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We’re ListeningOver the last few years, the number one request and core business requirement of many of our enterprise and government customers has been the need for a behind-the-firewall Second Li...
Second Life economy hits major milestones in Q3: 1 Billion Total User Hours, 1 Billion in User-to-User transactionsIn Q3 2009, The Second Life economy reached a significant milestone marking the co...
In April, we announced that "Second Life Lives Behind a Firewall," and that our new product was in Alpha. Since that time, the Enterprise Team has been hard at work evolving and deploying our softw...
Halloween is knocking on the door and we're jumping into the spirit of the season by unveiling the BOO...tiful 2009 Halloween Spotlight. The Spotlight contains a collection of "Nice" and "Naughty" ...
Linden Lab supports an open platform with opportunity for all. The flexibility of the content creation tools and open viewer allow for great creativity and innovation, but that openness also carrie...
It's official: Our Knowledge Base (KB) has been moved to the Second Life Wiki! Now that our massive migration is complete, we can offer several tremendous, hands-on benefits to improve your knowled...
^ The Cambrian Explosion by Sledge Roffo and Jewel MacMoraghAfter almost 2 months of diligent preparation by around a thousand residents, we have reached opening day for Burning Life '09! This is t...
Second Life is full of pioneering educators and academics, and innovative growth in the use of Second Life for learning continues every day. It has been my pleasure and privilege to meet many of th...
You all knew that it would be! For the past few months, Linden Lab has been running a Pilot program to evaluate the benefits and possible pitfalls of moving our current Knowledge Base to a Wiki sol...
Hi all. Callen Linden here. A few months back, we launched the Dashboard Beta and asked for your feedback. Your response was enthusiastic and very constructive. We've implemented a number of your...
Every parcel of Land on every region inworld has a Traffic score. Traffic is a measure we developed some years ago to show Land owners how much time other residents spent on their parcels. It's bee...
We’re constantly working to enhance the Second Life experience, and I wanted to share an exciting development I mentioned in my keynote yesterday at SLCC: today’s release of the LLMedia API, which ...
Economy grows 94% year to year, hits new all time high in Q2World expands and voice usage hits all time high; Bot policy affects user hours and loginsIn Q2 2009, Second Life Residents enjoyed the s...
Things are definitely buzzing in Berlin, Frankfurt, Koln, Koblenz and Munich - in Second Life that is! Last week we wrote about a sneak preview of Germany in 3D and promised a little more informat...
This week, CNBC is airing a five-part series titled ‘Social Climbing,’ a report about social media, its importance for business, and its future. The series includes Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn – a...
I recently learned about a new museum opening this weekend in Second Life dedicated to the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, arguably the greatest American architect of all time. Visiting museums is one...
Translations: Espanol - Portuguese - Deutsch - Francais - 日本語We are pleased to announce the activation of several toll-free phone lines that are now up and running for our Residents from around the...
In this post:—Second Life Birthday Survey Released—Thanks to you all—Some Event Statistics—Teens Crash-Land New Region at SL6B—Gates Remain Open til July 6th— We have a short survey online where yo...
We're proud to announce the release of Snowglobe 1.0! Snowglobe is a Second Life-compatible viewer, built jointly by the open source community and Linden Lab. As Philip Linden described when he fir...
Hi there. Callen Linden here. I'm executive director of product management and user experience at Linden Lab. In the past few months, I've been working with Lindens, Residents and partners to impro...
Second Life has had a thriving German community for quite some time and with the help of this vibrant community, Linden Lab has recently been able to expand our product offerings to German Resident...
Tomorrow— June 23, 2009— marks 6 FULL years of Second Life. To celebrate 6, and our passage into year 7, your fellow Residents have been busy for months, planning a 20-Region party around the theme...
In this edition of Support Talks, Courtney Linden sits down with Cyn Linden, VP of Customer Relations for Linden Lab, to find out more about Cyn's role at the Lab, her favorite RL and SL pastimes, ...
