January 7th, 2009, 2 Comments »
Just a quick note to say that this year’s Northern Voice organizers have kicked the doors open for registration. The conference has sold out for the past three years, and we’ve had to turn away disappointed people, so act now. Or, you know, forever hold your peace. And don’t forget to buy a t-shirt. They’re reportedly a lovely claret red.
If you’ve never been to Northern Voice before, you should go. I’m biased, but it’s one of my favourite conferences of the year. I’m fond of its laid back mood and non-corporate focus, and we’ve been lucky to have really terrific speakers over the years. If you don’t believe me, just ask Google.
Photo by Duane Storey.
UPDATE: 126 people signed up on the first day of registration. That’s more than a third of the way to capacity, so if you’re interested in going, register sooner rather than later.
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February 5th, 2008, 3 Comments »
Just a quick note to say that we’re down to about 45 spots left for Northern Voice, and they’re going fast. The event will definitely sell out. So if you haven’t registered yet, you should go ahead and do so.
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December 19th, 2007, No Comments »
Registration for the fourth annual Loose Moose festival of social media fun is now open. Travis provides some pricing details:
You can attend one day for $40, or come to both days for only $60. That’s an amazing deal: it’s just the price of a single cup of coffee that also costs $60!
I’m really proud of the fact that we’ve been able to keep the conference ridiculously cheap. Four years ago, the one-day conference cost $20 in advance or $30 at the door.
There’s some exciting new stuff planned for this year. I’ll let the other–far more active–organizers announce all of that, and then I’ll post about it here.
I’m also pleased not to be the guy wrangling the registration process this year. Three years of that was enough.
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September 5th, 2007, 3 Comments »
Reuters Second Life News Center recently reported that, for the first time, there had been 50,000 concurrent users inside the game. That’s a notable milestone, but it’s not really what interested me.
Lower down in the article, Reuters references these fascinating graphs by Tateru Nino (she of the mop-like hair, sexy glasses and transparent chest). They display a bunch of usage statistics for Second Life. They only go back six months, I loves me a chart, don’t you?
The most interesting charts are the first two. The one on the left shows the dramatic increase in registrations over the past, with the total more than doubling to about 9.3 million. However, the chart on the right shows the number of ‘active residents’ (I think that’s users who have logged in in the last month). It’s pretty much flat. Assuming these charts are accurate, those new users are remarkably, uh, unsticky.
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