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- 32,528 new signups bringing us to 10,585,610 signups total.
- A peak concurrency of 50,872 at 3:30PM, and a minimum concurrency of 27,105 at 1:05AM. Median concurrency for the day was 39,968.
- The Grid Stability Index for the day was 1.84 (lower is better).
- Famed teen resident Katharine Berry turns her back on Second Life.
- Akela rounds up some of the best Halloween Haunts in Second Life, while Moo brings you an excellent list of Halloween freebies and cheapies!
- It turns out that screen legend, and deft comedian Stephen Fry has a Second Life too.
- A Second Life grid backbone service failed causing some users to have login problems.
- Group IMs have been identified as having some ongoing issues.
- Hamlet Au wants to know what you think about the quality of Linden-to-resident communication.
- The 18th episode of SLI's very own podcast, On The Inside, is available now with Ansel Gasparini, the author of Second Life: A Guide to Your Virtual World.
- Accounts and Inventory on the beta-grid is being wiped and reloaded from the main grid, there are several upgrades, and improvements to Havok.
- Grady Booch rocks - but then again, he always has.
- DJ Nexeus Fatale gives back to the community.
- slscout.com launches a new social networking site for Second Life.
- Moo provides a quick primer on encoding video for Machinima.