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The Archives
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10.24.09Second Life’s Killer App for Residents: Each OtherTom Hale Presents at Web 2.0 Tom Hale, or T Linden in Second Life, recently presented at the Web 2.0 conference at which he proclaimed that while the hype cycle came and went, the world stayed, survived, and thrived. And it did so because of its 'hardcore' users who were there not for sex but for because they could connect and socialize with each other. Now, I've seen Hale present a few times, including a keynote at the Second Life Community Convention at which he previewed the new SL client (which by all accounts is a game changer when it comes to ...
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09.28.09Tom Hale on Content Protection in Second LifeTom Hale recently commented on Metanomics that Linden Lab "feels very strongly about the rights of our intellectual property creators and holders and want to protect those as much as we can in a Virtual World." He expanded on the challenge of balancing the need for an open expressive platform with the obligation to protect content. He also spoke of the content protection road map, which he implied had only really just gotten started, and the idea of a 'teller registry'. The video of the relevant clip follows. You can view the full episode on Metanomics or read the transcript here. ...
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08.18.09Second Life 2.0: Video of Tom Hale Demo of New ViewerTom Hale gave a tour of the new viewer for Second Life, to be launched in the coming months, although finished his chat with the footnote (his speech was highly footnoted) that it has changed since the screen shot and will be different than he presented. But still, it gives us a pretty good sense of the design methodology, which includes: - A browser-type navigation bar with "back" functions so that you can retrace your steps in world, and locations are treated like URLs in a nav bar (SLURLs), including bookmarks etc. - A right hand panel which opens and closes like a ...
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08.17.09Video: Tom Hale’s Presentation at SLCCBy way of a video stream captured by MetaWorld 2 (go there to see a larger version of the video....skip to the last part if you want to see the mesh import and HTML-on-a-prim demos). Video after the jump to avoid it auto-playing on you: Continue Reading...
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08.16.09Second Life 2.0 – Screen ShotsRoland Legrand has a series of screen shots of Tom Hale's presentation at SLCC on Flickr. Roland blogs at Mixed Realities (where he has some great SLCC coverage). Thanks to him for getting these photos up...a few selections follow: (The "What is Second Life" video was GORGEOUS)
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07.02.09Real Life Dates in Second Life and Other Coming FeaturesTom Hale, Chief Product Officer at Linden Lab, proposes that the integration of Second Life with social media may include links with dating sites so that you can take the virtual plunge before the real one. Hale made the comments in an interview with V3 UK within the context of explaining how the Lab was aiming for "lighter engagement" with SL. (And on the topic of lighter, the conversation about that light and peppy Twitter versus that heavy and clunky SL continues over at Ad Age and Chris Abraham's blog - check my comments at the bottom). Tom referred to the ...
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11.27.08It’s All Talk: Linden Lab, Mercedes Benz, and GolgothicaLinden 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 help with product development. And now, a flurry of thanks and spotlights on residents, including, I was pleased to see, Keystone Bouchard who talked about his work on Wikitecture. Now, for some, it's all talk and no action. But just to spotlight how the concepts being prototyped in places like Second Life are finding a home elsewhere, Mercedes Benz just announced a partnership with Speak2Me to provide "conversational marketing": The three-month "Smart Cities" campaign will ...
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09.29.08Linden Lab Announces New Interface for Second Life ViewerEdit: Headline changed - the viewer changes will be primarily interface but could include "carefully considered" changes to the underlying code base. See M's comments on the SL forums. Mark Kingdon announced that an outside design firm is hard at work on a new, user-friendly viewer for Second Life. The announcement comes in a longer update on his progress since taking the helm 4 months ago, and ironically was posted at the same time as I was sitting on a panel discussion about Philip's vision for Second Life. And what's interesting is that while the panelists all seemed to think that Philip ...
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09.29.08Linden Lab Productized: Tom Hale Joins the Second Life TeamLinden Labs announced the appointment of Tom Hale as Chief Product Officer, highlighting the deepest advantage that I think Second Life offers as it evolves as both platform and world: knowledge and experience about the intersection of "gaming, virtual goods and virtual worlds, online communications, community and social networking". Today at Metanomics, I'll be joining a panel discussion of Philip Rosedale's vision for Second Life. And Tom Hale's appointment highlights at least one of the central contradictions that is perhaps the greatest source of confusion over "what Second Life will be when it grows up": that while it's a world, with ...
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