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Volatility in 3D Virtual World Industry

Kapp Notes

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 ).

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Big Virtual World Event on the Horizon

Kapp Notes

The Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education Conference (VWBPE) will feature more than 150 presentations and a keynote address by Mark Kingdon, the CEO of Linden Lab® creators of Second Life® (SL). The Virtual World Best Practices in Education Conference originated from the 2007 Second Life® Best Practices in Education Conference.

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Expelled: Woodbury's Second Life Silencing

Learning with e's

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. The university paid good money for it, too. 20@googlemail.com.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): New Numbers and New Transparency from Linden Lab/Second Life

Mark Oehlert

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.

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Effective Web Conferences – 41 Resources

Tony Karrer

Better Conferences - eLearning Technology , June 18, 2007 believe we can build better conferences. Kapp Notes , March 15, 2010 Terrence Linden discussing the new Second Life browser at VWBPE conference. Update: 12/19/2007. Are they facilitating, moderating , re-purposing, or nothing at all? What do I need to cover by what point.

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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

. | Main | "A Vision of Students Today" from the Creators of "The Machine is Us/ing Us" » October 19, 2007 Mark is very late to the virtual worlds big news about SL and IBM. So after defending Linden Lab, here's the other side. Posted by: Sean FitzGerald | October 19, 2007 at 03:31 PM The comments to this entry are closed.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Voice Coming to Second Life

Mark Oehlert

| Main | Google and MSFT to Clash Over Copyrights » March 08, 2007 Voice Coming to Second Life Geez.finally right? According to this press release , Voice will be coming to Second Life in Q2 of 2007. Posted by: bendaini | March 08, 2007 at 02:34 PM The comments to this entry are closed.