March 2010
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who killed the creative process?
I was looking for a bit of inspiration tonight and started to Google Blog search for posts about the creative process, a topic I think a lot about. I’m interested in the general concept of the creative process but even more interested in understanding and optimizing my own. I came across this great post by @PMmashable and @leximaven about managing the creative process in the work place. I...
The night before...
Facebook is deprecating application notifications tomorrow. Notifications are the messages Facebook games send you with application news (e.g. “new crops available”), social activity (i.e.”Becky just sent you a gift”) and calls to action (e.g. “your pet misses you. Visit him now”). Notifications were viewed as spammy and Facebook has removed them to enhance the...
February 2010
23 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-21) →
Radiohead (26)
Wu Tang (24)
Jets to Brazil (13)
Grizzly Bear (4)
The Uglysuit (2)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Using Ice Cream to Understand Frequent-Flier Miles →
I dug up this old (but good) NYTimes article today for something I am working on. It’s about game mechanics (points) and ice cream… everyone loves at least one of those topics right?
Students were given a choice between two simple tasks. One would take six minutes, and the students were told that they would get a gallon of Haagen-Dazs vanilla ice cream as a reward. The other would...
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Safer Driving Through Gaming →
GreenRoad is applying very simple game mechanics to make people safer drivers. Like the Prius’ game mechanics teach people to be more fuel efficient drivers, GreenRoad teaches people to be safer drivers.
The GreenRoad system looks simple from the outside: There’s a two-inch device on the dashboard that starts the day with a green light. If a driver brakes hard, swerves or turns recklessly,...
WatchEnjoyed Jesse Schell’s Dice talk on the upcoming gameification of life. Worth the 30 minutes.
“Since June, I have been hanging out in the New York tech scene (and getting back...”
– Phin Barnes, NYC: a winning culture and the start-up
“Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.”
– Michael Jordan (via bitchville)
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-14) →
The National (25)
Arcade Fire (4)
Shout Out Louds (4)
Vampire Weekend (3)
Winter Gloves (3)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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Startup Lessons for the Proto-Founder →
I don’t post a lot of articles from the Startup/Entrepreneur echo chamber, but I really enjoyed this post for it’s practical yet punk approach. I found it refreshing to find an entrepreneur exuding this kind of humility…
I started SpeakerText in October 2008 during the financial apocalypse. No one funded us. No one was gonna fund us. And I’m definitely a nobody. We...
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Sony Turns PSP Into Instant Replay Device At UK... →
I go to live sporting events as often as possible. I’m always going with different sets of people and we are always having the conversation about the lack of instant replay’s at the stadium. Sony has teamed up with the Arsenal Football Club to offer instant replays and other streaming content to fans via their PSP using the stadiums free WiFi. What a great way to enhance the live...
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Before The Singularity: Philip Rosedale Attempting... →
That Philip plans to revolutionize AI technology — in effect, achieving singularity in a virtual world — isn’t that surprising, because he said as much when I talked with him for The Making of Second Life:
“It’ll be possible for constructs that we build in Second Life and things like it in a simulated space to actually think,” he told me in 2007....
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WatchBefore The Singularity: The Augmented Reality Kitchen
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