Today at 3pm SL time (10am Saturday 26th January AEDT) Linden Lab held a media conference entitled 'Tech Talk' that featured Linden Lab's VP of Platform and Technology Development Joe Miller, VP of Systems Engineering Ian Wilkes and Software Developer / Havok 4 'Guru' Andrew Meadows. Each member of the media present was allowed one question with one follow-up. For me, there … [Read more...] about Linden Lab Press ‘Tech Talk’ Media Conference – Aussie Second Life servers still likely.
Metrics
Australians in Second Life Update – down again
Second Life metrics to the end of December are now available and from an Australian perspective there's been a significant drop in active users - 10,644 is the number cited, down from 11,982 in November and a long way under the fifteen thousand of mid-2007. Australia maintains its position as 11th in terms of worldwide active users. Given there's record concurrency (number of … [Read more...] about Australians in Second Life Update – down again
Linden Lab release customer service metrics
Linden Lab has a long standing mantra of being as transparent as possible although over the past year this has been tested in the customer service area, with a number of changes undertaken with little consultation or notice. A small step back in the other direction has occurred with the announcement that customer service metrics will be released each month. The metrics … [Read more...] about Linden Lab release customer service metrics
Australians in Second Life Update – steady as she goes
The November economic statistics are available and it shows an active Australian Second Life population of 11,982, a whole seven more the September figure of 11,975 (Linden Lab didn't release anything for October until the update today). Once again Australia remains in 11th place world-wide, which is 2.21% of the overall vatar count. Given that this time last year the … [Read more...] about Australians in Second Life Update – steady as she goes
Latest Second Life service metrics available
Linden Lab have released their service metrics for November. There's been some improvement but overall performance remains a mixed bag. Although there's been an improvement over recent months, you can still expect a viewer crash one in five times - hardly a stable platform but at least one on the improve. … [Read more...] about Latest Second Life service metrics available