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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Click here to join Bad Unicorn's in-world group to get a free Redrum Door copy for all your "Here's Johnny!" needs Here's a whole Halloween batch of hilariously new spooky season items now available from Bad Unicorn (a proud sponsoring media partner of New World Notes). The first is this free gift that made me…
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As I continue promoting The Book and pondering my next career step — go back to working for a metaverse company, become an analyst, start a column/podcast* are three likely steps — one thing is certain: New World Notes will continue, and keep striving to bring readers the best/most interesting content from Second Life and…
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I'm psyched to welcome Bad Unicorn as a sponsoring media partner to New World Notes. Founded by Bhad Craven (Second Life Spotlight profile here), Bad Unicorn is a leading creator of SL items ideal for creating comic chaos with friends. That's Bhad above, hitting me in the face with his newest item: Thor's Hammer, i.e. a…
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In case you're feeling like an X-ile who's X-panding your social networks for completely X-cellent reasons, I would love if you connect with me here: On Threads, I'm "wjamesau" On Bluesky, I'm "SLHamlet" In fact, I have some invite codes to Bluesky to give readers. If you want one, DM me this week on Twitter…
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I'm starting to build a metaverse blog roll/ad swap (mid-right column), featuring blogs which cover Second Life and the broader ecosystem of metaverse news and culture — beginning with Gorgeous Aurelia's long-running JuicyBomb. Along with some smashing style pics, Gogo recently wrote about Linden Lab's curious fake casino project and ways to use generative AI…
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In case you missed it, here's New World Notes' media/rate card for handy downloading as a .PDF/PPT file (below). As you'll notice, there's good discounts for L$ and longer-term engagements. Download New World Notes Rate Card To get in touch with New World Notes' marketing exec “Demonica” send an e-mail to ads at new-world-notes dot…
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Image via Casja's Flickr Hope readers join me in wishing Happy Valentine's and best wishes for a quick recover to Cajsa Lilliehook, New World Notes' indispensable columnist covering the best of virtual world imagery. She's currently home, resting and recovering* from a successful surgery last week, and hopefully will be back to writing Cajsa's Choices…
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UPDATE: Thanks to everyone who joined us, especially Erik and Rosie in fluff form! We talked about a Second Life avatar in the Vienna Opera House, Bryn Oh on Steam, and too many VR headsets in Metaverse stories. Plus viewer questions and topics that quickly get racy!
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Time to take a lot at what I predicted would happen in 2022, and compare it with what actually did: Apple will not announce AR/VR products in 2022. Yes. And I'm tempted to predict the same thing for 2023! Second Life finally gets an official mobile app in 2022. Yes, though kinda sorta. Some SLers aren't…
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I'm on LinkedIn and often post and chat with connections there. As for Twitter, well, I'm still there too, despite all the recent Elon Issues. Whatever's going on with Twitter the company, my Twitter network of people who are fun and interesting remains incredibly valuable to me. And long as that's the cast, I'll remain…
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