Hack’s Haven

Last week I read with great interest about Philip Rosedale’s decision to step down as CEO of Linden Lab. Peppered throughout the article are quotes like this:
“Second Life’s growth has slowed after a period of rapid expansion. Rosedale’s replacement will face the difficult task of regaining that momentum…”
and
“The virtual world’s subscriber base and user […]

Playing around with Second Life analytics, I came across an interesting trend that may or may not hold water after the blog treatment. Below is a graph of the birth date of an avatar vs one of three account types. These account types are no payment information on file, payment information on […]

Maya Realities is happy to announce a new $L1 Second Life analytics solution. This proximity sensor collects basic information about a land parcel and is perfect for those groups not ready to take the plunge into our premium services. The information collected includes the number of unique avatars visiting, total time spent on a […]

As I desperately try to make the Maya Realities web site presentable, I thought I should post some updated examples of our analysis suite. These figures represent the first week of July 2007 for the entire Second Life sim of Midnight City. For subscribers to our service, both the date range and land […]

As a tip of the hat to Prokofy Neva’s recent “FIC 2.0” list I noticed an interesting trend in some of the metrics Maya Realities is analyzing. The graph below shows how many times a visitor comes to a sim. A sharp upward turn near the left indicates a developer group or a dedicated group […]

Hypothetical situation: I walk down a market street on a weekend shopping excursion. Without my knowledge, my geographical position is being monitored and recorded every few seconds. Business owners, or for that matter anyone willing to pay can reconstruct my shopping trip to determine which products I’m most likely to buy on my next visit […]