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By Linden Lab
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2008 Hippo Award Winners Announced
We’re pleased to announce the winners of the second annual Linden Lab Innovation Awards, known as “the Hippos,” which honor the exceptional, and varied, work done by open source community members.
Rob Linden presented the awards at a mixed reality event that linked an inworld gathering of nominees, attendees of the Second Life Community Convention in [...]
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Second Life and Ad Farms
In this blog post I will be talking about Ad Farming. As with my previous post, I’d like to then move the discussion into the forums so that as many of you as possible can give us your opinion.
Please keep in mind that this post is about the Linden Mainland, and does [...]
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Connecting Second Life to Real Life
Today, we?re happy to formally announce SLim, a lightweight, voice-enabled instant messaging client that will allow you to communicate with your Second Life friends without logging in to the full viewer. While the viewer will still serve as the primary communication engine when you?re inworld, having SLim installed will enable you to connect with friends [...]
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Linden Lab Blog Changes to Give Residents More Choices
Some Residents have told me they worry the Linden Lab Blog is quieter than usual, and that this may reflect a decreased commitment by us to communication. In fact, the opposite is true. We?re making changes to enhance dialogue with you through adding better tools and organization along with fewer constraints.
Limitations of the Current Blog [...]
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Mono Launch
I’m delighted to announce that Mono is ready to launch as part of the 1.24 Server deploy starting today.
Mono is an open source technology that improves the stability and speed of scripts ? particularly calculation-intensive ones. In some of the internal benchmarking we?ve done, scripts running on Mono ran up to 220 times faster. This [...]
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Burning Life: A call for volunteers
BURNING LIFE 2008
September 27 - October 5
In 1999, an innovative man made the long trek from San Francisco to the sun-baked playa of an enormous, flat, dry lakebed in the Nevada high desert. He went to attend the renowned Burning Man festival where, for one week each year, tens of thousands of people from around [...]
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How to report abuse and handle griefing - Video Tip of the Week #47
Getting griefed isn?t fun, but this enlightening video tutorial sure is. I collaborated with our peacekeeping Governance Team to teach you how to file effective abuse reports so you can have a happier Second Life.
Action-packed griefing and conflict resolution tips are shown, and so are effective ways to use tools we provide ? like how [...]
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August Mainland supply update
A short post to let you know that after reviewing the current market, we are remaining unchanged on Mainland supply. There will be no new whole regions offered at auction. We will review the situation again at the end of the month.
The mainland price is remaining consistent, the Mean average being L$7.10 per meter over [...]
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Default textures and neon signs - Video Tips of the Week #45 & #46
I?ve got a double treat for you today ? 2 (two) tips of the week! They?re both followups re: questions I got about Here island o? Enlightenment, which you should, like, totally visit if you haven?t already.
Have you ever wanted to use a custom texture when clicking the Default button in the texture [...]
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The Future of the Second Life Mainland
This is a post about the Mainland, and more specifically, about an exciting and necessary change of direction we’re taking. I’m also going to talk about why we think the Mainland is important, what we feel the issues are and some of the ways that we intend to transform it for those of you that [...]
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