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| Page 1 of 1 | Previous | Next | LEARNING WITH E'S MAY 7, 2010  Expelled: Woodbury's Second Life Silencing 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. Tags: Linden Labs Second Life Openness Woodbury University Tim Handorf Griefers | KAPP NOTES JUNE 24, 2010 Second Life CEO Resigns, Founder Back in Charge 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. This is part of the natural churn within any tech industry and because Linden Labs and Second Life is the biggest player in the space, events like this get a lot of press. think that I can be a great help and a strong leader in that process. | | | | | |
| KAPP NOTES JUNE 10, 2010 Interesting Developments in 3D Learning and Collaboration Space 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. The story seems to have broken in a number of places, Virtual Worlds News reports that Linden Lab Lays Off 30 Perfect Of Staff. Additionally, sources inside the industry indicate that Linden seems to be more focused on its customer-focused 3D environment than its business-to-business efforts. This can't be making IBM happy. | | KAPP NOTES MARCH 1, 2010 Random 3D Virtual World Statistics From Blizzard Press Release. From Build-A-Bearville Shares Stats From Virtual World, Real Store Interactions Over 1,400 businesses, government organizations and agencies have used Second Life to hold meetings, conduct training and prototype new technologies as a solution hosted by Linden Lab since 2003. Sitting at my virtual desk gathering statistics. Here are some interesting Virtual World Statistics gathered from a number of different sources. In the fourth quarter of 2009, total registered accounts in the virtual worlds sector reached 803 million. million. | TONY KARRER DELICIOUS LINKS JUNE 11, 2009  Facilitating online communities - WikiEducator Meeting with Grad Students in Second Life - a photo by Pathfinder Linden Pathfinder Linden spoke at a weekly meeting held by grad students who are using Second Life as part of their academic research. You will need a broadband connection speed to view this video, and I suggest you open the link, press play and then press pause for 10 minutes or so as to let the video load ahead some. | | | | | | | |
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SUBQUARK | MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2009 How I became a zombie or my opinion of Reaction Grid’s CEO
To be fair to Linden Lab, their focus has been in creating a social networking site. And, in accordance to the Gartner Hype Cycle , many businesses enjoyed great press 2 years ago when Second Life seemed to be the answer and the next dot com boom. But that was not Linden Lab’s fault. They did, however, enjoy some positive press and that is worth something (similar story for the Bellagio in Second Life). Reaction Grid continues to come on strong and is emerging as the leader in hosted virtual world solutions. This is a key distinction. Very good. MORE >> -
SUBQUARK | SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 2010 #facebookfail says boo to Ener Hax
Also, Linden Labs is looking to connect Facebook to Second Life. As my rockstar, Ener Hax has capitalized on this Facebook issue and turned it into positive press and deeper web reach (I am slightly biased, as you can tell). particularly loved your tweets to M Linden last week asking him to have the courtesy to address you. Quite a stir in the twittersphere on yesterday’s news of Ener Hax’s account being disabled by Facebook. You may know that I am partial to Ener, after all, we are partners in virtual world endeavors. Is the line blurring with identity? MORE >> -
LEARNING IN A SANDBOX | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2008  Towards “the real feeling of presence”
Linden Labs just recently issued a press release in which they anounce the Immersive Workspaces initiative. think this is the first really innovative attempt of Linden Labs to get more into the corporate use of Second Life. Many organizations today are having employees working remotely. This may be working from a home office or perhaps they are based at a client’s office. In my case i’m currently working from home as i’m recovering from an accident and not being able to travel. One example is using tools like Twitter to keep connected. Project Wonderland. MORE >> -
MARK OEHLERT | THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 2007 e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Voice Coming to Second Life
According to this press release , Voice will be coming to Second Life in Q2 of 2007. 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. e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « My Blog is Worth $66, 615.72 (any buyers??) | Main | Google and MSFT to Clash Over Copyrights » March 08, 2007 Voice Coming to Second Life Geez.finally right? del.icio.us MORE >> -
LEARNING WITH E'S | TUESDAY, JULY 31, 2007  Island SLife
My colleague Maged Kamel Boulos and I were interviewed today by a reporter from Associated Press, about our collaborative research programme (with Susan Toth-Cohen , of Thomas Jefferson University, USA) in Second Life. complete list is available of all the educational institutions (SIM Teach) currently operating in Second Life - SL won't get overcrowded though, because Linden Labs will simply build more islands, Dubai style! There is also a Big Quiz open for anyone to take. You can find it on YouTube , but it's easier to get it here. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's. MORE >>
- Big Virtual World Event on the Horizon KAPP NOTES | THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 2010
- What is the Uber Web 2.0/3Di Mash Up for the Eduprise? TONY O'DRISCOLL | FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2008
- The Web is Not Public.But maybe It Should be or maybe Not MARK OEHLERT | TUESDAY, JULY 22, 2008
- Online Educa (4) Opening keynotes â?? Informal Learning Blog JAY CROSS'S INFORMAL LEARNING | FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 2008
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