It’s official: Philip Linden, founder and ex-CEO of Linden Research (Linden Lab), is planning on leaving the company he built up, onto yet another Virtual World orientated startup.
Great news for Linden Lab’s Second Life Virtual World? Not really. Hardly any forward-looking progress has been made since Linden Investors told Philip to stand down. Except a tenfold increase in Aggressive marketing, created by the Marketing-orientated CEO Mark Kingdon and his team.
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Reprint of my reply on the Linden Blog:
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The “Life in a Box” metaphor is getting really old now, Philip. All it does, is make mentally handicapped hardcore cult-Kurzweil supporters jump up & down.
Listening 100% to Investor’s suggestions will be the ultimate downfall of Linden Research, Philip. Your Marketing-based *replacement* seems to be a marketing “whore” (excuse my language: no offence intended), unable to make real progress with the minimal amount of resources, like you (Philip) have done.
Has your *replacement* made any significant progress over the last year or so? None whatsoever, except more agressive marketing. The soon-to-be-unpopular Viewer 2009 project seems to be delayed, with Linden Research/Linden Lab/the *replacement* gently forcing people to adopt pro-LL && anti-customer (biased) “partnerships”.
On that note, I fear that Ann may be right, that some deeply unsettling, root-pulling event is going to take place (by Linden Research) in the near future.
Anywho, it’s quite sad to see you (Philip) fully moving on from Linden Research. The old, warm & cosy days are now officially over, I guess.
p.s: Philip, how come your *replacement* was absent during the SL6B Opening/Closing performances? Shouldn’t the CEO be present during “his” company’s annual events?
To me, it looked like the *replacement* isn’t really passionate about all this, unlike you, Philip.
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The Darkest Hour of Linden Research (Linden Lab), perhaps, is almost here.
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