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"The migration of Second Life®’s simulators and services to the Cloud (AWS Services) has been a massive and on-going project. All of SL® user data will soon be transferred and stored in AWS machines owned by Amazon. Some questions continue to remain unanswered, but users should see a number of improvements throughout the grid by the end of 2020." Read more on the blog.
"The Wall Street Journal has launched a four-part podcast series called How to Build a Metaverse, with the introduction posted on September 19th, 2022" Read more on the blog.
"The BBB is very happy to announce that our headquarters office now features in the SL Destination Guide. We hope this will help even more SL'ers find us and join in the fun of exploring SL with our Bellisserian Passport or the CPCB's Mainland Passport." Read more on the blog.
"The Sub-continent of the new Fantasy theme of Premium Membership Linden Homes started coming on-stream on Thursday, August 12th, with an initial three regions being release, those with more being made available from the 13th onwards." Read more on the blog.
"More Fantasy regions have now been released since Friday 13th August 2021 for those that want a new Fantasy Linden Home. The fastest way of claiming a new Linden home is through the Second Life land selection page. There is plenty of choice now from traditional, houseboat, camper, stilt home on land, chalet, log home and now fantasy. There are more themes in the works but they are unknown at this stage." Read more on the blog.
"Linden Lab have announced the launch of a Second Life Mobile “Private Alpha” allowing Premium Plus subscribers to sign-up for the opportunity to take the app for a test drive and provide feedback to help with development." Read more on the blog.
"Stawberry Linden interviewed CEO of Linden Lab Brad Oberwager and Second Life Founder Philip Rosedale on her talk show Lab Gab. For those who don't want to watch the hour long questions and answers, I have condensed it down into a short highlights report. I hope you enjoy listening to the areas of interest I have picked out." Click to watch the video on YouTube.
"We are back from our break to wish all our readers a very happy New Year. We have big plans for 2022 and look forward to involving as many of you as possible." Read more on the blog.
"On Saturday 31st July 2021 a new batch of roughly 125 green Fantasy Linden Home regions appeared south of the Bellisseria continent in Second Life. They are all located just east of the Retrograde region in a sub continent layout. The new Fantasy regions have been named already when you zoom into them and are they almost done apparently (going through the QA process)." Read more on the blog.
"Second Life filmmaker Bernhard Drax (better known by his Second Life name, Draxtor Despres) will be premiering a new, feature-length documentary on April 2nd, 2022, titled Virtual Cultures in Pandemic Times." Read more on the blog.
"On Wednesday, June 28th, 10th, 2023, Linden Lab streamed a special session of Lab Gab as a part of the SL20b celebrations, featuring Linden Lab board member and Executive Chairman Brad Oberwager (Oberwolf Linden), together with Linden Lab founder (and now Second Life Strategic Advisor) Philip Rosedale (Philip Linden).
This is a summary of that session, with the video embedded at the end." Read more on the blog.
"Todays news contains information on Ebbe Altberg memorial, Limited Edition Last Names and highlights of Patch Linden's interview in meet the lindens series for the SL18B celebrations" Click to watch the video on YouTube.
"During the last 12 hours or so it appears more Stilt Linden homes are being released to the public in Second Life along with Traditional, Houseboats, Victorian and Log homes. There is roughly 2.300 homes still unclaimed spread over 92 regions showing as Protected Land." Read more on the blog.
"When I ask what people like most about living in Bellisseria, often they answer: “community.” Few places in Second Life® offer anything close to the sense of community that Bellisseria has." Read more on the blog.
"The Bellissarian Bureau of Bureaucracy was founded as a quirky idea to build community on the then-new Linden Homes continent. From the beginning other SL'ers asked if they could have passports too, but we just didn't have the staff. Now however we are delighted to announce a solution!" Read more on the blog.
"We have already had the pleasure to meet many of you on our stand at Second Life's 19th Birthday celebration (SL19B). We are proud of the stand, which is very much in keeping with SL19B's steampunk theme." Read more on the blog.
"Back in May, we began work on a modern and up to date version of a 1.23 style viewer. Our aim is to offer the user all of the latest tech you expect to find in an SL viewer, but with a lighter footprint and with laptop computers as a focus." Read more on the blog.
"Breaking news --- I always wanted to say that. Three big announcements just now." Read more on the blog.
"Linden Lab have brought in a new 360 snapshot feature to their second life viewer! and I am loving it!" Click to watch the video on YouTube.
"The Premium Plus homes are finally available. PP folks can't pick their lot yet and I suspect many were scrambling to get what they could after a year of waiting :D. As of July 10 lot choosing will be available, perhaps on new areas. Eventually hopefully everyone will find their perfect spot." Read more on the blog.
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