Travis Murdock
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People Travis Follows. Unnamed collection. Amanda.crnkovich. Xtel. Technologizer Tweet-Up. Second Life. Productivity. Public Relations. Edelman. Linden Lab to BBC: consumer market is 'primary focus' ( - Intern. When it comes to Second Life, some people just can't forget the bursting of the hype bubble following the first early wave of excitement.
I harped on the reality check for in-world corporate activities too, but that was years ago. For some strange reason, the BBC still thinks it's news, judging by Lauren Hansen's "What happened to Second Life? " article posted last week on the BBC News Magazine. Second Life's parent company, Linden Lab, clearly felt misled. An official Second Life blog post republished the BBC's original pitch ("[Linden Lab CEO Mark Kingdon] was recently interviewed via email by a reporter for the BBC who was working on a story that would be "a look at Second Life today - what's it up to, where's it going, why so quiet in the media after such great press a few years ago, etc. ") and implied that the reporter hadn't really experienced Second Life ("we'd love to bring her inworld so she can see firsthand that there's much more to the virtual world").