With these “Linden Homes” you basically get a small one-room house for your typical 8′ tall avatar, with their double/triple sized furnishings.

The houses themselves are no-mod, meaning you can’t make any improvements to the designs (and they need them, badly in some cases).

Now, if the people in charge over at LL ever wrap their heads around how problems of scale like this have seriously hindered content development inside SL, started encouraging the average resident to use realistically sized avatars and encouraging realistically sized furnishings, and moves the SL camera closer to eye level rather than hanging in the clouds, then these tiny one-room houses could be multi-room mansions! Without requiring any more space or prims.

Am striving to get what the game plan is, and must admit would if I were LL go in that direction

Have never hidden my thoughts on the mistrust prevalent in virtual worlds with regard sucking of the creative juices from content/service providers, by platform providers then monetizing using said creations, so will not start now, but will say with the future looming as it does now, and transparency not just a word but a way of behaviour it would be nice to hear we have nothing to fear with regard this plan.

Just my usual rantings as my cynical mind focuses on this move, so feel free to ignore.

Your receipt of this invitation — when your 512 m is already taken by your own home on the mainland — indicates that the Lindens not only “randomly” sent out invitations to those with “spare 512″ as they claimed, but deliberately sent it to some top insider bloggers like yourself.

You’re definitely on the VIP Linden blogger list with a statement like this, “But having said all that I applaud the move, primarily because it was executed so beautifully.”

Beautiful execution is all that matters, Dusan?! Really.

And the social and economic consequences? They don’t? And…just an opportunity for more…sculpty furniture? Out of what survives the Social Darwinism of the Xstreet moves?

BTW, the reason Dirk Talamasca has an extra 512 available for his, uh, random invitation is because he pulled it out of the SL Public Land Preserve which he formerly supported for ages because I de-friended him. Why did I defriend this actual non-friend who I used to at least keep as a contact? Because the number of well-documented cases of sexual harassment by him of people, including friends, just piled up too high to continue.