Have you seen Philip's quotes in the new Reuter's piece?

6 months from now:

(satire--not real yet)
"Philip Linden has resigned as COB of Second life, joining his old partner Cory Linden in a secret new venture. When asked for details of their new project, he stared into space and said, "Cory and I, weekly printed and cashed out Lindens--hey no harm no foul---they are "fictional " afterall----and we put capital aside for this new venture which we thought best to keep separate from the Labs for obvious reasons. All I can say at this time, is that the new project involves, dinosaur DNA and 3D reality TV. We now understand the audience that butters our bread and buys us our fine autos.


"We also already have various commercial concerns bidding for the SL Chat Logs and files on all avatars, going back to 2003, so we are looking at ways to best capitalize on all of that for the further strength of our new endeavor and to promote and document the moment by moment history of the 3D internet. We take Open Source ideals far more seriously and broadly, then people might think and since we own all the chat logs, they are there to do with as we please. These will be sold to the highest bidder."

So that is why Philip fired Cory. Good cover-up you rascally Lindens.

omg....this is so true, LOL

This is why you need to take any quote you read in the press with a grain of salt. I have served in a public position and every single time I have given a public statement to the press it was usually completed twisted around by them.

Trying to somewhat interpret what he was saying, it might make a lot of sense. I am sure they have lots of demographic data and look for where users are coming from. I live outside of NYC and rarely ever meet someone from NYC (i think 2 in a year and a half). Also when I have lots of time I am on sl a lot, when rl is busy I am not on as much, makes a lot of sense.

This is just my own experience, but I might say a majority of my friends are from the central United States and the vast majority of people I have met are young to mid 30's and married. Many women are married stay at home Mothers, which makes lots of sense. Doesn't mean this is everyone. One of the great things about sl is meeting people from all over the world.

If he did say those comments, then he does have a lot to learn about Diplomacy, but from interviews I have heard and read it doesn't sound like him.

This is why you need to take any quote you read in the press with a grain of salt. I have served in a public position and every single time I have given a public statement to the press it was usually completed twisted around by them.

Trying to somewhat interpret what he was saying, it might make a lot of sense. I am sure they have lots of demographic data and look for where users are coming from. I live outside of NYC and rarely ever meet someone from NYC (i think 2 in a year and a half). Also when I have lots of time I am on sl a lot, when rl is busy I am not on as much, makes a lot of sense.

This is just my own experience, but I might say a majority of my friends are from the central United States and the vast majority of people I have met are young to mid 30's and married. Many women are married stay at home Mothers, which makes lots of sense. Doesn't mean this is everyone. One of the great things about sl is meeting people from all over the world.

If he did say those comments, then he does have a lot to learn about Diplomacy, but from interviews I have heard and read it doesn't sound like him.

Well, that depends from the hours you login, only about 10% of my already big friends list is from USA, mainly because of the time zone

About oppressive and poor economic conditions, as stated on the key metric file on LL site, the 15 first countries by active AV which represents 86.80% have only 2 countries where we can still find some huge economical gaps on its populations (Brazil and Poland), but again, even the USA have huge gaps on its own population

On that list we also find a country with good weather (Brazil) and that is responsable for 4.6%

Regarding bandwith, wifi, bad laptops... I really can't believe that if their servers go down the reason is my bad equipment (and I know it's not because I use to run on my laptop 3 diferent AV)

What I really found of concerning is the fact that we have a total population of 13MM but the country by hours and country by active only shows a mere 544k avatars... imagine that if only 100k of them were online at the same time? If on a normal day the system get extremely laggy with 65k imagine with 100k... The main concern of LL should be the improvment of stability if not how do they think to incresase the premiums from the actual 89k?

Well, Drew Carrey plays SL..does that mean he's a loser with too much time on his hands?..hmm..I gotta think about that one..

The laptop comment is strange, seeing as (ex)King Phil also said he'd like to see SL running on something like OLPC. Well you know, Phil, getting it to run ok on a bargain laptop would have been a great start to that project!

I can get youtube on my mobile telephone if I figure out how. SL needs to be that portable.