Posts tagged gigs-taggart 
Give us more worlds, Linden Lab
As Linden Lab continues to evolve Second Life towards a one-size-fits-all 'world'-product it encounters a wide variety of problems and issues. For example, existing users for whom the change means that the product is no longer the one they signed up for, while still not necessarily guaranteeing ...
Linden Lab announces winners of 2008 Hippo Awards
Linden Lab has announced the winners of this year's Hippo Awards (otherwise known as the Linden Lab Innovation Awards), which focus on the open-source community that surrounds their virtual environment, Second Life. This is the second set of Hippo Awards (the inaugural edition taking place last year ...
Second Life JIRA statistics site launches
A while back, Rob Linden was asking for volunteers to collect and compile periodic JIRA statistics. Jason Giglio took that idea "and kinda ran with it", producing the sljirastats website. JIRA, the issue tracker used by Linden Lab, is more or less frequently slammed for having a daunting interface. ...
The Linden dollar - every bit as fake as the US dollar
Caleb Booker (better known as Onder Skall) reports on this week's Metanomics session in Second Life. For those of you who came in late, Metanomics (sponsored by our friends over at Metaversed.com) seeks to study how economies work (or sometimes don't work) in virtual worlds and MMOs, how they ...
