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- Linden Lab VP, platforms & technology: Joe Miller
- Joe Miller, VP of platforms and technology development at Linden Lab talks to CNET's Dan Farber about the challenges in developing dynamic and reliable backend operations for the 3D virtual world of Second Life. Miller also discusses how they're incorporating new hi-tech conferencing tools for business users such as VoIP...
- Tags: VP, Streaming Video, Linden Lab, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Digital Video, VOIP, Telecommunications, Internet, Personal Technology, Networking, Administrator
- Blog posts 2008-09-02
- Business meetings in Second Life
- Joe Miller, VP of platforms and technology development at Linden Lab, explains how Second Life has become a competitor to Cisco’s Telepresence in conducting international meetings, group projects, and even recruiting and job training.
- Tags: Second Life, Job Training, Recruitment & Selection, Training And Certification, Collaboration, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Linden Lab
- Videos 2008-09-02
- Second Life: avatar sued for copyright infringement
- When Second Life's makers, Linden Lab, made the decision to allow users to retain all intellectual property rights for virtual items that they created, it was always likely that the virtual world would someday be dragged into court. And that's exactly what's set to happen.As Reuters reports:Second Life entrepreneur Kevin...
- Tags: Virtual Worlds, Second Life, Net culture
- Blog posts 2007-07-04
- Second Life to open-source grid; will Google bite?
- Having already taken the timid steps of open-sourcing the code for its client software, Linden Lab have confirmed that theyll be going the whole way, and will soon be opening up the server code for Second Life. This is big news, as it furthers Second Lifes ambitions to be a...
- Tags: Virtual Worlds, Second Life, Google
- Blog posts 2007-04-18
- FBI peering into virtual casinos
- Do their avatars wear shiny black shoes? The FBI has been poking around Second Life, at the invitation of 2L creators Linden Lab, to look into possibly illegal virtual gambling, but the government says its not sure if gambling in the fake world is illegal, Reuters reports. "We have...
- Tags: Law enforcement, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-05
- FBI visits Second Life
- Reuters is reporting that Second Lifes makers, Linden Lab, have invited the FBI into the virtual world to investigate and advise on the possible illegality of gambling in-world:"We have invited the FBI several times to take a look around in Second Life and raise any concerns they would like, and...
- Tags: Virtual Worlds, Second Life
- Blog posts 2007-04-04
- Integrated voice coming to 'Second Life'
- Integrated voice coming to 'Second Life'This is Great news forEnglish Village! A place to learn a language online!I am Fire Centaur Paul Preibisch in RL and the owner of English Village in SL Second LifeThis is amazing news for us, because my Virtual Island is specifically for language learning. ...
- Tags: TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Games, Linden Lab, voice, English Village, Second Life
- Discussion threads 2007-02-27
- Second Life IP rights; here today, gone tomorrow
- Second Lifes IP policy reads: "You create it, you own it -- and its yours to do with as you please." The idea being that users own the Intellectual Property rights to any virtual works that they create in-world. However, a more honest version might read, "You create it, you...
- Tags: Second Life, Linden Lab, intellectual property, intellectual property right
- Blog posts 2007-02-03
- Second Life eyeing upload fees, better bandwidth use, Flash/Firefox projects
- Linden Lab CTO Chief Technnology Officer Cory Ondrejka says that Second Life is eyeing upload fees for textures."I like the idea of differential upload costs for textures, I’m curious what other folks think about that," he said during an SecondLife virtual town hall meeting last night. The...
- Tags: Second Life, trends, General, Mozilla Firefox, texture
- Blog posts 2006-12-21
- Meet the virtual worlds maven
- Linden Lab--where 'Second Life' is firstAt Supernova2006 in San Francisco, Linden Lab founder and CEO Philip Rosedale appears in the flesh and talks with CNET News.com's Neha Tiwari about real-world events.
