Comments on: Six Month Mark: An Interview with Mark Kingdon, Chief Executive of Linden Lab

By: Nov 25, 2008: Openspace policies and education — Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable

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By: Second Life: Exercise in Frivolity « Common|Sensible

Second Life: Exercise in Frivolity « Common|Sensible — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:27:51 +0000

[...] Read Dusan Writer’s interview with Mark Kingdon here. [...]

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Second Life: Exercise in Frivolity « Blackthorne inSL™ — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:39:09 +0000

[...] Read Dusan Writer’s interview with Mark Kingdon here. [...]

By: GDBattaglia

GDBattaglia — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:20:33 +0000

Mr. Kingdon is a world class BS artist and a relentless spouter of the party line of the moment. He should be in politics rather than technology. Don’t hold your breaths.

By: Dusan Writer’s Metaverse » How Many Lindens Will It Take to Screw in a Light Bulb?

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:52:05 +0000

[...] the ante further with his promise to focus on the “consumer experience” noting as he did recently that “80% of our investment and focus is on our core platform and our core consumer user. We [...]

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Customers or citizens of a benevolent dictatorship? « A Crimson world — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:27:57 +0000

[...] said in an interview by Dusan Writer some days ago: 80% of our business is focused on the consumer market — which of course includes [...]

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GodlikeRez » Blog Archives » Comment of the Day — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 15:55:01 +0000

[...] is from Dusan Writers’ Interview with M Linden, a comment on the Open Space hiking debate; On 11.23.08 Doreen Garrigus [...]

By: Dusan Writer’s Metaverse » It’s All Talk: Linden Lab, Mercedes Benz, and Golgothica

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 15:38:30 +0000

[...] Lab is in communication over-drive it seems. Mark Kingdon’s recent interview, Ginsu talking about where the technology is headed, and Tom Hale asking Second Life residents to [...]

By: Ciaran Laval

Ciaran Laval — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 23:25:18 +0000

Good interview Dusan.

I’m sorry but the way he glazes over the openspace issue impresses me not. There is no high point to this, residents are getting shafted. There was absolutely no creativity in their policy or the so called changes, it was all shaft the resident. This won’t be forgotten in a hurry.

Actions speak louder than words, Linden Lab have a hell of a lot of actions to engage in. Trust has been eroded and it’s a deep erosion.

By: Wayfinder Wishbringer

Wayfinder Wishbringer — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 23:08:08 +0000

A good interview all in all. However, it re-enforces my opinon that Mr. Kingdom is an optimist looking at Second Life through rose-colored glasses. When we compare Second Life to other computer enterprises we find it sorely lacking both financially, growth-wise, in customer satisfaction and in reputation. The system has some serious problems, yet we see virtually no mention of such in this interview– or in his other public presentations.

The line about them “carefully considering” the Open Space price hike is corporate propaganda, pure and simple. Their move has been analyzed by professionals over and over and it comes down to one thing: Linden Lab wanted more kaching out of a very viable situation. Every time I read him trying to justify that action just convinces me more of the wisdom of hunting out viable alternatives to the Linden Lab price-gouging monopoly.

A great article. M. Linden’s corporate-line responses were expected. End result: nothing all that informative. Company man, no doubt about it.