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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Second Life grows to the size of Cedar County, Iowa]]></title><link>http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/07/09/second-life-grows-to-the-size-of-cedar-county-iowa/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/07/09/second-life-grows-to-the-size-of-cedar-county-iowa/</guid><comments>http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/07/09/second-life-grows-to-the-size-of-cedar-county-iowa/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/economy/" rel="tag">Economy</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/news-items/" rel="tag">News items</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/second-life/" rel="tag">Second Life</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/virtual-worlds/" rel="tag">Virtual worlds</a></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedar_County,_Iowa"><img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" align="right" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/massively.joystiq.com/media/2008/07/cedar_county-225.jpg" /></a>Weighing in at 1.5 billion square metres (579 square miles, plus change), Linden Lab's virtual world <a href="http://secondlife.com/"><em>Second Life</em></a> stacks up at the same size as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedar_County,_Iowa">Cedar County, Iowa</a>, which we've chosen to give you a convenient physical world comparison for size. The figure comes from Linden Lab CFO <a href="http://blog.secondlife.com/2008/07/08/second-life-virtual-world-expands-35-in-q2/">John Zdanowski's (Zee Linden) quarterly metrics report for Q2 2008</a>.</p>
<p>A sudden surge in land area was attributed to a drop in simulator prices earlier in the year, along with changes to purchasing conditions and capacity of Void simulators (also known as Openspace simulators).</p><p><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/07/09/second-life-grows-to-the-size-of-cedar-county-iowa/" rel="bookmark">Continue reading <em>Second Life grows to the size of Cedar County, Iowa</em></a></p><p style="padding:5px;background:#ffffcc;border:1px solid #ffff99;clear:both;"><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com"><img src="http://massively.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif" alt="Massively" style="float:left;padding:0 5px 5px 0;" /></a><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/07/09/second-life-grows-to-the-size-of-cedar-county-iowa/">Second Life grows to the size of Cedar County, Iowa</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com">Massively</a> on Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:00:00 EST.  Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.<br style="clear:both;"></p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href=http://blog.secondlife.com/2008/07/08/second-life-virtual-world-expands-35-in-q2/>Read</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/07/09/second-life-grows-to-the-size-of-cedar-county-iowa/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/forward/1249782/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/07/09/second-life-grows-to-the-size-of-cedar-county-iowa/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>]]></description><category>cedar-county</category><category>economy</category><category>iowa</category><category>john-zdanowski</category><category>linden-lab</category><category>second-life</category><category>statistics</category><category>virtual-worlds</category><category>world-metrics</category><category>zee-linden</category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tateru Nino]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:00:00 EST</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
