Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
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Category: Linden Lab News & Analysis
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Originally published on my Patreon Last Friday I got an an official statement from Linden Lab on a subscription problem that impacted many SL merchants on Marketplace: At this time, affected Residents and merchants should be fully refunded for L$ charges on any erroneous transactions related to Wednesday's outage with our service provider. We apologize…
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Launched in late April, Linden Lab’s Creator Partnership Program is one of the most ambitious bids by the company to grow Second Life in recent history. As part of my special Patreon report on the state of the Second Life economy, I talked to the program's founders, Marketing VP Brett Linden and Steeltoe Linden (Manager…
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Second Life co-founder Cory Ondrejka has gone back to blogging memories from his long career in tech, and just casually dropped a nugget of SL history that's new to me. Back in 2005 / 2006, a top tech company seemed seriously interested in buying Linden Lab / Second Life. Can you guess who that could…
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Originally publisher on my Patreon A recent Linden Lab job posting has causes some community grumbling (as here) because of how it might be interpreted: We’re looking for seasoned BizOps Director to architect and build our operational framework from the ground up. Initially operating as an individual contributor, with the potential to build and lead…
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New on my Patreon: Linden Lab’s Creator Partnership Program Part of Company's Daring New Pivot to Grow Second Life With SL's User Community — Here’s How A core goal (as I see it) of the Creator Partnership Program is to grow the Second Life user base through a collaboration of Linden Lab development and grassroots…
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I love when a classic science fiction concept becomes a practical reference point in current technology, and that happened during the most recent Town Hall in Second Life, when a user challenged Linden Lab CTO Philip Rosedale over his excitement around A.I., most recently seen with the company's partnership launch of AI-powered NPCs in SL.…
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Originally published on my Patreon The description and rules to Linden Lab's official Flickr group for Second Life images were recently updated to emphasize that user-made images and video uploaded there may be used in future ad campaigns for Second Life: By submitting your photos or videos (the “Submissions”) to the Second Life Official Flickr feed…
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Linden Lab is now hiring a senior level director in charge of strategic insights: We are looking for an experienced and analytical professional with deep expertise in leveraging advanced analytics to drive strategic business initiatives and operational efficiency. As the Director, Strategic Insights, you will utilize detailed data analysis, experimentation, statistical modeling, forecasting, and the development…
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Originally published on Patreon here. Days after I wrote about the controversial Second Life ads A/B testing various messaging using mock-up Gen AI and stock imagery — a program Linden Lab head Brad Oberwager told me was paused last week — some SLers reported still seeing these dummy ads on Facebook. So today, I asked Oberwager about this.…
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