Trying out sending a blog post with a picture from Flock… Using the picture from Rendez project.
And this seems to work like a dream… yet an other new thing that I’ve learned from David Ing, my personal guide into web 2.0 world during the Rendez project and long before that. During the past years David has introduced me so many new things in practice before I even knew what they were called, blogs, RSS-feeds, mashups etc.
My other special guide is my son Tomi, now 14 years. He helped me get started with Second Life, about 1.5 years ago. it was amazing to watch him navigate in 3D virtual world like a native, even he had never been there before, but he knew exactly what to do and what was the logic there – since he had played quite a few other games like Runescape.
Several other people have been very helpful David’s friend Doug McDavid, whom I met several times in Second Life, we had long discussions there by IBM’s Almaden Island. Luis Suarez and Roo Reynolds kindly were sharing their experiences related to social media and 3D virtual worlds in IBM’s iForum in November and in their blogs.
New web 2.0 technologies are incredible, and it is entertaining to experiment with them. But the most amazing thing is that you can be so easily connected to people – that is the absolutely most valuable thing !
Minna, when I mouse-over the Rendez flowers, WordPress.com has the nice feature of providing the Snapshot preview of the Rendez site. It looks like you’re taking full advantage of Flock to do your blogging.
The next thing you’ll need is a feed reader to watch all of your blogs. I had previously blogged about moving from GreatNews over to Feedreader, but over the past few days have seriously testing the combination of Newsgator online and FeedDemon offline. I’ll probably blog about that switch, soon.
Hi Minna — Nice to see you in the blogosphere! It’s been a long time since we met in Second Life, but that is probably my fault, since I have had such little time to spend there lately. David has worked his magic, and here you are. I’m looking forward to following your journey!