I keep reading about second life. Friends mention it. It’s funny, the same pressures that got me to try facebook are not working to get me into this virtual world. I am glad for people like Darren Barefoot who provide some much needed perspective, check out his latest post
The article later suggests that such a project might have cost $500,000. So that’s, what, about $416 per visitor?
Only about 1 million users had logged on in the previous 30 days (the standard measure of Internet traffic), and barely a third of that total had bothered to drop by in the previous week. Most of those who did were from Europe or Asia, leaving a little more than 100,000 Americans per week to be targeted by US marketers.
I still think rather than the current second life, future alternative virtual worlds will make it big, eventually. Once the performance, detail, activities, traffic and open source infrastructure are there.
While I admit I have not really given it a chance, the linden labs walled garden appears to be over-hyped, poorly populated, slow and not much fun. If you know otherwise I would love for you to demonstrate its plus points.
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Chris, I too have been distancing myself from something that doesn’t seem much interesting, but I finally broke down and decided to give it a try. What could I lose right? I hopped over to the site to get signed up and as luck would have it, the site was down due to the San Francisco power outage and they were not accepting new users. Ha! I dodged that bullet.
Do let me know if you get any use out of it. I keep watching over other peoples shoulders and it just … underwhelms me …
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