Second Life, the Universe, and Everything

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Second Life, the Universe, andEverything

• Teresa Alley
• talley_at_dticam.dtic.mil
• DTIC-A San Diego
• http//www.dtic.mil/dticasd
• Presented to DOD HFE TAG Meeting 59 TS/I May 2008

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Web 2.0 Web Two Dot Oh

• Interactive
• RSS (Real Simple Syndication/Rich Site Summary)
  feeds
• Mashups
• Podcasts
• User experience
• Social Networking
• Artificial/virtual worlds
• Blogs
• IM (instant messaging)
• Web groups
• Profile networking
• Photo and video sites
• Collaboration
• Wikis
• Web groups
• Blogs

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• First we thought the PC was a calculator.
• Then we found out how to turn numbers into
  letters with ASCII and we thought it was a
  typewriter.
• Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it
  was a television.
• With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a
  brochure.
• Douglas Noel Adams

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• Facebook (social)
• http//www.facebook.com/
• MySpace (social)
• http//www.myspace.com
• Friendster (social)
• http//www.friendster.com/
• Live Journal (social/diary)
• http//www.livejournal.com/
• Classmates.com (find people)
• http//www.classmates.com/
• Flickr (share pictures)
• http//www.flickr.com/
• Second Life (virtual world)
• http//secondlife.com/
• Epinioins (share consumer experience)
• http//www.epinions.com/
• Yahoo Groups (birds of a feather)
• http//groups.yahoo.com/
• Google Groups (birds of a feather)

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• LinkedIn (jobs and colleagues)
• http//www.linkedin.com/
• You Tube (share video)
• http//www.youtube.com
• AIM (instant messaging)
• http//www.aol.com
• Wikipedia (collaboration)
• http//www.wikipedia.org
• Del.icio.us (share bookmarks)
• http//del.icio.us/
• BlogScope (aggregator)
• http//www.blogscope.net/
• Yahoo Pipes (aggregator)
• http//pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/
• Page Flakes (aggregator)
• http//www.pageflakes.com/
• Skype (web picture phone)
• http//www.skype.com/
• Wikipedia Social Network Listing

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• I refuse to answer that question on the grounds
  that I don't know the answer.
• Zaphod Beeblebrox