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Trinity Unviersity professor and Terra Nova author Aaron Delwiche sends word that he and SL resident Adri Saarinen have started up a new metaverse services firm, known as Metaversatility. The company has already recruited a number of SL residents and others to help out, and has a small but growing portfolio of projects — including an »in-world location« for ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which is a cool client to have. “Our client list continues to grow, and there are more and more projects on the horizon,” Delwiche says. That’s what’s most remarkable to me: There still seems to be a lot more demand for such services than there is supply. Start-ups are immediately busy, notable builders and scripters are still being hired off the Grid, and projects continue to roll out in a steady (increasing?) stream. The market, at least for the moment, remains bullish on SL. (Though one recent report questions whether usage statistics are growing as quickly as registration figures would make it seem.)