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The Competitive Landscape

The Competitive Landscape. Mitch Wagner of InformationWeek and Gartner Fellow Steve Prentice. They discuss prospects for corporate investment in virtual worlds, the state of the competitive landscape among developers and worlds, and the future of Second Life. The interview is followed by an impromptu response from John Zdanowski, aka Zee Linden, encapsulating Linden Lab’s take on the critique.

The speakers didn’t pull any punches. Wagner referred to the position of Linden Lab as “dire,” while Prentice wouldn’t recommend that enterprises use SL for anything more than ‘pilot’ projects, because it is too unreliable.

Minutes later, Linden Lab CFO John Zdanowski (aka Zee Linden) made a surprise visit to Metanomics to address the analysts’ concerns, providing some fascinating insights into both the financial status of Linden Lab and the importance of the SL economy to Linden Lab’s strategy. Zee also comments on the motivation for the recent price changes in land.