Second Life Statistics… Sharing my research
I have a whole section on this blog dedicated to virtual worlds as I’m fascinated by what they stand for. When you look at them from a macro lense, they potentially are teasing us as to what the web will become in the next few years. Wow. That’s fairly powerful.
Linden Lab, the maker of the ever popular Second Life has just released some significant raw data about the virtual world. Most people would never find this data but I was tipped off by a friend within the organization and while I thumbed through it, it was hard to follow because of all the numbers. I quickly turned these numbers into charts and pictures - and created a document (SecondLifeStats.pdf) to share with the world.
Who should read this document?
- Any Second Life residents
- Any marketers looking to launch some form of campaign/brand within Second Life or any virtual world
- Futurists
- People with a lot of time to kill
On a regular schedule, Linden Lab updates their Economic Statistics page which keeps us all informed of the ongoings of their economy. The data below was taken from their 2/6/2007 extraction.
| Residents Logged-In During Last 7 Days | 326,483 |
| Residents Logged-In During Last 14 Days | 487,651 |
| Residents Logged-In During Last 30 Days | 787,693 |
| Residents Logged-In During Last 60 Days | 1,122,586 |
| 3,436,015 |
The PDF is located here as a free download (~3.9mb), and goes much more in depth and hopefully sheds some light as to the population, currency, demographics, residents, and more. Enjoy it. Feel free to spread the world as well- bloggers, press, and anyone else - but please comment and send me feedback. I really look forward to hearing from you.
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February 9th, 2007 at 11:23 pm
Visual Second Life Statistics…
If you are interested in bringing your client or brand into the virtual world space, you probably should read the attached visual representation of Linden Lab’s (Second Life) latest data. This will help you see the latest demographics, population det…
February 10th, 2007 at 8:00 pm
Thanks for compiling this Darren! Very interesting…
Also, those are really, really nice 3D charts. What software did you use to make them?
February 11th, 2007 at 1:27 am
Thanks for pulling this together. Great information.
February 12th, 2007 at 8:23 am
Nice Visualizations of SL Data. Soon In 3D?…
Total hours per month spent in Second Life
Reader Darren Herman has generated a really nice-looking set of charts based on the recent statistical release of user and economic data from the virtual world of Second Life. It’s slightly unfortunate …
February 12th, 2007 at 12:51 pm
Can’t wait to dig in.
Thanks for sharing this!
February 14th, 2007 at 7:32 am
Thanks for sharing this great job!
We’re all interested in Second Life’s statistics. And those 3D graphics are amazing!!!!
Well done.
February 15th, 2007 at 6:00 am
Nice presentation Darren. Graphs are so much easier to absorb than tables of figures aren’t they? Thanks for sharing. I second Michael Simmons’ question; what did you use to create the lovely charts?
March 23rd, 2007 at 7:10 pm
[...] following the release of some detailed Second Life stats by Linden Lab people like Raph Koster and Darren Herman shared some interesting graphs and visualisations of the raw [...]