Welcome, Mark!

New CEO at Linden Labs®. As is expected, they have lots of nice things to say about the chosen one, Mark Kingdon. One thing I noticed, thought is the phrase "... and passion for Second Life® that we were looking for.". Does that mean that M Linden has a history of being inworld as the rest of us; living with the crashes and adfarms, but also with the fabulous art, great people and plain innovation that exists here?

If so, this is indeed good news; and I hope the combined experience of being part of such diverse communities as the auditors and consultant of PwC AND the rather more relaxed online world gives him an excellent background for the job.

Welcome to my gallery any time, Mark, either as M Linden or as your eventual old inworld identity which I will hope you keep alive; it will be nice to know that the CEO of this world actually lives and walks amongst us.

Updated: Just found this on Reuters: Mark describes himselves as "... an occasional Second Life user who created the avatar Marcus Voom in January, 2007. Nice to know!

Update two: Melanie Kidd stumbled over an AFK-ing Mark and got herselves a nice pic:-)

The new trademark policy

Linden Lab® has published their new policy on trademark issues, and as the nice metaverse citizen I am, I will actually try to comply. Why?

Gwyneth Llewelyn has a very blog entry describing the pros and cons. In the end, for me it boils down to this: Our world of user-created content will be unique, and the conformity-loving executives of Sony with their slick and boring 3D game of Home should not be allowed to use Second Life in their marketing efforts.

However much disagreements we may have with Linden Labs, Second Life is our world, so its worth the effort of pasting in a few ®'s.

Vote for Jira Option to "Mute Visibility" on objects to alleviate problems with 16sqm parcels, ad-farms and probably a thousand other eye sores

Jira #VW-1017 contains discussions and various functional solutions to the problem of visual spamming on the mainland. Wouldnt it be nice if one could just turn off all those ads for XXX Mall and Empress Club? It would be as if they were not there! Not to mention all those ugly red rotating "for sale" signs on all the free parcels around you.

If you agree on that, please open the Jira, log in and vote for this feature wish!