Last Week in New World Notes (And What a Week It Was)

The Linden Lab layoff and new strategy news (with some analysis):

• Looking into Linden Lab Layoff Rumors -- UPDATE: Confirmed, 30% Lindens Being Laid Off, Restructured Team to Develop Web-Based Second Life Viewer
• Linden Lab Confirms: We're Developing a Second Life Viewer Accessible FROM the Web (Not a Second Life ON the Web)
• What Happened to Linden Chief Product Officer Tom Hale, Lead Developer of Second Life Viewer 2?
• Mark Kingdon Interviewed About Linden Lab Layoffs by a Copper Robot
• Gwyn Says: The Linden Lab Layoff Announcement Heralds Good News, Actually

The poignant community reaction to the layoffs

• When She Made a Second Life Graveyard for Laid Off Lindens, Others Left Flowers to Mourn Their Leaving

And some reasons why it's worth staying around in spite of it all:

• Sneak Peek at "Memento mori", New Performance Space for the Virtual Band Called Chouchou
• Beauty Still Arises in Second Life: Sextan Shepherd's Nemo Emerges From the Waves, Spawning a City
• Weekend Machinima: Second Life's International Family of Dancing Avatars
• Survey Results: Plurality Say Second Life Fosters Lucid Dreaming

Comments

[Opensource Obscure]

And here's my own round-up, in Italian, but with even more links to English-language articles and comment: Il futuro di Second Life dopo i licenziamenti a Linden Lab. Selezione di commenti e opinioni

[Arcadia Codesmith]

I was away for a week. Anything interesting happen?