Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
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Category: Survey
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This is an interesting and short survey (should take less than 10 minutes) for a master's thesis on Second Life avatar identity and virtual items. It's overseen by Professor Diana Falcão of Oporto University in Portugal. "The survey aims to assess buying behaviours of identity items in SL, namely avatars, clothing and accessories. This is…
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What's the value of an avatar name? With 138 responses, here's the results to our survey, "Will you spend $15 to $50 to change your Second Life account name?" (Which is how much it costs to do just that, via a new Linden Lab offer.) Nearly 75% answered No. In Comments to the survey post,…
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Loading… New Linden Lab offer, new SL user survey (above, take on laptop/desktop for best results): That’s right, as [last week] everyone can change their avatar name regardless of their subscription level. Not just the Premium subscribers that have always been able to do so, but all of our Basic accounts as well! This is something…
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Loading… Note: For best results, take survey on a laptop/desktop! Now that we've had a week to digest the new Premium Plus offering (details infograpic-ed below), here's a survey for the money question: Will you as an SL user actually upgrade?
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Of all the metaverse platforms active on the Internet today, Second Life by far offers the best overall revenue share to user creators on the platform. As a whole, the creator community makes about as much revenue from Second Life as the company itself, and 1,600 user creators earn over $10,000 a year — a…
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Click here to take by tomorrow Noon PT. (Use a laptop/desktop for best results.) Details published and discussed soon after!
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With so much online conversation over hat's a fair revenue split between a metaverse platform and content creators on it — thanks to Meta and its just-announced 47.5% cut for Horizon — I'm curious what the share is for Second Life. It can be as little as the L$ cash-out processing fee, or as much…
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Here's the results of our survey from last week, asking readers how the news of Philip Rosedale's return to Second Life has changed their outlook on the future of Second Life and other metaverse-type platforms. Respondents are Optimistic by an overwhelming 60%, with the remaining 40% in the skeptical/nervous/unsure/neutral category. Here's some reader comments:
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Note: Take this survey on laptop/desktop for best results! Loading… Now that everyone has had time over the long weekend to process the news of Philip Rosedale's return to Second Life, here's a survey to express your sense of how that will shape the future of Second Life — and other metaverse-type platforms. If history…
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The team at Blind, the anonymous social messaging app for tech employees, just passed along the results of a user-driven survey, asking the somewhat ambiguous question, "Are you buying land in the metaverse?" Since it was posted December 17, 1400+ users have responded, with the most responses coming from employees with Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta…
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