SL Marketplace – Where To Next?
The Second Life Marketplace is well entrenched and has recently "completed" its first major enhancement (Direct Delivery). Assuming that the Marketplace Dev Team is hunting for their next task, today's...
View ArticleWanton and Willful Fraud by Linden Lab
Never has the evidence been so clear and strong as it is now. Never has it been so obvious that Linden Lab is willfully and wantonly defrauding its customers. My first post in a long time is one I...
View ArticleOld Sayings
Linden Lab announced this week that they are making Second Life available on their recently acquired Desura game shopping site. Today's post takes a step back and muses about the overall goals in place...
View ArticleThe Day After ToS’morrow
Now that I've decompressed a bit and gotten the spit'n'vinegar out of my system, today's post is a bit more contemplative about what I see as the logical follow-on from Linden Lab's new Terms of...
View ArticleThe Failure Called “Full Ownership”
One of the strategies we see employed routinely by many companies (such as Linden Lab) is something called "Full Ownership". Under the aegis of Full Ownership, the management team .. and sometimes...
View ArticleTesting the New Terms of Service
Now that it's become obvious Linden Lab will not backtrack on their new Terms of Service, what can we expect for the future? How will we know when it has been applied? Perhaps more importantly, how...
View ArticleDancing or Boxing?
Operating a company that is built around the creation and support of Internet-based User Community services demands a specific mindset in every day operations. If the company's management intends for...
View ArticleNerfing Second Life Microbusiness
Through all the trials and tribulations infesting Second Life, the one factor of the platform that stuck around and provided the saving grace for it was the ability of Business-People to sell their...
View ArticleLL’s Terms of Service – Where To Next?
We've all wrung our hands quite enough. We've listened (or should have listened) to the guidance put forth by real-life attorneys regarding the ToS. So now it's time to figure out what we should do....
View ArticleThrowing the Rod a Bone
The sudden departure of Rod Humble (AKA Rodvik Linden) from Linden Lab has many folks scratching their heads in wonder. As usual, I've taken some time to think over what has happened .. then poured...
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