[LAW-LIB:59442] Re: "Second Life: What are the real numbers?"

From: Leslie Germaine (lgermaine43@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Jul 07 2009 - 18:57:22 PDT

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    Eeeks! Here's the
    link<http://many.corante.com/archives/2006/12/12/second_life_what_are_the_real_numbers.php>to
    the entire post.

    On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 9:52 PM, Leslie Germaine <lgermaine43@gmail.com>wrote:

    > Interesting post on Second Life <http://secondlife.com/>:
    >
    > *Clay Shirky, in deconstructing Second Life hype: "Second Life is heading
    >> towards two million users. Except it isn’t, really... I suspect Second Life
    >> is largely a 'Try Me' virus, where reports of a strange and wonderful new
    >> thing draw the masses to log in and try it, but whose ability to retain
    >> anything but a fraction of those users is limited. The pattern of a Try Me
    >> virus is a rapid spread of first time users, most of whom drop out quickly,
    >> with most of the dropouts becoming immune to later use."*
    >>
    >
    >
    > Leslie Germaine
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