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The Archives
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04.15.09Quick Link: Second Life Active Users ClimbHamlet...er, James Wagner Au reports on GigaOm that the active user base of Second Life is on a steady path to growth. The chart tells a fairly compelling story: Of course, there will be the usual questions of bots or whatever, although I find it hard to believe that there are 100,000 new bots running around over the past 6 months or so. If these numbers are matched up to user-to-user transaction increases and other metrics, it's an encouraging trend.
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02.15.09Linden Lab Purges Nearly a Million AccountsSL Name Watch is an ingenious program that tracks, well, Second Life names. Amusing on its own to know that there are 155,230 GossipGirls, I suppose. Also useful if you want to choose a specific last name. But Adz pointed out a few weeks ago that Name Watch can give some deeper insight into what's happening on the Grid. He notes that in conjunction with the sudden silence of the Second Life economic statistics, was a sudden purge of over 800,000 accounts: "There is a pattern. Most of the affected last names were opened and closed before SLNameWatch.com was founded. The remainder ...
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11.13.08The Search for Second Life StatisticsEr, insert a comma before statistics, because while there's no shortage of stats, these are stats for search. Using Google Trends, following shows the search index volume for Second Life, OpenSim and Virtual World(s). Didn't check Open Spaces. Too many charts at the end of the day makes my head swim.
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