April 2008
42 posts
Richard Bartle: Gamers have won the battle against... →
15 years from now, the prime minister of the day will have grown up playing computer games, just as 15 years ago we had the first prime minister to have grown up watching television, and 30 years ago…
“- 100 Million total human hours to create Wikipedia in all of its languages.
-...”
– Clay Shirky: http://blip.tv/file/855937/
WatchClay Shirky: 2.0 Expo 2008
Is Keyword Search About To Hit Its Breaking Point? →
As the Web swells with more and more data, the predominant way of sifting through all of that dataâkeyword searchâwill one day break down in its ability to deliver the exact information we want…
Silent Rave Hushes Over Union Square Tonight →
The countdown is on, and even the pickiest of neighbors can’t complain of noise at this evening’s public rave. An “exchange student who only moved here from London a few months ago!” is behind the outdoor public and SILENT rave.
The basic premise is thousands of people turn up in a public place, plug in their own iPods, listen to their own music and dance and rave for...
Expect exponential progress - Kurzweil →
Yet as powerful as information technology is today, we will make another billionfold increase in capability (for the same cost) over the next 25 years. That’s because information technology builds on…
Gran Turismo 5 Prologue Walkthrough →
I just picked up Gran Turismo 5 last night for the PS3. I had a lot of fun playing it last night and anticipate playing it a lot. It’s realism is great and can be at some times frustrating (it’s hard…
“One student holds up a series of handwritten signs that read: “I will read...”
– Can I halve your attention please?
WNEW | Where Rock Lives →
WNEW blog, streaming radio, last.fm group, etc etc. A new (media) way to do old media.
Mibbit - IRC On The Web →
This is the most impressive IRC client I have seen on the web. It’s actually usable and will make its way into my toolset.
Studying Web 2.0
I have been knee deep in virtual worlds, theory and practice over the past 3 years. I have been keeping the pulse of all technologies with a particualr interest in the Web 2.0 stuff going on out there. I use a ton of new webapps including the genre of social conversation (Twitter, Facebook, Jaiku, Pownce), social utilitiy (del.icio.us, ma.gnolia, flickr), broadcast conversation (Wordpress,...
Lost Garden: The joy of 2D avatars →
This is a very good blog entry on the different aspects of 2D avatars from their perspective to their mechanics. Since moving over to flash virtual worlds I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about things like this. I have been following Lost Garden for a long time and appreciate their consistantly awesome posts.
Where to Find Open Data on the Web - ReadWriteWeb →
This is a great source for finding various free types of data on the web. CKAN, InfoChimps, OpenStreetMap, MusicBrainz and more.
BustAName →
This is an awesome tool to use for picking a domain name. It always seems like an impossible task. With BustAName, you put in a bunch of words and it mashes them up and shows you available domain…
“Zuiker also pointed to CSI’s virtual world in Second Life, which crossed...”
– Anthony Zuiker: Gaming Can Save Television
VoiceThread - Group conversations around images,... →
This is web 2.0 presentation software. It allows you to record voice overs on images, docs, videos and presentations and allows others to audio comment back. I would love to start using this for my…
“For thousands of years, all games were multiplayer. It’s only in the last...”
– Nick Fortugno: Worlds in Motion
NYC Show List →
I was telling a friend that the music distribution system was broken because you can find amazing music any night of the week in NYC, but they play crap on the radio. His response, “Maybe where you are going but I’ve heard a lot of crappy bands”. This, Oh My Rockness Showlist, has a deep calendar of great indie rock in NYC. I check back here every few days to see if anything I...
WatchThis is an awesome Voicethread presentation on Web 2.0 aimed at museum professionals by Nina Simon. I was at MoMA with Nina this weekend checking out Desinging and the Elastic Mind and I told her I was get tired of hearing the term Web 2.0 misued. Bam, Nina gives the definition here. There are a lot of similarities between Museum design and virtual worlds.
The Real Reach of Growing Gaming Consumption →
Playing with friends
Another Activision hit, “Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock,” has sold more than 5.29 million copies in the U.S. But thanks to the mass-market appeal of the game and its two-player nature, its reach is actually 2.7 times that total: Gameasure shows that 14.13 million people have played the music-rhythm game. And Microsoft’s “Halo 3,” the...
Virtual CSI: NY →
From the inbox
I had this email exchange today: — Dear Mr.Carella My name is Fritz. I am a eight grade student. For a school project called the I Search I have to pick a subject and interveiw an expert or some who know about this subject. For my subject I chose video game design. One of the contacts I got was a women called Amy Hunt. See gave me your email adress. I understand that you work designing...
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