relatively tame promotional efforts. Is this a cry of desperation for population – or a keen understanding the core audience? Whatever the [...]
Full StoryPhilip Linden: All Copyable Content Will Be Free
Second Life founder suggests selling live experiences Second Life’s content creators may be in deep trouble if Philip Rosedale – the on-again, off-again CEO of Linden Lab – can forsee the future of online content. Mr. Rosedale is quoted in the Time magazine Future of Content Time 100 Roundtable as saying, "anything that can be [...]
Full StoryLinden Lab Executive Exodus Continues
Another one bites the dust The ultra slimfast human resources cull continues at Linden Lab with the sudden – and unexplained – departure of Brian Michon, the Lab’s Vice President of Core Development. The hiring of Mr. Michon was celebrated with a breathless press release from the Lab in late January 2009 with now departed [...]
Full StoryViewer 2.2 Released, Interim CEO Departs, Metaverse Yawns
A few Second Life players were distracted from an announced update to the controversial new Second Life viewer 2 by news that Philip Linden – Linden Lab founder, CEO, former CEO, and for the last 4 months acting CEO – will be spending more time starting up his LoveMachine, effective immediately. While most players carefully [...]
Full StoryPhilip Linden’s Shocking New Avatar
A character from the Blue Oyster bar more interested in playtime than business? Shocked players across the grid struggled to come to terms with game god Philip Linden’s new look reacting with disbelief, facepalms, and sqeee shrieks. Informed of Philip’s new style, performance artist Vaneeesa Blaylock said, "wow – out of all his SLCC promises… [...]
Full StoryMPAA’s Copyprotected.com p0wned by Anonymous
Hactivists use MPAA web site to spread anti-copyright message The cyberwar between the Anonymous hactivists and recording and motion picture industry interests heated up earlier today when the www.copyprotected.com site was hijacked to display an anti-MPAA message in support of the embattled Pirate Bay bittorrent tracker site, then redirected viewers to the piratebay.org site. As [...]
Full StoryLinden Lab: We Don’t Need No Education
Discounted Second Life virtual land will be phased out for non-profit organizations and the education sector as of January 1, 2011 according to this announcement by Nelson Linden. Reaction was predictably negative from those whose budget cycles do easily accommodate costs doubling with three months notice – in other words, essentially all non-profits and education. [...]
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