Linden Lab CEO: more staff to improve usability
Linden Lab CEO Mark Kingdon updated the masses on a new appointment to the team. Howard Look is a former VP, Software at Pixar and has been charged with improving the “customer-facing part of the Second Life experience”.
There’s certainly been no shortage of recruitment announcements from Linden Lab – what’s yet to come [...]
Linden Lab CEO: hey I’m in London!
On the rarely updated Linden Lab blog, CEO Mark Kingdon has posted that he’s arrived in London for the Virtual Worlds London shindig.
The response on the blog from Second Life residents has been… lukewarm to say the least. I’m sure VW London’s organisers would have liked the announcement from Mr Kingdon more than 12 hours [...]
Second Life immaturity – bell curve bungling.
Second Life is going through a troubling phase. It has entered young adulthood, but is still acting like a teenager – occasionally like a teething two-year-old in a tantrum. Unfortunately, Linden Lab has a very different view about where the Second Life product stands with regards to its consumers: they believe that they are providing [...]
Linden Lab CEO: my first two months
Linden Lab’s CEO, Mark Kingdon , has detailed his perceptions of his first two months at the helm on the official Linden Lab blog.
He makes five key points:
1. Second Life users are more mainstream than many assume.
2. The diversity of use cases in Second Life is mind-boggling.
3. Second Life has an enviable business [...]
Linden Lab’s new CEO speaks
Well, he writes a few paragraphs at least, on the Official Linden Blog. It’s a fairly lucid description of his first week, with the standout line for me being:
“Inworld collaboration is going to be a killer application”
Yes indeed it is – when it’s working and even then it’s not so killer when you’re living so [...]
