Comments on: Debunking 5 Business Myths about Second Life

By: MMOs « Social Media and the Digital Disruption

MMOs « Social Media and the Digital Disruption — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:08:53 +0000

[...] games and it has spawned a massive economic industry within it (although the benefits are questionable). It’s a strange world — Mike will be spending a chunk of time on World of Warcraft in [...]

By: MMOGs « Social Media and the Digital Disruption

MMOGs « Social Media and the Digital Disruption — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:30:52 +0000

By: Digital media and the idiocy of the big number - News from the Herd - Blogs - Brand Republic

Sat, 29 Aug 2009 21:06:50 +0000

[...] registered but never came back…sound familiar? That number was so over inflated that it was easy to puncture, sparking a debate about the 'real' number of users (I gather it's currently about 750k [...]

By: MMOGs and Check-in « Social Media and the Digital Disruption

MMOGs and Check-in « Social Media and the Digital Disruption — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:49:24 +0000

[...] various games and it has spawned a massive economic industry within it (although the benefits are questionable). Before class on Wednesday, please sign up for a Second Life account (basic membership is fine) [...]

By: Readings on MMOGs « PFB is Listening

Readings on MMOGs « PFB is Listening — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 03:51:00 +0000

[...] are either fiercely loyal to second life, or they are critical of it. Compare the article “Debunking 5 Business Myths About Second Life” to “One Year in SL–Why the Wild West is Failing.” In the first example, [...]

By: MMOGs « Social Media and the Digital Disruption

MMOGs « Social Media and the Digital Disruption — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 20:37:30 +0000

By: » Expanding scope

» Expanding scope — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 07:46:47 +0000

[...] 10 million mark (an achievement Second Life also shares, though the active user base is said to be around 500,000). Completely anecdotal, but I can’t name a person I know that plays Second Life. I [...]

By: Kzero » Blog Archive » What marketers learned in 2007, No 5. The media loves Second Life. The media hates Second Life

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 13:57:24 +0000

[...] The LA Times (referenced on Techcrunch) also carried a much copied article which came under criticism for it’s inaccuracy. [...]

By: Tendencias: no todo es bueno en la segunda vida at Despegar

Tendencias: no todo es bueno en la segunda vida at Despegar — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 10:06:19 +0000

[...] Y para una nota que analiza los “mitos de marketing” de Second Life, se puede ver GigaOM, donde se afirma sin vueltas que “nadie visita los sitios de marketing en Second Life”. [...]

By: Media, Politics, and Truth in a Digital World » Blog Archive » MMOGs

Media, Politics, and Truth in a Digital World » Blog Archive » MMOGs — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 19:26:33 +0000

By: MMOGs make for iSociety

MMOGs make for iSociety — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 11:32:28 +0000

[...] Places like Second Life are a different kind of social network which rely on as-real-as-damn-it social interaction, albeit Second Life has additional features, like the scope for business .. of a kind. [...]

By: Rex

Rex — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 14:13:28 +0000

Secondlfe is a great mmorpg, but the problem is the constant flaws and glitches. I can't create a second sl account and I can't get into my first one plus when I went on to sl my computer crashed and I had to get a new one.

By: Utopia Hidden Underground: Another Look At SL « Broken Toys

Utopia Hidden Underground: Another Look At SL « Broken Toys — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 00:34:28 +0000

[...] anything online that’s come before, and I suspect that alienness – that singularity – is what inspires SL’s most fervently myopic defenders to tilt at the wheel again and again. Because in spite of the flailing newbies, crashing platform [...]

By: 93South - Thoughts on New England Web 2.0 » Pay Your Parking Tickets in Second Life? Boston’s Virtual World Experiment Begins

Sat, 18 Aug 2007 18:00:40 +0000

[...] logged in at any give time. The later is an “active weekly user” number as reported by a recent GigaOm article where “active” is defined as users who have logged in the past 7 days. The number that [...]

By: …My heart’s in Accra » links for 2007-08-14

…My heart’s in Accra » links for 2007-08-14 — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 04:17:53 +0000

[...] GigaOM Debunking 5 Business Myths about Second Life ? Wagner James Au respond to media critique of Second Life, arguing that it’s not just furries and land scams. Good debunking of oversimplified critique of the space (tags: advertising hype journalism marketing metaverse secondlife) [...]

By: The Zone Read » Blog Archive » links for 2007-07-13

The Zone Read » Blog Archive » links for 2007-07-13 — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 03:22:10 +0000

[...] GigaOM Debunking 5 Business Myths about Second Life « Second Life sanity… it’s been overhyped for sure, but it continues to be an interesting, mid-size social network. Here is a balanced perspective on the “myths” of SL. (tags: secondlife) [...]