OK, so the seasons here in Northern California are much milder than what I grew up with in New Jersey, but there’s still an optimism and general sense of rebirth that happens every year around this time.

For me, this year is especially poignant — we’re pulling up on our 2nd anniversary as a company and looking forward to the next year. While we began as a company building presences in Second Life, we’re now operating in a wide variety of worlds, building worlds from the ground up for major entertainment companies, creating Alternate Reality Games and asking ourselves, “What do we want to be when we grow up”? Will we continue to focus on connecting the real world and the Internet? Or maybe go more broadly into Social Media? Or maybe all of the above. It’s Springtime after all, and these questions seem normal and healthy.

Second Life has a new CEO — as Mark Kingdon’s start date approaches, we’re curiously watching, wondering and wishing well.

I’m mostly happy to be back home — for the last two months I’ve been traveling at least 2 days every week. It’s so nice to be able to take a deep breath now and spend a couple months (semi) stationary. We’ve got some big announcements coming out in the next few weeks, so that’ll keep things interesting. Aaah Spring.

Any Summer predictions?