LJ Index

1. Millions of Second life Residents as of 1 January 2007: 2.287
2. Thousands U.S. dollars spent per day in Second Life as of 1 January 2007: 803.79
3. Days into 2007 when Linden Labs opened the source code for the Second Life Viewer: 8
4. U.S. $billions of Consumer Electronics sales in 2006: 145.7
5. Percentage of surveyed German residents who read blogs: 15
6. Percentage of surveyed German "influencers" who read blogs: 27
7. Pecentage of surveyed U.S. residents who read blogs: 27
8. Percentage of surveyed U.S. resident "influencers" who read blogs: 34
9. Percentage of surveyed Japanese residents who read blogs: 74
10. Percentage of surveyed Japanese "influencers" who read blogs: 91
11. Percentage of all blogs that are in English: 39
12. Percentage of all blogs that are in Japanese: 33
13. Percentage of American women living without a spouse in 1950: 35
14. Percentage of American women living without a spouse in 2000: 49
15. Percentage of American women living without a spouse in 2005: 51
16. Years since Jabber source code was first relesed: 8
17. Range in millions of users of open-source XMPP (Jabber) technologies: 40-50
18. Number of dual-processor PCs running Linux at Tradebit AG: 10
19. Terabytes of data served by Tradebit AG: 20
20. Millions of number of downloads per day from Tradebit: 1

Sources: 1-2, Tristan Louis; 3, Linden Lab; 4-10, Edelman; 11-12, Technorati; 13-15, New York Times; 16-17, XMPP.org; 18-20, Tradebit AG.

Source Links:

http://tnl.net/blog/2007/01/05/running-the-numbers-on-second-life/

http://lindenlab.com/press/releases/01_08_07

http://steverubel.typepad.com/WhitePaper011007-4pm.pdf

http://www.openpr.com/news/14366/File-downloads-reach-1-Million-per-day-on-Linux-platform.html

Not used: U.S. $billions cable operators will spend by 2012 improving digital network capacity: 80 ABI Research

http://www.abiresearch.com/abiprdisplay.jsp?pressid=792