Second Life: Growing Up

User to User Transactions. Total user to user transactions, a measure of the gross domestic product in Second Life, grew from an annualized rate of $261 million in Q4 to just over $300 million in Q1. The economy has grown 33.6% since the low point after the gambling ban.

User Hours and Concurrency. Resident user hours also grew 15% from an annualized rate of 304 million hours in Q4 to just under 350 million user hours in Q1.

Land Mass. The total number of regions owned by residents increased 11.1% over Q4 to just over 15,000 regions. That’s the equivalent of of just under 1 billion square meters of space.

Info by Zee Linden
More info at Second Life Blog