Well we knew it was coming, Google told us a few months back. So now we get to see the details of OpenSocial. The media have been all over this, here and here and finally here all a buzz that MySpace is in on it. OpenSocial is a method (API) which presents a standard way for developers to build widgets that can pull base information and functionality from an existing Social Network that you are signed up for and place it on another centralised Social Networking Site tha you tend to use. The bottom line with all this of course is that the information available is restricted at present to the very general such as:
Previously I have discussed the interface of the standard Second Life client. But on this post I’m looking at how people can step up beyond their usual real world methods when giving a presentation or talk in Second Life (SL). Now I’m not an expert on Second Life, but I have noticed a few things that work and don’t work when presenting a talk. Most of them are really simple if you think about it. But we are making way too may assumptions that Second Life works like Real Life (RL).
When doing a presentation in Second Life:
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.
