Nowhere do people go more to share life's moments than to Facebook," said Lee Linden, head of commerce at Facebook at the event, held at the iconic FAO Schwarz toy store on New York's Fifth Avenue. Linden is also founder of Karma, the gifting...
It became known several weeks ago that Will Wright had joined Linden Lab's board of directors.This quickly became huge buzz, even as the Lab itself tried to downplay the news, not wanting it to become "a thing.
Last Friday, Linden Lab announced a most unusual event - a weekend land sale during which the setup fees for private regions would be waived. Understand that as much as I bang on about virtual commerce, that is not the primary way Linden Lab makes...
It would appear that after all these years, Linden Lab still doesn't understand this basic truth- that to an important portion of the merchant community, this isn't play money. This is particularly true as Linden Lab has pushed people ever more...
Linden Lab has come up with Prim Equivalency, in order to equate that complexity to a comparable number of prims. Here, in IM, in email. People sure do have a lot of questions about mesh. They also seem relieved to find someone willing to answer...
There are a fair number JIRA filed on mesh and related topics and the most ironic bug of all seems to be an incompatibility between new, high end Nvidia video cards and mesh enabled viewers, relating to Linden Lab's use of outdated and deprecated...
It has also been made clear that they are linked to the "SL Police Department", who have been running an IP grabbing device (which throws media calls up against any viewer with a media filter) since before RedZone was banned, and apparently never...
Linden Lab is supposed to be ultimately managing mainland property. Considering the fact that it has been reported that Linden Lab is making a $100 million a year profit, I think as a money making strategy, it's been effective.
However, the official Linden Lab viewer still has no facility to do this. "The law of unintended consequences is an adage or idiomatic warning that an intervention in a complex system always creates unanticipated and often undesirable outcomes.
I said a few weeks ago that Linden Lab had been doing a bunch of cool stuff lately. In fact, Linden Lab has gone so far as to completely revamp and update the splash screen for the latest version of their official viewer, complete with zippy...
After the Facebook marketing campaign collapse, Linden Lab decided to try to sort this mess out, by developing Social Profiles as a way to take matters into their own virtual hands. Two weeks ago, when I first wrote about the problems with Google...
Last week, whilst in the midst of the whole Google+ saga (stil ongoing, in various directions), I noted that Linden Lab had done an inordinately large number of cool things lately. Last week, during the peak of the Plusgate fracas, Rod Humble (CEO...
I am told that this planned release should go live in just a couple weeks, and in fact on Wednesday night/early Thursday morning, Linden Lab emailed its userbase with a series of "recommended people" based on your profile interests.
Though I haven't heard yet whether or not the TOS over at Google+ will allow avatar accounts (admittedly, I got an invite and declined it), it seems like Linden Lab is taking matters into its own hands anyway, perhaps finally realizing that the...
But at the time (and frankly, still), as I've said uncountable times, the folks down at Linden Lab care far more about potential new accounts than they do about the accounts they already have. Right there, with that fundamental misalignment of...
As mentioned recently, things have been busy down at Linden Lab. This is a huge project for Linden Lab, and an enormous amount of time, money and energy has gone into bringing it to fruition. It should be noted that mesh has been in beta, available...
But this week I'm going to talk about the fact that Linden Lab claims that they've fixed the in-world search engine by completely rebuilding it, and that finally (in theory), it's going to become something other than "busted.
Some people, generally folks outside the US who can't get verified through paypal or another known online exchange service for whatever reasons, turn to little known third party Linden resellers who may or may not be legitimate.
Ultimately, how much responsibility should Linden Lab (in this case) be expected to take on vis a vis monitoring and policing these things? It's true- Linden Lab does screw up. This week has generated a lot of questions about the responsibility of...
It is unknown at this time when it can be expected to roll out for use, but Brooke Linden has said that at least for a time, people will have the choice as to which system they use. Before I get started I want to thank all those people who sent...
