Correction: Linden Lab Story

In a March 14 story about "Second Life" creator Linden Lab, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Multiverse Network Inc. is a virtual world. The company builds technology for developing the online communities.

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Linden Lab CEO to Step Down

Philip Rosedale, founder and chief executive of "Second Life" creator Linden Lab, is stepping down and will become chairman once a replacement is found, the company said Friday.

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Back in April, ex-Organic CEO Mark Kingdon took the helm of Linden Lab, replacing its charismatic founder, Philip Rosedale, at a time when the company was already struggling in an increasingly competitive market.

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With summer jobs in short supply, more young people are pursuing money-making opportunities in Web fantasy worlds.

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A Republican congressman who has sponsored legislation banning access to social-networking Web sites in schools and libraries has found a new target of displeasure: Second Life.

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Earlier this week, Linden Lab, creator of the well-known virtual world Second Life, announced a new CEO: Mark Kingdon, currently CEO of digital marketing firm Organic. He will be taking over in mid-May.

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In the real world, banks are reeling from the subprime-mortgage mess. In the online game Second Life, a shutdown of the make-believe banking system is causing real-life havoc for thousands of people.

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The computer giant and the creator of Second Life are working on universal avatars that can travel between worlds. What a cool idea!!

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Islamic militants are suspected of using Second Life, the internet virtual world, to hunt for recruits and mimic real-life terrorism.

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....Perhaps you've heard of the land baroness named Anshe Chung. No? Maybe that's because Chung only exists in the virtual reality game Second Life.

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A virtual land dispute in Second Life will be resolved in federal court after a judge's ruling.

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German prosecutors have launched an investigation to find anonymous participants of the online computer game Second Life, who are reportedly buying sex with other players posing as children, as well as offering child pornography for sale.

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From voice to virtual real estate, Linden Lab's Joe Miller ponders the nuances of livin' La Vida virtual.

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Maybe that old saw about "death and taxes" needs to be revised, since your avatar doesn't have to die in SL, but it just might have to pay taxes.But there is a valid argument that even profits that come from, and stay in, the virtual world are taxable, according to Bryan Camp, a  …

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When Toyota Motor wanted to promote its new Scions to young buyers, it turned to one of the growing number of digital design companies doing business in the popular online universe Second Life.

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Linden Lab appears to be taking steps to puncture the hype bubble surrounding its creation, Second Life, providing realistic statistics on how many people are actually using the service, and debunking claims that the Linden Dollar tokens used in SL are a kind of real currency.

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Ailin Graef, reportedly the first person to become a real-life millionaire through Second Life, knows firsthand what it's like to be on the victim end of a "griefing," or being harassed while in a virtual world.

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The newest frontier in learning is almost primitive: an island with scattered trees and a sloping shoreline. Students are sitting on the grass. Then, another student flies into sight and drops into Eiseldora Weissenberger's ongoing class.

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Developers have no guarantees when they open source an application. In many cases, they don't know who will use it, nor do they know how things will progress.

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Let me start with some background.

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Sweden is to become the first country to establish diplomatic representation in the virtual reality world of Second Life, officials said.

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In a profound affirmation of community commitment, Linden Lab has released the source code of its Second Life Viewer under the open-source GPL license.

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Linden Lab, creator of the "Second Life" online virtual world, is open-sourcing the code of the site's Viewer application, enabling developers to make modifications, enhancements, or add new features to the Second Life Viewer.

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Every player of Second Life has been asked to change the password they use to enter the popular online world. The alert follows a security breach in which a malicious hacker broke into a database holding information about Second Life's 650,000 users.

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Linden Labs, operator of the online virtual game Second Life, is notifying its user community of a database breach, which potentially exposed customer data including the unencrypted names and addresses, and the encrypted passwords and encrypted payment information of all Second L …

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Second Life CTO bets that Linden Lab can catch up to WoW's 6.5 million users within two years. Will Linden's servers handle the load?

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