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Second Life daily news

by Tateru Nino May 3rd 2008 at 4:30AM

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Second Life Daily News -- www.massively.com

The Abyss.

i.Mirror -- China Tracy's documentary.
Most valuable -- Not only most democratic.
Five Bitfilm nominess from virtual worlds -- Two from Second Life.

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Second Life daily news

by Tateru Nino May 2nd 2008 at 4:30AM

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Space Colony Green Hills III - gorgeous!

Practical Marketing: Start by feeling it -- Err. Is it supposed to be squidgy?
1.20(RC5) -- The release candidate with a lot fewer crashes.
DAZ 3D's Hexagon sculpts your prims -- Subdivision modelers FTW!

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Second Life daily news

by Tateru Nino Apr 29th 2008 at 4:30AM

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Rezzable -- Crimson Shadow.

How many bots and campers? -- A lot more than we thought.
London Journalism School offers -- Free journalism lectures.
The big M -- More Linden parodies.
Dubai Women's College -- Opening in Second Life.
Linden Lab: Top 25 most democratic workplaces -- Organizational Democracy in action.
Editorial selection to supplant popular places -- Promotion replaces algorithms.

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Second Life Daily News

by Tateru Nino Apr 21st 2008 at 4:30AM

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Linden Lab's I-World Island.

Second Life? Second Afterlife! -- a grave situation.
Auction site maintenance, Monday -- because just about everything benefits from a good hammering.

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Second Life Daily News

by Tateru Nino Apr 7th 2008 at 4:30AM

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Second Life daily news:

14,190 new signups bringing the total to 13,159,224 signups.
A peak concurrency of 64,930 at 1:50PM, and a minimum concurrency of 35,927 at 11:55PM. Median concurrency for the day was 49,877.
The Grid Stability Index for the day was 1.35 (lower is better).
Linden Lab shut down some key subsystems through the peak period of the day to attempt to stabilize things. There were already some lumps coming up to the the subsystem shutdown. No record peak today -- we think because of loss of user confidence over Friday and Saturday.
Linden Lab is close to the end of the process of trademarking two new words.
Moo presents Codebastard Redgrave's Rouge en Belle.
A new season of the Neo-Realms fishing league is starting up. Gotta catch 'em all!

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Second Life Daily News

by Tateru Nino Apr 6th 2008 at 4:30AM

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Second Life daily news:

8,122 new signups bringing the total to 13,144,676 signups.
A peak concurrency of 56,486 at 3:55PM. Minimum concurrency is useless since the grid was effectively closed for some hours. Median concurrency for the day was 37,743.
The Grid Stability Index for the day was 17.66 (lower is better).
Yesterday's network difficulties escalated into full blown outages, the whole mess lasting a little over 18 hours in total. Signs of an all clear were premature, and the evening brought more network related problems, though not so severe.
Linden Lab advised additional problems with 500 regions at 1:16AM "Approximately 500 regions are experiencing connectivity issues. We are in the process of addressing this issue as we speak. If you have difficulties teleporting then please clear Second Lifes cache and relog. "
Moo presents Showdown at the Statehouse Corral.

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Second Life Daily News

by Tateru Nino Apr 5th 2008 at 4:30AM

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Second Life daily news:

13,837 new signups bringing the total to 13,136,554 signups.
A peak concurrency of 60,637 at 2:55PM, and a minimum concurrency of 15,922 at 11:50PM. Median concurrency for the day was 47,594.
The Grid Stability Index for the day was 2.60 (lower is better).
As you may have noticed, the Second Life grid more or less collapsed this-evening due to network problems, and as at Midnight remained closed to logins. There is, as yet, no sign or estimate as to when the grid will open up again. The last news update was just over 3 hours ago at 10:22PM SLT (US Pacific time).
Linden Lab has removed support for 1.18.x series viewers, so users of those will have to upgrade to one of the 1.19.x viewers, or to a third-party viewer. If you want 1.19.0, we've got download links for you. Why not download while the grid is dead?

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Second Life Daily News

by Tateru Nino Apr 3rd 2008 at 4:30AM

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Second Life daily news:

13,449 new signups bringing the total to 13,107,749 signups.
A peak concurrency of 59,926 at 2:00PM, and a minimum concurrency of 29,107 at 1:40AM. Median concurrency for the day was 47,131.
The Grid Stability Index for the day was 1.85 (lower is better).
Another rocky day for the grid, with the usual daily misery and failures to be had.
Another rolling restart to fix some internal logging issues.
The land auction system was down for scheduled maintenance from 8PM to Midnight.
The Windlight project finally closed, as the new rendering pipeline made it into full release.
We continue our ongoing discussion on the issues surrounding Linden Lab's corporate reinforcement of trademarks.

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Second Life Daily News

by Tateru Nino Mar 31st 2008 at 4:30AM

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Second Life daily news:

12,943 new signups bringing the total to 13,068,947 signups.
A peak concurrency of 66,429 at 1:50PM (which is a new record!), and a minimum concurrency of 35,938 at 11:55PM. Median concurrency for the day was 49,102.
The Grid Stability Index for the day was 1.58 (lower is better).
Basically, as concurrency was still climbing, the grid more or less collapsed, cutting the peak short, and around 30,000 users or so logged off in frustration, crashed or were disconnected. The grid had already suffered from assorted transaction problems earlier in the day. Additionally telephone support had troubles of its own.
Read about Liverpool Hope University's open day.
Philip Rosedale will be testifying about virtual worlds before Congress on Tuesday.
Global Kids doing science projects on the Teen grid.
Nominative use can trump trademarks, but the Terms of Service seem to trump nominative use.

