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First of a few posts based on notes from Le Web 3…

Photo by Feuillu

Glen Fisher, Marketing Director at Second Life had a hard time of it accessing the virtual world via Le Web 3’s broadbnd connection – someone should have warned him ;-) – but he gave good value when it came to statistics. Here’s some that I noted:

• 900 events are organised and held by users every day
• 43% of Second Life members are women
• The median age is 32
• 55% of users are outside of the US
• It’s projectyed that for the whole of 2006 US $84 million of transactions will hve taken place in the world
• There are 7,000 businesses in the world
• The top ten businesses average a gross of US $25,000 and the top 100 US $ 6,300
• The top three areas of the Second Life economy are:
• Property
• Casinos and clubs
• Fashion
• There are 95 square miles of virtual land in play at the moment.