Facebook and Second Life...

Posted: Nov. 17, 2010

Facebook has hired Cory Ondrejka, the former chief technical officer of Linden Lab, the company that created Second Life, and also acquired the assets of a startup he cofounded, Walletin.

Walletin’s cofounder, Bruce Rogers, will also join the social network, according to a post on Ondrejka’s blog that Facebook later confirmed in a prepared statement.

Ondrejka had co-founded Second Life while working for Linden Labfrom 2000 to 2007. He then became senior vice president of digital strategy for EMI Group, and left in September 2009.

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