Welcome to the Project Snowstorm Blog!
Over the past few weeks, we’ve been spinning up the Snowstorm Team. As I outlined in my original post, our team is committed to enabling the rapid deployment of new features and functionality in the Second Life Viewer. The Snowstorm Team is working in the open – this includes meetings, documentation, code, and design discussions. [...]
Check here if you want more options
In the Snowstorm Product Backlog Office Hour Tuesday, I commented that “I think options are bad for users and bad for code quality”. If you read that whole transcript, you can probably see that it was interpreted badly. The most extreme variant, reported by someone who was watching in-world chat afterward, held that Linden Lab [...]
Introducing Kim Salzer, Our New VP Marketing
Linden Lab recently welcomed a new addition to its executive ranks: Kim Salzer, who became our Vice President of Marketing, at the beginning of August. Kim (known as Kim Linden inworld) joins us from Activision Blizzard, where she was Vice President of Global Brand Management for properties like Guitar Hero and Call of Duty 2, [...]
Introducing Kim Salzer, Our New VP Marketing
Linden Lab recently welcomed a new addition to its executive ranks: Kim Salzer, who became our Vice President of Marketing, at the beginning of August. Kim (known as Kim Linden inworld) joins us from Activision Blizzard, where she was Vice President of Global Brand Management for properties like Guitar Hero and Call of Duty 2, [...]
[TIP] Explain stuff better: how to add Second Life snapshots to your forum posts!
I’m regularly in the blogs.secondlife.com forums, not just helping where I have knowledge, but staying in touch with our culture and encouraging you HOW to share info easier. I keep seeing “OMG HELP ME!” questions where the original poster seems at a loss for how to describe something in words, and there’s a big gap [...]
Closure of the XStreet Exchange
With the upcoming closure of the XStreet Exchange, we will also retire XStreet’s cash-out system, which provides Residents an alternative to selling their Linden dollars for US dollars via the LindeX. Undoubtedly one of XStreet’s strengths has been the predictability and speed of its cash-out process, and it is understood that our merchants, who are [...]