- Tags: Linden Lab
- Videos 2006-06-23
- A more exciting, animated you
- Linden Lab updates the animation features of "Second Life," its virtual-reality worldSan Francisco-based Linden Lab's online role-playing environment "Second Life" is an online community for anyone over 18 looking for a virtual escape. Linden Lab CEO Phillip Rosedale gives correspondent James Hilliard a tour and explains how users are turning...
- Tags: Linden Lab, Second Life
- Videos 2004-06-21
Additional Resources
- Asus ships Eee Box PCs with malware
- Asus ships Eee Box PCs with malwareAsus ships Eee Box PCs with malwareThis is a deliberate attempt by Asus to get people to move away from Microsoft Windows and get the Asus eee's with linux installed. I hope Microsoft sues them for negligence. After that people will not want...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, Microsoft Windows, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Operating systems, ASUS, Eee Box PC, malware
- Discussion threads 2008-10-09
- Another bit of positive green investment news. Smart grid is again the focus.
- More positive news on the clean-tech investment front announced before the market meltdown but significant nonetheless: Another smart-grid player, GridPoint, is using at least some of its $120 million in recently raised equity financing to buy V2Green, which sells technology for integrating infrastructure for supporting plug-in electric hybrids with the...
- Tags: Alternative Energy, Grid, Clean Technology, Hybrid, GridPoint, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Teaching telecommuting
- Teaching telecommutingtelecommuting skills?I'm a fulltime telecommuter, though I do venture out to teach an IRL composition class a couple of days a week. I think the kids already have the skills they need to telecommute, and they value having the connection between the classroom and that new work environment made...
- Tags: telecommuting
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- Large Hadron Collider gets fresh power supply
- Cern is planning to build a new computing hub in France, because its existing one is sucking the power grid dry. The lab cracking data from the Cern Large Hadron Collider experiment needs a new computing hub because its existing one is sucking the power grid dry. ...
- Tags: CERN, Power Supply, Grid, Computer, Hadron Collider, Productivity, Large Hadron Collider, particle accelerator, physics, Nick Heath, silicon.com
- News items 2008-10-08
- A question about web server volume failures
- A question about web server volume failuresWrite heavy loadI don't think you can compare a write-heavy do-not-call registry to a mostly static wordpress site.It wouldn't hard to mock-up a simple registry site and test it.The question you seem to be askig is.. how do i make my site scalable.Lets start...
- Tags: Web servers, Firewalls, Storage, Web server, server, database, router, firewall, Web
- Discussion threads 2008-10-07
- Canon EF 70-200mm f4 IS USM L
- You want a medium telephoto lens for your Canon dSLR, something with a constant aperture, solidly built with pro quality, yet light enough to carry on adventure to some far away part of the world. You have looked at the f2.8 models but didn't think you could afford them or...
- Tags: Mode 1, Canon Inc., lens, aperture, f4 IS USM L
- Product reviews 2008-10-06
- Welcome to the Data Cloud ?
- 'The Cloud' is increasingly prevalent in tech conversation these days. Stalwarts of the space such as Amazon and Salesforce go from strength to strength, whilst titans of an earlier model such as Larry Ellison and even Steve Ballmer now seek to appropriate the meme. New blogs like CloudAve play a...
- Tags: Web, Data, UKOLN, Channel Management, Internet, Semantic Web, Cloud Computing, Marketing, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Semantic guardians for our computers?
- Semantic guardians for our computers?ActuallyNo, I built my PC's using components I selected that were manufactured here on good ol' terra firma. I don't experience crashes since I use Linux and am not afflicted with malware issues.Also I selected the hardware components and matched them. Maybe I am just lucky......
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Development tools, Processors, Semantic Guardians, programmer, computer
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- The cost of doing business in China: Privacy
- There's a good amount of scuttlebutt today on a report that highlights how the Chinese government is monitoring Skype traffic for keywords that may offend the Communist party. The report in question Techmeme, Breaching Trust: An analysis of surveillance and security practices on China's Tom-Skype platform, details...
- Tags: China, Monitoring, Privacy, Skype Technologies S.A., Tom-Skype, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
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