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Is Rod Humble Doctor Octopus?

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Jan 052013

So back in August Second Life was talking about expanding to Steam. Back in August, Peter Parker was Spiderman.

Fast forward to January 2013. Second Life announces it has expanded to Amazon, not yet Steam, much to our surprise.

Fast forward to January 2013 and Peter Parker dies and Doctor Octopus is the new Spiderman! Apparently Peter Parker switches his memories and morality into Doctor Octopus and he becomes Superior Spiderman, rather than The Amazing Spiderman. Here in Second Life we have a case where in a battle the Steam deal might have died but the memories and morality have been transferred to Amazon!

Coincidence? Almost certainly but I can’t have fun with it it that way!

Rod Humble gets it on privacy

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Feb 122011

Another interview with Rod Humble, another impressive interview. This time the interviewee is Dusan Writer and you can read the full interview here. This is probably the most impressive interview I’ve read so far, with the exception of the soccer references (it’s football!) Rod addresses some of the issues that are dear to my heart.

Mr Humble does address, as Mr Kingdon did, the non sexy things, such as lag and slow rendering and people might groan thinking we’ve heard it all before, but they are issues that need to be addressed. However it’s the beauty of creating within Second Life, Mr Humble’s attitude to privacy and the fact that he seems to get what being in a 3D virtual world is all about that are the interesting features of this interview, and I must say I find it all very encouraging.

Rod Humble in Villa Fan Shocker

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Feb 102011

There’s a rather spiffing interview with Rod Humble over at Rock, Paper, Shotgun. However, before you head over, a word of warning, it’s a general gaming site, they’re very cynical about Second Life and the comments are particularly cynical, but that cynical nature actually makes the interview somewhat interesting as you get questions from a different perspective to that of the average Second Life user.

There’s the shocking revelation that Rod Humble is an Aston Villa fan, so that’s Rod Humble, Prad Prathivi and me… of course, I’m more suave, sophisitcated, better looking, wittier and conceited than those two, they may have a headstart in the success stakes though, but you can’t have everything! Where was I? Oh yes, the Rock Paper, Shotgun interview, this gives a good sense of Rod being enthusiastic about Second Life.

Hamlet Speaks to Rod

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Feb 092011

Hamlet has an interview with Linden Lab CEO, over at New World Notes, which you can read here. Inara Pey has a decent analysis here, whereas one wonders whether Tateru Nino will get a chance to interview Mr Humble for a different perspective.

Hamlet’s interview is good, even if he does pull out the Facebook hammer, which Mr Humble sidestepped well, although he did stagger. This contrasts with my visit to the Second Life website this evening when I saw yet another Facebook widget, uttered “Oh FFS” and then went into a rant that is not fit for a PG audience, but included lots of “!$#’s. I’m not getting this Facebook stuff at all, particularly why LL are hellbent on getting people to login to Facebook.

However it’s the interview with the new CEO we should focus on for now, and it was decent enough, no earth shattering moments and nothing too worrying.