When you say VOIP, most people think of Skype or Vonage. Second Life? From Venture Beat…
[Linden Labs] is announcing today that its users have used its web-voice calling feature to talk to each other for a total of 15 billion minutes since it was introduced 18 months ago.
The voice-over-Internet-protocol web calling service inside the virtual world is now being used at a rate of 1 billion minutes per month, said Mark Kingdon, chief executive of Linden Lab in San Francisco. By comparison, the VOIP service Skype has been used for 200 billion minutes in the past six years. At any given moment, 50,000 Second Life residents are using the voice application.
“Voice is one of the crown jewels of Second Life,” said Kingdon, who joined Linden Lab as CEO about a year ago.
