I went to a free live Webinar in the "lobby" of O'Reilly Publishers on HTML5 for publishers last week. What interested me about Webinar was not so much the content but the experience, my first Webinar.
It was located in the window of the browser. Basically it was a slide show with a live sound feed. I'm guessing the moderator was at O'Reilly here in California, but the presenter was in Massachusetts. Down in the corner of the browser was a live chat feed where the 20 or so participants from all around the country could talk to each other.
Have you ever been in a classroom where all the people were chattering as the presentation was going on? Since the chat was written instead of audio, and since the presentation wasn't too dense, it was manageable. The conversation ranged from the quality of the audio (passable from where I was at but not top notch, less than passable for some of the others) to questions about HTML from people who varying skill levels so the more knowledgable helped the less knowledgable. The skill part was nice. I took notes on the audience contributions.
An interesting point about "live" in the content. With HTML5 Geolocation it is possible to embed a live feed of a particular place into a document, as part of a story line for instance. The possibilities are developing.
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