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The spiral twists ever tighter
Oct. 12th, 2009 04:36 pmSo, as it happens, I started using both Second Life (for the cfs study) and the beta of Google Wave today.
They're both..odd. My brain is reeling a little from learning and experimenting so much all at once. I think both would be improved if I knew some other people, so if you have an account on either let me know.
Google wave seems like a more fluid, multi-user version of Google docs. You create a document, and invite people to use it, and then people can edit it in real time and insert all sorts of stuff like maps, polls, videos etc. Any addition is in a little box with the name of the person who made it, and you can reply to these to create a sort of chat-like environment. You can do private replies too, which I can see getting complicated. Username: alias.sqbr
One of the nice things about doing the study is I got talked through the Second Life setup process. But once left on my own and done with tutorials and fiddling with my outfit I ran out of stuff to do a bit. I wandered around, but while some of the places I've found are pretty cool there's noone there. I guess it's the time difference? Username sqbr Daxter (which is a really dumb name, but I'm stuck with it now :))
EDIT: I searched for "Chat" and chatted to some random people from England for a bit. Man, I haven't chatted to genuinely random strangers in ages.
They're both..odd. My brain is reeling a little from learning and experimenting so much all at once. I think both would be improved if I knew some other people, so if you have an account on either let me know.
Google wave seems like a more fluid, multi-user version of Google docs. You create a document, and invite people to use it, and then people can edit it in real time and insert all sorts of stuff like maps, polls, videos etc. Any addition is in a little box with the name of the person who made it, and you can reply to these to create a sort of chat-like environment. You can do private replies too, which I can see getting complicated. Username: alias.sqbr
One of the nice things about doing the study is I got talked through the Second Life setup process. But once left on my own and done with tutorials and fiddling with my outfit I ran out of stuff to do a bit. I wandered around, but while some of the places I've found are pretty cool there's noone there. I guess it's the time difference? Username sqbr Daxter (which is a really dumb name, but I'm stuck with it now :))
EDIT: I searched for "Chat" and chatted to some random people from England for a bit. Man, I haven't chatted to genuinely random strangers in ages.