Many of you have been waiting patiently for the chance to explore the new adult continent known as Zindra. In coordination with the final release of the 1.23 viewer, we are pleased to announce that...
Greetings,As some of you may have seen, a resourceful Resident got her hands on a very early build of Viewer 2009.What we ship later this year will be very different from what appeared in that post...
This just in from the fantabulous Resident Team that is making SL6B an event to remember. They've added up their no-shows and looked in the closets for unused space, and they've got a bit more land...
Search UpdateHi, I’m Liana Linden. Before getting into the meat of this post, I’d like to give you a quick update on Second Life Search. A few months ago Linden Lab formed a new team to work on imp...
Got land questions? Well, you're in luck. It just so happens that we're kicking off our very first Land Expo next week -- June 9th - June 13th. The Land Expo will provide an opportunity for Residen...
Got land questions? Well, you're in luck. It just so happens that we're kicking off our very first Land Expo next week -- June 9th - June 13th. The Land Expo will provide an opportunity for Residen...
My name is Ram Linden, I’ve been with Linden Lab for almost two years, and I’ve recently been assigned to the role of Product Manager of the Economy. My core responsibility is to focus on the Lind...
A few weeks ago, Erica and Sam Driver at ThinkBalm, an industry analyst and strategy consulting firm focused exclusively on the Immersive Internet, published a 36-page groundbreaking report entitle...
About a month ago, we posted an update on the progress toward the upcoming changes to Adult content. Since then, we held another inworld meeting with Residents to further discuss the proposed defin...
The Future of Virtual Worlds is the theme for Second Life's 6th Birthday Celebration this year, (June 23, 2009) and hundreds of Residents have applied for space to exhibit there. I've been watching...
Second Life Land Expo 2009In Second Life, land is what gives your content presence, boundaries, and a sense of permanence. It creates both a shared space for exploration and a place to call home. A...
Greetings!Memorial University just won a national award in Canada, recognizing their innovative use of Second Life in teaching and learning. This is insanely great. Congratulations to everyone in...
The European Space Agency is launching the Planck satellite this Thursday in Guyana. Most of us won't be able to attend the launch - but we can attend it in Second Life.This event is being brought ...
Each day starts approximately the same: stretch, shower, show up for work. But when you're a member of Second Life's Resident Experience Support Inworld (RESI) team, where it goes from there is any...
(Please scroll down to read en Español.)Lately I’ve been reading about educators making use of Second Life to support complex training in the real world. I heard about some fantastic work being do...
We are pleased to announce the Finalists for the $10,000 (USD) Linden Prize:Alliance Virtual Library,American Cancer Society Island,Invisible Threads,Let There Be Night,NonProfit Commons,Skoolabora...
Last month, we announced our plan to begin the process of introducing Adult Oriented content controls to Second Life. Key elements in the transition will include geographically separating Adult con...
Last year, at this time, we held our first annual Day of Remembrance. It was a day set aside to remember all the wonderful people we have known and loved in-world, who died in Real Life, leaving a ...
Ok, I admit it. When I first joined Linden Lab to head up Enterprise Marketing three months ago, I wasn’t 100% convinced that working in virtual worlds really works. I mean, intellectually, immersi...
Hi Everybody, I wanted to introduce myself, Judy Wade, or Judy Linden inworld. I’m the new VP of Strategy and Emerging Business. Inworld I look a bit like a green sea fairy, which is what I always ...
Greetings all! As those of you who follow Linden Lab have probably noticed, I’ve been expanding the executive team since I joined in May, 2008. Each hire has been focused on major initiatives with...
Hello! On January 10th we announced the inaugural Education Support Faire. The goal of the Faire is to bring together educators, academics, and students to explore the support mechanisms available ...
Hi all! For those wondering generally what I’ve been up to, I said in earlier transition announcements from CEO to Chairman that I wanted to get back into engineering and the design of Second Life...
I blogged earlier this week in response to our grid outages over this past weekend. We have put enormous efforts into fine tuning the data layer, specifically in optimizing queries and cleaning up...
