Second Life and Virtual Worlds
Niran released this version March 17, 2012. I saw Inara did a review. Our takes are different. I’ll try to skip some of the stuff she covers or at least provide more information. Also, I’m running the nVidia 296.10 version on my GTX560, which may change how some things work for me. I seem to have fewer problems now that I’ve updated.
The viewer is innovative. If you are looking for something different, this viewer is different.
Every so often I see someone using statistics to back up a viewpoint they have. It is very common among Warmistas and Deniers. We also see politicians misusing statistics. The most common misuse of stats is to select the data segment and use it to PREDICT the future. If that worked, everyone would get rich playing the stock market.
So, recent articles on stats got me wondering what was up. I used to write an article each month on SL statistics. Unless stats are showing change, they get pretty boring. It’s been 16 weeks since I wrote about Second Life Statistics (Sept. 2011).
Rod Humble, the Linden Lab CEO, seems to have been spinning a bit when he said, “…and over the holiday period we had over 20,000 new people sign up a day.” Well, take a look at the stats. I get the images from Tateru’s site, Dwell On It. I composite them in Photoshop to provide a longer period. You can click the image below to see a larger version.
It looks like for the month of December the average could be over 20,000 per day. So, the spin, like all good spin, has truth in it. But, since then the sign ups have been in a steady decline.
Looking at the User Groups page in the SL Wiki I see that the Content Creation and Mesh Upload group, formerly lead by Charlar Linden, is back on the page. Nyx Linden added the group back to the back March 14 – 11:20 AM. Nyx will be facilitating the group’s meetings.
The next meeting will be Monday at 12:00 Noon SLT. THe location is in Borrowdale.
The Content & Mesh User Group is Back. \o/
There are a few interesting things that came up in Andrew’s late Friday afternoon meeting.
Andrew has been building a script to turn on Encroachment Return across the grid. The feature made it through QA and has been rolled out for some time. But, enabling it in thousands of servers is not small chore.
The script was run Thursday morning. So, you should now be able to return encroaching objects.
I had seen Levity Magazine and vaguely know about it. But, one day Victoria Lenoirre sent a note card asking to interview me. She was doing an article on the top 10 blogs about Second Life. Top 10? I was wondering if she had that right. But, I wasn’t going to argue.
There were 5 questions. You’ll see them in Volume 7 of Levity Magazine.
I’m flattered to have made the cover. Just my picture with other top bloggers… that sounds so odd. I’ve never considered my self a top Second Life blogger, still don’t. But, may be…
I am way impressed with Christian Marquis’ photography. I look gooood. Its Christian’s photography and skill with an editing program.
Ok… I’ve had my minutes of fame. 🙂
Information is starting to leak out about new features coming. We are getting more details on the features we know are coming. So, it has been an interesting week.
Also, meetings are overlapping with the same subject coming up in different meetings. Rather than have parts of the subject scattered throughout various articles, I’m trying to condense them. So, information in the article is from one or more meetings. Thus the title change.
The image shows the meeting place for Open Source. This is the site that is the subject of the build competition being run. See: Hippotropolis Theater Design Competition.
From this week nothing has rolled out. On the other hand the last two weeks have seen a major change to the better in stability stats. While teleporting is still a problem, the number of failed teleports is decreasing.