Cory Ondrejka is a co-founder and chief technology officer of Linden Labs, the company behind Second Life. For those who don’t know Second life, it’s an insanely successful 3-D virtual world, completely built and designed by its nearly seven million residents.
As CTO, Cory Ondrejka leads the team developing this digital world. His team has created the revolutionary technologies required to enable collaborative, atomistic creation, including distributed physical simulation, 3-D streaming, completely customizable avatars and real-time, in-world editors. He also spearheaded the decision to allow users to retain the IP rights to their creations and helped craft Linden’s virtual real estate policy.
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James Au worked at the embedded reporter in Second Life, the virtual world where users build everything you interact with. I sit down with James for a beer on a Saturday afternoon recently and here’s our conversation. This is the first part where we talk about his book, who ...
Eddie Codel and Irina Slutsky take a trip to sunny Sausalito, California to visit with Reuben Steiger, CEO and founder of Millions of Us, a virtual worlds branding and advertising agency. Millions of Us builds real world brands and experiences in the virtual world Second Life. Steiger, who ...
Four hundred members of the Linden Lab’s MMORPG Second Life got together for a community conference in San Francisco. With badges bearing their avatar names, participants flew in from as far away as Italy, Germany and Japan to hear panels that ran the gamut from marketing and branding products to community building and sex. Podtech’s Michael Johnson heard a few good stories.
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In the halls of Gnomedex 6.0 Robert Scoble podcasts with Beth from Linden Lab to speak about the rules around Second Life and why kids under 13 can’t participate. Beth goes into detail with Robert, a Second Life lawbreaker, about how Second Life enforces the rules.
Philip Rosedale, Founder and CEO of Linden Lab, developers of Second Life says that the immersive experience is circumventing some traditional ways of accessing search. He spoke with PodTech’s Michael Johnson at Supernova 2006 in San Francisco.
More info: In this short podcast I’d like to thank all of the people who have downloaded and listened to PodTech.net’s infoTalk and News programs. Since the beginning, over six months ago, we’ve posted over 250 podcasts. I’d also like to thank all the guests who have been on PodTech. ... Multiplayer online game developer Linden Lab Second Life. Doug Soo Linden Lab Programmer who helped with the design of the game Second Life. Host: John Furrier, Founder of PodTech.net
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