Virtual Worlds Forum

There's plenty to pick over in Linden Lab's latest set of Economic Metrics, which run to the end of 2007. The topline stat is the growth of the LindeX, which the company says is the purest measure of economic activity in Second Life, which grew 13.2% to nearly $7.6 million for December, and $22 million for the whole fourth quarter. Linden puts the slow economic growth earlier in 2007 down to stricter credit card processing, the eradication of SL gambling, and its decision to start charging VAT in September.