Is there a US alternative to Second Life?

Posted by eastsidegringo on Wednesday August 22, 2007 @11:19AM
from the hunterhost.com dept.

http://www.hunterhost.com/64/mining-habbo-data/

Habbo is like Second Life in Japan. From the article:

Could you conduct market research in a week and come back with the buying and spending habits, and brand preferences, of 42,000 teenagers around the world? Sulake Corporation, developer of the Habbo virtual world for teenagers, did this very thing. And they're going back in September for another data mining run. You can read the full story in CRM Daily, Mining Virtual Worlds for Market Data.

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Re:Is there a US alternative to Second Life? by tracksuitceo on Wednesday August 22, 2007 @11:23AM (#45228)

Habbo is for 13-18 year olds (and probably younger but they probably have restrictions so the youngsters say they're 13). Second Life captures an older demographic (not sure of the stats). The market seems ripe for some newer competition. Something like a Linked In in a virtual world.

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Re:Is there a US alternative to Second Life? by byrneseyeview on Wednesday August 22, 2007 @02:18PM (#45287)

As long as they don't do the survey at the wrong time (http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/The_Great_Hab...).

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Re:Is there a US alternative to Second Life? by ivankirigin on Wednesday August 22, 2007 @12:24PM (#45246)

First Life?

ZING!

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