Posts Tagged ‘business’

Are Forterra and Metaplace Just the First Two Dominos to Fall?

Over the next few weeks you’re going to see a lot of analysis, punditry and speculation related to the massive layoffs at Forterra Systems and the January 1st closure of Metaplace’s virtual world building site. So I thought I’d add my two cents before all the digital hot air steams up the place.

For starters, I’m surprised more virtual [...]


Botgirl Questi Beats Philip Rosedale’s LoveMachine To Market With Low-Tech Solution

If reports are right, Second Life founder Philip Rosedale’s LoveMachine start-up will be creating some sort of reputation currency for businesses. The currently two-man operation has a cool logo, a couple of entries on their blog and are offering a bounty of $50 (at least it’s not L$50) for a design stratgy for iPhone application [...]


Judging Linden

I dropped in today on a salon in Extropia featuring Hamlet Au. The discussion was pretty far ranging and participants included some of SL’s best and brightest. One brief discussion thread centered around what Linden Lab can do to enhance newcomer experience. Although some positive ideas were discussed, the general tone had a critical flavor.
Since [...]


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