With expansion into Great Briton and Singapore, then internationalizing there "product", then hiring $10 /hour contract, content creators, and now buying up 2 US online shopping businesses, I somehow doubt the Linden's missed the fact that the "Virtual Goods" marketplace, both content creators, and buyers, and therefore growth is currently in Asia. Here is just one site for example:slmame.com
I doubt the Linden's missed SLmame: Wagner James Aus did not: The below is clipped from http://nwn.slmame.com/
I discovered the Amazon Japan page, by the way, via SLMaMe, a Japanese language portal produced by Metabirds, the Japanese metaverse development company. (They're helping me create a Japanese language NWN page.)
Here's a pretty good UgoTrade interview from May with Naoyoshi Shimaya, Metabird's CEO . SLMaMe, he reported then, attracts over 14 million monthly page views. Now, he told me last week, it's attracting 15 million per month. (That's what I mean, about Japan not apparently being part of the hype/crash cycle.)
