Re: An open letter to the Lindens
Good article. I agree that SL seems to be declining fairly rapidly. They either need to really change their pricing/business model if they want to stay competitive or, take their business in a totally...
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SL does have SIGNIFICANTLY more people than OpenSim. SL is quite a bit head of OpenSim in community and content. However, in technical functionality, I'd say that OpenSim already has the edge. Features...
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On Twitter, Will Burns just asked about the business practicality of what I'm proposing: https://twitter.com/darianknig...I'm currently finishing up a big feature article on open source software in the...
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SL's existing architecture and technology needs a major revamping anyway. With the advent of the Oculus Rift, expect to see more demand for more realistic environments, and more people in the same...
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The back-end architecture of OpenSim is significantly different from that of Second Life. Where the two overlap is in LibOpenMetaverse -- the set of messages sent between the viewer and the server....
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Hmmm.. open sourcing SL server code... it would probably take a significant rewriting, since right now, Second Life operates on the assumption that both the regions and the central servers are run by a...
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Maria, you have said very well what I've been rambling about for several years. Wanna be Linden Lab's next CEO? You certainly have vision for the future.
View ArticleRe: OMC currency use more than triples in 2013
Maria told me to go ahead and post my more in-depth review of this, showing that the growth is only because of two grids: http://grid-press.com/2014/01/...
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We just used our latest partnerships to relaunch Grid-Press and have already begun hiring journalists and getting it back up to par. I suggest looking into partnerships as to oppose just relying on ad...
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What do you mean by "partnerships"?
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We partner with other companies or grids who are interested in getting Grid-Press off the ground and up and running again. We have great rules in place that prevent them from requested articles that...
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That's a very different business model. We run press releases that seem interesting or relevant for our readers, but we would never accept money for running a press release or article.We want to make...
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One of the things that High Fidelity is working on is distributing the computing currently done by central servers across many more computers (including idle home computers).Linden Lab is one of the...
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The number of active OpenSim users is something like 20,000 per month. It's actually smaller than the number of OpenSim servers.The number of active SL users is something like 500,000 per month.(If you...
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You wrote: "They had raised prices as high as they could get away with and they will never kill their golden cow in my view. No, they have proved beyond question they are milking it for all it's worth...
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I just put out the latest numbers a couple of weeks ago... but it sounds about right. Second Life is where the users are.Unfortunately, unless those users are buying land, then they're just costing...
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I cant believe you are still tugging at the apron strings of Linden Labs.Firstly what you seem to be doing here is suggesting that LL abandon its current business model (mega million dollar operation)...
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Prices in SL are fine, The only thing needed to do is adjust there TOS to something more user friendly. Like anything else in the World prices have to rise some call it inflation. Like cigarettes in...
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Lets not forget the most important 30k/40k residents vs 1k at any given time, You figure out where those numbers belong.
View ArticleRe: Last year’s OMC growth on shaky ground
The concept of OMC is good. But what bothers me is that VirWox is the sole exchange handling the transactions. Which of course makes sense as it is their currency. What would make more sense to me is...
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