Last Friday, Linden Lab announced a most unusual event - a weekend land sale during which the setup fees for private regions would be waived. Part of it has to do with the active push Linden Lab has made towards their ownSecond Life Marketplace, a...
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...
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...
As happens, Linden Lab has a policy regarding residents who die in real life. Since the projected value of virtual goods is expected to top ten billion dollars (US) in 2011, it is probably an inevitable conclusion that at some point governmental...
In January of 2009, after buying out the popular web based SL marketplace OnRez, Linden Lab closed it, merging it with its already existing SL Exchange (SLX, which so help me, is still the acronym I use in my head to this day) and changing the...
For those who missed this in my previous articles, I'll break it down for you: You can purchase Linden dollars (inworld money) in exchange for USD. New users (who stay, anyway) generally eventually buy Linden dollars ($L), which directly make the...
On Sex, Money, Fame & Glamour in Second Life she discusses how making real money from creating and selling her own virtual goods and converting the income from Linden dollars into U.S.dollars. More tellingly perhaps is that Microsoft has been on a...
Unfortunately, as Linden Labs has learned, with money from big business comes strings, and with strings come more and more restrictions as to what is acceptable and what isn't. I think that the powers that be at Linden Lab (who own Second Life...
Introducing A Tinfoil Hat Theory About Linden Lab Micropayment after micropayment, these purchases add up to create an industry worth hundreds of millions of dollars. To understand why SL fashion remains a multimillion dollar industry in SL (that's...
In Second Life, for example, they are offering half a million Linden Dollars (Second Life's form of currency) to the person who provides the best design for a Second Life vending machine. This week's column will focus on how to turn these new types...
You can learn more from Findory's CEO Greg Linden via a post on his Geeking with Greg weblog. Greg Linden's review of the presentation is also online. According to Dan Gillmor of the San Jose Mercury News, Google and other search companies are...
You can learn more from Findory's CEO Greg Linden via a post on his Geeking with Greg weblog. Greg Linden's review of the presentation is also online. According to Dan Gillmor of the San Jose Mercury News, Google and other search companies are...
More comments on Gillmor's article also from Greg Linden: Google and the long tail. According to Dan Gillmor of the San Jose Mercury News, Google and other search companies are tapping into a new breed of advertiser and don't yet covet the dollars...
