Summary of 2008 in SL & TSL

Happy New Year 2009

• LDPW – Opening of Bay City
• New Search launches
• Dazzle launches
• Opening of the I-World Island
• Windlight goes live
• M Linden new CEO of Linden Lab
• Introduction for the Preview Grid was launched
• Second Life 5th Birthday(SL5B)  and TSL5B
• New viewer skins
• SLCC08
• Open Grid Beta launches
• Buring Life 2008
• New SLURL system now set up
• SLim launches
• Halloween – TrickOrTreat Linden gives out gifts to the community
• Openspace Pricing and Policy Changes
• A Letter to Second Life Residents by M Linden
• (I’ve transfered from the TG to the MG on 20th of December 2008)
• Winterfaire 2008 (Snowman Contest, Snowball fight, 24 hour concert + coming soon = results) & TG winterfaire events
• Redesigned Second Life Homepage for new visitors going Live
• Happy New Year 2009 celebrations have started! 
• Well done to Torley Linden, with 375 video tutorials so far! :) great wor & lovin the videos!!

Teen Grid

• Timeline: August 2008 - December 2008 -
• Timeline: February 2005 To July 2008
• Don’t forget you can Search all things TG on my blog.

Growth for 2008

• Visit my SL Economy page

 

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Wow!, what a great year it’s been for 2008. I’m sure that 2009 will be another amazing year in Second Life for all!!! :)

 

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2009 EVERYBODY!!!!

 

See you next year!!! haha

Blog Update 08

Wishing you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2009.

 - Enjoy the winter break and have fun celebrating. :)

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 Keep your eye open for the Second Life Winter Christmas snowball fight and snowman building contest, check the blog the Official Second Life Blog for more info! :)

Check out my SL FLICKR, for the latest amazing pictures on the MG > http://www.flickr.com/photos/danielvoyager/

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My 18th Birthday has arrived

I’m 18 Today

Whooooooooooo!!!! It’s party time both in-world and in RL!…:)

If you see this avatar in-world, don’t forget to say Happy Birthday and send me a present or two. hahaha

Come celebrate with me today!

For LIVE UPDATES on my transfer, click here.

-Daniel Voyager!

Good Bye TG!

 1 DAY LEFT

• This is it. My final last day on the Teen Grid.
• Don’t forget about me.
• Daniel Voyager TSL residentfrom (September 2006 to December 2008)

Tomorrow I will be transferring to the Main Grid and will be celebrating my 18th birthday. I’ve been counting down to this moment in time since eariler this year and I’m scared its came around so quick. It’s been really amazing to be see how much TSL has changed over the past few years and be part of the action. I’m going to miss all of  my friends, so just for you…here is my last message to you goodbye and farewell and I wish you all the very best of luck to for your futures in TSL. :)

• Signing off for the last time in TSL. Goodbye!

 

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TG Transfer Status Updates

I will be the first TGer to blog in real time and give a countdown of events on the timeline from TG to MG.

  

20TH December 2008

• Update: 8:55am SLT@: LL transfered my Daniel Voyager account about 2am SLT today, check out my Flickr stream for the very latest new adventures. I arrived at the TG Transfer Station to get started and added my profile picture to the picture board of residents, to make my mark. I think there are will be a big party for me, later on today. :)
•  I’m in the process right now of exploring landmarks, sorting my inventory out, joining groups and adding MG residents to my new Friends List (including TG friends that transfered before me).

 

 19th December 2008

• I’ve now officially released my final TSL highlights post on my blog. Goodbye all
• This is my last Friday on the Teen Grid. Today, also marks my last full day on the Teen Grid, and my last day of being 17. It’s my 18th birthday tomorrow…WooooT!
• Yesterday (18th of December 2008), I could’nt believe it, Torley Linden visited the TG for TSL Office Hours with Kate and Jeremy Linden. Followed by Blue Linden tsl office hour at 4pm SLT for the very last time…

18th December 2008 - Last Thursday on the Teen Grid. Less than 47 hours to GO until my 18th birthday. I’ll be saying good-bye to TSL Office Hours later on today, watch my TSL Flickr stream for new photos of that (feel free to comment). NEW UPDATE: 10am SLT – I have finished my draft of my highlights in TSL, it will be posted at 5pmish SLT today. Tell me what you think, when it’s posted. TY!!!

17th December 2008 - Last Wednesday on the Teen Grid. Currently there is 57 hours left until my birthday (3 days) > (midnight on 20th – UK Time).  If you want to interview me, now is the time to do that > danielvoyager@hotmail.co.uk. Uploaded tons more TSL snapshots today and new updates to the TSL Timeline page etc. On my TSL wiki, i’ve added a countdown.

16th of December 2008 - Last Tuesday on the Teen Grid. I’m currently writing my review highlights post of TG , which will be published on 19th of December 2008, hopefully. Currently in the process of sorting inventory and enjoying the time that I have left in TSL.

15th of December 2008 – Last Monday on the Teen Grid and this week is my last by the way. I will be transfering on Saturday 20th of December 2008. My final installment of TSL snapshots will be uploaded until Saturday, then SL snapshots will be uploaded very soon. I’ve created a post on my blog about my TSL Wiki page, feel free too check it out.

14th of December 2008 – Last sunday on the Teen Grid (last full week ever) – First installment of birthday parties for me by friends. The first was hosted at Eye4you Alliance island II at 10am until 12pm SLT and the second early party was hosted at D.I.D.I. Coffee House. There will be more parties during next week, starting 19th of December 2008.

13th of December 2008 – I sent the my support ticket to let LL know about my birthday which is on the 20th of December 2008 - It’s now under going process – yay. I posted a post on my blog saying I have *7 days left in TSL*, check it out.

