1. RSS-Virtual Worlds By: Nick Lansing, Laura Duppstadt, Viliami Latu

2. 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?

4. “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

5. RSS in Plain English http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vy-EjFhdl_I

6. Virtual Worlds Online community of people from around the world Create your own avatar Can be used for entertainment, education, and business

7. Entertainment Create a Dream life Examples: The Sims, Second life

8. Second Life Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r74hkI-JcHY

9. 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

10. 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

11. Questions What are Two examples of virtual worlds? What is at least one website that uses RSS? How many users are on Second Life?

12. Sources http://massively.joystiq.com/2013/06/20/second-life-readies-for- 10th-anniversary-celebrates-a-million-a/ http://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.problogger.net/what-is-rss/ http://www.virtual-round-table.com/profiles/blogs/open-mic- session-and-party-in http://www.virtual-round-table.com/profiles/blogs/open-mic- session-and-party-inhttp://www.virtual-round-table.com/profiles/blogs/open-mic- session-and-party-inhttp://www.virtual-round-table.com/profiles/blogs/open-mic- session-and-party-in