Linden Labs

I have not been writing much in the past week. Partly, because there was little time for it, but also, because there have not been many events worth writing about in SL. Or at least not big events that would cause a wave of fear or joy to move through the grid.

However a very interesting development has been the leak of the not that secret testing of the browser based SL viewer:

Can it be, that the Metaverse is being created while we are stuck in Second Life? Can it be, that the virtual world is being build around this place, that, while still being in the lead, becomes something of a big dinosaur unable to see the world changing around it towards a new balance that would not include a possibility for it to exist? Can it be, that we are blinded by SL and does not see, that the world changes and evolves into a model, where openness is the key to growth and success?

Look and have a laugh ... however thinking about it, this video has some satiric value and a few things mentioned about how some LLs seem to see Second Life and behave in it.

However the main point in it is, that it is soooooooo true and funny ^_^

enjoy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cQqSvajdbg&feature=player_embedded

I was lookign through the forums yesterday and saw this post made by Lindal Kidd who posted an open letter to LL on the SL forums as well as in the blogs. Of course the blog post was closed by LL as it seem to be inapropirate to try to comunicate with LL through the ways they have provided.

Anyways .. here are the links to the places where the letter was posted followed by the text of the letter itself. Just in case, it gets deleted before too many people read it:

http://forums.secondlife.com/showthread.php?t=363267&page=1&pp=15

Last tuseday, the 15th december, I went to the LL comerce team office hour since the recent changes in SLX policy promised it to be a very interesting .. to use the new LL buzzword ... experience. Of course, it was not hard to guess what would happen. The present LL representatives ... Pink, Grant, Colossus, Siz and Meta Linden (but it was Pink and Colossus that did the talking) have avoided any talking about the really interesting topics and blocked or ignored any request for the given topics to be changed.

I think I should have writen about this before, but I have not thought much about the survey the LLs have send out some time ago. I got it too and answered it in a very negative way as the propsed changes and fees presented there have been simply plain silly.

But now, not only the SLX are still being a topic of discussion, but I have also discovered this entry that was writen to answer some questions about the surves. And yes, the fees listed in the survey have not been in L$ but in US $. This is not a mistake.

https://blogs.secondlife.com/thread/4657

As many have already noticed, Linden Labs has decided to change the policy regarding freebies and actually the way the economy is run on SLX.

https://blogs.secondlife.com/community/commerce/blog/2009/11/18/roadmap-...