A lot of folks have written about the short comings of the current social networking platforms. One of those critical shortcomings is the lack of being in the moment. In otherwords a lack of real time interaction, engagement, and conversation. Old school chatrooms with new school spin (Campfire, Meebo, and Second Life) seems to offer some robust, real-time alternatives. (Jeff Pulver suggested a Facebook+chat model) Certainly the current cultural trajectory would suggest that this will be very much in the offing soon (Wikinomics, Thomas Friedman’s work, The Starfish and the Spider, and the litany of books about de-centralization and rise of the virtual)
Along these lines I was thinking that Meetup, Craigslist, or community blogs (Social Media Club or conference blogs if the meetup topic was relevant) offer viable ways to get the word out. I think Scoble’s work at Kyte brings this to bear and perhaps less so with Justin TV’s stream. I know BlogHer did some experimentation with a Second Life conference this year. And I have very little idea the video or voice opportunities in this area.On a related note: It seems so odd that an intuitive notion would have almost zero written about it. A quick search of Technorati, Blogpulse, and Google yields little in the way of true hits for the search “virtual meetup.” Props to Jason Calicanis, Mahalo yielded the best resuts… But clearly I need a new search term.
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