{"id":4054,"date":"2014-06-28T15:04:08","date_gmt":"2014-06-28T14:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=4054"},"modified":"2014-06-28T15:04:08","modified_gmt":"2014-06-28T14:04:08","slug":"ebbe-altberg-throws-down-the-gauntlet-regarding-fixing-second-life-group-chat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=4054","title":{"rendered":"Ebbe Altberg Throws Down The Gauntlet Regarding Fixing Second Life Group Chat"},"content":{"rendered":"

I like Ebbe Altberg, he talks to the community, he’s not afraid to tell people they are angry<\/a> :<\/p>\n

Wow, you are an angry person. Ok, so, why are you so angry?<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He talks to the press and has recently been talking to Re\/Code in an article entitled :\u00a0Second Life Creator Linden Lab Says Virtual Worlds and Virtual Reality Belong Together<\/a>. Early on in that article we see that Ebbe has learnt how to talk the talk :<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t call it a game,\u201d says Linden Lab CEO Ebbe Altberg, almost before our interview has begun.<\/em><\/p>\n

He\u2019s talking about Linden\u2019s most famous product, Second Life, now 11 years old. That\u2019s old by game \u2014 sorry, \u201cvirtual world\u201d \u2014 standards, but its \u201csignificant revenue\u201d means the 185-person company is profitable, Altberg said. Coming to Linden from BranchOut after the departure of CEO Rod Humble in January, Altberg does not mince words about Second Life\u2019s past mistakes.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That article also talks about Oclus Rift usage in Second Life, including a shout out to Jo Yardley of 1920’s Berlin<\/a> without mentioning her name :<\/p>\n

\u201cOne creator went into her virtual world in Oculus for the first time and was crying,\u201d Altberg said. \u201cIt\u2019s very powerful stuff.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Philip Rosedale also features in the article with talk of High Fidelity but I’m going off on a tangent here, the point is Ebbe engages and it’s very encouraging. However one of the problems with engaging is that everything you say is dissected, analysed and at times misunderstood. Then there’s the fact that what you say is remembered, especially on the internet. So it was with some surprise that I witnessed Ebbe getting involved in a Twitter exchange about group chat<\/a>. Not only did Ebbe get involved, he actually suggested that group chat will be fixed before the new world launches, an extremely bold claim indeed.<\/p>\n

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Things started with a Tweet from Belladonna066 : How about you fix this SL chat before you build a whole NEW SL? Grrr<\/em><\/p>\n

@ebbealtberg<\/a> how about you fix this SL chat before you build a whole NEW SL? Grrr<\/p>\n

\u2014 M.J. (@Belladonna066) June 27, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n