More Steam, Cap’n!
Revisiting the upcoming inclusion of Second Life in the Steam catalog, today's post digs a bit deeper into the fears, realities and ramifications of listing SL on Steam.
View ArticleFleep’s Right-On Thoughts
The reason you need to read my post today is to follow the link to the post you MUST read. Fleep Tuque twists the focus of the mind's eye until everything comes into crystal clarity.
View ArticleI Feel Sorry For You Rodvik
Further thoughts on the "End Game" process at Linden Lab. Whereas I most often take on issues from a technical or business-minded approach, this post is born from my emotional side and with a personal...
View ArticleI’m Quite Frankly Befuddled … And Wrong
Some new information has come to light regarding Linden Lab's decision to eviscerate the JIRA Bug Reporting system. As it turns out, one of my basic opinions about the move was dead wrong. Today's post...
View ArticleSteam Punked
Sometimes the Muse dances through my office and lands daintily upon my shoulder, whispering her sweet siren song into my ear. Her lilac perfume fills my nostrils and woos my thoughts into a place of...
View ArticleSipping From A Firehose
Today's post is a wandering commentary on what to expect should Linden Lab actually follow through on their CEO's recent comments on the SL Forums. We're at a critical junction in the lifetime of...
View ArticleThe Focus of Interest
The creation of new and exciting Internet Platforms is the primary goal of many companies these days. While they all search frantically for that one "gotcha" that draws paying customers like flies to...
View ArticleThe Height of Arrogance
Today's post is a thinly disguised rant about the way Second Life customers are treated. I've tried to pretend it's a centrist opinion piece about the manner in which a company addresses its customers,...
View ArticleBe Careful What You Wish For …
There has long been an element of any online platform that engages solely for the purpose of harassing and destroying the pleasure of others. In the virtual world of Second Life, this activity has been...
View ArticleSL Marketplace – Where To Next?
The Second Life Marketplace is well entrenched and has recently "completed" its first major enhancement (Direct Delivery). Assuming that the Marketplace Dev Team is hunting for their next task, today's...
View ArticleWanton and Willful Fraud by Linden Lab
Never has the evidence been so clear and strong as it is now. Never has it been so obvious that Linden Lab is willfully and wantonly defrauding its customers. My first post in a long time is one I...
View ArticleEndings … And Beginnings
It's an old saw that in order for something new to begin, something old must end. Today's post discusses what that something old is in the case of DGP4SL ... and what the something new is as well.
View ArticleOld Sayings
Linden Lab announced this week that they are making Second Life available on their recently acquired Desura game shopping site. Today's post takes a step back and muses about the overall goals in place...
View ArticleThe Day After ToS’morrow
Now that I've decompressed a bit and gotten the spit'n'vinegar out of my system, today's post is a bit more contemplative about what I see as the logical follow-on from Linden Lab's new Terms of Service.
View ArticleThe Failure Called “Full Ownership”
One of the strategies we see employed routinely by many companies (such as Linden Lab) is something called "Full Ownership". Under the aegis of Full Ownership, the management team .. and sometimes...
View ArticleTesting the New Terms of Service
Now that it's become obvious Linden Lab will not backtrack on their new Terms of Service, what can we expect for the future? How will we know when it has been applied? Perhaps more importantly, how...
View ArticleDancing or Boxing?
Operating a company that is built around the creation and support of Internet-based User Community services demands a specific mindset in every day operations. If the company's management intends for...
View ArticleNerfing Second Life Microbusiness
Through all the trials and tribulations infesting Second Life, the one factor of the platform that stuck around and provided the saving grace for it was the ability of Business-People to sell their...
View ArticleLL’s Terms of Service – Where To Next?
We've all wrung our hands quite enough. We've listened (or should have listened) to the guidance put forth by real-life attorneys regarding the ToS. So now it's time to figure out what we should do....
View ArticleShooting Down a ToS Theory
Today's post is a short one, I promise. The goal is to demonstrate why one particular theory about the ToS is not a valid theory.
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