Xstreet SL and OnRez to Join Linden Lab! Today we are very happy to share some exciting news with you: Linden Lab has acquired Xstreet SL and OnRez - the two leading Web-based marketplaces for buyi...
Although the second half of 2008 showed a big reduction in usage hours lost to outages (we reduced outage hours by over 50%), stability challenges have increased over the past month on the Grid. T...
It’s officially time to do a reality check on all of your passwords. Did you see the chaos when high-profile Twitter accounts were recently hijacked and used to send out messages in the names of th...
Linden Lab posts 61% growth in Second Life over 2007.
Back with the monthly grid update. Its been a bumpy few weeks, with Level 3 outages, and central database issues. The good news is that LLnet (data center fiber network) continues ahead of schedu...
Greetings! We have a special announcement for you today! Inaugural Education Support Faire To support the educational community, we would like to invite you to participate in and attend Linden Lab’...
The world of Second Life is full of creative, innovative people from around the world, and the educators who teach and work inworld are no exception. Every semester hundreds of students participate...
Happy New Year! I hope that one of your New Year’s Resolutions was to finish and submit your Linden Prize applications, because time is running out to be one of the top ten finalists we’ll announc...
Clare Linden here, with an interesting challenge, to write a few words about Second Life in 2008 from the point of view of International, at Linden Lab. Not wishing to disappoint, I begin at Wikip...
The new year has begun ringing in for some parts of the world. Happy New Year to Kiribati, New Zealand, Tonga, Phoenix Islands, Fiji, Marshall Islands, Nauru, some outlying areas of Russia and Tuv...
Thank you for your outstanding participation with both unique and seasonal snowmen entries in our contest. As you may be aware, there is a 1st place prize awarded to the “best of the best” in this ...
Greetings all! M Linden here. I’d like to wish you, your families, friends, partners and loved-ones a happy and healthy New Year. As we come to the end of the year, I thought I’d share some of the...
As we roam the grid enjoying Winterfaire in Second Life, we wanted to take a moment to update you on some of what we did and learned at a different Resident-created event this year, Burning Life. T...
As you may have read on the blog last week, we’ve been testing a redesigned home page for new visitors, those who have never logged in to Second Life. The goal of the new homepage is to show off th...
Photo by Liz Gealach. Join us for the Winterfaire Grand Tour, through January 5, 2009 in Second Life Festive holidays are upon us, Second Life is experiencing widespread snowfall, and Residents a...
Shiver me timbers me hearties! If you’re a fan of all things nautical then we have exciting news! A new Mainland sailing area will soon appear off the coast of Nautilus in a joint community project...
Welcome to Winterfaire. At this time of year, when many North American Residents are experiencing chilly weather in real life, we like to turn on the Second Life snow machines, set up pointy trees...
Over the course of next week, we will be testing a new design for the secondlife.com home page. The page really showcases the richness and breadth of the wonderful creativity and possibility of Sec...
This winter season, Linden Lab is pleased to announce a limited time Holiday Marketplace. Not only is it a holiday snowscape, it’s also a land extravaganza. For a one time charge and no recurring l...
Greetings. Pathfinder Linden here to discuss the growth and development of educational, scientific, and healthcare applications of Second Life, which I work to cultivate. On December 1st, I had the...
Hi, Katt Linden here to introduce the next installment of Linden Lab’s new podcast series, “Stories from Second Life.” These are stories about individuals working in Second Life and their projects...
About a year ago, we began to experiment with alternatives to the usual Second Life registration pathway, which we call the Community Gateway program. The program is designed to provide a customiz...
FJ Linden here, with my monthly grid update. It’s been a good stretch of grid stability over the last month, with one very poor day in the mix. Some central database issues and then a Level 3 outa...
Greetings everyone! Over the last several months we’ve been hard at work making Second Life more relevant, more usable and more reliable. Our work is showing up in Second Life’s usage statistics. ...
