SL Highlights of September 2009 in Second Life

My blog metrics So far…

• Total views: 30,543
• Total posts: 504
• Total comments: 215
  

This month’s stats for (September 2009)

• Total blog views this month = 2, 220 (last month = 2, 287)
  
• Average hits per day = 75-85
• 11 new comments

Top posts this month on my blog

• 230 views = Cool places in Second Life Guide 2009
• 128 views = Linden Bear locations in Second Life
• 62 views = 9/11 remembrance in Second Life for 8th

Other Stats

• Passed the 500 blog posts milestone on September 23rd 2009
• 5, 000 views milestone on my Plurk page + (500 plurk friends milestone) on 28th September 2009
• My 1st year anniversary on SL RezEd on 16th September 2009
• My 1st year anniversary on Plurk on 1st September 2009

SL September Highlights & Popular Stories

• SL Login outrage lasted for about 1 hour on 1st September 2009
• Garth FairChang passed away in early September 2009
• 9/11 remembrance in Second Life for 8th anniversary on 11th September 2009
• New Citizens Inc Blog comes back online around mid September 2009
• Second Life Content Creators Sue Second Life Creator Linden Lab on 15th September 2009
• Prad Prathivi creates The Periodic Table of SL Abbreviations and Emoticons on 15th September 2009
• Talk Like A Pirate Day 2009 in SL was on 19th September 2009
• SL Designer Showcase Network hit 10,000 subscribers on 19th September 2009
• Live Panel Discussion on Virtual Goods with Philip Linden, T Linden, Robert Bloomfield on 23rd September 2009
• Linden Lab releases statistics about Second Life on 22nd September 2009
  
• Orange Island in SL announces they will be closing down 29th September 2009
• Linden Lab to step up Second Life marketing with Amsterdam office on 28th September 2009

Upcoming in October 2009

• Burning Life 2009 from October 17th – 25th
• Halloween 2009
• My 3rd rezz day in Second Life on 31st October 2009
• And there’s more…

If I’ve missed something, please comment. It’s been a very busy and interesting month for September 2009 in SL. :D

New Citizens Inc Blog comes back online

After many weeks of being offline, the New Citizens Inc from Second Life is back and bigger than ever before. I’ve been returning over the last few weeks to the site and I’m seeing alot of good progress being made. The NCI Web Services team has introduced new forums and its worth checking that out, CLICK HERE.The New Citizens Inc group in-world has over 9, 547 group members and its growing all the time. NCI is one of the biggest, well known groups in the Second Life community. If your interested in helping with the NCI blog, check out the latest post called Open Casting for NCI Bloggers! or contact Lethe Naumova in-world.

New Citizen’s Inc. Your Portal to Second Life

The three columns to the right are for our Classes and Events, Second Life, and our community, in that order. You’ll find class schedules and news, Second Life news and grid news, and lots of links to both NCI stuff and SL stuff.

NCI calls itself “Your Portal to Second Life”, and I like to think of this blog as “Your Portal to NCI” (which makes it “Your Portal to  Your Portal to Second Life”

If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions about that kind of thing, be sure to wander over to the forums and post them there!

Learn more about New Citizens Inc, CLICK HERE

SL Systest

Give this a try…

http://secondlife.com/support/systest.php

System Requirements Lab analyzes your computer in just seconds, and it’s FREE. Checks all your system to see if you need to update stuff, etc.

System Requirements Lab looks at your computer’s hardware and system software to determine whether or not your current system can run a product. Each of your computer’s components is evaluated to see how well it meets the minimum and recommended requirements for specific products. Recommendations are made on how to update or upgrade each component which does not meet the listed requirements. Sometimes it is a simple free software download and sometimes it is a link to a product such as the right video card.

Extra: Can You RUN It?

Please note this might not work with some OS systems and internet browsers.

Second Life Answers official launch soon

Watch out for news in the coming weeks or even months for the upcoming official launch of Second Life Answers on the Official Second Life Blog. Check out Second Life Answers Beta – Thank You! post for more information (August 18th 2009)

Second Life Answers stats before July 31st 2009

36,127 page views occurred on 445 threads.

The most active category for number of questions (85) was in “Technical”.

3 of the most viewed questions were: Can I change my Second Life name? , PW change: Forgotten answer to the security question and How can I get a job in Second Life?

Over 45 languages accessed the Answers main page. The top 2 are English and German.

Second Life Answers is the fastest growing help resource ever.   Ok…I made this particular metric up but you can make it true!

Keep your eyes open for the official launch of Second Life Answers soon!

Popular Syndicating Second Life Feeds for 2009

World of SL - Syndicating the Second Life blogosphere

Daniel Voyager’s SL Feeds - One portal for all SL news and blogs feeds updated around the clock

Morris Vig’s NetVibes Page - Great pages full of SL feeds

Shiny Mix - Second Life Information Overload

Second Life Exploration - Cool stuff from Second Life

Active Second Life Blogs 2009 – By Second Effects

Who’s The Biggest? Redux – By Second Effects

Second Links Blogroll - Includes tons of Second Life blogs and more

Second Life Blogs – Learn something new here

Ana Lutetia’s Blogroll – Loads of cool SL links

iheart – iheart is the largest Second Life Community Blog

Fashion Feed of SL - The Best of Second Life ® Fashion

SL Features RSS Feeds – Latest news from Second Life & Linden Lab

Enjoy!

