Comments on: Verified Accounts and Trust Metrics — Part 1

By: Project Syndicate » Blog Archive » Second Life Hype vs. Reality

Project Syndicate » Blog Archive » Second Life Hype vs. Reality — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 13:19:28 +0000

[…] First, Second Life’s growth is not primarily being driven by all of the hype. Sure, it helps. Google Trends shows a spike in searches in the spring when the BusinessWeek cover story came out and the hype really took off. However, according to Catherine Omega, Second Life may be seeing its greatest boost from users who live outside the US. This is because in the spring Second Life creator Linden Lab removed the need to have a credit card to join. She also points out that SL is hiring in Asia with the intent to launch in Japan and Korea. […]

By: Micro Persuasion

Micro Persuasion — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 12:59:25 +0000

Second Life Hype vs. Reality…

You can’t pick up a business publication or hang out with people who are enthusiastic about new ways of marketing without hearing about the Second Life virtual world/metaverse. I have written about it extensively here. I am very bullish on…

By: Tao Takashi

Tao Takashi — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 09:52:28 +0000

Of course newbies without a CC need to be polite so that you give them some money or clothes ;-)

So all in all a good thing :-)

(BTW, I hardly met any griefer at all during my time in SL, am I doing something wrong?!?)

By: Catherine Omega, new blogger at Eric Rice

Catherine Omega, new blogger at Eric Rice — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 22:09:25 +0000

[…] You don’t know her, maybe, as the most dangerous woman alive, but Catherine Omega just started blogging for the first time at catherineomega.com, and came out of the gate blazing with a part-one post on verified accounts and trust metrics and also pointers to the news about LSL-to-Mono port. You gotta wonder when her first post is code: state_entry(), exactly how valuable she’s gonna be as her blog evolves. I’m thinkin, quite. […]

By: Intellagirl

Intellagirl — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 12:15:38 +0000

This is a great analysis of an important idea. I’d love to see a study of the reasons people have for creating alt accounts or a comparison of griefing reports before and after open registration. Too bad LL hasn’t released the data they tantalizingly offered for researchers.

By: Siobhan Taylor

Siobhan Taylor — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 07:06:56 +0000

Just a niggle, it’s the second time LL opened verification. It was similarly opened at the end of beta in July/August 2003, when I joined. I probably wouldn’t have if I’d needed a credit card number just to look. And as a result, I’m still here 3 years later.

That aside, some very interesting stats. Certainly, as you say, the language calls to HI are increasing, but that might be the fact that there are now 3 Help Islands, and I think all newbies are being sent there now, whereas before it was a random selection. Nothing is ever clear in LL’s world.

The one thing to note though is that if there is an increase in newbies of 5 times… is the associated griefing I hear frum whiners talking about also up by the same? It’s up… but I doubt by that much… and I have to say, I’ve met some very polite newbies lately.

By: Catherine Omega

Catherine Omega — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 02:32:54 +0000

Chromal talks about how to use this data:

Chromal Brodsky: basically, you can rip from that text the numbers… format:
Chromal Brodsky: epoch seconds : total pop : transactions : users online
Chromal Brodsky: the data starts maybe 13 months ago, sampled every five minutes.