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One of the Saturday sessions was looking at the Future of Live Performance in SL with Colossus Linden.
The slides from the session are up although, I'm not really sure how much effort Linden will actually put into the music community in SL. Also the session was mixed reality and was happening both inworld as well as RL at SLCC. There is a solid blog post and video records of inworld sessions here

Sunday morning, Tom Hale - Linden Lab's Keynote Speaker, discussed the Second Life Roadmap which was a very interesting look into what Linden plans for the coming year in Second Life. The keynote speech was recorded and can be viewed.
After the keynote speech a few questions and concerns came up that Linden spent too many resources to improve userbility, their website, implement web 2.0 features etc. to reach a wider population and make SL easier to use for newbies instead of solving the inworld bugs most hardcore users have been frustrated by for a long time. Like group limits to 25, the lack of stability in group chat etc.

One of the most interesting pieces of information was the demo of the web prim (what I call browsable prim). In short we will soon be able to rezz a prim and texture it so we have a fully browsable screen inworld. In other words we will be able to search the web, share and participate in single documents like Google docs etc. all happening on ONE screen, real time with our friends, students etc inworld. The Sirikata platform currently developed at Stanford University has had this feature for some time now.
Anyway I went up to Tom Hale after his keynote speech to ask for specific dates, timelines when this will be available. Unfortunately, as I suspected, he wasn't able to answer other than "during 2010".