SL Feeds 2009

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RSS Feeds

•  What does RSS mean ? 
• Video Tutorials about RSS Feeds
•  Google Reader
• MMOs Feeds

 

SL Feeds

• My Blog
• My Flickr
• My Plurk
• My Twitter
• My YouTube
• My RezEd

 

Latest

> Morris Vig’s Netvibes

> SL Blog Feeds

• - Features RSS Feeds
• - Community RSS Feeds
• - Working Inworld RSS Feeds
• - Technology RSS Feeds
• - Land and Sea RSS Feeds
• - Press RSS Feeds

Interesting Read Feeds

• EUREKA – The SL Travel Blog RSS Feeds
• Blog Feeds: Eureka SL
• Blog Feeds: TNT – Second Life Tips & Tricks
• EDUSCAPE – Education in Second Life RSS Feeds

> Live Data Feeds

• Second Life Grid Status Reports
• Second Life Planned Outages Calendar
• SecondLife
• slOfficeHours
• SLGridStatus
• SecondLie
• SecondLOL
• SecondLice
• SecondLime

> News

• SL Massively
• New World Notes
• Alphaville Herald
• Second Life Bloggers
• The Metaverse Journal
• Metaversally Speaking
• Living in the Metaverse
• Second Life Pulse
• Rez Magazine
• Linden Lab
• Second Life
• New Citizens Incorporated Blog

 

SL New Resident Places 2009

I’m starting to put together a new flickr collection which will feature new resident landmarks with SLurl’s to help out new residents find their way around the big world of Second Life (Main Grid) for 2009. The aim of this is to create a portal of different locations both for new residents and existing residents of the community to enjoy the ever lasting exploration of Second Life. I’m interested in mentoring, giving out resouces, photography and more in Second Life, so it’s so good to share the locations and information with you! :)

Poke me on Plurk, Twitter or Flickr if you have any ideas for locations. That would be a great help, yeah I’m newish to the Main Grid, (Lost Puppy).

GETTING  STARTED

• New SL Resident Experience collection 2009: Click Here

• Start your new SL adventures here:  Click Here

CURRENT SETS

• New Resident Places 2009
• NCI
• SL Historical Locations
• MG Maps
• MG Stats

COMING SOON

• User Interface snapshots
• Infohub and Welcome Area locations
• Website snapshots
• Education locations
• Showcase locations
• And More…:)

Visit: http://secondlife.com to get started in Second Life today.

Second Life Maps Resources – 2009

SL MAPS FOR YOU

SLurl - Offers to create direct links to any place in the game. Location-Based Linking in Second Life.

Learn how the World Map works in Second Life? - Get started by watching this video tutorial.

Second Life Postcard Map - Interesting map for SL.

SL Maps – Maps of Second Life. Compilation of older Linden Lab maps of the grid, resources for interpreting the Magellan Linden “Dingbat” maps, the ability to see a map of the grid for a certain date, flash maps of grid expansion, and links to similar fansites.

Mappa Novus – Provides advanced maps and search tools of the Second Life grid.

Second Life charts - Latest statistics from the grid.

Webmap API - The Second Life Webmap API allows you to embed Second Life Maps onto your web pages. Enough talk, lets jump into the code.

Webmap API Wiki - The Second Life Webmap API allows you to embed Second Life Maps onto your web pages. Enough talk, lets jump into the code

Sim Neighbours - Sim Neighbours is a site to look up which sims are sharing a server.

SpinMass – Create your own Sculpty maps.

Second Life BigMap - Grid Maps

Pirandello Second Life Map Viewer - Using the Second Life Mapping API.

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Images of Agni &  Agni Continents -Created by SignpostMarv Martin.

Updated Maps for the New Year - Fixes in the “LL Mainland Continents” and “Sansara & Heterocera” maps for 2009.

Images of Second Life Maps - On Flickr.

MG Maps 2009 - New for 2009 – Enjoy!!!

TSL Maps - Interesting maps of Teen Second Life and more!

TG Bay City Map - Check it out

SL4B Sim Map & SL5B Sim Map – What will the map look like for SL6B?

Bay City Map & Parks and Recreation Directory - Parcel map.

 

Enjoy! :)

NCI updates SL Maps for 2009

Carl Metropolitan, executive director etc of NCI (New Citizens Incorporated) in Second Life, today posted a post on the NCI Blog that he has made a few fixes to the  “LL Mainland Continents” and “Sansara & Heterocera” maps. I recommend you should check out NCI in-world, because it’s an awesome place for information and FAQ’s etc. :D

NCI /New Citizens Incorporated is your portal to Second Life.

• New Citizens Incorporated Blog
• NCI’s Web Site
• NCI photos
• History of NCI

Latest map version now is (01.01.09).

Great work, Carl! :)