JeanRicard Broek

Prior to making yearly predictions I did a similar history. January 25, 2010
titled "Predictions, Dreamers and Critics". http://jeanricardbroek-architect.blogspot.com/2010/01/predictions-dreamers-and-critics.html

After I was done the only prediction I made for SL in 2010 were two keywords would mark the year "Coming Soon".

Great analogy and analysis, Spot on

Hmmmmm - Interesting timing - March 22 - Vivox Goes Social Network With Facebook, Wave, And Ning via Virtual World News

I think the plug for adult content is the most interesting here and "may" be a precursor for changes to come like linking Adult access for new users to premium subscriptions? If the "first home" is not a good enough incentive, go for the big market. your "first ......"

I downloaded the RFP and addendum..You are right the advanced features required are a stretch for SL at least at this date & time. I will be curious to know who wins the bid and the amount of the contract award which will be decided in Mid September. I hope you can follow up and that this information will become public knowledge.

LL stats are always difficult to understand. I am sure internally they have better metrics.

Let me first say, there are two reasons to know the size of the SL grid.

1. To understand the size of the world as most users know it for personal or business reasons.
2. To get some idea of how big the Lab's business & system is.

These are two different things and the metrics/counts would be different, considering hidden private/corp/gov regions, maybe even whole private grids, types of regions; full, openspace, homestead, dev, test or prod servers. even the duplication of regions across datacenters.

I am most interested in the "public grid", The one the average user/resident can access and find on the map and TP to.

I did find this from Tyche Shepherd as of 7/6 very informative
"Total number of Main Grid regions is now 28523 ( 23028 private estates & 5495 Linden owned)" http://www.sluniverse.com/php/vb/business-land-economy/8523-new-second-life-sims-past-17.html

* Estate - Adult: 218
* Estate - Mature: 19474
* Estate - Offline: 2
* Estate - PG: 3334
* Linden - Adult: 190
* Linden - Mature: 3875
* Linden - PG: 1430

My question is can Signpost or someone else that has knowledge of the map API, count the regions on the map and compare the count with other methods. I tend to be a visual person ~L~

Sounds a bit pre-IPOish.

Great cartoon for all the reasons satire can be so eloquently to the point... So funny because it is so true.

"I don't want no volunteers, I don't want no mates, there's too many captains on this island. Ten thousand dollars for me by myself. For that you get the head, the tail, the whole damn thing."

As a Second Lifer and a registered user of Sketchup since version 1.0 using it in RL practice for years, I watched the Beta release videos, and immediately signed up as a beta tester for Scenecaster and gave it a good whirl/test. The test methodology was “don’t read the any documentation, or try help, just good old, basic male user interface, testing, ( how do I do this? “grrr. damn it” “oh OK that was strange but OK got it” next) approach.

While the presentation, exciting videos that hit all the hot buttons like content created on outside the application, stored owned and stored by Me to be traded, bought, and created by users, professionals and corporations alike" were so on target, the application, Scenecaster is well, just lame.

I felt like they made 3D into 2D. Anyone that has not used SL will find it an advance over pure 2D content and say WOW, anyone that has been in SL will understand my comments. We will all watch Google with great interest knowing Linden labs will face stiff competition soon, but from were? Not Scenecaster, not now.

I have more posted from 9-27-2007 on my blog: http://jeanricardbroek-architect.blogspot.com/2007/09/scenecaster-google.html for all that wish to read more or follow along while I continue to test and play with Scenecaster.