As the Northern Hemisphere slowly tilts toward short days and cold, snowy landscapes, our minds inevitably turn to thoughts of togetherness. Once again, it is time for Second Life’s annual celebrat...
Hello from Support! We are pleased to announce our new German office hours for outworld support. If your preferred language is German then we have the support for you! Monday through Friday from 0...
This is the second installment of “Stories from Second Life,” an occasional series of profiles of the people behind Second Life innovations, and the tangible benefits that these individuals and the...
Hello, this is Katt Linden. I’m here to welcome you to a Linden Lab podcast series, “Stories from Second Life.” These are stories about individuals working in Second Life and the projects they are...
Hi there, Tom Hale aka T Linden here, the new(ish) Chief Product Officer. That’s a mighty lofty title, especially considering that my avie is a rather short, very cute green frog. It’s a bit like t...
Hi, this is Glenn Linden. I work on business programs at Linden Lab, and I’d like to talk with you about an aspect of Second Life that I work with, our Solution Providers. We define Solution Provid...
As you may know, on October 1st our new policy for Mainland advertising took effect. Before the new policy, between 15%-18% of parcels were being used primarily to advertise, mostly on micro parcel...
Linden Lab is pleased to announce results for the 3rd quarter of 2008. The charts and details below indicate that Q3 was a very strong quarter in Second Life with significant growth in land, user ...
I am very excited to announce the inaugural Linden Prize. The Linden Prize will award one Second Life Resident or team with $10,000 USD, paid in Linden dollars, for an innovative inworld project th...
M Linden here. Many thanks to everyone who responded constructively with their concerns and suggestions about our Openspaces announcement. We’ve listened carefully and your feedback has led to some...
Over the last week we have been listening to your feedback and working hard to revisit the original announcement. This blog post is just a short message to let everyone know that we’re now close ...
As we have mentioned previously, tailoring the Second Life platform to make it easier for new Residents to begin experiencing the virtual world is one of our primary objectives moving forward. With...
Hi, Katt Linden here with a roundup of our main methods of communicating with you. First, I want to acknowledge that I have heard your concerns and complaints about the changes to the blog and the ...
Following our previous post on changes to the Openspace products we have had a great deal of feedback from the community, particularly in the forum thread but also via email and IMs. I would like...
FJ Linden here, to report on the latest Ongoing Updates from the Grid. As I promised in my first post, this will be a regular monthly communication to keep all of you up to date on our efforts to i...
In March of this year, we announced improvements to our light use land product that we call Openspaces. Not long after this, the new Land Store opened allowing estate owners to buy Openspaces and...
I’m happy to report that we have some great things ahead for the Linden Lab Blog. We are on track with a multi-stage process of upgrading our Web presence, including both the Blog and the Forums. O...
Many of you have helped us improve Second Life by downloading Release Candidate Viewers by finding, reporting and triaging issues with us. We have many issues during Release Candidate cycles keepin...
My business colleagues have asked me the question a thousand times: “With all the work that you have to do, how do you find time for a Second Life?” Many of us share this problem - an increasingly ...
Much to our delight, the intrepid explorer Magellan Linden has stumbled upon a new and beautiful land that had until now been mysteriously hidden from view. His ‘experiments’ with a new vehicle a...
I’m excited to announce that Linden Lab is going to be heavily represented at this year’s Virtual Worlds London event, taking place October 20-21. The event promises to be a fascinating and produc...
There’s been a quiet revolution going on, as international Second Life Residents and a small number of Lindens work together to translate tens of thousands of text strings and critical web pages in...
I recently celebrated my fourth month at the Lab and it has been a terrific adventure so far. As the leader of this amazing company, what have I been focused on? Leading the company’s efforts to m...
For years, Philip Linden has talked about the annual Burning Man Festival and the ways its open-ended nature, participant-created content and art contributed to his vision of what Second Life could...
As we’ve discussed several times in this space, improving the “first hour” experience of new Residents is one of our primary goals. As our use cases and base continue to diversify, it’s important t...
