New blog post on LL's Content Management Roadmap

https://blogs.secondlife.com/community/community/blog/2009/08/04/our-content-management-roadmap

Go read it. It's a biggie.

Interesting blog. I picked up on the mention of downloadable 'behind-the-firewall' standalone version of SL and the likley need for being able to copy your items from the grid to the standalone and vice versa. This hints that LL standalones might not just be for the big corporations but for the likes of us ordinary residents. If the price is right, I'd be interested.

Darien, I noticed that we both joined the forums in Oct 2006 and you've made 2934 posts and I've made 3294 - the same digits but different order! Spooky (slightly)!

"Taking a holistic approach to content management, we are hard at work on new and improved content tools, programs, and policies."

Holistic approach? Is that their new Tao philosophy?


"... we're going to lay out our current plans, and then invite you to help us shape them to best meet the community's needs."

Sort of like they laid out their plans for the forums and invited us to help shape them, twice now that I know of.


"For more detailed information, please continue reading below, and then join the discussions in the forums.
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Join the discussion in the forums ...."

Of course that discussion is in that new crappy thing they have the nerve to call a forum.


Oh well, off to read in more detail now that the initial skimming has already given me such hope.

What could possibly go wrong with that?

Thank you for making that explicit!

What about for the rest of us? Will this be restricted to Enterprise customers, or will we be able to add these to any content as suggested in http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SVC-701

HOT DAMN! About time!

Lets wait and see what LL does as they never seem to get it right, but at least its a step in the right direction that's for sure but will they make as big a FU as they do with everything else?

I especially love the



and we all know what a load of BS that statement is with your feedback is important

The Content Seller Program sounds like just another garbage move by LL. As Darien pointed out in the blog (now known as the forums, incidentally), it will mean that the rich get richer while the poor will have precious little chance of getting 'certified' (up and running). I.e. those that have already run good businesses will be certified but those who want to start up won't get certified and will be at a megahuge disadvantage right from the word "go". It'll be a catch 22 - if you can't show you're a good seller, you can't get certified, but if you're not certified, you can't become a good seller. It's just another piece of the typical stupidity that we expect from the LL management.

This is total crap and recklessly discriminatory.

All I see is LL trying to find a way to provide content to those BIAB platforms they're trying to flog. The platform is pretty useless to most businesses unless they can get their hands on content. no one wants to hold a business meeting on a piece of flat green..

Therefore only those who LL feel won't get them in court for copyright infringement (remember LL will be recommending these people) and will provide a reasonable quality are going to qualify.

There appears to be other pressures that have triggered this (rezzables certainly springs to mind after reading those not so veiled references) and it's unsurprising that they want to clean up xsl after the taser threat (and I'm sure there have been other companies too that we won't hear about) but I'm laying bets this is all protecting their backs and about adding value to those plug and play environments.

I'd just let them and their lawyers get on with it. On past performance it's a waste of our time to participate, I'm not seeing anything that actually needs discussion.

So they're still flinging that "we're interested in what you thnk" bullshit, eh?

Best Blog ever from Linden Labs.
Say more stuff like that LL !!!
It was good, it was refreshing, it was like the air after a thunderstorm. Clear, fresh and easy to breathe

Well, I think LL's plan has always been to have creators offer their carefully screened goods to corporate clients. How it hashes out will be interesting to see.



Yeah, that's a pretty crazy coincidence

This was the part that bugged me.



Okay...only thing that might get me is #3. I sell, but not a whole lot. How are they going to tally this? Are they counting even the L$0 items? (Man, that'd be gamed if they did!)

#2... I know some content creators who got suspended for ToS violations, but learned their lesson and moved on to be very productive. So, LL's just going to kick them to the curb as well?

If they were actually interested in what people thought, they'd use the forums that work and that people use...

This time we should be payed adequate before starting to think/type a single bit.

Consulting is not longer available for free.

No kidding. I'm so tempted to post that to the other "forums."

/me too. Sadly, the only one who might read it and feel the need to respond is somebody like Blue. Not really looking to give Blue extra crap..

Because the invitation to discuss policy changes and help them meet the community's needs certainly worked so well with Zindra... and openspace pricing changes...

I'm not going to pass judgment yet. A better DMCA process is overdue. And permissions for assets moving between 3D worlds is going to be necessary pretty soon. But a certified retailer program requiring "a minimum threshold for content transactions" reads like a "no entry" sign for anyone who isn't already well-established.

I'll be standing by with curiosity about how (if?) dialog with their customers will shape the plans they are announcing.

This is a great way to get rid of everyone they dont want in SL LOLOLOL

Kill content creation LOL
Second Life is now nothing more then the dead Active Worlds LOL GAWD Linden Lab how stupid CAN you get LOL what idiots LOLOLOL

You forgot to say ELEVEN1111

While I'll make no judgments on how this will ultimately turn out (except to not that LL does not have the best track record in following up good ideas with actual implementation), I'll give credit for this being one of the less double-speaking blog posts for a long time.

I'm not too fond of the implications of the "Content Seller Program", I have little faith that an "industry standard for copy tools" will be obeyed by those who matters, and I think Yue's analysis that this is a way to ensure usable content for their "in a box" offshoots is spot on, but it is still unusually clear speak from LL.

-Whether it stays with that and the handwaving, time will tell.
But if we get an SL where only registered, approved content creators are able to do business... well, I'm off to Blue Mars.

Yeah, sure it is.

O you might want to use second invintory NOW to save your stuff before LL makes that impossible ya know.

Definately agree.. too soon to tell really, but it sounds like a couple long-needed things are being addressed. Though it also sounds like they're attaching their new "favor the big money resident" plan to these changes like a legislative bill with a self-serving rider attached. We'll see...
I would love to see them overhaul the permissions system and give people a wide range of options, not just the few we have.
I do have to say though that it's pretty obvious by their talk on industry standards about copying that they really have no real plan to attack it, other than to plead to software designers not to include "bad" functionality unchecked.

Indeed, I doubt that was typed with a straight face or maybe they believe that giving people a discussion and then ignoring everything that is said is part of the feedback process, they have an awful record on taking notice of feedback.

However, they need residents onboard with this one so I expect to see some sort of genuine response to feedback here, rather than the BS they gave on homesteads, trademark issues and the adult content policy.

The need to be in good standing is nonsense, the crime needs to be linked to bad merchant behaviour rather than someone throwing a hissy fit or having a nipple displayed in the wrong art gallery.

The minimum threshold is like the gold solution program, people pay for that status I believe so I hope this isn't going to be like that and how do you determine this threshold? Number of sales isn't as important as length of time for example. This threshold just needs to be low enough to prevent someone from being a flash in the pan scammer.

Now is also the time to link our alts and verify them in the background.