Archive for News Announcements

How the Updated Policy on Third Party Viewers Will Effect Second Life

Community, News Announcements, Policy, Second Life, TPV, Virtual Worlds on February 26th, 2012 30 Comments

Linden Lab has officially updated their Policy on Third Party Viewers. Here’s how the controversial new clauses will effect your Second Life experience.

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Hunger in Los Angeles Debuts At Sundance

News Announcements, Press Releases, project, Virtual Worlds on January 20th, 2012 2 Comments

Sand Castle Studios, LLC is pleased to announce that Hunger in Los Angeles, a virtual immersive journalism experience, will debut this week at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.

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SLCC 2011

SLCC 2011 Wrap-Up

Business, Community, content creation, Education, events, Intellectual Property and Copyright, News Announcements, Second Life, SLCC, social media, Virtual Goods, Virtual Worlds on August 17th, 2011 3 Comments

A recap of the major news, improvements, and announcements coming out of the Second Life Community Convention 2011.

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SLCC 2011

The Future of Mesh: Key Points from SLCC’s Mesh Panel

content creation, News Announcements, Second Life, SLCC, Virtual Worlds on August 17th, 2011 6 Comments

Updates from Linden Lab’s Mesh Team at this year’s Second Life Community Convention.

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SLCC 2011

The Future of Second Life: Key Points from the Product Team at SLCC

Community, content creation, News Announcements, Second Life, SLCC, Virtual Worlds on August 17th, 2011 5 Comments

The Second Life Product Team presented what they have been working on in order to better address the communities needs including a prototype game.

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SLCC 2011

Top 5 Highlights of Rod Humble’s SLCC Keynote

News Announcements, Second Life, SLCC, social media, Virtual Worlds on August 13th, 2011 12 Comments

Linden Lab CEO, Rod Humble, gave a keynote address at this year’s Second Life Community Convention (SLCC) revealing more about his current and future goals for Second Life and Linden Lab.

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The Virtual Mine Receives an Emmy Nomination

News Announcements, Press Releases, Second Life, Virtual Worlds on July 19th, 2011 6 Comments

Sand Castle Studios, LLC is pleased to announce that The Virtual Mine has been nominated for an Emmy Award for New Approaches to News and Documentary Programming .

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Linden Lab Announces Display Names

Display Names: A chance missed or an opportunity gained?

Branding, Marketing, News Announcements, Second Life, SLCC, Virtual Worlds on August 19th, 2010 4 Comments

Second Life users have long wanted a way to change their avatar name in a way that did not destroy the history and links associated with it. In attempt to solve this “identity crisis”, Linden Lab announced Display Names.

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Second Life Community Convention 2010

Significant Changes Announced at SLCC

Business, Community, Education, News Announcements, Second Life, SLCC, Virtual Goods, Virtual Worlds on August 17th, 2010 8 Comments

The 6th annual Second Life Community Convention (SLCC) took place in Boston this past weekend. It was an exciting weekend packed full of Linden Lab announcements as well as a plethora of resident-led discussions and presentations.

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Linden Lab Restructuring

News Announcements, Second Life, social media, Virtual Worlds on June 9th, 2010 8 Comments

Linden Lab, the company behind the virtual world of Second Life,issued a release today stating that they will be restructuring their company in order to become more efficient and to allow them to delve into new platforms including the social and mobile web.

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The Dangers of Virtual Goods

art, Business, Community, content creation, Intellectual Property and Copyright, Machinima, News Announcements, Second Life, Virtual Goods, Virtual Worlds on May 4th, 2010 23 Comments

Over the last few days, I’ve read dozens of articles covering the newly updated Second Life Terms of Service (TOS) and the Class Action Lawsuit that has been filed against Linden Lab and Philip Rosedale. However, this afternoon when I saw that the Los Angeles Times and Mashable had jumped on the bandwagon then I could no longer keep my facts to myself.

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What Everyone Needs To Know About (Second) Life “On The Cloud”

Business, Community, News Announcements, Second Life, Virtual Worlds on April 17th, 2010 36 Comments

Joe Miller (aka Joe Linden), Linden Labs VP of Platform and Technology Development, offered a VERY interesting (though somewhat misinterpreted) response to the question, Can Second Life run “on the cloud?”

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What is Second Life Art?

Linden Lab to Support Second Life Art (But First They Have to Define It)

art, content creation, Machinima, music, News Announcements, Second Life, Virtual Worlds on March 1st, 2010 13 Comments

Niko Linden announced the Linden Endowment for the Arts (LEA) program to help support and highlight Second Life artists, but the announcement is already full of comments arguing… What is Second Life Art?

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Everything You Need To Know About Second Life Viewer 2.0 (Beta)

Business, Community, content creation, Education, News Announcements, Second Life, social media, Virtual Worlds on February 23rd, 2010 20 Comments

Today, in a much anticipated announcement, Linden Lab launched the Beta version of their new Second Life viewer. It will undoubtedly completely revolutionize the way we view and use Second Life.

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Scoble Leaves Second Lifers Hanging

Business, Community, events, Marketing, News Announcements, Press Releases, Second Life, Virtual Goods, Virtual Worlds on February 22nd, 2010 6 Comments

This morning, tech enthusiast, blogger, and social media superstar, Robert Scoble (aka the Scobleizer) sent the Second Life community and Twitter world into a frenzy with his post, “Is Second Life about to enter its ‘second life?’” However, what followed was more interesting… He announced that tomorrow everything is going to change.

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