[Web4lib] The end of MySpace, SecondLife, and Twitter

[Robert L. Balliot]

Go Dogs,

Actually, it WAS a myriad of technologies that accomplished
this. IM, chat, a variety of personal computing platforms,
along with what may have been a Skyped audio or an Illinois based webcasting
protocol and PowerPoint.  None of the participants needed to work through
any of that, all they needed to do was find their way into
SL.

So, in a sense, this was a real mash-up of virtual tools to
discuss virtual worlds.

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-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Ross Singer
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 11:04 PM
To: web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] The end of MySpace, SecondLife, and Twitter

On 6/20/07, Robert L. Balliot <rballiot at oceanstatelibrarian.com> wrote:

> Recently, I attended a class in
> SL where the presenter from Oxford discussed a paper he
> had submitted to the National Academy of Sciences on
> virtual reality.  ... How
> else could you go about creating the same presentation without
> spending huge amounts of money to transport and coordinate
> people?

Why do you think that this can only be enabled via SL?  I think
there's any myriad of technologies (including web conferences and
mailing lists) that could achieve this.

The downside is that you'd potentially have to see how unshapely and
uncomely the actual presenters and participants are.

-Ross.
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