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Thursday, June 24, 2010
Event This just in: Linden Labs, the creator of the 3D virtual world Second Life has announced that company founder Philip Rosedale has been named interim CEO and that Mark Kingdon is stepping down as CEO. This comes just a short time after Linden Labs announced a layoff of 30 percent of its staff.
 
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
See Change is under way at ThinkBalm Linden Labs announces layoffs, appears to be contemplating shuttering Enterprise Edition efforts. it looks as though Linden Labs, the developers behind Second Life, may be downsizing their corporate efforts ( Second Life Enterprise Edition ).
 
Thursday, June 10, 2010
First, it looks as though Linden Labs, the developers behind Second Life, may be downsizing their corporate efforts ( Second Life Enterprise Edition ). Two sources indicate that Linden may actually be shutting down their Enterprise operations. Some interesting developments in the 3D Learning and Collaboration Space.
 

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Computer games now play a major part in most young people’s lives. In March 2008, a government-funded report from the DCSF indicated that sales of games for the under-12 age group represented nearly three quarters of the total UK games market. Using computer games in education. Watch this space!
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. Cmon, you get bored walking around in SL? Congratulations.I del.icio.us
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. quot; Yea! Coverage from the Second Life Insider.
He emphasized that the community was gathered to discuss "worlds" (not "games"), and that many saw VW's as the evolution of the 3D Internet. Keep an eye on Linden - with a new CEO and lower costs, they are aware of the shortcomings of SL and are actively looking to overcome and partner with solution providers.
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Sue Singer (Linden Labs) talked and showed more in SL and discussed how SL relies on learning collaboration. I attended the Federal Consortium on Virtual Worlds at the National Defense University on Friday. This was the "first annual" event put on by IRMC, and overall, it was a success. It sparked a lot of great conversations in real world.
Linden Labs actually provides a great deal of the resources for Education and Non-Profit Organizations. Continuing the theme from the previous post, there are some good resources resources for educators and researchers interested in using virtual worlds in their disciplines.
Here are three scenarios that Linden puts out there: Scenario 1 - Residents can teleport to voice-enabled land, andautomatically start speaking, with the volume of speech modifiedaccording to their spatial relationship with others. According to this press release , Voice will be coming to Second Life in Q2 of 2007. del.icio.us
Have you seen the NASA Request for Information for a massivley multiplayer online educational game. We are just starting to see for-real corporate forays into the space.and yet here we are talking about Linden Lab slipping. think there are a couple of points of interest here. First, its a request from NASA for an MMOG. del.icio.us