This is a special early post looking back at the first six months of 2013 in Second Life on what happened between January 2013 to June 2013 including Linden Lab announcements, popular SL news stories and big events that shaped 2013. All links below are from my blog posts during the first six months of 2013 and I’ll be publishing the final six months of 2013 post before the end of December 2013. Stay tuned for that. 🙂
I can’t believe it’s nearly christmas and 2014 already!
January 2013
- Linden Lab announced the Second Life Free Starter Vehicle Pack on Amazon > 4th
- Firestorm launched a brand new homepage > 5th
- Rodvik Humble CEO of Linden Lab reached his 2nd Rezday in Second Life > 11th
- Torley Linden posted a new video tutorial on customizing your appearance > 24th
- Zen Viewer was taken off the third-party directory SL wiki page > 25th
- Linden Lab launched new Dio site > 29th
February 2013
- The end of Flufee on a Meshion SL series was announced > 2nd
- Bay City Mole Day took place > 2nd
- LEA Art Festival 2013 opened > 6th
- Linden Lab announced New Email Preferences Support on SL Marketplace > 7th
- One Billion Rising event opened in Second Life > 14th
- Metaverse Week in Review revamped Sunday shows > 26th
- Linden Lab added Cocoa Project Viewer to SL Alternate Viewers SL wiki list > 27th
- New stats were released for the latest adoption of Mesh Viewers in Second Life > 28th
March 2013
- Drax launched new series of The Drax Files > 1st
- 9th Anniversary of Nova Albion in Second Life took place > 17th
- BURN2 Burnal Equinox 2013 opened in Second Life > 22nd
- Resident created Second Life Google+ reached 1, 000 members > 23rd
- New stats were released on the growth of OpenSim Grids since 2009 > 31st
- Small growth in private estates in Second Life 2013 > 31st
April 2013
- Linden Lab announced the new Second Life viewer communications hub user interface (CHUI) > 4th
- SL10B regions arrived to celebrate ten years of Second Life > 11th
- The official Second Life Facebook page reached 300, 000 likes/fans > 13th
- Linden Lab added Kokua Viewer to the Third Party Viewer Directory > 23rd
- Server Side Baking support started to roll out to third-party viewers > 24th
- NCI celebrated their 8th birthday in Second Life > 27th
May 2013
- New records set for Fantasy Fair 2013 > 1st
- Raglan Shire 8th ArtWalk 2013 opened > 5th
- New SL concurrency graphs were release showing day and hour from May 2012 to May 2013 > 5th
- Special show was broadcasted on Designing Worlds about Server Side Baking and Materials > 13th
- Bay City celebrated it’s 5th anniversary in Second Life > 19th
- University of Arkansas offered 500$L to SL residents for filling out survey > 29th
- 1920s Berlin Project celebrated 4 years in Second Life > 30th
- Linden Lab announced changes to Project Sunshine > 30th
- Rodvik Linden visited Bay City and was featured in episode 7 of The Drax Files > 31st
June 2013
- The Drax Files: Episode 7 with Rodvik Humble was aired > 3rd
- New records set for Relay For Life in Second Life during 2013 > 10th
- SL10B Press Day officially opened to SL bloggers & media > 14th
- SL10B regions officially opened to everyone > 16th
- Linden Lab published a very interesting SL10B Infographic > 21st
- Philip Rosedale had a special interview at BURN2 SL > 21st
- Second Life officially turned 10 years old > 23rd
- Linden Lab revamped the new user experience & new Social Island and Learning Island > 30th
My next special Second Life year in review 2013 post – part 2 from July 2013 to December 2013 will be published very soon.
Daniel Voyager 