Socialverse

  What you're looking at are the Second Life islands hosted by real life corporations which reported the most average visitors last week -- at least according to Metaverse Business, a consultancy which uses bots to gather up user statistics and profile info for its customers.  It's possible that there are companies reporting a higher number of visitors than these islands, because the firm scans companies on a list gathered by Tateru Nino for this blog, in 2007.  "The list of selected companies is somewhat outdated," Metaverse Business' Louis Platini acknowledges by email. "Not the statistics, they are up-to-date."  However, the top two are not surprising: IBM (which has an SL corporate campus) and European telecom Orange (which sponsors an in-world community) are probably the most active corporate presences in SL.   The traffic looks low, but bear in mind these numbers represent each island's weekly average.  Total visits on any given week may ...