Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
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Category: Linden Lab News & Analysis
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Surprising stats from SimilarWeb, especially given recent Linden Lab reports that Second Life was enjoying a quarantine upsurge: This February, SecondLife.com earned 9.4 million visits, and in the five months prior to that, peaked at 12.7 million visits in December 2020, and averaged visits in the 11 million+ range in other months. In December 2018,…
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Photo of Catwa sale mob crush by SL blogger Kirsten Corleone; large version is not worksafe. The L$1 sale of Catwa avatar heads caused the Marketplace website to crash due to heavy demand, provoking Linden Lab to remove the item from the store, and instead, make it available in-world on several sims… which also overloaded…
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While Second Life users scramble to buy a L$1 Catwa avatar head after the Marketplace website crashed due to heavy demand, Linden Lab is scrambling to find someone to plan the technical side of Second Life's future as a product. Seriously: VP of Engineering: You will work in conjunction with the leadership team to jointly…
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Pictured: Alexia in High Fidelity (as a cloud) Rather than write yet again about what went wrong with Second Life way back when, I recently asked veteran game designer Alexia Mandeville what could go still go right. She's in a very good position to offer her perspective: An SL user herself back in the day,…
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Pictured: Official 2009 commercial for Second Life which very briefly shows the in-world creation tools in the background only once — and doesn't mention them at all in the captions Reader "Pulsar" posted a comment last week that touches on one of Silicon Valley's greatest mysteries that fascinates me to this day: How did Second…
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Emphasizing that his upcoming departure from Linden Lab "has nothing at all to do with the change in ownership of the Lab" (the long-running startup was recently sold to the Waterford Group holding company), the veteran technologist Scott Lawrence, known by tens of thousands of SL users by his avatar name, "Oz Linden", just posted…
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… because Linden Lab just announced new last name options (above). Whoever gets to be That's Amore gets their own damn theme song:
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2021 starts with an ending of some kind, as briefly mentioned at the tail end of a New Year announcement on from Second Life management: Another noteworthy development for the new year is that Linden Lab has new owners! As announced in mid-2020, an investment group led by Randy Waterfield and Brad Oberwager signed an agreement…
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I pretty much gave up watching/participating in the annual Linden Lab vs. SL user snowball fight years ago, because it inevitably became a lagtastic mess from the very moment the first snowball was fired. But! Watching this year's fight as hosted and streamed by social media goddess Strawberry is actually pretty fun. Lots and lots…
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Originally announced to happen by end of 2018, it looks like Second Life will finally move into the Amazon cloud by end of 2020, says Oz Linden as only Oz can: We've been working hard on the Uplift of Second Life. If you have not been following this project, that's what we're calling the migration…
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