Now, your survival is all about finding a new audience for SL to join the existing one. As long as the grid keeps running, your existing userbase will not leave - they never have, even at the worst of times. For thanks to Oz Linden, we now know the advice offered by me and other ex-Lindens is even more valid and crucial: Make bold and radical changes to Second Life. While pathfinding and game-making tools are great additions for the existing userbase, the company needs to devote all its viewer development resources to a user-friendly viewer that casual, new users will like, and which caters not at all to existing users. Linden Lab should no longer develop a viewer for the established userbase, but create a radically re-invented viewer for new users. Emerald, the dominant third party viewer from 2010, accounted for only half the user hours then. However, rather than that expanding the userbase for the company's own software, usage among existing users seems to have slipped. The SL viewer has seen a number of usability improvements since Rod Humble became CEO in early 2011. Linden Lab has little control over Second Life as it is actually used by most of its established userbase, and has little chance of re-gaining the market lead. But that to one side, Oz's words lead to some pretty extraordinary conclusions, among them: So my original estimate of Phoenix usage from yesterday was way off, and I've corrected it as much as possible (short of just replacing the whole post with a picture of Keyboard Cat, which I'm tempted to do). Up to 65-75% of SLers are now using Phoenix or Firestorm, and 65-85% of total SL user minutes are on those viewers. Still, it's unlikely the shares have changed drastically in two months, and based on what Oz says, along with what some SL insiders have suggested elsewhere, I think the following is a very plausible estimate: "The 'market shares' of various Viewers isn't a data point we're currently sharing," spokesman Peter Gray told me. This admission came in March, as I said, so I checked with Linden Lab if it remained true: And our viewer is number three behind Firestorm." And Firestorm is the newer technology viewer from your project, is the number two, and it's gaining market share. Phoenix is far and away the number one viewer, although it's quite steadily losing market share these days, has been for some months now. A significant minority - we're the number three viewer behind, behind the two. At about 33 minutes into the conversation, Lawrence says this in relationship to the official Second Life viewer as compred with Phoenix and Firestorm, which are third party SL viewers made by The Phoenix Viewer Project team, a large consortium of SL users (none of whom are well known by their real names): "Our own viewer users are a minority. It's so important, it needs to be highlighted here. Please contact us prior to ordering from Scotland or outside mainland UK.Īs we are continually improving our range, some products may differ from the ones shown here.Third party viewer developer Tonya Souther recently pointed out a very important March interview on Treet TV with Linden Lab's Open Development director Scott "Oz Linden" Lawrence, which includes a crucial passage I initially missed. Remarkable:- So unique it's been granted a Registered Design.Economical:- Lower running cost than electric or gas heaters.Versatile:- Can be used anywhere, including smoke free zones.Eco Friendly:- Uses sustainable 100% British Wood Pellets.Local:- Designed and made by us in the UK.Compact:- Small footprint for any garden.The Firestorms are easy to light and self-extinguish once your evening draws to a close, ready for their next use. You can add more pellets to the heater once lit to extend the burn time as required. Simply load the Firestorm with wood pellets and light, the flame will reach the full height of the 1.5m high tube in just 15 minutes and provide over an hour of enticing flames. Phoenix uses a 10cm diameter heat resistant glass tube.Ĭolossus uses a 15cm diameter heat resistant glass tube. Now available, new for 2022, Colossus joins our Phoenix model. Warm up your evening with our unique and mesmerising Firestorm Pellet Stoves, our eco-friendly Patio Heaters.
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