Second Life Daily News

Yesterday in Second Life there was:

• 14,567 new signups bringing the total to 12,840,734 signups.
• A peak concurrency of 60,566 at 3:20PM, and a minimum concurrency of 31,731 at 1:05AM. Median concurrency for the day was 47,691.
• The Grid Stability Index for the day was 1.12 (lower is better).
• China Tracy has either sold an art installation (or gotten one funded) to the tune of US$100,000 (although some sources are reporting 100,000 Euros). The available information is a bit contradictory.
• This is almost completely overshadowed by the big news – that Philip Rosedale will be resigning as CEO and becoming chairman of Linden Lab as soon as a replacement CEO is appointed.
• Linden Lab is seeking to buy avatars for new users from a variety of content-creators.

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 1,074,292. Linden Lab last updated this figure on 14 Mar 2008 at 23:59.