i check in with SharesPost on occasion to see how they are currently valuing Linden Lab’s private capital stock. lately it’s been pretty flat but i missed a may 16th “Research Update” (probably because i haven’t looked in the last two weeks) =p the research report is created by Candlestick Advisors who also evaluates companies like [...]

on may 24th, 2009 i made myself a commitment to publish at least one blog post a day without missing any days that will be three years ago next week – phew! we haven’t missed a single day and have averaged 1.333 posts per day (1459 posts in 1089 days – wow, that means we could take [...]

Linden Lab makes serious scratch with an estimated $5.86 million USD per month from private and mainland tiers (from Tyche Shepherd’s Grid Survey). add to that membership dues, Linden Exchange fees, and even texture upload fees – back in 2008 they were making $90,000 USD a month just on those uploads! how much of an [...]

my answer would be yes . . . and that’s just an opinion based on the “vibe” out there and the reviews on Glassdoor. also my opinion is that when companies get to be of a certain size, that “love” which was possible with the early employees and a small company size simply get pushed [...]

Hexagon 2.5 is a 3D modelling application from Daz3D that has Second Life sculptie export built right in! that’s a huge plus because you just export the TGA file Hexagon is a real 3D tool that works with polygons (meshes) but what caught my attention (after Sarge bonked me on the head and told me about [...]

it’s been a while since i posted glassdoor reviews on Linden Lab and now there are 37 reviews online. you should read these with your own grain of salt and i have gone through the process of creating an account on glassdoor and it does take a certain amount of effort (more involved than flaming [...]

creating training videos is economical and relatively quick using OpenSim or Second Life. i tend to think in terms of branched scenarios and only two or three people (easy to manage). like one person walking up to another and posing a question or presenting a certain situation. then the video stops and the learner makes [...]

in my 2012 predictions i stated that SL would lose 2,500 private sims and thought i was being really bold by increasing that from the 1,000 i had initially penned some people say making a prediction that SL will decline (many in the blogosphere do) is not bold (i can agree with that) and also seen as [...]

by humans, i mean human avatars. in Second Life i often built as a beaver and also loved being a fox and a fennec. the beaver AV made me smile the most because it was considered a tinie and my corny self made the connection of being a beaver with being a canadian – beavers [...]

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% [...]

yesterday gameindustry international published an interesting piece titled Linden Lab: “The Weirder The Better” which is pretty detailed and goes into what Rod Humble is wanting Second Life to become this year. it also includes details about the role that LittleTextPeople will play. my cynical side zoomed in on the tidbit that the two former owners [...]

march is a month of particular retrospection for me because of two significant events. the first is an event that the entire world should mark, but alas perhaps everyone observes it modestly in true and humble Ener fashion – my birthday! =p the second event is my departure from Second Life around March of 2010 [...]

i check on the the venture capital index for Linden Lab from time to time as one measure of the Lab’s success. LL affects OpenSim, especially for viewers, and will be the virtual world leader for some time to come the index has been pretty flat for the six months since they had an 8% [...]

i have talked many times about what you need in OpenSim in order to have a region that is comparable to a sim in Second Life there is no direct answer because there are many ways to deploy OpenSim. when you run it on a stick, your own machine, or even a server – you [...]

wow, Daniel Voyager is my source for sim closings in Second Life! ISTE Island closure on 1st March 2012 the International Society for Technology in Education has been a very active group in Second Life for years now (i remember attending stuff they had way back when) they are going to stay inSL and have a $500 a [...]