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Linden Labs New CEO Slowly Rezzing

After last month's resignation of Linden Labs founder and CEO Philip Rosedale, Kotaku readers have had only one question on their minds - is there any way I can get Grand Theft Auto IV early? The answer, of course, is no, but the knowledge that the Second Life company shall soon be in good hands will help massage the disappointment out of your collective furrowed brow. Former CEO of digital communications agency Organic Inc., Mark Kingdon is only one alphabetical space away from having an awesome last name. What he does have is an MBA from the Wharton School of Business and a BA in economics from UCLA, and he's just thrilled to be here.
"To me, the CEO role at Linden Lab combines perfectly my passions for art and design, business and technology. Until Second Life, we experienced the digital world passively in two dimensions. By enabling users to create a rich and immersive virtual world, Second Life is transforming the way we connect, collaborate, learn and transact online.
Kingdon will assure the role of CEO on the 15th of May, spontaneously appearing in the office with his hair attached to his ass and a boot sticking out of his chest, his clothing still loading. It's an SL thing. More »

6:20 PM on Tue Apr 22 2008
By Mike Fahey
903 views, 21 comments

Latest by trigger2: I sort of find Second Life interesting. It's interesting to me to see how whacky people are when they are given some tools and set free. But man, Second Life needs a MAJOR overhaul in technology. It is painfully ugly and more »

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Second Life CEO Stepping Down

Linden Labs founder and CEO Philip Rosedale is stepping down. The Second Life developer will seek a CEO with more management and operational expertise. Rosedale will stay on as chairman of the company's board. Even though SL has been the victim of hype machine backlash, the company says that no crisis has lead to Rosedale stepping down. What's more, the company added that an IPO was under consideration. Says the Linden founder:

I will be 100% involved and fulltime at Linden Lab. Second Life is my life's work, and I am not going anywhere.

Because at some developers you hafta work with dicks, but at Linden Labs you get to work with flying dicks.
Rosedale Stepping Down [BBC]

6:40 AM on Mon Mar 17 2008
By Brian Ashcraft
3,171 views, 27 comments

Latest by Josh*: @v00deux: I think "looking at cartoon wangs during work hours" probably IS enough to get fired in a few places more »

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Second Life, Don't Believe The Hype

Last year was all about Second Life. The MMO was portrayed as teh future. Has it panned out? A new study from Boston-based research group Yankee Group states that the user growth rate hit its peak in October 2006. From the study:

Despite near-continuous coverage in the popular and business press, metaverses like Second Life are experiencing slowing growth and limited impact because of the tethered nature of their virtual world experience.

Meaning that users would like a more mobile experience instead of being tied to their PCs, apparently. The study also says that the average SL user spends 12 minutes in world. Each month. Funny, I thought they'd need a little longer — 15 minutes or 20 at most.
SL Hype [Next-Gen]"

1:00 AM on Tue Oct 2 2007
By Brian Ashcraft
5,226 views, 22 comments

Latest by csven: "and now I have a study to prove it!." Whoops. Not anymore. They had to pull the report cuz they got the numbers all wrong. Turns out SL is (according to various sources, including the Guardian) more "sticky" than Facebook. And more »

well that's a shock

Time Magazine Hates Second Life, Too

Despite being something of a mainstream media darling, there's at least one magazine out there that thinks Second Life sucks: Time has a short and sweet piece up on the '5 Worst Websites,' and coming it at number five is the MMO that Kotaku readers love to complain we still write about - Second Life. More »

10:00 AM on Sun Aug 19 2007
By Maggie Greene
8,281 views, 64 comments

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Second Life Looks Just As "Fun" In Real Life

Granted, I've never actually "played" Second Life, as online social interaction is two spots higher than attending a Russian-American "bear" cuddle party on my list of enjoyable pastimes, and the closest I've come to partaking in Linden Labs' eyesore of an alternate reality was an aborted download of the client this past winter. When I think of Second Life and its ilk, I think of this.

6:20 PM on Mon Aug 13 2007
By Michael McWhertor
2,923 views, 41 comments

and yet you can't return fake boobs

Second Life Case Going to Court


Well, it was bound to happen. A Pennsylvania attorney/ex-Second Life citizen is taking Linden Labs to court claiming that they illegally took away items he "allegedly acquired using an exploit by a SL user". Shortly after, he was banned and lost "everything". A Pennsylvania court has already denied two requests from the San Francisco-based company to dismiss the case. More »

12:40 PM on Fri Jun 1 2007
By Kim Phu
2,645 views, 13 comments

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Second Life Getting Sky Upgrade

Add atmospheric conditions to things MMO Second Life offers. SL's creator Linden Labs has acquired atmospheric rendering tech WindLight and 3D cloud simulator Nimble. WindLight gives 3D environments realistic haze and Nimble creates, well, realistic 3D clouds. Said Linden Lab's Cory Ondrejka: More »