Just a short announcement that the Land Store will be taken down on Wednesday 17th September for an upgrade to version 2.01. It will be switched off at 9am PST, and all being well will be back up b...
In this follow-up blog post on Ad Farming, I will be talking about the new rules. As with my previous post, I’d like to then move the discussion into this thread on the forums so that as many of ...
Hello, I’m Frank Ambrose, the Senior VP of Global Technology, and I’d like to take this opportunity to let you know about some of the work we’re doing on the Second Life Grid. By way of introductio...
We’re pleased to announce the winners of the second annual Linden Lab Innovation Awards, known as “the Hippos,” which honor the exceptional, and varied, work done by open source community members. ...
In this blog post I will be talking about Ad Farming. As with my previous post, I’d like to then move the discussion into the forums so that as many of you as possible can give us your opinion. P...
Today, we’re happy to formally announce SLim, a lightweight, voice-enabled instant messaging client that will allow you to communicate with your Second Life friends without logging in to the full ...
Some Residents have told me they worry the Linden Lab Blog is quieter than usual, and that this may reflect a decreased commitment by us to communication. In fact, the opposite is true. We’re makin...
I’m delighted to announce that Mono is ready to launch as part of the 1.24 Server deploy starting today. Mono is an open source technology that improves the stability and speed of scripts – particu...
BURNING LIFE 2008 September 27 - October 5 In 1999, an innovative man made the long trek from San Francisco to the sun-baked playa of an enormous, flat, dry lakebed in the Nevada high desert. He w...
Getting griefed isn’t fun, but this enlightening video tutorial sure is. I collaborated with our peacekeeping Governance Team to teach you how to file effective abuse reports so you can have a happ...
A short post to let you know that after reviewing the current market, we are remaining unchanged on Mainland supply. There will be no new whole regions offered at auction. We will review the situat...
I’ve got a double treat for you today — 2 (two) tips of the week! They’re both followups re: questions I got about Here island o’ Enlightenment, which you should, like, totally visit if you haven’t...
This is a post about the Mainland, and more specifically, about an exciting and necessary change of direction we’re taking. I’m also going to talk about why we think the Mainland is important, what...
Welcome to another KBAotW! My selection this week is our handy article How to select everything you own on a parcel of land. There are many uses for this quick and easy click-n-drag selection metho...
You are Here You are standing in a field filled with watermelons, next to a giant Torley head which bids you “Friendly greetings!” Attached to one of the melons is a leaflet which pr...
We would like to invite you to join us in the Forums as we experiment with how we communicate with you, our Residents. Try out a “live discussion” with us, in the Forums, where we’ll read along an...
Last month IBM and Linden Lab demonstrated inter grid teleports between the Second Life preview grid and an Opensim instance run by IBM. Torley Linden made a video of the event. Now we are making t...
^ Pardon that subject line isn’t more specific, so here’s the story: every week, I hear from Residents about “cool tools” that help smooth Second Life situations. Not necessarily bugs per se, these...
HATE reading? LOVE reading yet want to watch me excite you about what’s new in Second Life 1.20? To commemorate the debut of Second Life 1.20 as the main viewer (following its graduation from an en...
Update 2008-07-30 07:48am : But for a small amount of residual clean-up, the rolling restart is complete. Update 2008-07-30 05:45am : The second-half rolling restart has begun. Today, all regions ...
I’ve been with Linden Lab for two months and each day has surfaced something interesting — and often quite unexpected. So, what have I seen? Read on. Second Life has evolved dramatically but perce...
As your login splash screen may have already told you, an optional viewer upgrade is available today… Announcing the Second Life 1.20 Viewer! It features improved reliability and a more flexible U...
[RESOLVED 10:45 a.m. Pacific] The status page is active again. [UPDATE 9:56 a.m. Pacific] No visible improvement yet. The Web team is still working on it. ***** The status page we use to report s...
YAYZERAMA! Back by popular demand, it could only be a matter of time before another round of QUICKTIPS arrived. This series is warmly treasured by Second Life Residents for delivering the goods — n...
