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I'm thrilled to welcome Dutchie Design as a new media partner to New World Notes. As you probably know already, Dutchie is a venerable brand that's been creating high quality virtual furnishings for all variety of social scenes and roleplay for over 10 years. As part of this partnership, Dutchie is offering a 20% discount on this amazing and…
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Slink, a popular virtual world brand for avatar enhancements, produces what's basically the Tesla for mesh bodies in Second Life — not just sleek and stylish, but energy efficient and good for the environment. This is because their creator, Siddean Munro, painstakingly optimizes them to have the least number of triangles without hurting visual quality.…
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Good reader thread responding to my somewhat tossed off remark that, "While you should definitely encourage users to customize their avatars, you also want to impose optimization restrictions so avatars don't become a bloated lag-inducing disaster like they have in SL." The problem, as Alicia observes, is the company behind Second Life has enabled (encouraged?) poor…
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Estimated visits to Seraphimsl.com via analytics site Similar Web While Second Life might be smaller than many other virtual worlds, do not underestimate how passionate and engaged its core userbase is. As an example of that, consider SeraphimSL, one of many hundreds of user-run sites and blogs advertising SL fashions and housewares. (And Seraphim is…
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Above: Mishi IRL and her Blueberry brand on Facebook While the SL community's opinion over the world's new corporate owners is decidedly mixed, I put a lot of stock in the analysis of Gizem McDuff, owner and founder of Blueberry — which has been, since its founding in 2012, one of the most successful and…
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Linden Lab's future may now be up in the air, but the legendary and miraculously sustainable Fifty Linden Fridays for Second Life shoppers goes on. Here's this weekend's offers, starting with this face-punchingly adorable item above: Ice cream fans for the blistering Summer from Astralia — click here to get them at the store. Not…
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The legendary Fifty Linden Fridays shopping extravaganza, in which top SL brands offer select items for a mere L$50 (i.e. about 20 cents), has been running since 2009. But it only just occurred to me recently: How the hell does this even make any economic sense? Or as regular reader Patchouli Woolhara recently commented: After…
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Here's some select items from this week's legendary Fifty Linden Fridays shopping extravaganza, in which top SL brands offer select items for a mere L$50 (i.e. about 20 cents). Above is a seriously cool working bubble gun from BALACLAVA!! — click here to teleport there to buy. A couple more cool featured items and the…
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Interesting comment from Amanda Dallin, reflecting on SL's recently reported "pandemic boost": If the definition of a monthly active user has remained the same then the comparison to the peak in 2007 is valid. Actually there were likely more than 350,000 new registered users a month in 2007 when SL hit the peak of 1.1…
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Interesting tweet from NBC Senior Business Reporter Ben Popken, citing Linden Lab CEO Ebbe Altberg: Since the pandemic, Second Life has seen monthly active users (or MAU) grow from 700,000 to now 900,000. That's good news for the SL community – but how good depends on the definition of a monthly active user: "MAU represents…
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