Developers

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Development in SL can be classed in 3 broad headings

• Professional companies (often as an arm of a wider creative media company)
• Contractors
• Individuals (working alone or in small teams)

Below you will find details of some of these. Please add to this list.

Professional Companies

Millionsofus
Possibly the largest of the professional site development companies, based in California. Thier clients include: General Motors, Toyota, Intel, Microsoft, CNET, Wired, Popular Science and many more. It was founded by Reuben Steiger and President Christian Lassonde. Prior to founding Millions of Us, Steiger ran Business Development for Linden Lab, creator of Second Life. Lassonde was Linden Lab’s Director of Product Management. Company contact details:

Millions of Us, Inc.

80 Liberty Ship Way, Suite 5

Sausalito, CA, 94965

Phone: 415-324-5901

Fax: 415-324-5902

contact@millionsofus.com

Electric Sheep
Electric Sheep is another US-based virtual worlds developer. Their clients include: Sony BMG, Sundance Channel,Nissan, Reuters, MTV. Text 100, Major League Baseball and New Media Consortium. They also own and run SLBoutique, described as "Second Life's premier online commerce website. Every virtual item your avatar could ever want is for sale here, from wings to business casual to the shiniest car on the block. SLBoutique also sparked national news recently with the decision to sell real computer hardware and other items for virtual currency.". Their website provides only email contact information.

Rivers Run Red
RRR is the UK's leading Second Life development company (among other things). Their clients include: BBC Radio 1, Duran Duran, PA Consulting, ING bank, ABN Amro bank, Philips Digital Design, Channel 4 Radio. They have also been involved in one-off activites, such as providing a 3D space for animating prototypes of Marvin The Paranoid Android, in the prelude to the making of the movie, "Hithchiker's Guide to the Galaxy". Company contact details:

Unit 1.06

Tea Building

Shoreditch High Street

London E1 6JJ

phone: + 44 (020) 7739 7505

louise@riversrunred.com

Contractors

Scope Cleaver
Scope is a contract designer and architect, responsible for the excellent GNWC building, the TELUS store, the ITW office and the VICS conference centre.

Individuals

To be honest - there's really more individual developers than can be accommodated in this wiki!