Linden Lab is pleased to announce results for Second Life the second Quarter.

• Land mass grew over 44%. The total number of regions owned by residents increased 44.2% over Q1 to just over 1.5 billion square meters.
• User Hours grew by 8.5% while peak concurrency grew modestly. Resident user hours grew approximately 6% from an annualized rate of just under 350 million user hours in Q1 to over 380 million user hours in Q2.
• User-to-User Transactions grew over 14%. Total user-to-user transactions, a measure of the gross domestic product in Second Life, grew 14.3% during the quarter from an annualized rate of $300 million in Q1 to $338 million in Q2. Resident spending remained a healthy $0.87 per user hour.
• Volume on the Lindex grew 5%. Volume on the LindeX, our virtual currency exchange where users can buy and sell our inworld currency, grew 5% to an annual rate of $108 million. The total value of all the Linden Dollars in circulation grew 8.6% over Q1 to $19.7 million in Q2 with the exchange rate remaining steady against USD at approximately L$ 267 to one USD.
• The number of “profitable” inworld businesses grew by 9%: Taking advantage of the growth in the economy, the number of inworld businesses with Positive Monthly Linden Flow, a measure of profitability, grew to 59,000 in June.

by: Zee Linden (from: Official Second Life Blog)

From official Grid Status Report:

“We are slipping the rolling restart times by one day, so that the pilot roll will be Wednesday evening, and the full roll will be Thursday and Friday mornings.  The schedule below has been updated to reflect this.

We will be deploying server version 1.23 to Second Life in a rolling restart next week, following the schedule:

• Tue, 07/08, Wed, 07/09, 7:30PM : a pilot roll to ~300 regions
• Wed, 07/09, Thu, 07/10, 5:00-9:00AM : a rolling restart of half the grid
• Thu, 07/10, Fri, 07/11, 5:00-9:00AM : a rolling restart of the rest of the grid

Each region will be down for about 10 minutes; regions will receive warnings starting 5 minutes before they are restarted. If your region stays down for more than 20 or 30 minutes, please contact support. There is no way to delay the restart of any given region. No client upgrades will be needed as a result of this rolling restart.”

“A number of residents are experiencing PayPal transaction failures. We’re investigating and we’ll update when we have additional information.”

Posted by Status Desk on July 1st, 2008 at 03:11 pm PDT on Second Life Grid Status Report

Yesterday, at 14.30 SLT, was a very interesting friendly soccer game between nationals teams of Romania and Portugal. Match was playing on a very close to real football field, between the best players from each country. Mutu, Lobont, Chivu or Figo, Cristiano Ronaldo was not there, but SL national players of each team try to defend in the best way they can, the honor of their countries. Fans was there too, supporting their favorite teams. Sometimes much louder then SL sim supported and because of their flags and louder encouragements, the match was almost stopped because of lag. But until the end all was going well, and all people present on the event have a lot of fun and a great soccer show to watch.

Here are the teams who fight on the green field in the name of their country:

Romania: gi0vanni Munro (Goalkeeper), Cyndee Shepherd, Tzunny Nagy, nutzu Parx, Javier Pastorelli, leading Maximus, Catalin Gothly, Radu Lubitsch (cpt.)

Portugal: felicemagnini Babii (Goalkeeper), Trane Mornington, Limalhas Farella (cpt), Capelas Mighty, djandr Smit, Bernard Dominquez, Telmo Laval, goncalo Johin

Final score was 14-0 for Romania team, but Portugal team fights hard in the game too, maybe their lack of more practice cause them to can’t score even they have some nice opportunities too. Anyway important was friendship between players, fans and people watching the show, and we hope we will see much more great games like this in Second Life football fields.

by Cyb3rk Bade

News from Second Life Grid

We have deployed version 1.22.4.90215 to the “Second Life Beta Server” channel of the Preview Grid. This version of the server code will be deployed to the production Second Life environment next week. It includes a few internal security patches and bug fixes. There are no resident-facing changes with this release.

Regions running the “Second Life Production Server” channel are running version 1.22.3.89352, which is the same version deployed to the main Second Life servers. See the blog post about the Preview Grid on our main blog for more information about logging into the Preview Grid.

Please use our Issue Tracker to report any new issues found anywhere on the Preview Grid. When reporting a problem, please be sure to include what region you were in, exactly what you did and what behavior you saw, when it happened, and the version of both your viewer software and of the server software running in the region where you saw the problem.

Source here.