RL shopping in SL
Whether Amazon.com becomes a fixture within Second Life will be left up to its members, who build the revenue-sharing virtual stores and write the scripts needed to integrate with Amazon.com’s Web services for third-party retailers. Second Life residents do a total of about $6 million worth of business a month, up from about $2 million a few months ago.
“Our strategy is to provide tools that let residents create and enhance their own experience in Second Life, and to let them decide what can be done, and how to do it,” Glenn Fisher, director of marketing programs at Linden, said Wednesday.
Antone Gonsalves timely piece about SL residents building stores around Amazon Web Services (AWS) follows on nicely from SL Business Magazines (SLBM) recent interview with AWS evangelist Jeff Barr. Hunter Glass (in Afghanistan) and Deeeep Witte (in Belgium) conducted the entire SLBM interview in text form with Jeff (in the US) who posted about the experience on his personal and AWS weblogs. Lots of interesting conversations of late about voice and text in SL which I shall write up separately.