RSS-Virtual Worlds
By: Nick Lansing, Laura Duppstadt,
Viliami Latu
RSS
Rich Site Summary (Really Simple Syndication)
Easy to keep updated- favorite sites
Subscribe to social media (Blog entries, News headlines)
Who has a Facebook?
“Old way” Before RSS
Bookmarking, manually checking back
Confusing/Complicated tracking many sites
Miss info, if you don’t check back
Seeing same info, if sites don’t update
RSS makes life easy
RSS in Plain English
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vy-EjFhdl_I
Virtual Worlds
Online community of people from around the world
Create your own avatar
Can be used for entertainment, education, and business
Entertainment
Create a Dream life
Examples: The Sims, Second life
Second Life Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r74hkI-JcHY
Second life
Has over 36 million registered users
Grossed over $3.2 billion
AVG 400,000 register new (monthly)
220,000 YEARS!!! users have spent
Business Applications
Meet with people from all over the world
More clients = more money
Not required to all be on at the same time
Simple feed back system
Questions
What are Two examples of virtual worlds?
What is at least one website that uses RSS?
How many users are on Second Life?
Sourceshttp://massively.joystiq.com/2013/06/20/second-life-readies-for-10th-anniversary-celebrates-a-million-a/
http://www.techopedia.com/definition/25604/virtual-world
http://www.problogger.net/what-is-rss/
http://www.virtual-round-table.com/profiles/blogs/open-mic-session-and-party-in
