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4 months at the Lab

I recently celebrated my fourth month at the Lab and it has been a terrific adventure so far. As the leader of this amazing company, what have I been focused on? Leading the company’s efforts to make Second Life more relevant, more usable and more reliable. How are we doing? We wrapped up a very [...]

Visit Burning Life, today through Oct. 5

For years, Philip Linden has talked about the annual Burning Man Festival and the ways its open-ended nature, participant-created content and art contributed to his vision of what Second Life could be. For those who aren’t familiar with the event, Burning Man is an annual week-long art, fire and community celebration in the Black Rock [...]

Getting a Second Life Just Got Easier with Direct SLurl

As we’ve discussed several times in this space, improving the “first hour” experience of new Residents is one of our primary goals. As our use cases and base continue to diversify, it’s important to begin tailoring the Second Life experience to the specific needs of our audience and reduce the time it takes to access [...]

Partial Disabling of iframe Functionality in SLURLs

To protect SLurl visitors from potential exploits, we’ve disabled the iframe option for custom-built SLURLs at slurl.com. This may result in cosmetic degradation of previously generated SLURLs using the iframe option. Graphical elements such as the “Visit” and “Teleport” links will still display and work properly, but remote content within the iframe will not be displayed.

[REPAIRED] Failure to Rez Objects

[FINAL 10/8 4:58 pm Pacific] The system failure which has been spreading this annoying behavior to additional assets has been repaired.  We’ll be double-checking the support tickets we’ve received on this issue as quickly and thoroughly as possible.  If you discover another asset in your inventory which will rez in some regions but not others [...]

[RESOLVED] Public Issues Tracker is offline

[02:07 AM Pacfic]  The Public Issues Tracker is back online. [01:54 AM Pacific]  Our Public Issues Tracker at http://jira.secondlife.com is offline at present.