Linden Lab assigns Clare Rees as new European Marketing Director

Clare Rees is the new European Marketing Director of Linden Lab, the Makers of Second Life.
She has been working as Marketing Director and Senior Group Manager (Creative, Education & Mobile) at Macromedia/Adobe since 1998.
(source: http://www.pressebox.de/pressemeldungen/linden-lab/boxid-206692.html (not public yet))

CSI:NY Die Venusfalle

… läuft jetzt im deutschen Fernsehen (Montag, 29. September, 20:15 auf Vox). Das Original wurde in USA am 24. Oktober ausgestrahlt, hier eine Übersicht der damaligen Planung (Bernd Schmitz). und einige Impressionen der früheren Ausstrahlung (Tateru Nino auf Secondlifeinsider.com) Zur Handlung:

Cheryl Miller wird tot aufgefunden.
Schnitte an ihrem Hals und Überreste von Handfesseln deuten daraufhin, dass [...]

M Linden announces new Linden Lab Senior Vice President

In teh blog, M Linden just announced the new Senior Vice President and Chief of Product (whatever that is), T Linden (Tom Hale). Tom is the second former Adobe employee, after Clare Rees, who was acclaimed European Marketing Director a few days ago.
Also, Dusan Writer has a detailed critique on the second big news, that [...]

Second Life beats Real Life in collaborational tasks

In a psychological test setup of the Penn State University, three groups of students had to solve a complicated mathematical text question, one of them over voice chat, one group met in meatspace, and the third group gathered in a Second Life environment.

The face-to-face teams felt most confident of their performance, yet the Second Life [...]

Interoperability: Where do we stand?

tx Oh was at the Orange Island interoperability meeting. And he made an audio recording of the conference, I am hearing right now. Way interesting, the idea of merging 2D / Web2.0 with 3D / Web3.0: Instead of bringing the web to SL, take your avatar (and your friend’s ones) from SL to the two-dimensional [...]