1. Continual opening of
Second Life
Phoenix Linden (Aaron Brashears)
Director, Studio DaBoom!
Rob Linden (Rob Lanphier)
Open Source Busybody
Linden Lab
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7. and Growing
LindeX
Concurrent
GDP
Land
100 million SQL queries per day
~50 terabytes of user-created data
10 gbits/second peak bandwidth
1 petabyte of total traffic/month
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8. and Growing
LindeX
Concurrent
GDP
Land
2003
2004
2005
100 million SQL queries per day 2006
2007
~50 terabytes of user-created data
10 gbits/second peak bandwidth
1 petabyte of total traffic/month
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11. A Lot!
• 8,300,000 registered accounts
• 500,000 active residents
• 800,000 distinct items
exchanged
• 26 million p2p transactions
• US$40 million GDP
• US$7 million exchanged/month
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12. Even More
• 669,921 hours use/day
• 20% of time spent creating
• Millions of LOC/week
• 76 user-years per day
• 117,236 person content team
• US$11.7 billion/year
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13. Even More
• 669,921 hours use/day
• 20% of time spent creating
• Millions of LOC/week
• 76 user-years per day
• 117,236 person content team
• US$11.7 billion/year
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17. All just geeks?
• Nearly gender balanced usage, Median age of 34
• More use the older you are
& at any age by women
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18. All just geeks?
• Nearly gender balanced usage, Median age of 34
• More use the older you are
& at any age by women
• 65% international (and growing)
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19. Open Source
• Released viewer source
code January, 2007
• Thousands of source
downloads, with many
mirrors
• 514 subscribers to open
source mailing list
• 135 patches accepted from
47 outside contributors
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