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