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Sunday, January 11, 2009

Last Week In New World Notes...

- War in Gaza provokes protest (and conversation) In Second Life Israel.
- Lindens say negative and disabled Island stat is misleading.
- 11 Companies in Fortune 100 maintain presence In Second Life (and many in the Global Fortune 100).
- How Lainy Voom made her latest greatest machinima, "Fall"
- The Lindens' chief product officer tries to explain the three things I don't understand about SL's new homepage.
- NWN readers bat .500 for Second Life predictions in 2008.
- Is the rise of SL freebies caused by "Paralysis of Choice"?
- New World Notes em Português: Quanto da sociedade do Second Life é politicamente intolerante?
- New World Notes in Japanese: ニューワールドノート　日本語版 - 土地減少？リンデンは、統計ページのマイナス計上と機能停止が誤解を招いていると語る

And finally, take survey: How many regular Second Life users will there be In 2009?

Posted on Sunday, January 11, 2009 at 07:39 PM in Weekly Recap |

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