Linden Lab released the 3rd quarter virtual economy statistics. Highlights include a 54% increase in total transactions, and an increase of 27% in voice usage. Total user hours and peak concurrency was down. Linden Lab attributed this to a crackdown on bot usage. Trading volume on the LindeX was flat.

New aquisition [...]

It seems like only a short time ago that Linden Lab made the Second Life Viewer open source. Since then many developers have created viewers that violate the terms of service in the virtual world of Second Life such as allowing unrestricted copying of objects, etc. It has become such a problem that [...]

We have written several times about the Second Life Knowledge Base and Wiki. Linden Lab has announced that the Second Life Knowledge Base has now officially been migrated to the Second Life Wiki. The update includes direct linking and an accelerated article revision time.

Linden Lab Official articles can not be altered by residents [...]

We wrote before about the change of the Second Life Knowledge Base into a Wiki.

Linden Lab has been testing the program for the last few months and has decided that it will be the new format. They will move forward with a full migration. Contributions will need to be approved before [...]

We recently wrote about the Rezzable BuilderBot and how it could be used to copy or steal an entire Sim like CopyBot. Rezzable has attempted to correct the issue by adding coding that only allows you to copy items that you own but they recently went a step further by adding permissions restrictions to [...]

We have written about the changes that Linden Lab has made to policy on traffic bots. The Second Life traffic score will now be changed in the way it effects search results. This is partly due to problems in the calculations. To correct this traffic will now be total minutes spent on [...]

We have extensively covered the development and progress of the Zindra Second Life Adult Continent. The relocation request tickets were available as of Monday, June, 29, 2009 and Linden Lab has already had over seven hundred requests. Large parcels have been requested and so more of the Zindra land will be opening and [...]

Tateru Nino from Massively has aquired some data on Second life private simulator numbers and estimates the number of private simulators to be almost 30,000. Based on the pricing found in the Second Life Land Store this would put the revenue from private sims for Linden Lab between $2,250,000 and $8,850,000 a month at [...]

The Second LIfe 6 Year Birthday Celebration closes today.

This was an amazing event and the 4 sims of the SL6B were very cool indeed. The 4 large sims of the celebration were larger than the initial entire Second Life.

To sit or not to sit? That is the question…..

Below we see [...]

Linden Lab has released an update to Zindra in Second Life. This includes a new map which you can see below. Tickets will be available starting on Monday, June 29, 2009 at 10:00 am.

The ticketing process will be open for 3 weeks and close on July, 20, 2009 at 10 am. Check [...]