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Gerrit Eicker 19:04 on 24. June 2010 Permalink
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  Gerrit Eicker 19:10 on 24. June 2010 Permalink | Reply

  Rosedale: “Mark Kingdon is going to step down as CEO, and I am going to return as interim CEO, working side-by-side with former CFO Bob Komin, who is being promoted to COO. – This is a big, tough change but one the board of directors and management team deeply believes in. We owe Mark great thanks for the many things we’ve accomplished in these last two years – most notably a great improvement in the stability of Second Life, and also the hiring and nurturing of a strong team of new leaders who are now ready to do some amazing work together.”

  DW: “Mark’s work wasn’t enough to see the anticipated increase in new users. Predicting that the Lab would break 100,000 concurrency, Linden Lab has instead seen a new viewer that was met with resistance by the current user community while efforts to attract new users seemed to fall flat. – In announcing the retraction of the hiring of 100s of people under Mark’s watch through lay-offs, he positioned the changes as a way to focus on things that matter to both Residents and to the larger goal of bringing Second Life to a larger user base. This plan was implicitly endorsed by Philip Rosedale during a recent speech to Second Life Residents.”

  VB: “Back in April, Kingdon said Second Life was bucking the trend of a decline in traffic for virtual worlds. Social networks are the new craze, but Second Life saw $160 million in user-to-user transactions in the first quarter, up 30 percent from a year ago. The company’s monthly unique user number hit a peak of 826,000 in March, up 13 percent from a year earlier. This happened even as virtual worlds such as Vivaty, There.com and Metaplace were shutting down.“

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  Gerrit Eicker 06:11 on 25. June 2010 Permalink | Reply

  ST: “The King is Dead; Long Live the King. … Whatever you want to say about Philip, he understands that Second Life is about the world, a world created by his company but with everybody else, and as he himself said, which contains many people’s livlihoods. … I think it’s an exciting time. I love Philip and I’m glad he’s back. I hope his sojourn out in the parks and coffee shops of San Francisco with his solar-powered laptop making his goofy Love Machine has maybe sorted rather than addled his brains, and brought him to a point where he can motivate staff and reach out to community constituencies compellingly. … Bring back town meetings, bring back Philip and other Lindens at them, and control griefing by prebanning and ejecting the obvious Woodbury remainders instead of indulging them because they are the friends of people like Rodney Linden. – Bring back the Feature Voting System! – Out of enthusiasm, excitement, love. – We’re not going to risk the livlihoods by growing ahead of profits. – We’re safe, the world is safe.”

  SLOG: “Philip is a visionary, but more importantly he is a visionary who has the ability to make you believe in his vision, and that is what Second Life needs most. People have started to doubt the prospect of Second Life and lost the vision, if Philip can do one thing is bring that back. He won’t be the only visionary working on that, Mitch Kapor, famous technology entrepreneur and investor in Linden Lab has announced that he will be working closely with Philip as he returns as CEO. – Philip’s two speeches from last week will now come under scrutiny, trying to find clues of what is to come. One of the Philip’s repeating statements in those speeches has been: ‘We were doing to much, we actually have to do less then two thirds with two thirds of the people‘. The two thirds is referring to the massive 30% lays off from earlier this month.”

  TC: “June has not been a good month for Linden Lab, the creator of virtual world Second Life. A few weeks ago, the company announced that it was laying off 30 percent of its staff and taking Second Life into a new direction. … The company did not give a reason for the reshuffling of the executive team but it’s safe to assume that it reflects Linden Lab’s new strategic direction. … Considering the company’s new direction towards building out a presence on social networks, Linden Lab is probably going to be embarking on a search for an exec with significant experience developing on these platforms. … As we wrote in the past, Linden Lab isn’t completely dead. The company was reportedly valued between $658 million and 700 million a year ago. If Linden can turnaround Second Life and push the social agenda, the virtual world could rise again.“

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