Learning with e's

MAY 7, 2010

Most recently, the brick-and-mortar university Woodbury was booted off Second Life —thousands of students were affected—by the virtual world's moderators, a company called Linden Lab. Linden Lab has remained largely silent in the press, a silence that has infuriated many. The university paid good money for it, too.

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Mark Oehlert

MARCH 7, 2007

It certainly isnt Linden Labs responsibility to entertain you - that has never been their business model, all they have done is provide a 3D virtual world development platform where the only limitation (outside of number of prims) to what you can create is your own vision.

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Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Bart gave a list of different 3D worlds and provided a great comparison between a Internet Service Provider and Linden Labs (the company behind Second Life.) He defined a Virtual World as a computer-based environment intended for users to inhabit and interact via avatars in a 3D represented world.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 5, 2010

While I don’t know that these technologies will actually cross over (I’m notoriously optimistic), they’re pretty much ready to be: Social I’ve mentioned plenty before, and everyone and their brother is either adding social learning capabilities to their suites, or creating a social learning tool company.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 7, 2008

Its currency is the Linden Dollar (L$) which avatars can use to buy virtual goods and even virtual property. Linden Dollars are bought with real money and can be exchanged back again. Avatars can also socialise with other avatars via text chat, and more recently, real voice. Second Life also has its own economy.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 20, 2009

Eventually, one format will emerge, but it may take committees, or it may be that someone like Linden Labs will own the space sufficiently that everyone will lock into a format they provide. Until then, any investment has trouble being leveraged in a longer term picture, as the companies you go with may not survive!

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Big Dog, Little Dog

DECEMBER 8, 2008

recovery plan: The company 'knows' the answers to our questions. Most people want to be helpful to each other, and to the company. In what tech pundits at Gartner Research call the curve of hype and gloom, Linden Lab's virtual world, Second Life, has officially entered the gloom stage. Expertise is emergent. People are busy.

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Mark Oehlert

OCTOBER 19, 2007

The good news is that Second Life ne Linden Lab, has announced a partnership with IBM to "develop new technologies and methodologies based on open standards that will help advance the future of 3D virtual worlds. So after defending Linden Lab, here's the other side. between Stephen Downes and Sean Fitzgerald.

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Mark Oehlert

JULY 22, 2008

From cable companies being fined for throttling bandwidth , to issues of net neutrality to unexplained censorship , we are reminded daily that the Web is actually a very private place. It rides on commercial pipes owned by for-profit companies and we are largely at their whim. No free speech applies here. No freedom to assemble.

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 20, 2011

He ran Michael Milken’s Knowledge Universe Interactive Studio before he became VP, Platform & Technology for Second Life at Linden Labs. You learn more in the company of other people. He did early stuff with Atari, EPYX, SEGA, and Leapfrog. Pairs of students would have to share a computer. The parent had it wrong.

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Tony Karrer

AUGUST 10, 2010

Moderation types - Made by Many , February 4, 2009 Whenever companies want to publish user generated content (UGC) they need to look into moderation , which usually consists of the following three types: Pre- moderation : Some sites operate on the principle that every piece of UGC should be moderated before it’s displayed on the website.

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Learning Visions

MAY 22, 2007

Can take a lot of resources, but even small companies can do this with right expertise. Industry Data Adobe and Microsoft most widely used for course development tools Online Meetings (20% dont use, 28% WebEx; 19% LiveMeeting, Adobe Connect (6.5%) Trend of these companies partnering with LMS systems (e.g., This is expected to increase.

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Mark Oehlert

MARCH 8, 2007

e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « New Numbers and New Transparency from Linden Lab/Second Life | Main | My Blog is Worth $66, 615.72 (any buyers??)

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Kapp Notes

MARCH 1, 2010

Billion was invested in 87 virtual goods-related companies worldwide in 2009 a huge jump from 2008 when $408 million was invested. From 2009 End of Year Second Life Economy Wrap up (including Q4 Economy in Detail) Blizzard Entertainment, the company that created and maintains World of Warcraft, donated $1.1 From Blizzard Press Release.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Chris 2: Agile networks require collaborative learning across companies. not company wide blogs. Sandy E: @Jenna - used to have a manager ask me "what have you done for your company today?" leslie lannan: @littleasklab Linden Labs new HR platform for 3D and whuffie points has some big implications for performance reviews.

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Mark Oehlert

FEBRUARY 28, 2008

Corey Bridges from Multiverse Says Dont Count Out Second Life : How you know your on the bleeding edge.when you start talking about how the first company to mainstream virtual worlds is slipping.judas, most people havent even been in a virtual world yet. 425 million IN THE FOURTH QUARTER. Yeah, this whole InterWeb thing is just a fad.

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