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Linden Labs Raising Prices But Extending Discount for Current Users

Kapp Notes

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.

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Volatility in 3D Virtual World Industry

Kapp Notes

Venuegen has offered to help Second Life Enterprise users move from the SL Enterprise edition to the Venuegen platform for free. See Change is under way at ThinkBalm Linden Labs announces layoffs, appears to be contemplating shuttering Enterprise Edition efforts. And Massively , a blog that provides daily information about MMOs.

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Second Life CEO Resigns, Founder Back in Charge

Kapp Notes

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. I think that I can be a great help and a strong leader in that process.

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Virtual World Research Needs Your Help

Kapp Notes

If you desire, payment may be made in Linden dollars (L$),e.g., For participating you will receive US$20. In addition, for every 25 teams, prize money will be awarded to the 2 best performing teams with each member receiving US$100. US$20 is currently worth about L$5200.

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A Lot Happening in the 3D Space

Kapp Notes

Linden Labs, makers of Second Life, announce the list of the Top Ten: 2010 Linden Prize Finalists. Java gives the ThinkingWorlds application many advantages for delivery - it is almost ubiquitous, it can be delivered securely and it is very portable and easy to host by any client.

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Second Life Happenings: CEO Steps Down (again)

Kapp Notes

Yesterday, Philip Linden (AKA: Philip Rosedale ) stepped down as CEO of Linden Labs (yes again). I’ll be leaving day-to-day management of the company and continuing in my role on the board, including helping in the search to find a great CEO. Bob will lead Linden Lab while we conduct the search.

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Vale Joe Miller

Clark Quinn

He continued to have an impact, leading some of the major initiatives of Linden Labs as they went open source and met some challenging technical issues while negotiating cultural change to take down barriers. He ended up at SportVision, where he was beginning to help them understand they were not about information, but insight.

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