Introducing Judy Linden

:0 lol gosh well thanks! mighty magnanimous of you... and guess what? i can very well agree with ya about such a thing; i've a rl friend or two who kinda do the same thing lol... still that hasn't stopped them from having very productive lives, following their careers and helping people.

imho for some people, 'autism' (and many of its variants) is simply what you get called for being a bit too smart or speedy for the room. ;0 so it's best to just not go there and just get about doing your thing, without claiming any 'sickness' (or what could be easily perceived as such) by others.

lol thanks for just 'letting out with it'. you realize that your clouded 'umm, no' reply and veiled response simply sounded like a dour person simply 'not liking someone', without having the guts to just say so - if there's a reason, then spell it out... ;0 for cryin' out loud that's never stopped me... ;0 unless that's gonna jeopardize someone's business.

Welcome Judy.

I think you will find that in addition to being creative, users tend to be a fairly analytical bunch.

Perhaps that is why one quote in particular stuck out to me like a sore thumb, particularly coming from the newly minted VP of Strategy.



It is my sincere hope that you think of average residents as more than just "consumers" in your role as VP of strategy. If not, you are doing a disservice to a cadre of talented artists, programmers and entrepreneurs (and I'm sure that I'm forgetting a ton of other contributing roles), all of whom have contributed greatly to the growth of the company and platform to date. You would also be doing a disservice to the company to dismiss a diverse and intelligent pool of potential partners as "consumers".

Please do keep that in mind. I wish you the greatest success, and in turn may it bring success to the company, the platform, and its residents.

Edit Addendum: Also, I do agree that Torley does a great job as both a goodwill ambassador and tutor. Featuring both his enthusiasm and his HOW-TOs is good for the community.

A LOT of us ARE residents AND customers.

This place is home away from home for a lot of people who take things here very seriously.

in my opinion a state of the art avatar mesh (incl animation system) would be a "killer application". of course that needs a grid that runs stable and a inventory server farm that can handle the requested data (load 32x32 sculpt maps faster than 90 sec, maybe in 1 sec)

What?
Is it no longer a Lab?

Now she is getting school on proper nomenclature...LOL.

yea, she will be tuning us out by the time this thread is over.

This.

WELCOME TO THE FORUMS!

Hi Judy, welcome to Linden Lab and Second Life.

I have but one question. Will you support my initiative to be added to the Executive Team at Linden Lab as a Community Voice presence?

If you look around your Executive Team, you will notice that there isn't one person there that has spent any significant time in-world with the Community, and I think that's just wrong.

I offer my services to the Executive Team, not as a joke, but truly as someone wishing to help.

Hell yea bob!


I endorse this.

/me votes no.

You've certainly found yourself in an interesting spot to come to.

Because you are *new* to us, we who are the somewhat-disillusioned can only hope that you find yourself here, not because you are another corporate conformer, but because LL believes they really must do a better job meeting this need, better than it has been done in the past.

/me has his fingers crossed...

This really seems like a no-brainer to me, but here's a suggestion: if you really want to extend this platform into the international market, you MUST extend your marketing into that market!

There is a flourishing internet and computer industry that already does extend 1000's of miles beyond the limits of Western Europe, North America and eastern edges of the Pacific Rim. So long as all your marketing efforts and infrastructure-building continue to be focused on just a few countries that are culturally and economically comfortable for westerners, you will continue to limit yourselves and your company to those Westernized markets.

Throw off the bonds of corporate cultural biases about 'centers' of technology-distribution and tech-savvy-SL-ready-customer-bases.

If you want globalization of your product, HIRE PEOPLE FROM YOUR TARGETED (non-Westernized) CULTURES, who are already part of the SL culture, who are dying for the chance to extend into these new parts of the world. And more importantly, perhaps change of culture...stop viewing the internet-technology-world as one of have's and have-nots, as us and them.

I spend a considerable amount of time in a "third world" Asian country where internet cafes have sprung up in every neighborhood in the last 10 years, where everyone has access to DSL/T1 level connections and pretty decent PC's, for less than 50 US cents per hour. Computers are in every high school, and every kid over the age of 14 has an e-mail account and most have some kind of online gaming account...

If you aren't putting people on the ground in these cultures, in these "technology-challenged" countries, soon, somebody else will...know what I mean?

Thirded.

I see tons of marketing for WoW, IMVU, etc., but nothing from SL. Are we trying to hide? Or do we already have too many users (oh right - we can only have less than 80,000 bots and AVs on at a time, before things go blewie)?

I also would like to send some love to Torley and hope to see him take a more active role once again. I always love watching his vidtuts, whether they help me or not, I keep them in mind whenever a newbie asks me a question that would be too complex for me to answer, where a video would express the concept much better. If you start running TV commercials for SL, I hope they all start with "ding-a-ding-ding!) Friendly Greetings..." haha.

And big Friendly Greetings to you, Judy. I hope you enjoy your time with LL and SL.

Friendly Greetings!

+1 Torley is a huge asset taking his Tutorials away from the blog was a terrible idea you should be pushing this guy right to the front as his enthusiasm, passion and pure joy for SL and its userbase are priceless.

Welcome, Judy!

Oh. So then you've had time to make up a bear.. Please send me one!!

edit: yep.. I'll second the good stuff about Torley!

I have to second this, first welcome to our little(I guess large actually) world. I visited LL and it was like a little heaven. So much luscious thought and work being done.
But I have to say that I wouldn't have hung around without Torleys daily encouragement in Blogs, Videos, and his little island. I caught the love of creating and enjoying from his endless enthusiastic prattle. I'm 56 and at first it was like a cartoon joke till I got sucked in to literally a Second Life. Hope you fall in love with it too. It's not just to make a buck, it's actually a work of art and love evolving and full of good peeps and friends.
Welcome.

