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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. If someone makes an open invite, might a switch occur.

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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). Here is what he wrote on the Second Life blog. Bob will lead Linden Lab while we conduct the search. He said many longtime Second Life users are angry at the recent decisions by the company that runs the service, Linden Lab.

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Expelled: Woodbury's Second Life Silencing

Learning with e's

Occasionally this blog hosts guest posts. 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.

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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. stuff Here are some of my main del.icio.us books futures Web 2.0

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Social and Semantic Web

Clark Quinn

One statement that resonated was a comparison between the social web and social networks as being analogous to open space versus silos. If, instead, there are open standards, you’re free to approach things in different ways. the ability of Linden Labs to continue to expand Second Life capabilities as they grabbed market share).

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Effective Web Conferences – 41 Resources

Tony Karrer

Jon Garfunkle on the backchannel at conferences (from a blog post comment). I’ve written about it here on the blog quite often over the years!) Finally, some fine blog posts on lurking by friends and colleagues. Kapp Notes , March 15, 2010 Terrence Linden discussing the new Second Life browser at VWBPE conference.

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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! books futures Web 2.0