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78% of the bloggers write blogs to prove their intelligence (Remember, 48.9% of the statistics are made on the spot! ). But I am posting this to prove how big an ass I am. Absolute ignorant good-for-nothing IT guy! Ok, let me cut the chase. Just yesterday (May 28th, 2007), I came to know about the existence of second life. My spiritual friends and readers, I am not talking about another “Janma”. There is a virtual world out there called Second life.

I know, I know that you all know about it. But now that I am writing an article about it, I would like to write some lines for the sake of completeness. Second life is a 3D online digital world.  It has more than 6 million, 6,772,013 residents to be precise, till today (May 29, 2007). And I even did not know that it exists! More stats are here.

It seems you can buy and sell land in second life. A friend of mine knows a guy who is a “real estate agent” in second life! For a non-geek like me, it is definitely crazy. I have not watched star wars and I do not even miss it. Only sci-fi movie that I have liked so far is Matrix. I am not an x-box, playstation of nintendo fan. Anyway, the land stats are -

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Land

Land Sales by Resident Month Total Square Meters Sold by Residents Avg L$ Paid Per Square Meter April 2007 72,537,664 10.3266 May 2007 - MTD 65,174,720 9.2742	Land for Sale Today Residents With Parcels for Sale 6,024 Total Parcels For Sale 34,613 Total Square Meters for Sale 23,374,112
Islands Added Month Islands Owned (End of Month) Islands Added (During Month) April 2007 6557 940 May 2007 - MTD 7299 742	Square Meters Auctioned Month Square Meters 2007 April 37,264,160 2007 May - MTD 20,058,864

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I also heard that Target gave $40 million contract to IBM to open a second life store. I am truly stupefied. Here is another link to the second life economy graphs.

US $ Exchanged on Lindex (in Millions)

If you are also from the “ignorance is bliss” club and do not know about second life, please drop a comment. It will make me feel better

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