Major news

Most visible news from metaLIFE and the network during the past month:

• Network Sales Growth was even more tremendous than last month (see new chart comparing April month to previous ones)

• metaLIFE team just came back from Metameets2009 conference held in an amazing city of Amsterdam (more about that in next post)
• Nokia Joined metaLIFE to create a brand and sell their virtual phones via metaLIFE grid-wide marketplace
• Categories added and tweaked - now you can search by keyword or browse in categories
• Video Added - attach Youtube video to your item listing
• Ability to filter mature items
• First metaLIFE network reached 700 and then (unannounced) 800 Voters inworld - during the time of one month
• Partnering with Alicia Stella
• New and Dynamic Home page design, showing latest, hot, favorite, etc.. items of the day
• New object - metaLIFE ATM Kiosk introduced, got much attention right away
• Many new, important and demanded upgrades/improvements were released (Optimized KIOSK most important of them all).
• Got noticed by Xstreet and LL
• Various contests and promotions
• Some issues arose along the road (more details below)

Grid-wide marketplace overview

Overall metaLIFE and the grid-wide marketplace we together with our partners are creating - is doing pretty fine. More and more people are starting to make money via this network, more and more people are seeing this as a way to make a living in Second Life, or at least add some extra income without the need for heavy support or lots of hours input!

As more people start using metaLIFE - we are getting more and more requests for new features or upgrades for existing services and tools. We are always listening to your thoughts and ideas, discussing them openly, making the whole process as transparent as possible, if you want to join the discussion - join our group in Second Life, just search up "metaLIFE partners". So we will continue doing this, making a system that gives more and more value to you - it's user! Just tell us what are your wishes, and we will promise to take a look and if possible implement them over time!

It didn't all go without issues

Last week was heavy on Second Life Grid upgrades and improvements. And this week coincided with our trip to Amsterdam to Metameets conference. The result - some systemic failures, mostly because of broken communication protocols:

• sometimes in-world tools failed to communicate out of Second Life
• Sometimes our servers, failed to reach in-world tools

These failures resulted in a few failed deliveries, failed money deposits or withdrawals...

We are sorry for these failures, so if you have experienced them and haven't been helped yet, please contact us, we will investigate your case and will sort this issue. Contact Pauly Richez or Robbie Kiama in-world, or write us an email at into[et]meta-LIFE.net

Finally

We are pretty happy with how things go for metaLIFE and our growing network of partners. There is tons of work ahead, making metaLIFE services trully valuable to the majority of Second Life users, but first few hundred innovators already are starting to see benefits of this network and earn their first L$ (or first few tens of thousands of L$ :) )

Let's keep the conversation going and we promise to keep the innovation coming