I got a "wish" list

-Lower SIM tiers by 50% ( SL wil have less ppl leaving)
-Rise land price to 1600 USD for a full SIM ( better turnover and landtrading)
-Rise land price to 800 USD for " Homestad" SIMs
-Stop all "free accounts" (let all new pay 10 USD a month-plus max 10 alts but at 1 USD a month)
-Limit traffickbots to max 12 in a SIM ( less lagg)
-Cut out the bonus L$, cuz it dont matter 500 L$ a month are nothing lol

This adustments wil for shure be better for old landowners and new landowners

Find a way to make the system really scale. Then conduct clever marketing to attract new residents.

Talk to the existing residents about ways to be engaged in this process by creating compelling environments the new residents will want to become an actor in. You should not attempt to do this alone ostracizing the community in the process.

Second Life is the largest stage in the history of the planet and it would be remarkably intelligent for you to realize this *is* entertainment and treat it as an entertainment business concentrating on the entertainment aspects of the business.

We need NPC units we can program as aggro mobs. So we can make better in world entertainment venues. Staring at a zillion polygon skysphere and water that cannot be accessed isn't compelling entertainment after the first few times. So we need more MMORPG type venues and those need aggro mobs. These would be bots but not the variety that lags the sims like each avatar does. These NPC units would operate off a database on the LL Net for the required performance factors. In addition we really need these sims put back to supporting 100 avatars again. we are down to more than 20 lags the sims out. This needs to be dealt with.

Another critical aspect is to make sure the cache is fixed so all the ISPs will not have to cap user participation. This is a real problem happening now.

Oh and btw a real killer app would be a development team and test SQA department that is not located on your internal network. This way they would have to code for the real internet and eat the dog food. Speaking of dog food i do hope you plan to eat some of your own by trying to run a small business in SL so you can see and feel what the issues are really like.

Welcome aboard and best regards,

Ann Otoole InSL

Why this nasty comment about Torley? Perhaps a good time to realise that we all will be history (??) my dear, one day - untill then, the creative people that work hard should get the respect they deserve.
Uhh - sudenly an old saying that one of my Brittish friends used (in histoy, ya, lol) springs to my mind:
who died and made u God?

Treat people with the same respect you would want to be treated...and you cant go wrong.

There are a few problems that I have when introducing Second Life to a business.


1. Hard to support multiple people in a single location. The cap appears to be about 100 people. A new simulator needs to be introduced that can support 10,000 people or more at one time for businesses (big events).

2. It doesn't look professional - it looks like a game . Take the home page for example. It's been made to attract gamers.

3. Turn around time for business inquiries would be great if it was between 1 to 2 business days. Both my coworker and I have been trying to get information regarding ELSP, Daily Island rentals/availability, etc.

4. Confusion of a slurl. We have had quite a few people get confused when sent to the SLurl page thinking they were already logged in, only to find a broken link when entering second life (lack of client software installed for "secondlife://" protocol). Needs a way to detect if SL is installed or not when clicking on the teleport link.

5. Need a cheat sheet that shows "ALL" prices/services. Found one that is only oriented towards residents. Need one for companies that includes pricing for surnames 500+500/month, custom names 50+50/year, ELSP 25000/year, Island rental 50/day, mainland rental ~11/day, etc.

6. Look into hosting streaming services for audio/video (or providing details with recommended providers). It goes hand-in-hand with events in second life. Businesses have many questions about streaming regarding setup, concurrency, legalities, etc.

7. Get "Nebraska" ready to ship. Businesses need reliable regions behind firewalls that have a trusted name on them and are easy to connect to for people who have never tried SL before. OpenSIM is just too ... elite.

8. Hurry up with the http://my.secondlife.com/ website already.

9. Make second life enjoyable with just a web browser. Start exposing more of it through the web. AJAX life is a start.

10. Change SL Protocols to permit viewer to run over port 80 and 443 so that it can be run from behind most firewalls.

11. Content Contests. Start offering more contests for different categories of content.

12. Expose facebook/myspace applications for parts of SL.

13. Web page on a prim - I can't stress how important this is to set individual prims on the same parcel to display different web pages. If not that, then at least a jpeg, png, gif image on a prim from a url.

14. HTML Note cards

15. Automatic group join when using Registration API

16. Automatic outfit when using Registration API

17. File transfer between avatars. Also permit storage of files on simulator that can be retrieved later.

18. New snapshot option - send to blog. Also, set default character length of message to 5000.

If you could write Javascript that could tell what software you had installed... eek! That would imply browser security holes of epic dimensions.

Yes!

At least implement XMPP/Jabber access to IM.

Not unless LL hosts or proxies the content.

One important strategy change you could make:

I'd love to be able to buy a homestead directly from Linden Lab. Having your own region is a rather must if you want to be truly creative, but as it is now its too expensive and too uncertain:

- Too expensive because the estate owner you have to rent from of course wants to make money on the deal.

- Too uncertain because all your work will be at the mercy of the estate owner and his/her interest in continuing the business.

The drawback in this from LLs side is of course I would leave my 8K of mainland behind.

So this is in reality a strategic choice for LL, and so smack in the middle of your job

Welcome!

Cris.

Hi Judy and welcome.

I have a sneaking suspicion that we have met in RL, I know that you were involved in education and poverty alleviation is disadvantaged communities during your time here and I think our connection was via Rotary International.

The one thing that is really hampering business development on an International level, certainly for South Africans, and probably others too, is the dependence on PayPal as the only method of getting earnings out of SL. A direct credit to the Card billed each month for fees or a simpler option to receive a bank transfer, would really open up the business opportunities for many in countries where PayPal refuses to operate. South Africa is one of many, despite the founder of PayPal being South African.

Here here! Where's Torley? Gone to join Magellan?