After a month long absence from social media, Linden CEO Rod Humble posted an update on his SL profile, updating the company's plans for returning last names to SL avatars, along with other features to names, such as titles:

Speaking of long absences, the company hasn't updated its blog since December, and I have heard rumblings that something pretty big was coming. (And by "rumblings" I mean, "Coy non-answers from SL insiders.") But spokesman Peter Gray just pretty much confirmed to me that news is the case: