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Bureau chief Adam Reuters will interview Linden Lab chairman Mitch Kapor on Friday as part of a series of interviews from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Kapor founded Lotus Development Corp and created the groundbreaking Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet. He was also a co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and was an early investor in Linden Lab.

During an interview on Friday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Linden Lab Chairman Mitch Kapor had some stark advice about how to deal with the inevitable Second Life backlash:“Don’t drink your own Kool-Aid.”(view the Second Life video here)Nine time zones away at the SF Beta event, Linden Lab was sending a different message. [...]

Reuters reported yesterday that Bureau Chief Adam Pasick will conduct a "Second Life" virtual-world panel with guests including Linden Lab Chairman Mitch Kapor, author and entrepreneur John Battelle former Virginia Governor Mark Warner and musician Peter Gabriel during the World Economic Forum, with the theme: The Shifting Power Equation.

An eBay spokesperson says anyone who repeatedly tries to sell virtual goods will be punished. So much for eBay founder-chairman Pierre Omidyar, who also invested in Linden Lab, makers of the virtual world Second Life.

Linden Lab has taken the virtual world by surprise with a quicker than expected open-sourcing of the Second Life viewer software.