i would care but i've never heard of this guy

"I rarely hear of anyone logging in there" Uhh....wut? xD

as for being over run, he doesn't have his facts straight, most Gambling is Banned, and as for porn is that true about the entire internet

it is probably true that 90% of people there are just there for porn and gambling

im familiar with him and it was true, partially... like a couple years ago

This is why i think Linden Labs could use a good rebrand to bring in new people.

LL needs to produce some kind of numbers of mature/adult sims to PG ones.

LL tried to rebrand when they started moving mature to Zindra and marketing towards a business like audience. Second Life is heading

south mostly because of their customer service... porn and gambling are everywhere- it didn't ruin SL, at least I dont think so.

and Chris makes me lol a lot- I like him.

I dont think they picked the good bits to rebrand on tho. If they highlighted half of the great content creation.

ect i think more people would jion

I hate when I get interrupted at work in the middle of a multi-part thought. The first part makes only half a point

to continue where I left off....

The internet is overrun by porn and gambling.

so he does a follow up where someone takes him on a tour to prove that its more than just porn & gambling

Also, I totally want that chair he's sitting on.

And winds up not only with absolutely horrendous performance, but the guide takes him on a most boring tour of the entire internet

lolol i am still unsure what is so wrong with porn and gambling, again?! Also, is that a voice morpher?

So he had the same experience most noobs get. It's not surprising SL gets a bad rap.. I don't blame him for slagging it off.

that's what I'm thinking, Kess! The porn & gambling was a way better review than the actual tour!

man I'd do freeplay over at Chilly Charlton's casino and during non freeplay, stick 20L in the machine and sort inventory

gambling really was a benefit to SL since everyone I hung out with sorted inventory during freeplay

he also had the best machines!

porn & gambling > lag & ancient sims

I'm firmly convinced of that, myself

Ugh, why wasn't he taken to places like Chouchou, or Garden of Dreams...places that are really BEAUTIFUL instead of those 2006-textured

alot of people are embarassed about that aspect of SL and want to sweep it under the carpet

boring sims

well the US should get over their puritanical ways...regarding gambling (and many other things)

LL's been searching high and low for the "killer app" and they've had it all along and got rid of it

yeah.. banning online gambling in a country which has the world's gambling capital strikes me as a little odd

well I think it had to do with the credit card transactions and gambling rather than it being banned perse.

SL's major problem is that when people get in there, they have no idea what to do and hence, they don't get *it*

he does manage to convince me that Second Life sucks. Oh, that face he's pulling at 6:15.

pradprathivi: yup and there's nothing engaging when they come in.

They totally screwed up the First Hour Experience in Viewer 2.0.. instead of making it easier for new users, they made it much harder

yeah and chris is navigating the camera in the WORST way in that video.

camera controls made SL for me- handling them easily was the key to making SL fun

ebbiibbe: my alts from 2008 all couldn't tp off orientation island at all. they couldnt get anywhere.

ebbiibbe: I took a room full of 30 people into SL for the first time a few weeks ago. Nobody was able to work it out.

its not his fault though. You can't blame a user for the lousy first impression SL gives

when someone like Chris Pirollo is trying to get SL to work, I can't see how a moderate computer user is supposed to have the patience

It's not really that SL is complicated.. it's more that it's hard to understand what to do there, and it's difficult to get working right.

well a lot of things hurt SL. Running off their best volunteer client devs probably was one.

when a user introduces another user the SL experience is very different than a new user coming in on their own. Though

you are right, one cannot bitch about stability when their systems are below requirements.

the people who really know what SL is about are the people who are using it now. We know what it's about.

I almost think we should be the ones telling new users what to do, where to go, etc.

A lot of things have to change... how much change without losing the original spirit of SL can happen? and I totally miss gambling

ebbiibbe: well when I bring people in I walk them around their first time and give them tips.

I assumed you meant similar, not babying or handholding but introduction then fly away bird

and they do- there's several portals people can go to when they originally log in, some were even resident created... but there was a bug

surrounding them...if i am not mistaken.

A very high proportion of new users registering to Second Life log in once and never return.. I think LL said only around 5-10% stay now

That's poor retaining figures, and they know it.

If I saw that number in my own business the alarm would sound loudly...

hell, SL should embrace the vampire culture and market it to all those Twilight fans

theslrevolution.files.wo...

oh damn!

FYI, those adverts still didn't work. Neither did the RL/SL adverts. They had poor uptake, and tended to target people already in SL.

they should have said be a vampire and have sex with Edward and Jacob...your wildest dreams can come true!

Which reminds me.. how does LL fire half its workforce but the Marketing manager keeps her job? That's all kinds of weird.

yeah like babbage linden- why lay him off but keep a lame ass marketing manager

SL doesn't need marketers. I don't think anything as freeform and chaotic as SL is can ever be effectively marketed by the home office

any polished marketing push by LL will be inherently false, because a polished controlled experience is exactly what SL is not

They could use a better PR to deal with the media.. and their own customers. And if there's money left, someone who listens would be awesome