SLentrepreneur Magazine

Former Adobe Systems and Macromedia Executive to Join Senior Leadership Team of Linden Lab
SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Linden Lab®, creator of the virtual world Second Life®, today announced the appointment of Tom Hale as Chief Product Officer. Hale brings over 15 years of experience in product development, marketing and management, having most recently served as Senior Vice […]

 
By Sigmund Leominster, News Editor
At this year’s Second Life™ Community Conference (SLCC) in Tampa, Florida, a group of OpenSim developers and Linden Lab® employees ran a session called “Open Software for Open Worlds.” One of the topics that came up was whether the OpenSim environments would be able to use Linden™ dollars. From a financial […]

First job board and career site dedicated to real jobs in virtual world development,animation, and 3D design offers special promotions at Expo and in-world.

By Avarie Parker
I recently had the chance to ask Google about the future of Lively, it’s new 3D chat platform. Most importantly - would they be making any improvements that might make it more of a draw for Second Life residents, such as user generated content and access to content creation tools?

Virtual World Marketing Expert to Present on Government Usage of Virtual Worlds at National Conference of State Legislatures
Leigh Rowan, VP of Interactive Marketing for virtual worlds marketing firm TheSLAgency, will present at 8:00AM on Friday July 25 on a panel entitled “A New Life for Online Government.” Rowan’s presentation at the NCSL will focus on […]

Gibson Guitar, the world’s premier musical instrument manufacturer and leader in music technology announced the launch of the official Gibson Island on Second Life.com (SL). Gibson is the first major music manufacturer to establish an official island in Second Life and has advanced the opportunity for consumers to participate in an exciting virtual world complete […]

By Sigmund Leominster, News Editor
The Second Life® television company, Metaverse Broadcasting Corporation (MBC), is expanding its operations to become a broader media company. Back in March 2008, SLentrepreneur talked to MBC’s CEO, Robustus Hax, and his vice chairman, ClaudeVon Streeter about the TV station and their plans for expansion. At that time, they talked about […]

Press release from: VirWoX
(openPR) - The “Virtual World Exchange” (VirWoX), a trading platform where users of the virtual world “Second Life” can exchange its fictual currency “Linden dollars” for real-world currencies such as the Euro, British Pound and Swiss Franc, today announced its operating results for the 2nd quarter of 2008.
Compared to the first quarter, […]

By Sigmund Leominster, News Editor
On Monday 23rd June, 2008, Mark Kingdon, the new CEO of Linden Lab®, gave his first public speech to the citizens of Second Life™. Some of his comments might provide us with a glimpse of what is happening and what is to come at LL.
“We are at a really interesting time […]

TBD Consulting has moved its Second Life offices to a new, larger location and have expanded to create “Learning Innovation Island.” The island will serve as a multi-use location to provide many services to the Second Life learning community and businesses using this virtual world to get work done.