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• 15 Oct 09
  

  Rose Heaney

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  • Second Life
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  • • Second Life
    • Second Life
    • Second Life
    • grew by 39% in the second quarter of 2009 to an estimated 579 million.
    • World of Warcraft, Entropia Universe, Habbo Hotel, Club Penguin and Second Life
      are all profitable
    • Almost all of the 39% growth came from children.
    • poptropica.com – aimed at five- to 10-year-olds – has 76 million registered
      users
    • Habbo (135 million), Neopets (54 million), Star Dolls (34 million) and Club
      Penguin (28 million)
    • 10- to 15-year-olds
    • Second Life,
    • Corporations find it useful for holding international meetings or to recruit
      staff and educationalists are doing lots of interesting things including
      language teaching
• 04 Aug 09
  

  Max Ugaz

  Articulo sobre informe de kzero,co.uk sobre mundos virtuales al segundo semestre del 2009.

  • The consultancy kzero.co.uk reports that membership of virtual worlds grew by 39% in the second quarter of 2009 to an estimated 579 million.
  • Twitter makes the noise, Second Life makes the money
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  • • If you move up to 10- to 15-year-olds, users rival the populations of countries
    • it underlines the likelihood that as youngsters get older they will be looking for more sophisticated outlets and for ways to link existing social networks such as Facebook or MySpace to more immersive virtual worlds
    • the opportunity to link with anyone on the planet sharing similar interests
    • educationalists are doing lots of interesting things including language teaching
• 02 Aug 09
  

  Robert Sutor

  "The consultancy kzero.co.uk reports that membership of virtual worlds grew by 39% in the second quarter of 2009 to an estimated 579 million. Not all these members are active but I can't think of anything, anywhere, that has grown so fast in the recession this side of Goldman Sachs bonuses."

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  Lynette Webb

  poptropica.com – aimed at five- to 10-year-olds – has 76 million registered users. If you move up to 10- to 15-year-olds, users rival the populations of countries – led by Habbo (135 million), Neopets (54 million), Star Dolls (34 million) and Club Penguin (28 million). It starts tailing off among 15- to 25-year-olds – apart from Poptropica (35 million) – but it underlines the likelihood that as youngsters get older they will be looking for more sophisticated outlets and for ways to link existing social networks such as Facebook or MySpace to more immersive virtual worlds

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• 31 Jul 09
  

  Rem Palpitt

  We haven't heard much recently about so-called virtual worlds such as Second Life, in which you move around with your own avatar. Critics must be hoping they have disappeared up their own ether. Actually, they are booming. The consultancy kzero.co.uk reports that membership of virtual worlds grew by 39% in the second quarter of 2009 to an estimated 579 million. Not all these members are active but I can't think of anything, anywhere, that has grown so fast in the recession this side of Goldman Sachs bonuses.

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  Dan Holt

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  • If you think virtual worlds are a passing fad, look at the figures.
  • In order to get a more streamlined experience, most of the new virtual worlds don't allow users to make their own content.
• 30 Jul 09
  

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  Success of virtual worlds

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  Wayne Barry

  We haven't heard much recently about so-called virtual worlds such as Second Life, in which you move around with your own avatar. Critics must be hoping they have disappeared up their own ether. Actually, they are booming. The consultancy kzero.co.uk reports that membership of virtual worlds grew by 39% in the second quarter of 2009 to an estimated 579 million. Not all these members are active but I can't think of anything, anywhere, that has grown so fast in the recession this side of Goldman Sachs bonuses.

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  Malcolm Lane

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