Wednesday, March 19, 2008

SL CEO - His thoughts....

This came out this morning and my Father sent it to me. Check it out.

One-On-One With Second Life Creator Philip Rosedale

By Mitch Wagner InformationWeek March 18, 2008 02:15 PM

Is there a second act for Second Life? That's the challenge that will be faced by Linden Lab's new CEO. Philip Rosedale, the company's founder, stepped aside as CEO in a surprise announcement on Friday, and said the company is beginning a search for a replacement.
Rosedale said he will focus day to day on the technology and strategy of Second Life, and leave running the company to the new CEO. The changed role was "100% my idea," he said. We talked with Rosedale in a telephone interview this week...

...He said the virtual worlds industry as a whole is in its infancy, and cautioned against attaching too much significance to fluctuations that are basically random noise. Virtual worlds will be hundreds of times more popular than Second Life is today, Rosedale said.
Everybody Will Be In-World

Read the entire article here.

5 comments:

arturo said...

When there is a long article like this, please quote the part that most interests you and just link to the source for those interested in digging further. Do not cut and paste the entire article. That will keep the blog leaner and meaner:-)

Unknown said...

While I appreciate your linking to our article, you seem to have simply copy, cut and pasted most of it. Please respect our intellectual property and only use short excerpts and link to the original.

arturo said...

enough said!

Terapyn said...

Ekk, Sorry Mitch - it was a too little coffe day, I didn't even think about it. I do appologize for that, and appreciate you being so kind as to offer your gentle reminder. Truly, I really enjoyed the article and wanted to share it without remembering that it was open to so many others.

Arturo thank you for fixing my enormous mistake, I appreciate it tremendously. Certainly won't do it again.

Unknown said...

Thanks, Terapyn - glad you liked teh article!