I met Steve Rubel the other day at AlwaysON - well, just for 10 seconds, a handshake really. However, I find Steve's blog - Micro Persuasion, one of the very best blogs to read, perhaps I've gotten more "trendy" stuff from his blog than any other.
Well, now Steve Rubel hit on something that I've been thinking about for several months - with all the hype about Second Life lately - when will the jobs for Second Life appear? My guess - within the next 6 months.
Here's some excerpts from Steve Rubel's post on Web 2.0 Indicators: Tracking Buzz, News and Jobs (I won't indent because there's some great charts I don't want to truncate)
First, I never used Indeed.com this way (now I need to take a closer look at Indeed). According to Steve:
"....So what's all mean? Well, the evidence is anecdotal but it appears as though blogs and podcasts, which skyrocketed to prominence in 2004 and 2005, are now mature. They are largely flat when it comes to hype but they are generating more jobs. So with Second Life hype climbing, will it start generating jobs? Stay tuned, "
Certainly, based on the attendance at AlwaysON NYC -there were room for about 30 bloggers (I being one of them) - a whole section of the room was left open for us.
Plus, many bloggers were at Davos - including Jeff Jarvis of BuzzMachine - who I briefly spoke to. It turned out Bloggers had more access to the events going on at Davos than Main Stream Media! Here's what Jeff Jarvis wrote of his access rights at Davos:
".....
Ben Hammersley of the Guardian — one of my roomies in the crowded lodgings of Davos — notes with a tinge of complaint that bloggers got better access than big media at Davos:
Still, all of this meant that the World Economic Forum gave some bloggers - Jeff Jarvis, Loic Le Meur, for example - greater access rights than the regular media. Bloggers with HD camcorders could wander anywhere in the building, while professional crews were restricted to the hallways and 30-minute bursts. Openness, it seems, is only for the amateur.
Well, ain’t that ironic?....."
So Bloggers are now considered a "privileged class"! Whew!
At least I did something right once in my life by starting these blogs (Webmetricsguru.com, Artnewyorkcity.com; I also contribute to Smartmobs.com and Biggreenblog.com).
But now I see the next horizon ...... is it Second Life? I think it may be.
So ... for me, the next step would be to move up a notch and become the Second Life Web Analyst, which I've actually mentioned before.
It's my wish to take Web Analytics into Second Life. Anyone care to work on that with me? I know there's a couple of packages coming onto the market soon that can give some web metrics data - but I see a gold mine here - and I want to be ahead of the curve.
Always need to think about the next step - where is all of this going? Well, some of it .... to Second Life and other 3D virtual environments.
I don't say that I really like moving around in Second Life that much - I haven't spent enough time there to really become an "adept" - but I see opportunity for Web Analytics in Second Life. And I know IBM is putting major bucks into Second Life, and they're not the only one doing so.
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