Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
recent posts
- Welcome to New World Notes’ 2006-2025 Archive!
- Virtual World Usage Stats from S&P Global Market Intelligence — Plus VRChat & Second Life Specifics!
- Top Five Posts Including: Huge Rec Room Layoff & Meta Boots Neal Stephenson Off Facebook (Briefly)
- Four Glorious Second Life Sims to Explore — After Watching Sabina Valeska’s Machinima Tributes to Them!
- Virtual World Usage Stats from S&P Global Market Intelligence — Plus VRChat & Second Life Specifics!
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Category: Making the Metaverse
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With a certain tech billionaire currently railing against companies including Apple withdrawing their ads from Twitter, it's a good time to remember a fairly related story from 2007-2008 — when Linden Lab began to pivot away from its libertarian approach to governing Second Life content: In 2006, for example, Philip Rosedale refused to intercede against Ginko,…
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I recently mentioned how IBM's presence in Second Life led to an unexpected backlash, so here's a classic example of metaverse-based marketing done right — "Greenies", an SL sim rendered in a giant-sized apartment users could explore like tiny ants: [Greenies is] from a small British development company called Rezzable, which plans to use it…
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We saw Twitter employees' opinion of the company in the Elon Musk era last week, now here's a survey of Meta employees taken as the social media giant started laying off thousands of its own staff. Courtesy of Blind, the anonymous messaging app, this survey reflects the opinion of 1,179 verified Meta professionals in the…
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Happy Halloween! 🎃 SL fam have you ever tried @zepeto_official ? I was recently invited as an official creator and my little concept brand Super Fun reached Hot Creator status 🙌 Here's our @wednesdayaddams inspired outfit 🐈⬛🖤 pic.twitter.com/Q0dsLyrfuI — Truth Hawks (@TruthHairSL) October 31, 2022 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Truth Hawks, one of Second Life's most well-known and…
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When I blogged about J.P. Morgan investing in Linden Lab payments spinoff Tilia last week, I missed this point from Forbes columnist and longtime Metaverse expert Charlie Fink: Tilia is easy for developers to implement, and it’s simple and convenient for their customers to use. Transactions are instant and cost pennies, some of which go…
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Update, 10/26: Nic just confirmed to me that his official total is now 505 million monthly active users across all the metaverse platforms he's tracking. Here's a core slice of the Metaverse Universe chart just updated for Q4 2022, from longtime virtual world analyst Nic Mitham. (Click here for the full version from his analyst…
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When Caroline Mimbs Nyce of The Atlantic asked how much Taylor Swift is like the Metaverse, the question seemed pretty bizarre at first — but then got us talking about Suzanne Vega performing in Second Life, the first platinum-selling artist to do so in any metaverse platform. While's Vega's appearance did help inspire a rush…
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Above: SL Cosplay Taylor Tribute by Kylie Quinn “Weirdly, Taylor Swift Is Extremely Close to Creating a True Metaverse” is a totally random interview with Caroline Mimbs Nyce of The Atlantic I just did, and it starts with a left field premise that winds up with some fairly interesting ways of thinking about the topic.…
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You might have seen recent claims that Decentraland, the metaverse platform which raised USD $25 million in Ethereum sales of virtual land to fund its development, only has active users in the dozens. That’s not quite true, game industry analyst and designer Lars Doucet tells me, citing his recent report for research firm Naavik —…
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"Second Life's vision of the Metaverse has endured…" Listen to the latest and final episode in the Wall Street Journal's episode on the rise and fall (and rise) of Second Life: Stream on Spotify here Get it on Apple Podcasts here Stream on the web and read the transcript here Links to Part 3 here…
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