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The Second Life Economy - Third Quarter 2009 in Detail
Second Life economy hits major milestones in Q3: 1 Billion Total User Hours, 1 Billion in User-to-User transactions In Q3 2009, The Second Life economy reached a significant milestone marking the continued success of Second Life. See the release here . Second Life Residents enjoyed strong ...
The Power of Real-World Gender Roles in Second Life
pixelsandpolicy.com — 361598616_1b53f070c5 Pixels and Policy recently tackled the issue of how racial bias crept across the real-virtual divide and found a home in the virtual world. Dozens of our readers responded with their own stories of virtual prejudice as well as ... (more) The Power of Real-World Gender Roles in Second Life
Welcome to Massively's third year!
Welcome to Massively's third year!
massively.com — Massively.com officially turns two years old today, and while that may be quite young for an MMO news site, we'd like to think we've really made a name for ourselves in that time. Starting out as the secret love child of Second Life Insider , WoW ... (more) Welcome to Massively's third year!
Linden Research Denies Eros/Nominee Trademark/Copyright Complaint
foo.secondlifeherald.com — Lindens admits Copybot is bad - denies 155 other claims by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Linden Research has filed a denial-filled response to Eros, LLC and Shannon Grie's intellectual property rights complaint against the maker of the ... (more) Linden Research Denies Eros/Nominee Trademark/Copyright ...
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How To Make Second Life Truly Mass Market, Part 1: Deep Integration With Facebook
New World Notes — ... The latest official economic stats for Second Life are now available , and they tell a mixed picture: while user-to-user transactions continue to grow, the absolute number of unique users does not. After a steady growth period at the start of the year, monthly unique repeat SL users have plateaued to around 750K. ...

Second Life plateaus during Q3 2009
Massively — Linden Lab has released the figures for the third-quarter performance of Second Life. If you want the short version, it wasn't a growth quarter. Q3 2009 figures were not really very distinguishable from Q2 2009. There's actually nothing wrong with that. Growth plateaus are occasional and inevitable and generally represent a good opportunity for engineering and support to catch up a little with the service. Continue reading Second Life plateaus during Q3 2009 Filed under: Business models, ...

Quarter 3 Results, no QPC, but introducing TPH
Alphaville Herald — by Jessica Holyoke The Lab'ts latest economic blog post by T Linden promised an in-depth look at the their quarter 2009 economy.  However, the Herald's economic friend, Positive Monthly Linden Flow, was not reported.  PMLF as its known,  reports in-world business profits on residents who have earned more money then they have spent the previous month.  Its the numerator in the Herald's Quarterly Profit per Capita or QPC.  Using the QPC, the Herald's economic offices were able to measure the strength of the in-world economy by comparing how much people were earning with how many ...

What RL Country Has the Most SL Spenders By Proportion?
New World Notes — ... Quaintly Tuquri, an SL Resident living in Malaysia, looked at the most recent Second Life economic statistics , and noted something interesting: ...

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