Update 2007-07-22 12:30 PM : The reversion is done. The investigation begins. Update 2007-07-22 11:56 AM : The reversion is 80% complete and should finish soon. Also, thanks for the reports (via J...
That sound you hear is the sound of another Knowledge Base Article of the Week being unveiled! This one’s about appealing account suspensions, which is something we’re noticing some curiosity arou...
Today we are releasing a new Release Candidate, 1.20 RC14. If you have already been using the Release Candidate (RC13), you will be required to update to RC14 with the latest bug fixes. But, the Re...
Update 2008-07-16 05:40am : We have reverted the ~1000 hosts on 1.23.1 to 1.22.4. Update 2008-07-15 05:28pm : An issue with names showing up as “(???) (???)” in estate ban lists is showing up on th...
I get lots of requests to do more content creation tutorials — how to make stuff you can show off, share with friends, and sell. I know there’s common worries that getting from point A to B seems h...
Update 2008/09/52 10:34PM : The deploy of 1.22.4 is 78% complete. Update 2008/07/11 08:45PM : The backwards roll to revert servers from version 1.23.0 to 1.22.4 has begun. Update 2008/07/11 04:44PM...
Tired of seeing new Residents waddle their way through their first hours in-world? Ever been able to spot a newbie simply by their unmistakably waterfowl-esque sauntering? If so, we need you! Lin...
Hey everyone! Have you ever tried to send someone a link to an article in the Knowledge Base, only to find that it didn’t quite work the way you expected? Have you ever wondered how we post Knowl...
We’ll conduct grid wide maintenance on the voice servers on Monday morning, 14 July 2008, between 2:00 AM PDT and 5:00 AM PDT. Each voice-enabled region will experience a brief downtime (under fi...
Today we are releasing a new Release Candidate, 1.20 RC13. If you have already been using the Release Candidate (RC12), you will be required to update to RC13 with the latest bug fixes. But, the Re...
Update 2008/07/09 07:47PM : we are postponing the rolling restart again by a day. We may need to postpone it until next week; we will make that call tomorrow (Thursday). At the moment, the plan i...
Greetings. I’ve been here for almost two months and have still just scratched the surface of what Second Life is and what it can be. You know this because you are inworld frequently. Second Life...
Linden Lab is pleased to announce results for Second Life the second Quarter. Land mass grew over 44%. The total number of regions owned by residents increased 44.2% over Q1 to just over 1.5 bill...
This is a historic day for Second Life, and for virtual worlds in general. IBM and Linden Lab have announced that research teams from the two companies successfully teleported avatars from the Seco...
Today is the last day of SL5B! But we’ve got an exciting line up. This afternoon, SL5B Linked will be the stage for 3 final panel groups. Gavin Dudeney will host Language Learning and Teaching in S...
[UPDATED on 2008-07-08 @ 10 AM PDT] Our beloved Residents of Second Life!
Here is the audio url for Mitch Kapor’s Keynote: http://205.188.215.227:8080 Feel free to listen in the comfort of your own region! [UPDATE @ 10 AM PDT] Torley adds: If you missed this, don’t worry...
The Main Stage area of SL5B is still closed as we work to get everything set up for Mitch Kapor’s Keynote at 9am SLT. The region will be open shortly. Thanks!
July 3, 2008 Capping off SL5B, Linden Lab board member Mitch Kapor will deliver a keynote address about Second Life as a disruptive technology platform. In addition to SL as a creative, social spac...
Second Life (abbreviated as SL) is an Internet-based virtual world launched on June 23, 2003, developed by Linden Research, Inc (commonly referred to as Linden Lab), which came to international att...
Alpha started on March 2002, under the name Linden World. The first residents were Steller Sunshine and Paul Zeeman. Other notable Alpha members include Mac Beach, Flyk Escher, BuhBuhCuh Fairchild,...
While trying to generate some archival screen shots, Andrew and I managed to get a build running of Second Life circa August 2001. We called it “LindenWorld” back in those days. Here’s a video show...
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