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The Archives
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11.18.09Long live the broads, the Pods are deadThe pods are dead. Those little postcard box things on the Second Life home page have finally been put to pasture....not without the benefit, I suppose, of knowing what buttons people clicked on and that shopping was more popular than sailing or whatever it was. I called it a photo booth - and was never a fan: "Second Life is now a giant photo booth. A photo booth where you scrawl little words on the pictures or whatever so you remember them years from now, or you were too drunk that night, or you couldn’t really remember WHO the person was ...
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06.28.09Second Life and the Web: The New DashboardI was starting to get a little anxious, like maybe I had placed too much faith in Mark Kingdon, CEO of the Lab, and all those adults he brought in to help run the place - the ones from Pixar and Adobe or wherever who have sort of toiled away behind the scenes doing, well, we weren't sure what, we were told that they were smart people and things would change. It's over a year now that Mark has been at the Lab. And I kept saying "give it time, he seems so damned organized and to be so consistent in ...
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02.14.09Choose Your Channel: Linden Lab Blog Changes and Finding Your LoveLinden Lab announced that it was killing the single channel blog and replacing it with a new and improved version this coming week: one that will stream blog postings into individual 'channels', include 'members only' streams for things like educators and solution providers, and give Torley some space back. I can't help feeling an odd sense of loss. Maybe it's on the heels of Robin Linden's departure from the Lab (and here's hoping she is true to her word and we see her, um, new her on the Grid). I was really touched today to see the number of people who ...
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