Second Life Future Salon: Yellow Arrow Project to begin in Second Life

The Yellow Arrow Project inside Second Life is beginning to take root. After some extensive conversations with the YA people they are excited about the possibility of an API function and a cross-platform collaborative venture. The most interesting thing will be that Yellow Arrow will auto generate codes for use inside SL and allow their metadata servers to be accessed from SL. In short, SL residents can place an arrow pointing to something on their property, annotate the metadata and then new viewers can leave their comments right in the body of the arrow ... all served up from Yellow Arrow.

Real world applications exist as well. As Metatags (the shoot badge in my previous post) begin to permeate we can use the virtual world as a test bed for the general acceptance, use and hacks of the tags. Meta tags could replace those terrible spray-paint graffiti on the walls of New Orleans homes indicating the number of survivors found, or recovered there after the hurricane.
Consumers could purchase metatag readers with certain parameters such as a 'diet reader' that would read metadata for nutritional information stickers determining if something is healthy and by whose standards. Metatags could be updated in crisis situations to provide the public escape routs around congestion. Simply put a robust system could deliver accurate,customizable, and just-in-time information to a billions of users providing they become ubiquitous and easily manageable. I have posted about Yellow Arrow before on Community Mobilization and hope everyone goes and checks them out.