1st of November 2008 – Last full month on the Teen Grid, currently planning for transfer parties with folks.

31st of October 2008 - My 2nd Rezz day and final one on the Teen Grid.

14th of October 2008 - Telling my friends etc about when I transfer and giving updates on how many days I have left.

 

 

 

 

 

Linden Lab Testing a new home page

Linden Lab, announced yesterday, on the Official Second Life Blog, that they are currently testing  a new design home page for the Second Life website, WooooT. Linden Lab plans to roll this out over the course of the next week. This “is a small first step towards a larger redesign of the Second Life experience”. The live new page will be pushed out for a few hours next week, apparently. So keep a eye-out for a new look :)

New design features

• “The design is optimized for the new user coming to secondlife.com for the first time and not logged in. The logged in homepage (which is what most Residents, as opposed to potential Residents see) will not be changing.”
•  The new page will be “an example of the kinds of projects (small in scope, new user friendly, utilizing outside design resources from Big Spaceship)”.
• “The core of the design is a nine-pod layout and a carousel of pods that can be “flicked” from left to right to reveal additional pods. This is allows a potential Resident to see a wide range of experiences available to them.”

Upcoming

• “In addition to the homepage, we’ve been working to improve the registration experience for new user. In the coming weeks, we’ll be introducing localized registration for all new users, including the option for new sign-ups to select a first landing location in their language- thanks to the Community Gateway Program.”
• “We plan to continue improvements to increase the numbers of new Residents, so stay tuned.”

Your Feedback

• Linden Lab wants to hear your feedback and suggestions if possible. You can do this by logging into the SL Forums and find the related post to this new design. Only Main Grid residents can access this, :(.

My Feedback

Personally, I think that this is a good start to improve new user experience and make resident experiences better, both in-world on on the website. However, there are still no screen shots of the design?, which would be good to see. There was no mention on improving new resident experience for Teen Grid or when the Teen Grid website will be upgraded or worked on again?. It seems to be aimed at the Main Grid all the time and TG residents don’t get a say at all. I’ve noticed the recent blog posts made in the past few months on the Official Second Life have been “blocked” for Teen Grid residents to have their say and feedback on posts.

My suggestions

• The Teen Grid Website needs to be upgraded, like now! (last updated 2005)
• There should be a link on the official second life blog posts to the TSL Forums, then you would get TG resident feedback on new Linden Lab projects.
• There should be more official second life blog posts made about Teen Second Life. We need coverage too! :)

If this can be done in the future at some point, it would be fantastic.

My TSL Wiki – December 08 Update

Check out mywiki page for December 2008 with lot’s of  new useful information. Please note it has changed!

LINK: https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/User:Daniel_Voyager

2008

During 2008 mostly I was building up a great portal on my wiki page for residents of TSL. I helped to update the TSL Volunteers Portal, then later in the year it was featured on the SL main page wiki which was just great.

2009

Building up resources for SL Mentors

2010

Carry on adding to the page

7 days left in TSL

One week remaining until I transfer to the Main Grid.

I have submitted a support ticket to Linden Lab about turning 18 and I’m now waiting for futher information. For folks that don’t know already, I’ll be transfering to the Main Grid on Saturday 20th of December 2008. I’m looking forward next weeks parties in TSL and when I transfer I can’t wait to meet new friends, explore and help as much as possible. I’m going to miss the Teen Grid sooooo much and I’ll be saying my final goodbyes, doing final tours and enjoying my final last moments on the grid. I’ll be also sadly stepping down from many groups and land management systems, next week on the Teen Grid to let new people take over and make a difference for the TG community.

 

 

 

 

TSL November Metrics – Teen usage hours increase

Today, the new Second Life November 2008 metrics was released on the Second Life Massively page. Last month shows an increase of usage hours for the Teen Grid  from 0.29% in September 2008 to 0.32% for November 2008, which means more teens in TSL playing for longer. We can hopefully expect teen usage hours to rise, even futher for December 2008. I estimate it will rise from 0.32% to somewhere between 0.35 to 0.40 this month. We will have to wait until 2009 to find out. haha

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 Below, shows statistics of the Teen Grid metrics between August 2008 to November 2008.

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August 2008

Usage hours by Age Band
	% of Total Hrs
13-17 (Teen Grid)	0.53%

 

September 2008

Usage hours by Age Band
	% of Total Hrs
13-17 (Teen Grid)	0.29%

 

 

October 2008

The percentage of user-hours consumed by users under 25 fell during October to 14.96% (including Teen Second Life).

Check out my previous post on Teen Grid Metrics

November 2008 – NEW

The percentage of user-hours consumed by users under 25 rose slightly to 15.39% (including Teen Second Life).

Usage hours by Age Band
	% of Total Hrs
13-17 (Teen Grid)	0.32% (increase from 0.29% back in September 2008)

 

For Statistics for Second Life for November 2008, click here. Don’t forget you can check out Second Life stats on Massively for the latest new posts etc, Click here.

 

Anna Normandy – Happy Birthday to you!!

Happy Birthday to Teen Grid resident, Anna Normandy.

 

Don’t forget to say Happy Birthday if you see her in-world today and give her a birthday treat! :) 

Celebrations start now!

DIDI’s Holiday Celebration 2008!

You are all invited! Bring your friends :)

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D.I.D.I. will be having a holiday shin-dig on December 17th, at 2pm SLT, on  DIDI Island!

There will be a DIDI Exhibit, as well as some music, dancing, trivia and  holiday give-aways!

If you’re interested on being on the decorating or entertainment committee, please IM Meghan GKid!

Don’t Miss Out!