12:00 AM on Tue May 22 2007
By Brian Ashcraft
872 views, 16 comments

some pens aren't pals

Linden Labs Responds to Open Letter


Not too long ago, concerned citizens of Second Life posted an open letter to Linden Labs about the growing number of issues that have affected SL since its recent boom. Last Thursday at a town hall meeting, the publisher tried to address those concerns through an open forum held in the virtual world. Speaking on behalf of Linden Labs was CTO Cory Ondrejka who was often the victim of some heated caps-locked comments. The participants of the town hall meeting weren't satisfied with the fuzzy time frame Linden Labs had for resolving the outstanding problems, and were also infuriated at the fact that Linden Labs rarely responds to complaints and issues that are pointed out to them by residents. More »

12:40 PM on Fri May 4 2007
By Kim Phu
878 views, 19 comments

Latest by tljent: Can I be a manwhore in SL? more »

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Second Life Citizens, Unite and Take Over


Concerned residents of Second Life have watched patiently as the past two years the virtual world has grown from a tiny community into an entire empire. It's grown so fast that the day-to-day maintenance and upgrading of the site hasn't caught up and now an open letter has been circulating listing some of the problems that Linden Labs need to fix. Some of the issues includes the inability to backup inventory losses, issues with friend search and friend lists, transaction problems, and more. But of course, true to Second Life form, they're trying to be super nice about it: More »

11:40 AM on Mon Apr 30 2007
By Kim Phu
757 views, 11 comments

Latest by creid: And with one headline, Kim Phu becomes my favorite Kotaku writer. more »

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Japan, Brace Yourself For Second Life!

Okay, I know SL. You know Second Life. But a good chunk of Japan has no friggin' clue. That's all about to change. The game's maker Linden Labs is rolling out a version for The Land of the Rising Sun. What do the pundits think? Real money at stake, an active virtual world — the scare factor is just kicking into gear. An IT expert tells tabloid Shukan Shincho: More »

6:00 AM on Tue Mar 13 2007
By Brian Ashcraft
2,166 views, 22 comments

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Second Life's 13 Most Beautiful Avatars

The beauties of Second Life get portraits. Based on Andy Warhol's films 13 Most Beautiful Women and 13 Most Beautiful Boys comes a series of canvas-mounted portraits by Italian artists Eva and Franco Mattes. These avatars were created by actual Second Lifers. Most likely, the inevitable pictures portraits of these avatars' creators to follow. Brian Ashcraft More »

4:00 AM on Thu Mar 8 2007
By Brian Ashcraft
5,949 views, 19 comments

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GDC 07: Party Time - Linden Labs

While McWhertor and Crecente were attending the Sony press event last night, I decided to take the folks at Linden Labs, the creators of Second Life, up on their offer of free food and drink surrounded by people I didn't know. Then I changed my mind, and then fate changed it back. While searching for the venue the road it was to be on suddenly stopped. Being of strong will, I immediately gave up goig, only to stumble upon the newly ressurrected road nearly a mile further along. Dark forces were at work at the Linden Labs party, and I wasn't allowed to not go. As with many high-concept 90's horror movies, no where was this more evident than the bathroom.

This was not the sort of place you wanted to find yourself saying Candyman three times. More »

9:41 AM on Wed Mar 7 2007
By Mike Fahey
2,393 views, 10 comments

Latest by animagnum: That party was decent. I appreciated that it wasn't too terribly crowded and the people in the VIP area were pretty cool. more »

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Second Life: Bastion For Terrorists?

Game Politics has unearthed an interesting story on the Counterterrorism blog about the potential Second Life has for nefarious people. More »

1:00 PM on Fri Mar 2 2007
By Brian Crecente
1,394 views, 25 comments

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Feature: Unconventional Life

By: Wagner James Au More »

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Second Life Gets Second Wind

Linden Labs, the makers of Second Life, have scored another round of funding, to the tune of $11 million. The company's not profitable, and doesn't know when it's going to be profitable, but this cash should keep them in servers and admins while allowing them to create Japanese and German versions of their online world, as well as develop a simpler interface so you don't have to be some sort of techno whiz to have cybersex with an anime squirrel in a field of gumdrops. More »

3:40 PM on Wed Mar 29 2006
By kotaku.com
53 views, Comment

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Second Life "Jail" Unveiled

Only instead of a jail, it's a giant, empty cornfield that Linden Labs uses as a virtual "timeout" according to Clickable Culture (we grabbed the image from there, too). The cornfield is a place where temporarily suspended accounts are sent, folks the game has banned are just unable to log in. What's in the cornfield? An extremely un-fun and slow moving tractor and a host of TV's playing a 1940 film, Boy in Court - it sounds perfectly awful, like jail should be. More »

8:40 AM on Wed Jan 4 2006
By lsmith
1,355 views, 5 comments

Latest by Be0wulf: I swear one of these days I will check that game out. Just doesnt seem that easy to get into. Aside from that.. I love digital purgatories. I am a firm believer that in EQ/EQ2/SWG we should have purgatory servers more »