My SL Monthly Twitter Stats

I use Twitter a lot these days to stay updated on all things Second Life and real life. Today I created a SL graph showing monthly usage on Twitter for Second Life using TweetStats. You should check out TweetStats and graph your SL monthly tweets.When you first visit TweetStats you will need to enter your twitter account name and then press Graph my Tweets!. Wait a few moments and then enjoy viewing your monthly stats. :D

My Twitter Stats so far

• Highest SL tweets was August 2009 with a total of 456 tweets.
• Lowest SL tweets was February 2009 with 1 update.
• I normally tweet between 4pm to 8pm UK time.
• Wednesdays are most busy during the week.
• Average of 7.1 tweets per day.
• Joined Twitter back in December 2007.

SL October Highlights 2009

Key Highlights during October 2009 from around the Second Life community. It’s been a very busy month!. My Blog and other stats will be published next month. For my September 2009 highlights check out this. :D

• iHeartSL.com blog has moved to different hosting – 4th October 2009
• Linden Lab rounds up and ejects a bunch of copyright infringers – 5th October 2009
• Mentor Lounge group in SL turns 1 year old – 9th October 2009
• Philip Linden leaves the Lab, retains Chairman position – 15th October 2009
• Burning Life 2009 Opens – 17th October 2009
• SL has passed the 17 million signups milestone – 19th October 2009
• Knowledge Base (KB) has been moved to the Second Life Wiki – 19th October 2009
• Third Party Viewer Policy - 20th October 2009
• SL Viewer Adds Avatar Breast Physics, Attracting Controversy, 50K Downloads – 21st October 2009
• Windows 7 launches – 22nd October 2009
• Halloween Fun starts - 26th October 2009
• SL Logins were temporarily disabled for a few hours – 29th October 2009
• Teen Grid Merger with Second Life Low on the Radar – 30th October 2009
• Halloween 2009 – 31st October 2009
• My 3rd Rez Day in Second Life – 31st October 2009

What have you enjoyed or least enjoyed during October 2009 ?

What are you looking forward during November 2009

Guide to Burning Life 2009

The 7th Burning Life in Second Life was officially opened at around 12pm SLT on Saturday 17th October 2009, with hundreds of residents attending the opening hours of BL09. I’m a BL Stage Manager and BL Greeter which I’m happy about.I managed to find a great BL09 outfit and you can view pics of that on my flickr stream. A few days before opening I had access to attend a sneak preview of the upcoming SL Burning Man burning event for 2009.

Burning Life 2009 is bigger than ever before it seems and this time I have the chance of attending Burning Life because in previous years I was still on the TG. This is brand new experience for me in Second Life, so far so good. I’ll be sharing SLURLs and updates though Plurk, Twitter and Facebook. Check there for BL09 updates.

My first throughts about BL09

• Impressive art work
  
• Great venues to enjoy the music
• Amazed by the amount of regions there are to explore
  
• Cool festival feeling
• So many happy and helpful residents at BL09

Feedback from others about BL09

Fun things going on all the time
Very laggy and no fun
Always something going on at BL, it’s a must take part in event

This is my BL09 Guide

Stay Informed

• BL09 Event Calendar
• BL09 – Plurk
• BL09 – Twitter
• BL09 Feeds
• BL09 Videos
• BL09 Facebook Group

BL09 Pictures

Check out my BL09 flickr set for my latest adventures and more!

• My Burning Life set

Send and share your Burning Life 2009 snapshots here!

• Official Burning Life flickr group
• Burning Life in Second Life
• Prim Perfect Burning Life 2009 >>> Submit photos for the Prim Perfect souvenir book
• Snapzilla – Burning Life 2009
• Koinup

Need a BL09 guide ?

• Check out Prim Perfect Guide to Burning Life 2009 – I found this really interesting and I recommend you check this out for yourself.
• Burning Life 09 Interactive Map - Lost? Check out this map for locations to visit during the BL09 experience
• What is Burning Life ? – Recommended for new residents experiencing BL09 for the first time
• Burning Life Opens – Information central
• Prim Perfect Blogging thoughout BL09 – Daily updates
• Koinup Blogging – Daily updates

If you have any BL09 guides, blogs, groups etc then feel free to post them in the comments section below. What were your first thoughts of Burning Life 2009 when it opened on 17th October 2009?. I hope that this guide will be handy, enjoy. Over and out! Have a great Burning Life experience.

https://blogs.secondlife.com/community/community/events/blog/2009/10/17/burning-life-opens

Second Life registered accounts, October 2009

When I was browsing through the Second Life Wikipedia page I found this under History section. I found the XML file linked to this update.