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Second Life Daily News

by Tateru Nino Mar 30th 2008 at 4:30AM

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Second Life daily news:

12,966 new signups bringing the total to 13,056,004 signups.
A peak concurrency of 62,711 at 3:35PM, and a minimum concurrency of 36,085 at 2:05AM. Median concurrency for the day was 52,029.
The Grid Stability Index for the day was 1.08 (lower is better).
Uncharacteristically high overnight concurrency minimums for Saturday, just as last week, though at peak loads the grid didn't seem to perform quite as terribly as it did the previous week. This is not to say the grid was free of problems. Transactions again became problematic through much of the afternoon.
Linden Lab announced the in-world team that is confusingly named the I-World team would have their own sim near the Concierge islands. "I-world" that's got to be about as strong and distinctive a branding proposition as inSL.
Word from Qarl Linden is that we may be seeing a new Ruth in the near future.
It looks like both Windlight and Havok-4 will be rolling out everywhere in the early part of the week. There was also an unexpected (probably final) release candidate for Windlight (1.19.2) in the morning.
Language schooling in Second Life continues to burgeon. Just where are the Klingon classes anyway? Or how about emergency response and firefighting training? That's easier to find.

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Second Life Daily News

by Tateru Nino Mar 28th 2008 at 4:30AM

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Second Life daily news:

13,748 new signups bringing the total to 13,028,165 signups.
A peak concurrency of 61,584 at 3:35PM, and a minimum concurrency of 31,163 at 11:50PM. Median concurrency for the day was 47,347.
After some very rocky issues on the grid in the early afternoon, there were ongoing database and transaction problems through much of the afternoon.
The Grid Stability Index for the day was 1.37 (lower is better).
The server-side updates to 1.19.2 were completed this-evening.
Release candidate 3 of Havok 4 went live on the beta grid today.
Linden Lab released the latest support metrics, with some mixed results for February.
Linden Lab's phone systems will be down for maintenance on Saturday morning for two hours from 4AM.
We visited the cool and educational Genome Island.
Former Linden Lab staffer Chadrick Baker has been tapped for the advisory board of the Virtual Worlds Association.

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Second Life Daily News

by Tateru Nino Mar 27th 2008 at 4:30AM

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Second Life daily news:

16,419 new signups bringing the total to 13,013,947 signups.
A peak concurrency of 61,170 at 2:55PM, and a minimum concurrency of 32,813 at 1:10AM. Median concurrency for the day was 47,373.
The Grid Stability Index for the day was 1.14 (lower is better).
Word came through that Metanomics would be holding a special session with Linden Lab chairman Mitch Kapor on Friday morning.
Moo looks at Torley's voice video tutorials.
Second Life users are starting to parody the new inSL branding program.
A new (perhaps final) 1.19.1 release candidate viewer has been released. This one is RC3.
Linden Lab introduces "the new International L$ Marketplace" -- as near as we can tell, despite the official sound, it's just a roundup of non-USD-based third-party currency exchanges.
The beta grid was updated with a fresh RC2 Havok-4 candidate.
Jeska Linden explains more about how search rankings work in the new Linden search. There's a lot of good information there.

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Second Life Daily News

by Tateru Nino Mar 23rd 2008 at 4:30AM

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Second Life daily news:

12,246 new signups bringing the total to 12,955,599 signups.
At current, median signup rates (64 days per million) the 13 millionth signup is due in 2 days, 20 hours.
A peak concurrency of 60,350 at 3:55PM, and a minimum concurrency of 34,557 at 2:10AM. Median concurrency for the day was 50,289.
The Grid Stability Index for the day was 1.28 (lower is better).
At approximately 5AM, strange problems began to take place with the grid. Approximately a half hour later, Linden Lab acknowledged the problems with a notice, and by about 6AM had discovered the cause and temporarily contained the difficulties. Network renumbering of infrastructure equipment took place without delay, as side-effects of that process apparently were to blame. Nonetheless, the grid was still having trouble until well into the afternoon -- with reports of glitches as late as midnight.
Despite all that, many people were undeterred for the majority of the afternoon and evening.

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Second Life daily news

by Tateru Nino Mar 22nd 2008 at 4:30AM

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Second Life daily news:

15,478 new signups bringing the total to 12,943,353 signups.
A peak concurrency of 60,852 at 3:45PM, and a minimum concurrency of 33,159 at 1:40AM. Median concurrency for the day was 49,596.
The Grid Stability Index for the day was 1.76 (lower is better).
Some severe difficulties around the late morning, which appeared to pass unacknowledged, and more problems later, which at least got a note.
Mono got a refresh on the beta grid, now running update 6.
Havok got a refresh to a new release candidate on the beta grid as well. It looks like Havok's getting close.
CSI:NY's two part story involving Second Life is finally going to get its second part. Writer's strike or no, shouldn't the second part have been written alongside the first?