Vivaty To Expand Beyond Facebook and AIM
Browser-based virtual world Vivaty, currently accessible through Facebook and AIM, will be embeddable by users on blogs and pages throughout the Web within the next two months, company CEO Keith McCurdy told Reuters.
Pirated content deleted from Second Life
Linden Lab has deleted objects from the virtual world in response to DMCA complaints, according to resident reports.
Video: Rosedale discuses new CEO
Linden Lab founder Philip Rosedale explains why he has chosen online marketing executive Mark Kingdon to succeed him as CEO. Rosedale dropped by the Thomson Reuters building in London to discuss the transition with Technology Correspondent Matt Cowan.
New Linden CEO could be named within weeks
Virtual world Second Life has the potential to become mainstream once computers and connections catch up with the aspirations of its creators, its founder told Reuters in an interview on Monday.
Philip Rosedale also said he was close to finding a new chief executive for Linden Lab: “We may have some news in the next few weeks.”
Linden looks outside the company for new CEO
Rosedale spoke at length in a Second Life interview about what Linden Lab was looking for in a new chief executive. He is looking to bring in someone from outside the company rather than promote from within.
Interview with Martin Sorrell
Bureau chief Adam Pasick interviewed Martin Sorrell at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Sorrell, known for making closely-followed pronouncements about the health of the advertising market, is the chief executive of WPP, the world’s second-largest advertising and marketing firm.
Interview with Mitch Kapor
Bureau chief Adam Pasick interviewed Mitch Kapor at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Kapor founded Lotus Development Corp and created the groundbreaking Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet. He was also a co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Interview with Philip Rosedale
Bureau chief Adam Pasick interviewed Philip Rosedale at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Rosedale, the founder and CEO of Linden Lab, was previously chief technology officer at RealNetworks.
Interview with Stelios Haji-Ioannou
ureau chief Adam Pasick interviewed Stelios Haji-Ioannou at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Haji-Ioannou kickstarted the low-cost aviation revolution when he founded easyJet and has since created an empire under the easy brand, including car rental, hotel, cruise ship and Internet access businesses.
Interview with Robert Scoble
Bureau chief Adam Pasick interviewed Richard Scoble at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Scoble is a tech enthusiast and video podcast evangelist. After stints at Microsoft and Podtech, he now works at Fast Company.
Mr. Gingrich goes to Second Life
Pundits and political junkies will have their eyes on Second Life when former Speaker of the House and potential presidential candidate Newt Gingrich rezzes into the virtual world on Thursday.
Interview with AjaxLife creator Katharine Berry
The Second Life blogosphere was aflutter on Monday with news that a talented young Teen Grid resident named Katharine Berry had created a prototype Second Life viewer that works within a Web browser.
Interview with Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Bureau chief Adam Reuters interviewed Archbishop Desmond Tutu in Cape Town, South Africa this month as part of the World Editors Forum, as well as in-world at the Reuters Auditorium.
This video mixes footage from Second Life and real life.
Interview with New York Times editor Bill Keller
New York Times executive editor Bill Keller sat down for a Second Life interview on Saturday to talk about threats to press freedom, the changing nature of the newspaper business as it attempts to embrace the Internet, and the 2008 U.S. presidential election.
Click below to listen to the audio from the interview.
Interview with eBay’s Meg Whitman
Bureau chief Adam Reuters sat down virtually with eBay CEO Meg Whitman on Friday to talk about the overlap between Second Life and the online auction site, as well as its subsidiaries PayPal and Skype.
Interview with Jerry Paffendorf at SXSW
Electric Sheep Company’s resident futurist Jerry Paffendorf sat down with bureau chief Adam Reuters for an interview on Sunday from the South by Southwest Interactive festival.
Jerry talked about the Metaverse Roadmap, lifeblogging, and what’s to come for Second Life this year. Click play below to hear the interview.
Interview with Areae’s Raph Koster
Game developer and Areae founder Raph Koster sat down for an interview with bureau chief Adam Reuters on Sunday at the South by Southwest Interactive festival on Sunday.
He talked about the state of the metaverse, what’s to come for Second Life, and a few tantalizing details about his forthcoming virtual world. Click play below to hear the interview.
Interview with Skype’s Niklas Zennstrom
Bureau chief Adam Reuters interviewed Swedish Internet entrepreneur Niklas Zennstrom from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Zennstrom has changed two industries with the launch of the peer-to-peer file-sharing program Kazaa and p2p telephony service Skype, and he is trying for a third with the recent launch of the p2p Internet video company Joost.
Interview with Newsweek’s Fareed Zakaria from Davos
Bureau chief Adam Reuters interviewed Newsweek International editor Fareed Zakaria on Friday from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Zakaria is the host of a new weekly PBS show, “Foreign Exchange” which focuses on international affairs, and is the author of the recent book “The Future of Freedom.”
Interview with Publicis CEO Maurice Lévy in Davos
Bureau chief Adam Pasick interviewed Publicis CEO Maurice Lévy from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Publicis is the fourth-largest advertising and marketing company, home to agencies such as Leo Burnett and Saatchi & Saatchi.
