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. For everything else, you have to go to Linden Lab as the ultimate landlord of mainland property.
One of the ongoing criticisms of Linden Lab is they are not really sure what Second Life is trying to be. It is no secret that I have long since been critical of how Linden Lab has handled Marketplace issues.
Linden Lab has come up with Prim Equivalency, in order to equate that complexity to a comparable number of prims. I think the Lab had more than enough trouble getting mesh out the door at all. People sure do have a lot of questions about mesh.
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an incompatibility between new, high end Nvidia video cards and mesh enabled viewers, relating to Linden Lab's use of outdated and deprecated...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...
Three weeks ago, I wrote about the fact that though Linden Lab is pushing many new features to the platform at an impressive rate, and seem to be listening to their user base far more than they have in recent years, that there are still serious...
However, the official Linden Lab viewer still has no facility to do this. Though it's easier on the Lab to not have to come up with an endless series of surnames for people, the single name system makes it harder on the users, because they are...
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. The timing turned out to be perfect, as Plusgate was just around...
Last week, during the peak of the Plusgate fracas, Rod Humble (CEO of Linden Lab) tweeted to the world "But I have no intention of trying to change googles or FB's mind. Last week, whilst in the midst of the whole Google+ saga (stil ongoing, in...
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.
Build relationships with key media, drive recognition of Linden Lab Of course there's the question of what and who "key media" actually consists of, but it seems that there's a focus in actually talking up the Lab to whomever that is.
Right there, with that fundamental misalignment of purpose, Linden Lab has a problem whilst attempting to create a presence for Second Life on Facebook. Linden Lab's rather unholy alliance with Facebook was doomed from the start, based on the...
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.
It's true- Linden Lab does screw up. This week has generated a lot of questions about the responsibility of the provider of a virtual world commerce platform (in this case that would be Linden Lab) in regards to security and protection from fraud...
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. The reason Marketplace is about to undergo a change once again is...
The Linden Lab version of the feature improves the feature by reversing the process, making each avatar control those parameters themselves and preventing others from making those decisions for you. However, I'm being serious when I say that in the...
I've also mentioned before that Linden Lab is looking to expand their user base by tapping into larger social networks, and in order to do that, they needed to create a viewer that would appeal to a different mentality of internet culture, and not...
