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	<title>Comments on: Articles of Interest</title>
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	<description>For those interested in the business of making great video games. Entrepreneurial spirit a must.</description>
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		<title>By: David J Edery</title>
		<link>http://www.edery.org/2007/07/articles-of-interest-96/comment-page-1/#comment-90419</link>
		<dc:creator>David J Edery</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 14:57:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@WJA - Agreed; it&#039;s quite silly to depict SL as nothing more than a sex shop. And you&#039;re probably right about new users gravitating to those parts of the world (moreso than established users.) Nevertheless, if you add up time spent on gambling and sexuality, I&#039;d imagine those two things account for a whopping percentage of total user activity (again, including new users, not necessarily those who have invested heavily in SL.)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@WJA &#8211; Agreed; it&#8217;s quite silly to depict SL as nothing more than a sex shop. And you&#8217;re probably right about new users gravitating to those parts of the world (moreso than established users.) Nevertheless, if you add up time spent on gambling and sexuality, I&#8217;d imagine those two things account for a whopping percentage of total user activity (again, including new users, not necessarily those who have invested heavily in SL.)</p>
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		<title>By: W. James Au</title>
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		<dc:creator>W. James Au</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 02:24:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&gt; what’s the cost of acquiring that .8 to 2% visit rate relative to 
&gt; banner advertising? Pretty darn high from what I hear. 

Fairly steep, but that\&#039;s a separate question. Forbes and other mainstream outlets have been claiming that no one visits corporate sites, but the fact remains that the top corporate sites bring in a proportionally substantial number of visitors.  MS Island isn\&#039;t doing too bad, actually. :)

&gt; how much visitor time is spent in that 18% of the world? More than 18%, I’ll bet.

The thing is, no one knows.  I honestly don\&#039;t know.  My strong guess is that Residents who go into SL primarily for sex are noobies who have a high churn rate-- i.e., go in, have sex at a free orgy site, shrug, leave.  I do know many of the popular Mature sites have a strong sexual component-- but integrated into other entertainment.  In any case, I do take exception for example to Forbes quoting a VP at Lenovo who claims that the only thing to do in SL is get laid-- and then when I ask him how he came to that conclusion, admits he\&#039;s barely been in-world.

Thanks for the props, though.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&gt; what’s the cost of acquiring that .8 to 2% visit rate relative to<br />
&gt; banner advertising? Pretty darn high from what I hear. </p>
<p>Fairly steep, but that\&#8217;s a separate question. Forbes and other mainstream outlets have been claiming that no one visits corporate sites, but the fact remains that the top corporate sites bring in a proportionally substantial number of visitors.  MS Island isn\&#8217;t doing too bad, actually. :)</p>
<p>&gt; how much visitor time is spent in that 18% of the world? More than 18%, I’ll bet.</p>
<p>The thing is, no one knows.  I honestly don\&#8217;t know.  My strong guess is that Residents who go into SL primarily for sex are noobies who have a high churn rate&#8211; i.e., go in, have sex at a free orgy site, shrug, leave.  I do know many of the popular Mature sites have a strong sexual component&#8211; but integrated into other entertainment.  In any case, I do take exception for example to Forbes quoting a VP at Lenovo who claims that the only thing to do in SL is get laid&#8211; and then when I ask him how he came to that conclusion, admits he\&#8217;s barely been in-world.</p>
<p>Thanks for the props, though.</p>
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		<title>By: Duane Brown</title>
		<link>http://www.edery.org/2007/07/articles-of-interest-96/comment-page-1/#comment-90289</link>
		<dc:creator>Duane Brown</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 00:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>hey David

Great idea on reverse product placement. I could see the potential for it in this world of ours. I saw one of the 7-Eleven/Simpsons stores the other day and it was cool.</description>
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<p>Great idea on reverse product placement. I could see the potential for it in this world of ours. I saw one of the 7-Eleven/Simpsons stores the other day and it was cool.</p>
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