In a post on the official Linden Lab blog, Clare Linden has summarised achievements to date outside of the USA and vaguely alludes to continued growth internationally.

Certainly, Australian jobs at Linden Lab were advertised during 2007 but to my knowledge, these have not resulted in any formal Australian presence. With 60% of Second Life residents coming from outside the US, Linden Lab’s pledge to improve international support is a near necessity given the growing competition in the marketplace.

Everyone’s retrospective at present, and Linden Lab’s CEO is no different. Read his thoughts here.

A number of Second Life presences are listed as highlights by M Linden – what would you add to the list?

As announced on the official blog, the new design developed over recent weeks has gone live, initially for those not already registered as Second Life residents. The new version loaded for me this afternoon:

The re-design has attracted a lot of comment, a significant proportion of which has been criticism. For what it’s worth, I like the new design. Is it derivative? I believe so, but pretty much everything on the 2D web is. The new site does provide a real showcase of what Second Life has to offer, which must count for something. What are you thoughts – do you like it, hate it, or couldn’t care less?

Its only been a day since Linden Lab released a podcast on a Second Life innovator, but they’ve now released a text-based story on another innovator, Languagelab.

It’s great to see some further showcasing of Second Life success stories – Linden Lab just need to work on their communications strategy.

The podcast released a little over 24 hours ago was stated as being part of a new podcast series called Stories from Second Life. The story released today is part of “an occasional series” called Stories from Second Life, but it’s not a podcast.

My best guess is that Stories from Second Lifeis an occasional podcast series that contains some non-podcast material released non-occasionally….

Pedantic observations aside, this sort of profiling can only benefit those profiled and the broader cause of illustrating some of the benefits of virtual worlds. If you’d like to suggest future profile subjects, here’s where to go.

Hot on the heels of the controversial OpenSpaces announcement, Linden Lab have posted a roundup of communication channels for Second Life residents.

It’s a fair hodge-podge of channels, from Twitter to RSS and web. To be fair, Linden Lab aren’t claiming it’s an integrated strategy and there’s certainly a lot of options for residents to glean information. It’s just that in-world communications from Linden Lab remain infrequent and the 2D ones are scattered. On checking out the

There’s no doubt there’s some activity behind the scenes at Linden Lab to improve things – but determining whether it’s a broad effort or some frantic efforts by an overworked few remains the challenge. We’d love to hear you thoughts – in an ideal world, what communications strategy would you like to see from Linden Lab?