Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 8, 2010

As you may know, Linden, on October 4th, announced a plan to raise prices for educational and non-profit users of Second Life and not a little increase, a whopping doubling of the previous discount. Or something like Web.alive or the Finnish open source product realXtend. If someone makes an open invite, might a switch occur.

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Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Yesterday, Philip Linden (AKA: Philip Rosedale ) stepped down as CEO of Linden Labs (yes again). Bob will lead Linden Lab while we conduct the search. He said many longtime Second Life users are angry at the recent decisions by the company that runs the service, Linden Lab. He has done this before and then come back.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 5, 2010

And there are lots of open source solutions. Mobile has similarly really hit the mainstream, with both reasonable and cheap (read: free) ways to develop mobile apps (cf Richard Clark & my presentation at the last DevLearn), and a wide variety of opportunities. The devices are out there!

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Learning Visions

MAY 22, 2007

Whereas if higher risk (development of entire course), people more likely to use non-open source tools. A Conversation with Karl Kapp ► February (11) ID Live with Charles Reigeluth on EdTechTalk Kineo Insights Webinar: Kronos Moodle Case Study Kineo Insights Webinar: The Truth About Open Sourc.

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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??) The Lewin Links This link should take you to the page I have on del.icio.us where I am linking to all the Lewin stuff I find.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 17, 2008

Open source software. Free software, but land costs. In-world economy of Linden Dollars. Merged technologies. Internet subscription software. Overview of Second Life. Wants to explain why people are so excited about it. She thinks its a little ahead of its time–we’re catching up, but it’s slow.

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Learning Visions

JULY 10, 2007

Its especially interesting to us in Brighton as Linden Labs are opening a development office here! First, Linden Labs itself says the majority of SL users are male. It was the source of the statistics in the stories I quoted. I have a WII and love playing that, any free time I have I play.

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