Major league congratulations to Isolde Flamand, who hosted the perfect storm of an event last night with the closing party for her Spring 2008 “Mosaic in SLiving Color” show. It was, in my humble opinion, The Best Second Life Arts Event Ever. And I’ve hosted a couple events and attended a couple more, [...]
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He who represents This World That Cannot Be Named is going to testify before Congress tomorrow and try to explain Second Life to an institution where one of their own thinks we all work with a series of tubes. Good luck, Phil. (And kudos to SL avatar Larry Pixel, whose RL owner is also [...]
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OMG – amazing! Thanks for everyone who checks in. And special thanks to those who offer their thoughts in the comments. It’s been quite a ride in Second Life, and I’m glad you’ve come along!
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All hail the Second Life Herald:
Long overdue and demanded by countless residents, Linden Lab introduced a new set of rules for residents and other people on the use of the company’s trademarks earlier this week. Much-lauded by numerous blogs, Linden Lab’s move highlights the company’s strong commitment to its customer base and is the [...]
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Second Life Left Unity, an inworld political action group, asks some real tough questions of Linden Lab as they suggest dots are being connected between between the new branding rules and the Linden Lab Terms of Service. If what these folks suggest is true, it’s a bit chilling.
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Dear Linden Lab®,
Your recent change of policy regarding the usage of your trademarks — Second Life®, Linden Lab®, and others registered by Linden Research Inc. — will effectively prevent the operation of the very vibrant community of bloggers, forum posters, websites, community portals, and even 3rd party services, that have provided Linden Lab® with links [...]
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Here’s my entry in tonight’s PhotoHunt event hosted by the Virtual Artist Alliance. Lots of WindLight on this one…but I especially like the shine in the tail. It wasn’t a winner, but I enjoyed the experience nonetheless.
Photo was taken at Cave Rua Water Gardens, by the way. Enjoy!
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As Morris posted HERE, LL wants their eyeball hand all to themselves, and wants no one to ever infringe upon the words “second” and “life” together.
Disclaimer: This picture posted in this blog in no way reflects anything to do with the company known as “Linden Lab” and the product “Second Life” Furthermore, this “Second [...]
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From Miss Hera, posted on the JIRA:
“Linden Labs should”, unforturnately isn’t the same as ‘linden labs does”.
Look up the amount of resold stolen item and the percentage of items where linden labs removed the UUID after a DMCA.
I’ve got a nice collection of stolen skins of which all still work and none have a removed [...]
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Linden Lab announced a new policy on the use of its trademarked brand. Reuters regurgitates it here.
Raul Crimson is confused by it. The Secondlife Newspaper (Good luck keeping that name on your publication!) offers a wee bit of insight that sanity could prevail. Vint Falken suggests both the silliness and the reality of the [...]
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