Yesterday in Second Life: Second Life Daily News

Yesterday in Second Life there was:

• 12,542 new signups bringing the total to 12,690,135 signups.
• A peak concurrency of 57,551 at 2:10PM, and a minimum concurrency of 32,946 at 1:05AM. Median concurrency for the day was 43,858.
• The Grid Stability Index for the day was 1.26 (lower is better).
• 2,000 simulators were updated to a new software version at 5AM. By evening, however, many users were reporting noticeable performance reduction in the upgraded sims – a reduction that was unusually consistent.
• Cisco Systems let us know that they're launching their new Quantum flow processor in Second Life on Tuesday morning.
• Sky News/Five News is reporting a new sexual ageplay scandal. The Wonderland Scandal is already taken. We're taking suggestions for names for this one.
• Linden Lab is hiring an Australian ops engineer.
• Massachusetts General Hospital will be looking for volunteers for a clinical trial on the potential stress-reduction benefits of Second Life.
• There's something interesting going on in the relationship between signups and concurrency. We've been investigating this for some time, and have some findings.

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

Recent users reported by Linden Lab (that is, users who have logged in at least once within the last 60 days) is 1,347,560. Linden Lab last updated this figure on 1 Mar 2008 at 23:59.