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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. Or something like Web.alive or the Finnish open source product realXtend.

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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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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Mark is very late to the virtual worlds big news about SL and IBM.

Mark Oehlert

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. " Yea!

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Adobe/Bersin Overview of the eLearning Industry

Learning Visions

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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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Using Performance Results to Hire

Mark Oehlert

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??) In fact, this weekend, I hope to collect alumni blogs to list on my blog to help build that community. One frequent one is.if

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TCC08 Keynote: Why Do We Need A Second Life?

Experiencing eLearning

Open source software. In-world economy of Linden Dollars. In-world economy of Linden Dollars. Says better help from other people than the in-game help. Merged technologies. Internet subscription software. Overview of Second Life. Wants to explain why people are so excited about it. Archipelagos for land.