Mind Mapping in SL

Just had a great demo by SL’s Dusan Writer of an extremly interesting inworld mind mapping tool (on remedy‘s island).

While Gartner estimated in 2007 that by 2011 over 50 Million people will have a “Second Life” in one of the various online worlds (which if you think about it is about the size of the French populations), it’s pretty interesting to see how use cases develop and new usages expand making it possible to actually reach those figures. While Linden Lab’s SL got a lot of exposure and hype as a marketing tool, it’s only now that we see real use cases around collaborative working and real “get together” habits being developed in a useful way.
Only in a 3D environment such as SL could you have such an awesome tool representing in 3D the participant’s ideas and bringing in inspiration sources from the web (i.e. here a demo about “cheese”), and to have just participated at a demo of this tool I can only tell how inspiring it is to be in that environment to open up your mind and be creative. If only the PC would disappear to leave the space for full immersion in the stars…