Fleck served in a similar role for the company behind Second Life, Linden Lab.
Plaintiffs invoke consumer-protection laws in California, specifically, because Linden Lab is based in San Francisco.
Linden Lab's rules now say the land is a service the company controls and can cancel.
Linden Lab producer Bo Barfield showed me some of what dio has to offer.
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The announcement marks the second high-profile staff change at Linden Lab in three months.
Though the shine is off virtual worlds, owner Linden Lab says Second Life is still doing well.
Linden Lab, which set up the Second Life site two years ago, plateaued at 1, 000 users in August 2003.
Last December, Linden Lab's chief technology officer and one of its first hires, Cory Ondrejka, walked away from the company.
Following a federal investigation, Second Life's parent company, Linden Lab, banned all gambling in the virtual world--a major source of its business.
The system, developed internally at Linden Lab, has been adopted by online review site Yelp, event-planning site Eventbrite and digital-marketing agency Organic.
People pay real dollars to Linden Lab for access to virtual land.
On April 15, four Second Life property owners filed a class-action suit against Linden Lab, the online world's creator, alleging the company misled players into thinking they owned their virtual lands.
Linden Lab was founded in 1999 and its most high-profile creation is Second Life - in which people create and adorn avatars and that live out a parallel existence in the online space.
Organizations now have the option of using Second Life as a service hosted by Linden Lab, using Second Life Enterprise as a standalone solution hosted behind their firewalls, or a combination of both.
Forbes.com spoke with Rosedale about his new role at Linden Lab, the viability of Second Life for business and whether it actually makes sense to hold a company meeting around a virtual conference table.
In fact, he says he plans to keep active control over Second Life as chairman of Linden Lab's board, in the tradition of geeky founders who hire a more business-savvy CEO as their company grows.
Unlike the expansive microcosms of Linden Lab's "Second Life" or Vivendi's "World of Warcraft, " In-Q-Tel's digital environment will likely be a single room, designed to function as a virtual meeting place for U.S. intelligence agencies, according to a Forterra spokesman.
Linden Lab, the makers of Second Life, is unveiling the beta of their latest innovation: dio. dio is a simple yet powerful site that blends website design and social web, where you can create an explorable space that people can visit, move around, and leave comments in.
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The company blog didn't reveal to what degree the ban was mandated by the FBI, saying only that "Linden Lab and Second Life residents must comply with state and federal laws applicable to regulated online gambling" and threatening to remove players and objects from the game that violate the new policy.
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