Yesterday in Second Life: Second Life Daily News

Yesterday in Second Life there was:

• 13,714 new signups bringing the total to 12,306,223 signups.
• A peak concurrency of 57,664 at 1:50PM, and a minimum concurrency of 31,409 at 1:20AM. Median concurrency for the day was 43,650.
• The Grid Stability Index for the day was 1.05 (lower is better).
• A new Windlight First Look viewer, based on the 1.19.0 codebase.
• Cyn Skyberg was promoted to Vice-President of Customer Relations at Linden Lab.
• Clever Zebra's Nick Wilson announced the vBusiness Expo.
• The beta grid saw an update of the Havok-4 test, in advance of rolling it out to the early-adopters program.
• Stipends and group payouts didn't work as planned. The process was delayed but there's no word of completion yet.
• Yet more Linden Lab telephone troubles.

Below is the day's concurrency graphed for yesterday (left), and the corresponding day from the previous week (right)

Active users reported by Linden Lab (that is, users who have logged in for more than 60 minutes in the last 60 days) is 1,365,053. Linden Lab last updated this figure on 4 Feb 2008 at 23:59.