last thursday i posted about a 2% decline in Linden Lab’s capital index by SharesPost and mentioned that Linden Lab doesn’t seem to fluctuate much or doesn’t get analysed that often by SharesPost. i checked it today and was surprised to see it dropped again – albeit, by a very tiny amount (0.04% or 2.22% [...]

in today’s world we toss around big numbers like millions, billions, and even trillions as if we have a grasp of just how big those numbers are. i had a college physics professor once that put a meaningful context of how large a million is and i wish i could eloquently do the same the [...]

Warning:  I dare to revisit here an old subject that people have many opinions on.   What is the ONE thing that drives you crazy about Second Life or Open Sim? The one “bug” that really lessens your enjoyment or satisfaction of virtual worlds? I’m tempted to say “Viewer 2+” from Linden Lab. But as [...]

omg, had i been drinking a Red Bull, i would have sprayed it all over the place when i saw soror’s blog post about the latest LL newsletter! Linden Lab is really pushing the virtual world envelope now! an iPad viewer? nope, not yet triple the concurrency? nah, think bigger sim tiers of $100? pffft, [...]

a long time Second Life friend, Mo Austin, is good about keeping an eye on the job market and sent me the list below from Indeed.com on the Linden Lab site there are 17 postings including one for a Fraud Specialist from mass firings to some hirings, this seems to be a positive indicator of [...]

Tateru does a wonderful job displaying Second Life statistics. i confess that i don’t really know how to effectively read them (you can do so much with statistics and it is easy to think you see a trend but it’s not really what it appears) i believe that her charts are updating realtime thus always [...]

i blogged about SharesPost back on July 19th and LL was valued at $345 million in the first week of July. then i checked in on that value in mid-August and they had dropped to $271 million now they are valued at $248 million, oof, that’s gotta hurt!

last week i mentioned that lots of old in-world stuff had been returned to me from Second Life (mainly from the sims sold last february and also from my dumpy little Linden home) i downgraded my membership back when Linden Lab fired a third of its work force and had to hassle with Live Chat [...]

have you read Philip’s post yet? i know i am critical of the Lab and can rationalize this to myself however, i still hold out hope for Second Life to become better. not for the sake of the Lab, but for the residents. it’s a great virtual world filled with so many wonderfully creative people [...]

a few emails, some tweets, and a skype with subQuark helped me get centered (read: a firm but loving smack to the head) =D even though i don’t log into second life anymore, it is a big part of me. after all, i learned a great deal in my three years in it and carry [...]

it’s pretty sad when one pink-haired avatar and a lovable poutine eating subQuark beat out a multi-million dollar company on search engine crap i know i mentioned this a few posts back, but i am so mad at the firings at linden lab and the loss of massive talent and just want to scream i [...]

sheesh, i do live in my own little world. two days ago i wrote about the Linden Lab layoffs in Singapore, but i must have been really lost in making a coke machine in Reaction Grid to miss this news! Nickola posted a comment here and a quick search verified it! here is the Linden Lab press [...]

Reading Ener’s recent post prompted me to chime in on Linden Lab, SEO, and social networking. Virtual Worlds are a tough go and rather niche-based. Look at Habbo Hotel; it started in 2000 and is squarely aimed at teenagers from 13 to 18. It has done very well in the last ten years with Wikipedia [...]

or so i would like to think. not really though. i kind of stumbled into Second Life thanks to subQuark and fell in love with being able to build things at first i was all “bah, this blows” because i was used to the graphics you can make in Blender 3D. i was all “eww, you [...]

woohoo! croaking is what frogs do and i know because i am as froggy as they get =) i enjoy reading many blogs and one of those, who write very much from the heart, is Virtual 52 1/2 by Cristopher Lefavre. first, English is not his native tongue, so i can identify with him on writing [...]