Comments on: Interview: Rod Humble, CEO of Linden Lab

By: Behind the curtain: Talking with Rod Humble about usability

Behind the curtain: Talking with Rod Humble about usability — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 15:31:49 +0000

[...] that the newly-minted Linden Lab CEO, Rod Humble, is not quite so much “the new guy” as he was the first time that I interviewed him, I’ve been nosing around the PR corner of Linden Lab to see if I could get him back for a second [...]

By: Rod Humble: unfortunately we’re in The Promised Land

Rod Humble: unfortunately we’re in The Promised Land — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 05:16:46 +0000

[...] in The Promised Land April 21, 2011 By Lowell Cremorne View Comments As Linden Lab CEO, Rod Humble has made an impression in his first few months. He very much needed to given the challenges faced, [...]

By: Beingagain

Beingagain — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 04:49:00 +0000

Also get rid of ban lines theyve always sucked and ruined the fluidity of the game when flying along, and since you can place your camera anywhere and sit tricks still sort of work, ban lines are therefore just a pointless annoyance setup by idiots.

If SL needs money then just tell people on free accounts with multiple alts with no land that after so many years the first created char must pay a token amount per annum in order to remain active and keep its associated alts, ive always paid the subscription for the 512 land area for the last 6 years. and having completely free access forever creates a culture of a zillion alts, makes everyone pay after x years of free use for at least the main char so that they can retain their parade of alts. almost all other mmo’s charge ? this might eliminate soe griefing as well, and gte more realistic user number because active accounts is what counts not the number of alts that have been generated.

By: Beingagain

Beingagain — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 04:30:00 +0000

if you like the creativity and effort people have placed into SL often for the benefit and further glory of SL, the least you can do when someone runs out of money to pay for a sim, is to provide a way for them to back up an entire sim so at some point it can be ressurected, the cruelest thing is how many sims and how much content has dissappeared because people have left and with no possibility of returning at any point and recreating their sims with ease, a huge and vast mistake on SL’s part as your losing content by this idiocy classic examples for example would be rezzables sims and nemos, this is sacrilige, imagine somebody just burnt a picasso because they had no place to store it ? and this in a digital environment in which storing a backup of sim for a user or allowing a user to downlaod a backup of a sim would take very little space indeed ? The idea that the ceo is someone who has no SL experience is madness. sometimes lindenlabs actions have looked like their deliberately commiting hari-kiri ?
trying to stamp out and segregate adult and mature PG content etc is nuts and a waste of energy, you use to need a credit card to play second life in theory ? therefore you need to be over 18 to have a credit card, so whats the problem with adult content ? you fell to lobbying pressure from religious idiots who seem not to realise that an individual has no necessity to view anything that offends them ? my prediction is that SL will continue to get worse, because every company has a coherent lifespan, and when the investors take over and kick out the original spark stuff tends to run dry, 90′s apple without steve jobs par example. I clicked on an old SL landmark to go to liberty island and the haunted house > I end up on Tikva the jewish island ? this is one of the problems with sim disposal and replacement on the grid and there are allot of my landmarks like this ? i think its indicative of SL’s decline.

By: Merged realities – events and issues for virtual worlds

Merged realities – events and issues for virtual worlds — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 13:10:57 +0000

[...] like an ultra-fit blind-man positioned under a falling piano. Head piano-tuner and CEO Rod Humble has thanked everyone for their input on what they’d like to be doing in two years in Second Life. AKPC_IDS += [...]

By: Rodvik

Rodvik — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 18:36:00 +0000

Hey everyone, I just wanted to drop by and thank everyone for their responses. I have read them and I very much appreciate you taking the time to write. This is very useful as we move towards our longer term strategy.

Thank you again!

Rod

By: Sean

Sean — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 14:53:00 +0000

Forgive me if I sound negative, but wasn’t nearly every question answered with “I just got here let me get back to you”? Maybe I’m missing something as many people said “great Interview”.

Personally I don’t see any solid direction, nor commitment to address/rectify any specific problems that LL have introduded to the detriment of their loyal user-base to date.
With the CEO seat resembling more of a revolving door at LL would it not be better to just choose one issue of which there are so many and do something positive about it that shows LL is actually listening before the next CEO comes in. You would be one of the first Mr Humble…

Flattery is an old and tired veil used by LL many times right before they tightened the rope around our necks, sorry I’m just not convinced.

By: There Goes the Neighborhood « Ahuva’s Blog

There Goes the Neighborhood « Ahuva’s Blog — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 15:29:24 +0000

[...] of the most interesting comments that I saw (and it appeared in the comments on Tateru Nino’s article in the Metaverse Journal) was by Winter [...]

By: In or Out | MetaReality Podcast

In or Out | MetaReality Podcast — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 15:03:47 +0000

[...] Interview: Rod Humble, CEO of Linden Lab (Tateru Nino) [...]

By: Lydia Cremorne

Lydia Cremorne — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 05:13:00 +0000

I’m afraid I’ve left SL in favour of Inworldz now but I remain extremley fond if it, it released my creativity and gave me a lease of life I could never otherwise have as a disabled person. To answer your question:

I would like SL to become a socially respected media and for projects completed in SL to have some measure of value in the real world.

I would like all the wonderful designers, programmers and other content creators in SL to receive some tangible acclaim for what they have done.

I would like to be able to send an email link to a non-SLer for them to be able to enter my world and navigate it successfully with a minimum of hassle or technical difficulty and no download.

I would like to be part of a collaborative project operated by a real life organisation to work on issues faced in the real world.

Most of all I would like to visit YOUR sim and come away feeling inspired and glad that you are still ‘one of us’.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 09:10:00 +0000

I like how SL customers can be ‘free’ logins, or paid logins and get a small house. I think a third level – a VIP level that gives customers a choice of Larger Linden homes with double the prim count would be excellent – and allow a path for paying customers to move up to a larger Linden Home, and of course – fill it with the decorations and furniture they like to buy. In two years I would hope to be enjoying more concerts and social gatherings, and chatting and ‘hanging out’ with my on-line friends in SL.
Linden Labs should work toward sponsoring some things in SL (like a virtual Lady GaGa concert, or inviting trade shows into SL.) The SL meet-up expos every year is a great way for customers to enjoy meeting other SL people, vendors, and Linden Labs employees. The SL annual birthday party is also great – where people from all over Earth can meet and celebrate and play. Of course, advancements in graphics and increasing the number of people who can share one server would both go to enhancing virtual get togethers and be more fun.

By: Paisley Beebe

Paisley Beebe — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 01:01:00 +0000

Wow some great ideas there! I’ll second so many of them Paisley B