Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
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Category: Linden Lab News & Analysis
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Less Is More is a recent post on Clique This. The title caught my eye first because often less is more, but we seldom see less in a SL decor post. Some rooms are very beautiful but it feels like there is…
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Pictured: Ms. Majors near Linden Lab's erstwhile Brighton UK office. Yes, her shirt says "Will work for L$" Charity Majors has an excellent blog post on creating culture and rituals within a tech company's engineering team, and knows whereof she writes. She's CTO and co-founder of Honeycomb, a leading observability provider — I.E., The service…
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Good SL-for-smartphones and the web scoop from Daniel Voyager, who took furious notes at Linden Lab's recent in-world web user group meeting, where Reed Linden admitted bringing Second Life to the web/mobile is going a lot more glacially than anticipated (watch at around 32:20): I would say it's coming slowly; there's there's a lot of…
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What would you do if you could run #SecondLife in a browser? — AlexaLinden (@AlexaLindenLL) July 18, 2022 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Alexa Linden, director of Product at Linden Lab, just posted this casual but tantalizing question to Twitter: "What would you do if you could run #SecondLife in a browser?" Which is a great and highly specific…
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Loading… Note: For best results, take survey on a laptop/desktop! Now that we've had a week to digest the new Premium Plus offering (details infograpic-ed below), here's a survey for the money question: Will you as an SL user actually upgrade?
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Now available for free in Second Life thanks to Edyn Starlight — an abortion rights avatar tattoo. Edyn writes: I don't typically like to get political, not on the best or even the worst of days, but Roe vs. Wade being overturned is fucking ridiculous… In support of those affected by this, I'm releasing this…
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Starting at around 24.00, Linden Lab's VP of Product, known in-world as Patch Linden, teased out a new Second Life product offering coming (hopefully) on SL's 19 anniversary of June 23: Premium Plus. Offerings for the monthly subscription include: Texture upload fees eliminated Land tier expanded to 2048 square meters Up to 140 groups L$3000…
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Linden Lab Hires First CMO. Is It Good or Bad That He Has Little or No Metaverse-Related Experience?
This is the biggest executive move by Linden Lab since Philip Rosedale returned as an advisor last January: Second Life hired its first-ever CMO as the race for the metaverse heats up… Linden Research, Inc., the developer of pioneering metaverse Second Life and parent company of the newly launched virtual economy payment processing platform Tilia,…
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Apparently it's my 16th Rez Day in Second Life today, because I just got this nice e-mail from Linden Lab: Second Life is fun, weird, and always evolving, but the magic ingredient is YOU. The vibrant worlds you build and the sense of community you provide for others is simply priceless. Here's to another year…
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Here's another 2022 New World Notes prediction that's already come to pass: Linden Lab spinoff startup Tilia to announce major funding or partnership. Because as it happens, Tilia is now a verified solutions partner of 3D engine giant Unity, with an official plug-in on the Unity Asset Store: Tilia is a digital payments and wallet…
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