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libsecondlife, the reverse-engineering effort by a group of talented Second Life residents (which has caused no small consternation among some users of the virtual world) got a welcome imprimatur from Linden Lab chief technology officer Cory Ondrejka in his closing talk at Saturday’s sessions of the Second Life Community Convention in San Francisco. Ondrejka also gave a look at changes being made to the code-base, changes that should make building Web-based SL mashups easier for everyone, whether or not you know enough to pick apart the platform to build something like libsecondlife.

“The official position of Linden Lab on libsecondlife is, we like libSL, you guys rock,” Ondrejka said. “We are blown away by what you’ve accomplished, and we’re very excited to see you do more, so do not stop. But everything you’ve reverse engineered is changing, and for that I do apologize.” libsecondlife hackers that 3pointD spoke with at the convention remained unconcerned, however, as the changes Cory described will no doubt be slow in coming. (more…)

Linden Lab chief technology officer Cory Ondrejka amused the crowd at the end of last Saturday’s sessions of the Second Life Community Convention by showing them Linden World (video above), the precursor to the virtual world of Second Life, as it was in 2001. Apparently, videos of Linden World have never been seen outside of Linden Lab, and Linden World itself has not worked properly since SL was in beta. (more…)