In this podcast Lon Safko speaks with Mark Kingdon, CEO of Linden Labs the creator of the virtual world, Second Life.  ACTUALLY, Lon Sands speaks with M. Linden, the CEO of Linden Labs, creator of Second Life, Live from The Social Media Garden in Second Life! Mark discusses how Second Life is used by individuals for socializing and meeting new people and how small and large businesses are using Second Life for meetings, educating their customers, and even prototyping products.

In this 20 minute interview Mark shares his ideas about social media and how Second Life creates the ultimate “trusted network” with more than 1.2 million log-ins every 30 days, and “user generated content” with more than 2 billion user created items stored on the Linden Labs servers.  Mark and Lon even talked about the Paper Models, Inc., three-dimensional advertising crossover from Second Life to First Life and how Linden Labs is trying to promote SL/FL FL/SL crossover.

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