The Real Truth About Second Life’s Number of User Accounts

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More observant readers might have noticed that the image in this article dates back from the summer of… 2010. That’s right, it’s 15 years old! And back then, this author already warned: the known number of Second Life resident accounts is overinflated, simply because there are so many ‘bots around,

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Bitcoin, Shmitcoin…

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Where the author points out a very strange coincidence about the speculative bubble around Bitcoin.

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Facebook creates new Virtual World company?

Is Facebook not stopping with virtual world acquisitions? After buying Oculus VR, Linden Lab, High Fidelity, will they add Kitely and others to a new company, separately run by Cory Ondrejka and John Carmack, and joining together any developer who is not already working for Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, Apple, or Google?

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Linden Lab to release web-based viewer

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It’s not just Tipodean that is doing a Web-based SL viewer. Linden Lab is also experimenting with the same technology. While they admitted that this was “just an experiment”, they are redefining the whole concept, and will launch a WebGL-based viewer later this year. Update (October 2022) Well, well. Another

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Philip Rosedale will not continue as CEO

Disappointing 20 millions of fans, Philip will announce that he is leaving Linden Lab… again. Although they should have learned the lesson with M Linden, the new CEO will be someone who has no clue about Second Life, never logged in long enough to have a feeling of what it’s

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