Brazil's main opposition party, the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB), is taking the country's often acrimonious politics into the virtual world even though there may still be few Brazilian Second Life residents.
The number of Second Life residents with a positive monthly cashflow rose 25.9 percent to 31,929 in March, the highest percentage increase since Linden Lab began tracking the figure in October.
Growth in the number of Second Life residents making more than US$5,000 a month rebounded in February after slowing to a crawl in January, according to newly released Linden Lab data.
Denmarkâs Saxo Bank plans to offer Second Life residents the ability to manage their real-life financial portfolios from within the virtual world, and may eventually create a market to trade the Linden dollar against real-world currencies.
Linden Labs are upgrading their system to pursue their grand grid vision, but this is causing some disruption - including blacked out maps and disabled teleport facilities. So residents of Second Life are resorting to long-distance flying (orienting themselves with compasses) to get on with their busy social (second) lives.
Europeans make up the largest block of Second Life residents with more than 54 percent of active users in January ahead of North America's 34.5 percent, according to new Linden Lab data.
Growth in the number of Second Life residents making more than US$5,000 a month slowed to a crawl in January after the record pace set in the previous month.
The number of Second Life residents making profits over US$5,000 a month surged more than 40 percent in November, while the total number of profitable residents rose 11.5 percent from the prior month.
