Monitoring. 20 Free Social Media Monitoring Tools to Find Your Brand’s Social Mentions « Digital Marketing Mercenary. Second Life Economy At Record High. The world economy may still be firmly in the toilet but the economy inside the virtual world of Second Life is doing fine.
Better than fine, in fact. Q1 of 2010 was a record-breaker. In a post on the Second Life blog, Tom Hale, Chief Product Officer for SL owner Linden Lab, said user-to-user transactions in the immersive world spiked 30% over last year to $160 million, breaking all previous company records. Like most virtual worlds and online games, Second Life uses a "virtual currency," in this case the Linden Dollar. Real Time Search - Social Mention.