In October 2009, just over 16 million accounts were registered, although there are no reliable figures for actual long term consistent usage.

LINK

I do have a few Second Life stats widgets that displays data on how many total Second Life residents there are at any given time of the day on my SL Feeds Portal, LINK. Currently the data says there are more than 16,969,776+ registered signups for Second Life and that is expected to reach 17 million registered signups within the next month or so.  So at some point during 2010 we can hopefully expect to see a grand total of 20 million registered signups and more perhaps.

The average amount of Second Life logged in users at any given time at the moment is normally between 45, 000 to 75, 000+. We might see a big peak at the end of the year reaching the 90, 000 milestone perhaps or even better the 100, 000 milestone. The last new record for Second Life online active users was recorded back in March 2009 with 88, 220 around 1:30pm SLT.  Rewind the clock back even futher we reach the date when there was 1, 000, 000 residents signed up for Second Life, recorded on 18th October 2006. Second Life growth has been amazing over the years and I’m so glad I signed up for it during 2006.

We will just have to watch the fiqures. Check out my SL Metrics blog page for more interesting data and links.

Things you should know about Daniel Voyager’s SL Feeds

Daniel Voyager’s SL Feeds

Here are some key points below about my SL Feeds, created by using Netvibes. In upcoming months you can expect to see more new SL tabs, links, improvements and much more. Feel free to contact me with suggestions and new SL links to add to the SL Feeds online portal. Tell me what you think and check out my DV tab for contact info.

• SL Feeds was created in March 2009 and came out of beta on 20th July 2009
• SL Feeds is a large compliation of Second Life community RSS/Atom and SL widgets
• You can subscribe to over 1, 000 SL RSS feeds and lot’s more
• SL Feeds has organized SL tabs making it easier to find what your looking for
• SL Feeds makes it easier to add your favourite and most popular Second Life feeds then add it to your RSS reader within minutes
• SL Feeds displays the latest Second Life news, LL blog updates,  SL fashion feeds, resident blogs, new SL videos, education news, latest SL snaps and much more
• SL Feeds updates in real-time (24/7)
• Whenever you need to know, check out SL Feeds!
• Spread the word about my SL Feeds to your friends and others

Second Life Answers Status Levels

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Second Life Answers Key Levels

Levels |  Replies/Points

Newbie = 0 -100
Novice = 101 – 500
Apprentice =  501 – 1500
Expert = 1501 – 3000
Master = 3001-1000

^^ Subject to change ^^

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When answering questions for residents on Second Life Answers, you might of noticed that there is a points bar located under your picture. I currently have 29 points which is at the low end newbie level. I have recently found out the rest of the status level include Novice, Apprentice, Expert and Master levels.

By default, for example, Clearspace includes the following status levels: master (501-1000 points); junior (101-500 points); newbie (0-100 points).

This is very similar to Yahoo Answers points and levels system, which ranges from 1-249 to 26, 000+ points. There are other ways to get help and feedback in Second Life including using the SL Forums, SL Blogs, SL social networking sites and getting help by someone in-world. You can also receive points on the Commerce Forums for answering questions which is very neat.

A few things to remember

• Participation and contributions really do count on Second Life Answers. Being Helpful is key!
• Second Life Answers is not a competition or getting points and awards as such.
• There’s no competition in helping people and providing answers.
• If you want to challenge yourself, feel free to do that!
• How to Participate in Second Life Answers
• Second Life Blog and Forum FAQ

Second Life Answers

The best way to keep Second Life Answers as a good resource is for those who ask questions to remember to mark responses as helpful or correct.  After trying out the responses, you will know which ones to pick and this will make it more helpful for the next Resident looking at the same type question!

Yahoo Answers

To encourage participation and reward great answers

Levels are another way to keep track of how active you (and others) have been. The more points you accumulate, the higher your level. Yahoo! Answers recognizes your level achievements with our special brand of thank you’s!

And finally, as you attain higher levels, you’ll also be able to contribute more to Yahoo! Answers – you can ask, answer, vote and rate more frequently.

Some will think the status levels is a good thing to have, while others might be upset and agrey with having a points/levels system At the end of the day volunteering makes all the difference in Second Life and making sure everyone has that all important information to enjoy their Second Life to the full.

What do you think about Second Life Answers status levels ?

Good thing or bad thing ? Why?

Announcement about SL Forums future, Coming Soon!

