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Snowflake Fairymeadow
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04-22-2008 16:45
He has written some pretty good articles regarding customer service!

That made me kinda hopeful, since lack of it is one of my biggest gripes here.
SuezanneC Baskerville
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04-22-2008 16:52
When you do a People search for M Linden using the old People search tab it drops the M and returns all the Lindens.

That sucks.

The new style search appears to drop the single letter and return some of the list of lindens and a bunch of other people - unsorted.

Lindens should have names that you can search for.

We should be able to search efficientlly for first initial and last name.

Maybe he can address this burning issue.

:p
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Nika Talaj
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04-22-2008 16:52
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What he's going to do is to give Philip more time to steer the ship. Hopefully Linden Lab will no longer be the ship of fools it has been for the past three years.

We need Phil to get back to applying his vision again...
Wow. Really? I've been with a fair number of private, venture-backed companies ... I've never seen a chairman have any role at all in day-to-day operations, unless they were also the CEO. Strategic vision, sure. "Steering the ship?" People would expect the CEO to do that.

But, Philip is a creative guy. Perhaps he can make that happen ... somehow ... if he wants to. He has more industry experience than M does though, he knows how it works. IIt'll be really amazing to watch if he tries to "steer the ship" in any sort of hands-on way.
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04-22-2008 17:00
First question to new CEO:

Are you going to get tough on in-world crooks, scams, bots? Or are you going to be laissez failure as it has been?
Macphisto Angelus
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04-22-2008 17:12
heh, I just checked his in world profile (Marcus Voom) and unless the search is borked again it is a blank slate. No pic, no payment info on file, no groups.. nothing. He doesn't appear to have dabbled much with SL lol.


Of course, search could be borked.
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04-22-2008 17:24
THE SKY IS FALLING! SL IS DOOMED!!!

Wait, is this one of those end of the world threads?
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04-22-2008 17:32
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THE SKY IS FALLING! SL IS DOOMED!!!

Wait, is this one of those end of the world threads?


No, this is one of the wait and see threads.
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Salazar Jack
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04-22-2008 17:57
From: SuezanneC Baskerville
When you do a People search for M Linden using the old People search tab it drops the M and returns all the Lindens.

That sucks.

The new style search appears to drop the single letter and return some of the list of lindens and a bunch of other people - unsorted.

Lindens should have names that you can search for.

We should be able to search efficientlly for first initial and last name.

Maybe he can address this burning issue.

:p


He's very creative at avoiding detection... at least initially.

Well sir, the gauntlet has been dropped.

The search is on for M Linden! Not Magellan, but Linden... M Linden.
Har Fairweather
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04-22-2008 17:58
At least this reliably age-verifies one NPIOF. Progress already.
Macphisto Angelus
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04-22-2008 17:59
From: Salazar Jack
He's very creative at avoiding detection... at least initially.

Well sir, the gauntlet has been dropped.

The search is on for M Linden! Not Magellan, but Linden... M Linden.


Find Philip in world and you will likely see M right with him. :p
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SuezanneC Baskerville
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04-22-2008 18:47
You can find him in the searches, but in the old search you have to look from the beginning of the list up to the M's.

The new search does list him. I overlooked him because it's not in alphabetical order, and he only has one line. N00b.
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SuezanneC Baskerville
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04-22-2008 18:48
First statement to new CEO: Please stop sending the gray textures. I didn't order them. Whoever did order them is probably getting frantic about them after all these years of waiting.
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Macphisto Angelus
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04-22-2008 18:54
From: SuezanneC Baskerville
he only has one line. N00b.


LOL!!! He has a sense of humor. Good, he is gonna need it. :)
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Macphisto Angelus
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04-22-2008 19:35
This is great. I found this on SecondLie's Twitter feed:

http://gridexpectations.wordpress.com/2008/04/23/i-met-m-linden-well-sort-of-lol/
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SuezanneC Baskerville
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04-22-2008 20:34
From: Macphisto Angelus
LOL!!! He has a sense of humor. Good, he is gonna need it. :)
Oh, his line in the search results is just "Resident Profile: M Linden" or similar.

I was calling him a n00b.

His profile says "Hey, folks!" or something like that.

He's not in any groups. He needs to join some big membership groups so he can experience the joy of chat lag.
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Phoenix Psaltery
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04-22-2008 21:00
From: Macphisto Angelus
Ironic that the story goes to Reuters, forums, press releases then finally where SL users are to look for communication (LL official blog). Kinda shows the food chain. LOL Communication for the win.


No, the press release was issued first, by LEWIS PR, which is Linden Labs' official PR firm. We got it at the same time Reuters did.

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Macphisto Angelus
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04-22-2008 22:33
From: Phoenix Psaltery
No, the press release was issued first, by LEWIS PR, which is Linden Labs' official PR firm. We got it at the same time Reuters did.

P2


I see what you were saying P2. OK, press release first. Still leaves the official Linden blog that is to be the communication line to us as the last resort.
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04-22-2008 23:37
From: Macphisto Angelus
heh, I just checked his in world profile (Marcus Voom) and unless the search is borked again it is a blank slate. No pic, no payment info on file, no groups.. nothing. He doesn't appear to have dabbled much with SL lol.
I'd not be surprised if, knowing he was about to become LL CEO, he went in-world first and took anything contraversial or incriminating out of his profile...

Then again, he could just be a NOOb like Suzanne said...
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Kitty Barnett
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04-22-2008 23:54
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I'd not be surprised if, knowing he was about to become LL CEO, he went in-world first and took anything contraversial or incriminating out of his profile...
It's a blank profile on the beta grid as well (snapshot seems to be from around January 6th) so either he was very thorough, or there was never anything there in the first place.
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04-23-2008 00:01
I dunno. I think he is going to need one of these though:



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04-23-2008 01:36
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So did anyone know him when he was Marcus Voom?

Hmm his name rings a definate bell, hope I didn't orbit him................
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04-23-2008 02:07
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Macphisto AngelusOH, and here he is:




Is it just me or does he look like Rick Astley?

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04-23-2008 04:29
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Is it just me or does he look like Rick Astley?


You know, he does a little bit. That's disturbing, because now I have that awful song in my head. Thanks a lot!

Our new leader has updated his profile a bit, so it's not so noobish:

From: M Linden's profile
Hi all!

So many of you have reached out to welcome me in my first hours as a Linden. It's heartwarming and I thank you.

PS My avatar is in beta ... expect me to continue to make changes, add and subtract body fat, experiment with my nose, change clothes, tweak the hair, etc. Hey, I am a work-in-progress.


As for Marcus Voom... I recall, someone around here has a sig that says to be nice to that random noob, as they could be your next partner. Now we could also say we should be nice to random noobs - they could be the next CEO of Linden Labs!
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04-23-2008 04:46
From: Tegg Bode
Hmm his name rings a definate bell, hope I didn't orbit him................


Same here. Not the orbiting art, but the "rings a bell" part.
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04-23-2008 05:36
Coupla things...

SL search CLEARLY needs some work.. if LL is going to break it's own naming rules. Searching for [M Linden] gets you this result:



Mari suggests you have to put the M in quotes... but most people aren't gonna know that, it seems silly that searching for the company's CEO gets you a big "DONK" noise and an error.

Oh and this little gem:



What does it say about your company, if the person you hire as a CEO doesn't trust you with even his paypal email address?
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