Whilst trawling around Linden Lab land metrics, it occurred to me that it'd be interesting to work out how much of Australia Second Life would take up. As of the end of September 2007, the Second Life grid equated to 871.32 square kilometres of land. Australia is 7 682 300 square km, so all of Second Life makes up just over 0.001 precent of Australia. Tasmania is 68300 … [Read more...] about Second Life is really just Wagga
Metrics
Aussie population update – the decline continues
Linden Lab have released the metrics for September 2007 and there's been a further significant decline in the number of Australians actively using Second Life. The active Australian population is now cited as 11,975, down from the 13,567 reported last month and the 14.832 the month before that. Australia has stayed in 11th place overall for countries using Second Life. That's … [Read more...] about Aussie population update – the decline continues
Aussie population update – active users decline for first time
Linden Lab have released the metrics for August 2007 and for the first time since we started monitoring Australians in Second Life, there's been a decline. The active Australian population is cited as 13,567, down from the 14,832 reported last month. Australia has stayed in 11th place overall for countries using Second Life. According to New World Notes, Australia comes in … [Read more...] about Aussie population update – active users decline for first time
Aussie population update – 15K and rising
Linden Lab have released the metrics for July 2007 and the rate of growth is slow but steady. The active Australian population is cited as 14,832, up from the 12,910 reported last month. Australia is back to 11th place overall. One of the interesting new metrics released was number of SL sessions that ended abnormally i.e. crashes. Since January 2007, around a quarter of … [Read more...] about Aussie population update – 15K and rising
The SLOz Traffic Index – July 2007
We're back with an expanded STI. The overall feedback has been positive, particularly once we've explained the general purpose of the STI. Our favourite quote in reaction to last month's initial effort was that using traffic to measure popularity was like using turds to measure digestion (thanks Metaversed). Which leads perfectly to a reminder on methodology as well as a … [Read more...] about The SLOz Traffic Index – July 2007