Second Life Pros

I loved your presence and comments, and hope to see you often during 2008!
I wish you a great, great, GREEEEAT 2008!
Simone Brunozzi

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I’ve catched this interesting article, about how Second Life can be good for your business.
I don’t agree that the scope is limited to “products that are hard to show off in person”, since there are other cheaper alternatives for that (flash and quicktime, anyone?).
Despite that, the article is well balanced, and offers some interesting insights. Worth few minutes of reading!

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Wagner James Au launched this poll on his blog: write down your Second Life predictions for 2008.
My two cents?
Second Life will have a major crash, due to a terrorist attack lead by a bearded buy named Second Laden. It will recover in a few days, but things will never be the same!

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Amazon.com’s presence in Second Life is important, and they’re struggling to use it as an alternative educational tool (expecially for AWS developers, their Amazon Web Services).

I think every big company can greatly benefit from Second Life this way: I also hope that, in the near future, we’ll have more powerful tools to teach and interact with other people.

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Merry Christmas to all my readers, and to the entire world!
And, well, merry Christmas to Second Lifers too!
I wish I was in Australia right now… see below!

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This is great content, and the guy simply rocks: check out Reuben’s interview.

His company, Millions of us, is one of the leading businesses in Second Life.
I agree with what he says: people can’t bear advertising. We’re in the third millennium, if you want us to look at your stuff, get us involved in something less crappy than 20th century advertising. THANKS!

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Is Second Life a business for you?
Is a business interested in customers and visitors?
To improve the service, don’t you need a way to understand visitors?
If so, you need SIM statistics. With statistics, you’re able to see where people go, how long they stay, what they buy, what they see, what they touch… and can improve your land accordingly.
On SLEXCHANGE.COM there are several “simple” statistic tools, but if you want to invest some time, I suggest you to try Maya Realities.
It’s a good service, it’s detailed, and… its costs are not high.

I’m not affiliated with them, and I’m suggesting them because …read more

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Metaverses can be useful for big corporations, too: IBM says so.
I think that there is a big business in providing Virtual Worlds (Metaverses) to companies, expecially guaranteeing privacy and cryptography, so the company’s secrets are behind a tick wall.
We’ll see if Linden Lab will grab this opportunity or not!

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November rain, was one of the most famous songs of Guns’n’Roses at the top of their career; it’s also what they are probably feeling at Linden’s: traffic is down 5% in november.
This is particularly bad, since Metaverses are generally growing at rates of 3-7% a month (40-80% a year), as it was easy to guess. We’ll see if Santa has some nice presents to bring for Lindeners

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Those kind of news are signs of bad times arriving: Electric Sheep lays down 22 people.
Cross your fingers, when the ship is sinking, sheeps (ehr, mouses) are the first to flee!
Even the Second Life Herald spend some time to describe the crash, but Electric Sheep Company’s OnRez shopping site is still failing to bring money in.

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