Various collaboration tools

Had a good MOO session tonite (OLR attached). Key items of interest:

- Sharing experiences (and emotions) in the use of CSU subject forums.  The girlies seem to be more forthcoming on this than the guys

- Second Life – high group interest in this but not quite sure how to go about leveraging it for constructive or mainstream academic or commercial purpose.  Consideration of the realtively high entry costs/factors (high speed connection, plenty of RAM/CPU, learning overhead).

- Speculation about Google MyWorld – Is this just wishfull thinking that Google with enter the virtual world space … with their usual knock out aplomb.  I think they would – it makes sense to me as could be easily monetised via their core advertising business model.  It could even be an extension of existing advertising.  Aguably a short term Google money grab strategy would be to simply negotiate/devise a way to incorporate Google Ads into SL, but Google is more strategy than that.

- DimDim – “Webex is dead” was the opening line of a DimDim presentation, and since I’m a webex user I need to check this out in more detail. 

I also came across the acticle below tonight which had an interesting summary of collaboration tools: http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/09/demo_day_2_part.html