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The Archives
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11.27.08Resident Protests Grow: Lively Crowd Pleads for LifeSo far, no signs of self-immolating avatars as a crowd of Livelyzens protest the shuttering of their virtual rooms. As one resident notes, Google's plans to shut down its Lively virtual um rooms is equivalent to the slaughter of babies: "Shutting this down would mean killing all those characters that we've all loved already. It is sad to kill all of us. It's like God creating the Universe and after 5 months, ends it. It's like a mother creating this baby, but slaughtered it before it's even born, once she knew that it is unwanted. There is already life in ...
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11.21.08Six Month Mark: An Interview with Mark Kingdon, Chief Executive of Linden LabSix months ago Philip Rosedale handed over the operational tiller of Second Life to Mark Kingdon, formerly of Organic, so that he could focus on vision, and technology, and electricity. After a whirlwind first week, M Linden told the community that he had a "sense of what makes Linden Lab and indeed Second Life such a magical place. It’s people with passion for the virtual world. And, it all starts with the Resident community." But for the Residents, it was like greeting a noob. And we've all met them, because we've all been noobs before: there's some kind of sugar ...
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