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It’s not surprising Linden sees its instant-messaging platform as a vital asset. Last December, AOL, an early supporter of virtual worlds, withdrew from Second Life citing a desire to work exclusively with virtual worlds that employ the AIM instant-messaging client like vSide.

While Linden Lab files trademarks, Second Life’s user community is already finding new uses for SLim. Wagner James Au reports teenage programmer Katharine Berry, Second life linden inventor of the AjaxLife browser-based Second Life implementation, has created a SLim instant-messaging interface for the iPhone(Second life linden).

Second Life founder Philip Rosedale kicked off the event at a Saturday morning breakfast where he was received with warm but not ecstatic applause.

“Last year when I was here I had the ‘Missing Image’ T-shirt,” Rosedale said, alluding to his apology for bugs at SLCC 2007. “I think we made pretty good progress.”

The Second Life community has its own ideas. New Linden CEO Mark Kingdon followed Rosedale and asked the crowd: “We’re working hard to improve stability. Are you seeing that(Secondlife linden)?” But Kingdon’s question was met with a stony silence from the crowd.