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As we make strides towards integrating the web shopping experience with the in-Viewer one — check out the Second Life Marketplace Beta for more on that (and you may gotten an email recently) — certain classic questions keep coming up. This is essential knowledge if you’re a content creator, because it helps customers buy your [...]

Yesterday, we released the third beta of Second Life Viewer 2.1. (To learn more about the Viewer 2.1, read our alpha blog post and the last Viewer 2.1 beta post.) We’ve been hard at work to significantly improve both the stability and performance of this Viewer. But we need more Residents to try it out [...]

Did you know the Home tab of Viewer 2′s sidebar gets occasionally updated to show you useful and fun stuff? We recently put an INVITE FRIENDS thing at the top to make it easier for you to do exactly that: just click the banner to open a browser window and type your message. Click the [...]

[UPDATE: This downtime has been postponed.] We’ll be taking the Second Life blogs and forums offline on Thursday morning, Pacific time, for some follow-up maintenance work related to the account login problems we repaired in early June. The site will be unavailable from approximately 7am PST until at least the early afternoon. We expect it [...]

The Teen Grid is invited to a birthday party. Second Life is seven years old this week! Linden Lab is hosting some birthday fun (SL7B) over on the Teen Grid starting today, Friday, June 25 and running through Sunday, June 27. How can teen Residents join in on the festivities? Come on over to TSL7B [...]

Mark Kingdon is going to step down as CEO, and I am going to return as interim CEO, working side-by-side with former CFO Bob Komin, who is being promoted to COO. This is a big, tough change but one the board of directors and management team deeply believes in.  We owe Mark great thanks for [...]