OECD report: lag issues are no surprise
There’s unlikely to be many Australian SL users who don’t have to deal with the frustrations of lag. The physical location of the servers in the United States are a key issue, but the speed of broadband internet in Australia is also a contributing factor.
To throw the issue into very stark relief, the OECD [...]
REA Group on the way into SL
Jana Gillespie, director of Big-Bit Australia Pty Ltd has let us know that the REA Group, best known for its site realestate.com.au, has signed on for an SL presence. There’s nothing to see at this stage but the island is present in search and is called ‘Real Estate Life’:
The presence will represent the group’s worldwide [...]
Is it just ‘Summer’ Doldrums?
Since the release of the June metrics, there’s been a general consensus that a peak
Aussie population update – a dozen thousand
Meta Linden has once again given an update on SL metrics.
Linden state there’s now 12,910 active aussie users, meaning that Australia has moved from 11th to 10th place in the world with 2.61% of the active SL population.
As we stated last month, the definition of active is fairly generous but growth does [...]
Hillary Clinton’s SL Campaign Plans
As mentioned previously, Hillary Clinton has a campaign presence in SL. We took the opportunity to catch up with chairperson of the Hillary 2008 Group in Second Life, Padlurowncanoe Dibou. She’s an educational technology director, Democrat member and mother or three. She’s also very passionate about the benefits of Second Life for promoting policy [...]
The SLOz Reader Survey
Since SLOz launched in late 2006, we’ve run over 260 stories totalling 50-thousand plus words. The support from the Australian SL community has been astounding, but it’s time to get some feedback from the people that count: you. We’ve created a 10-question reader survey to find out a little about the people who read SLOz, [...]
Ricoh’s Australian Connection
Australian Developer Inside This World has completed a striking build for the Belgian subsidiary of printer / fax / photocopier behemoth Ricoh.
The interior of the build is a static display of current models and associated information. It’s not the sort of build that’s going to attract return visitors however that wasn’t the intention [...]
