Real Estate Life is latest aussie entrant into Second Life
Back in July we reported that the REA Group(best known for the realestate.com.au site) had an island under development. The development is now complete and is called ‘Real Estate Life’.
We’ll do a more detailed tour of it later this week, but here’s what REA are saying their objective with the presence is to “learn [...]
Education & Non-Profit Organisations in Second Life
One of the problems we encounter in this information age is the enormous quantity of information encountered each day and the danger of overlooking the bleeding obvious.
Checking out the home page of Second Life every now and then to see what is happening can throw up some interesting gems. If you’re like me that may [...]
Weekend Whimsy
Each Friday we provide a sampling of content generated by SL users and posted on services like YouTube:
1. Dejate de joder Sean en vivo en SL:
2. Greenies: The Cat is On Sale Now!
3. Really Virtual. Virtually Real.
The Pond expands
As Tateru Nino has reported on Second Life Insider, the Pond have added another two sims: Pondagon and Pondi Beach.
An increase in rental property is an obvious driver for Pondagon in particular. Pondi Beach is off limits at this stage – maybe some surfing competitions are on the way? I personally would like to [...]
The 2007 Federal Election a non-entity for Second Life
In June this year, I wrote a piece for Crikey.com.au on the lack of interest by Australian political parties in Second Life as a campaigning platform. I even contacted the offices of the Minister and Shadow Minister for Communications asking them for their thoughts on Second Life – with absolutely no response.
Now that the 2007 [...]
Is it a long-term slide?
I’ve had some interesting comments privately from people about the significant decline on active Australian Second Life users over the past two months.
So, I’ve created a topic on the SLOz forums to delve a bit deeper – why the slump? Wold love to hear your thoughts.
Aussie population update – the decline continues
Linden Lab have released the metrics for September 2007 and there’s been a further significant decline in the number of Australians actively using Second Life.
The active Australian population is now cited as 11,975, down from the 13,567 reported last month and the 14.832 the month before that. Australia has stayed in 11th place overall for [...]
