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M Poster Linden: Second Life Is Great For Meetings
Crap Mariner – now an official ProkStar thanks to this post pointing out the Lab’s iffy record on DMCA enforcement – shares a video account of life after the Lab for M Poster Linden.
Full StoryChainsaw M Linden Gets The Chop – Philip Linden Steps In
Linden Lab CEO M Linden is stepping down, after axing 30% of the Lab’s staff in recent weeks and pulling a surprise no-show for his speech at the Second Life 7th Birthday celebration. Philip Linden has been named interim CEO in a move that raised the hopes of residents with short memories, but left those [...]
Full StoryPhilip Linden Covers For Speechless M Linden
Why M Linden missed his chance to talk at SLB7 Will Philip give the same speech again today? Players braving the lag at the Second Life 7th Birthday celebration yesterday were treated to a second speech by Philip Linden after M Linden was unable to attend his own speech due to an emergency. Speculation about [...]
Full StorySecond Life 7th Birthday
Fake cake & hot date with the fortune teller by Pappy Enoch, Famous Fake Banker & Star Reporter I done up and gone to the 7th birfday party for Second Life. I heared from Mistophur Au that the pictures o’ nekkid gals was tossed out, but you knows SL. Who needs pictues? I’d find [...]
Full StoryPhilip Linden’s LoveMachine Sprays Hates All Over Second Life Viewers
A call for bids titled “Create a custom SecondLife client for LoveMachinists” at VWorker.com will certainly create a fine frisson among Linden Lab fans desperate for good news – until anticipation turns to horror as Philip Linden’s LoveMachine unexpectedly runs backwards and sprays hate all over current Second Life client software. This does not seem [...]
Full StoryFinancial Wizard to Prop Up Linden Dollar
No more Ups and Downs with First Bank of Enoch Holler by Journey Yellowlist, Herald Financial Desk There are storm clouds on the horizon of Second Life, given recent instability with Linden Lab’s virtual currency, massive layoffs at the firm, and CEO Mark Kingdon’s panic inducing reassuring words that the ship is sinking for all [...]
Full StoryL$ Exchange Panic – Spacebux Value Slides!!!
On the Lindex currency exchange, the value of the L$ fell sharply yesterday as the average L$ per $1.00 USD rose to 279.76 – well above the recent average of around L$ 262. With price levels not seen in over 4 years, the market panic led to a statement from M Linden – "recent weeks [...]
Full StoryDon’t Like Your Voice? There’s a feature for that
For residents logging in since Friday, there was a new feature added to the SL platform; voice morphing. By downloading the new alpha test viewer 2.1 – which the Lab promises has no spyware – residents are able to test and purchase subscriptions for a packet that includes various voice modifications. For example, if [...]
Full StoryDraft of M Linden’s E-mail Found In Recycling Bin
Message from The Corner Office: This Ain’t No Love Machine by Journey Yellowlist, Investigative Reporter M Linden Greetings, Thursday was a challenging but historic and important day for Linden Lab, and it completely blew my golf score, too, thinking about the angry mob soon coming for me. We undertook a gutting of our best talent [...]
Full StoryFurther Cost Savings Planned at Linden Lab
First they came for the animals… by Journey Yellowlist At great risk to this reporter’s virtual health, I have obtained plans by Linden Lab CEO Mark Kingdon for additional cost saving as his company prepares for acquisition by a firm run by adults restructuring to focus on the consumer market. This reporter gained access to [...]
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