Linden Lab Releases Second Life Infographic For 15th Anniversary

Linden Lab posted yesterday about the upcoming SL15B, and it's "Crystal Anniversary" theme. They also had an infographic showing off some statistics about Second Life.

The SL15B "crystal" theme this year aims to inspire our Residents to reflect on the past 15 years and peek into the future to explore the next 15 years of Second Life. To kick things off, we've rounded up some interesting statistics and facts about the past and present state of Second Life in this new infographic ...

The post was made by Brett Linden.

The last time Linden Lab had an infographic was the one for the SL10B five years ago. Both mention the number of accounts, 36 million then compared to 57 million now (obviously only a small part which are active). Both also mention the number of new account registrations per month, 400,000 per month five years ago compared to 350,000 today, a loss of one eighth. A total of over 217,000 years spent inworld by all avatars combined in 2013 compared to a combined total of 482,000 years today. 2.1 million virtual goods were available for sale five years ago compared to five million today, more than double back then. The top three destination categories in the Linden's Destination Guide have changed a little. Five years ago it was Games, Events, and Adventure and Fantasy. Today, the top three are Games, Editor's Picks, and Photography Spots.

They would post about more, which we will write about later.

For the blog post in full, Click Here.

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SL Video: "Just How Big is Second Life? - The Answer Might Surprise You [Video Infographic] "

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From Luca Grabacr on Nov 3 2015, "A short video infographic explaining Second Life by the numbers. How big? The answer might surprise you. ... I got the map size data from gridsurvey.com after I thought about making the video, and the concurrency from another site, then I calculate the time needed to travel across the map using the movement speed data I found on SL wiki"

Luca would post this on the SL Universe forums, "Having a hard time convincing people that SL isn't dead yet? Show them this."

World of Warcraft Infograph

Remember the infograph Linden Lab released for Second Life's tenth birthday? Blizzard, the company behind "World of Warcraft," released one for the popular Multiplayer Online Game, showing various statistics about the game. Some were pretty impressive, such as a hundred million accounts created over the course of the game's lifetime. Others included :

Being played in 244 countries and territories, including Antarctica.

11 million Pandaren characters created, including 1.3 million red Pandaren females with foxtails alone.

A total of six million worlds of dialouge combined, equal to about twelve copies of Lord of the Rings.

2.8 million trades in the Auction Houses every day

26 million videos posted on youtube.

The final one, about how often their latest villian, Garrosh, was beaten in the "Downfall" instance, was accompanied by a play on words of a commercial slogan a few years ago, "Okay, you were prepared."

http://media.wow-europe.com/infographic/en/world-of-warcraft-infographic.html

More on the SL10B

There's more going on about the SL10B than we have time to write about. Fortunately others have been.

Daniel Voyager has made quite a few posts on his blog about the Grid's anniversary celebrations. From Press Day, to Opening Day, the Cake Stage, the History Walk, Maps of previous Second Life Birthdays, Bear Island and the Cornfield, the Pod Tours, and the Clanis Telihub. He's also taken quite a few screenshots on his Flickr, with one set for SL10B photos.

Mona Eberhardt has also written a review of the SL10B. Not everything was fine and dandy about the event, she felt. She noted a number of exhibits that were little more than advertisements and how a number of builds were just copies of what was built the last year. But there's no shortage of great and unique builds, such as Qwark Allen's telescope (left).

Crap Mariner also came out with his "Brutally Honest SL10B Sim Tour."

The Linden blog had a few announcements. The Linden Lab Destinations Guide now has a SL10B section. This can help you pick and choose individual exhibits.

Linden Lab has also made a game just for Premium members, The Magellian's Grid Scavenger Hunt.

Magellan Linden has uncovered an evil scheme by mad Doctor Talpa, to build some form of mind-control machines and take over the world. Magellan is busy building a machine to counter this scheme, but in the meantime YOU are needed to gather materials and components -- and to destroy any of Talpa's machines you can find.

Linden Lab also release an infographic about some impressive statistics about Second Life. Among them, stating more than three billion dollars worth of transactions have taken place over the past decade. The claim that 36 million people signed up, though, isn't quite the complete story as not everyone stayed. They did state one interesting bit of trivia, "the most purchased items are womens hairstyles."

Longtime residents may remember when companies left and right were making a presence in Second Life. While most of them have left, there are still businesses who see money to be made here. Alienware is doing a cross-promotion with Linden Lab with a contest, with a computer as the prize.

To help celebrate Second Life’s tenth birthday, we’re running a co-promotion with Alienware , the pioneer in specialty high-performance PC gaming systems! From now until July 17, 2013, Second Life users can enter to win a brand new Alienware 14 laptop!

The events at the SL10B go on until Sunday, and the sims will stay up for another week. So enjoy them while they last.

Image Credit: Daniel Voyager, Mona Eberhardt, Linden Lab, Alienware

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