DISQUS

Rockwell · 1 year ago

I will pay $10k to the first person to come up with a purpose for Second Life, period.

cpudan · 1 year ago

Watch these two videos - and I will let you know who to make the check out to later... LOL

http://virtualvip.blip.tv/#1357195

Will Wright · 1 year ago

It sure is interesting how VentureBeat likes to take shots at Linden. It is highly likely that Linden may be the leading revenue private company in Venture land and is almost certainly top 5. As the site that covers the VC industry, isn't this missing the forest for the trees (in this case your joke telling). For those of you that haven't noticed TenCent's $15B market cap, digital goods is a fantastic business. And when Facebook and MySpace finally figure out this is how you should monetize, perhaps then VentureBeat will be running in reverse.

River Ely · 1 year ago

Linden Labs are simply asking the users to create their income pathway for the future. They have no direction so are tasking you and I to give them and their business a sense of purpose that will create their income stream for themselves.

They feel we are sufficiently gullible to tell them how to turn their product into the big money. After all, many many contents creators, realtors, party organizers, builders, bankers and inventors have been turning their little business’s into real dollars for the last few years, and because Lindens don’t tax those sales, they have been missing out on the income.

Now, they have no clue how to grow their business, so they turn to their hard suffering residents, and as a joke, offer squillions on linden bucks as a meaningless carrot. Where is it going to be spent, with land prices tumbling as islands are getting turned off by the dozen per day, and a falling Linden Dollar Value to the USD. The winner will take weeks cashing out their winning, as the transaction limit will preclude it, and the value of the Linden Buck will follow its own market trend of collapsing. The Lindens will, however tax that conversion to USD thus ensuring your prize, is not quite as rosy it seems. It’s not a paradox, it’s more a last ditch desperate attempt to gain credulity.

We have been suggesting good things to do in SL for years and they have hardly ever listened to us, now we are leaving in drove for Open Life Grids and other sims, they are asking "What can we do"? It’s too little, too late.

I see the only way for Linden labs to survive is to meet other real world challenges head on for once, and instead of adding more gizmo's and gadgets.

River Ely

Rivers Blog: -
http://rivers-rock.blogspot.com/2008/11/linden-...

3D Virtual Worlds · 1 year ago

Virtual worlds are getting more mainstream and more grids like Second Life are coming online as we speak. People will find new usage for virtual worlds, there is no doubt about that and some good things can come out of that. It has already been proven simulated enviroments can be used for other things besides just plain entertainment or 3D chatrooms. As virtual worlds will become more advanced this new technology will open doors for all kinds of applications. These things take time but interesting projects will take place and people will find benefits from the usage of virtual worlds.

Count Burks

Dreamworld
http://www.virtualworld.sl

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