These are the base notes and transcript of my Podcamp Perth presentation on Saturday 27 October 2008. There was a videoed as well, how well this comes out given the poor lighting in the room and the fact that I tend to walk around the room and chat with the audience remains to be seen. Please note that the presentation slides will not make much sense without these notes, then again the transcript is not a really good information source in a pure text format, plus I have a habit of diverting from the defined script all the time. When I have the audio I will slidecast the presentation.
I have discussed Second Life previously. It’s the imersive 3D world by Linden Labs. It’s the type of online application that doesn’t really sit anywhere that can be categorised. With Second Life, I find you tend to visit, gain interest then leave, maybe you come back from time to time, maybe you don’t. Second Life does tend to have a high attrition rate (up to 85%).
Back in the early days of the Internet, companies and government agencies connected up and started to use email as a means of communication beyond the usual LAN restricted email within the office. This was novel it was new. It was seen as the new method of business communication. It also became the new method of social communication. Over time the bean counters and bureaucrats looked at this communications tool and saw that it was in fact taking up too much of the younger staff product work time. So email was restricted to senior and key personnel and the walls around the corporate communications structure where re-enforced rebuild. The same thing happened with the Web. It’s was given open rein, until it was perceived to be consuming corporate productivity, and so it was restricted to a few key personnel.