Originally Posted by Wynochee LeShelle

Blue said that these forums will be merged, and that they’ll have the same layouts as the SL website and XStreet. All the same style…An announcement about this will come within a week.He’s moved some of the major critics of the SL website to the development team.That’s the news!

New details released that the Second Life Forums will be merged and that it will be the same layout (style) of the new SL website and XStreet SL. From whats been said recently there will be a announcement within a week. So it will be all new and improved very soon.

There have been alot of new changes this year already including the new Second Life Blog, Second Life website, SL Dashboard, SL Answers and next in the pipe line is SL Forums. Most residents love the new changes where the others don’t like the new changes at all. In the near future we can expect new changes to the Second Life user-interface and the new installation layout including additional new changes to the new user experience. We will have to wait and see! :D

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

Talk Like A Pirate Day 2009 in Second Life

Today is International Talk Like A Pirate Day, which comes around every year on the 19th of September.

Ahoy! me Mateys, it be Talk Like Pirate Day in Second Life. There are loads of pirate shopping places to go to get your pirate avatars and outfits. There are many Pirate cool landmarks to visit in Second Life and Pirate SL events happening all day.

• Pirate Speak Translator
  
• Why talk like a pirate – and how
• How to Be Speaking’ Pirate-Like
• Cap’n Redpens’s Pirate Translator
  

Search for “Pirates” in SEARCH

Pirate Events in SL

Pirate Locations in Second Life to VISIT

Black Spot Shipyard
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Black%20Spot/149/160/24
Home of the Pirate Ship Black Sparrow,  the Crow, and other old style tall ships and boats  in various sizes

Pirate Island Of Jabberwock
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Jabberwock/70/76/28
pirate,pirates,pirate rp, pirate battles, spd,tss ships,flintlocks&SPD weapons,swords,pirate AVs & clothes,-SL’s largest pirate rp area-8 sims for pirates to plunder!   Yarrrrr!

GUUD Talk Like a Pirate Translator
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Colonia%20Nova/57/214/43
Speak like a Pirate

DarkDharma Avatar Isle
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Dacia/155/24/23
Check out the pirates

PIRATE STORE
http://slurl.com/secondlife/FairChang%20Calypso%20SW/227/178/23
Pirate Hats – Pirates weapon treasure raft poses gun parrot cannon pegleg eyepatch treasure tatoo Pirate ship boat coffin final fantasy globe pitchfork rum Hat – Free Pirate Ship, branding Tricorner Hats, Beanie, cutouts

Promise’s Pirate Shop
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Holmesk/240/20/24
All things Pirate.. Shirts etc.

PIRATES  – CAVE
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Tropical%20World/70/145/22
pirate stuff, best (and cheep) pirate clothes for men and women, waterfall, pirate grottos, pirate ships, pirate boats, sails, pirate Outfits, pirat, piraten, Tricornes, uniforme, MEDIEVAL, Castles, Medieval furnitures, goast, grotto cave

Pirate Ships Yard
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Okefenokee/60/160/503
Welcome to our sky platform, beautiful ships for sale. ships, ship, boat, pirate, chinese junk, ships, boat, pirate, chinese junk, ships, pirate ship,pirate , pirate ship, pirate ship, pirate, galleon, pirate ship, ships

Arrr, have a great day, gar!

Sending Postcards in Second Life

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Sending Postcards in Second Life is great fun and you have the chance of sharing your adventures with your friends in Second Life or even in Real Life. Sending postcards just takes a few moments and then you will be done. Before you start sending postcards, make sure you join Second Life sharing sites, which supports SL postcards. Flickr, Snapzilla, Koinup, Mixoom and blogHUD are popular SL photo sharing sites you might to check out.

This is how you do it…

• Click Snapshot button at the bottom of your SL window (viewer)
• Select Send Va email
• Email Snapshot window appears
• Type in the Recipient’s Email, Your Email, Your Name, Subject and Message
• When you are happy with your snapshot, click on Send
• You will see a Sending… blue message for a few seconds
• You have successfully sent your SL postcard
• Yay!

Snapshot

• Send Via email = free
• Save to Inventory = 10L$ for uploads
• Save to your hard drive = free
• View pictures in your Inventory = Photo Album and Textures folder
• Don’t forget you can send pictures with the user interface on too
  
• Check out Snapshot resources wiki page
  
• Happy Sharing :)
  

As the old adage goes, “practice makes perfect”, and what’s important is you’re enjoying yourself as you “capture the moments”

- Torley Linden