Linden Lab’s plans for Second Life are as visionary as ever — "to enhance and improve the human condition." But the company is working to marry those dreams to more practical goals for the immediate future.
"I’ll settle for a million active users by the end of the year," said Tom Hale, chief product officer for Linden Lab, which develops and operates Second Life. The service now has about 700,000 active users, who spend more than an hour per month logged in, up from 680,000 active users in February.
One million active users is a big goal, but it’s more modest than the dreams of the Second Life boom a few years ago, when Linden Lab founder Philip Rosedale talked about Second Life becoming bigger than the Web in 10-15 years. For example, see this 2008 video of Rosedale at TED Talks.
Read the rest, and listen to the podcast of the interview, at the Computerworld Tool Talk Blog: Linden Lab holds to grand plans for Second Life
