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Beyond BusinessWeek: MSM Journalism Not Fit for a Blog {*Update*}
Has anybody bothered to read the BusinessWeek piece “Beyond Second Life” (Link)? I suspect a few have as I’ve recently seen mention of a new BW article while scanning over some SL-centric blogs. This is probably it.
Well, having just stopped by Nussbaum’s blog and finding (what else) heavy promotion for all things tied to what [...]
MS Pushing Surface Computing {*Update*}
Just watched a neat video over on C|Net (Link) that seems to be the latest from Microsoft’s “surface computing” people. This isn’t the same stuff I mentioned in March (reLink).
This variation is less about mixing realities in crazy ways and more about a clean, workable interface with obvious practical applications (e.g. an interactive menu system [...]
Google’s 2D, Microsoft’s 3D {*Update*}
For those unaware, O’Reilly’s Where 2.0 conference is currently underway. I mentioned the conference somewhere in comments a few weeks or so ago because (big surprise) 3D technology was a topic on the event schedule.
This morning, while surfing through the O’Reilly Radar blog (Link), I caught word of Google’s new 2D technology… which is actually [...]
Sense in the User-Created Divide
I’ve been following a thread over on Raph Koster’s blog (Link) that I wanted to call out.
The topic is user-created content.
The title of the post is “Quit being snobby about user-created content“.
You get the picture.
And I figure many of you can already see the battle lines. This debate isn’t new – neither for videogame developers [...]
U-Ram Choe
I’m not sure how I found this yesterday, but I’m glad I did. The above video shows a kinetic sculpture titled “Ultima Mudfox” by artist U-Ram Choe which went on display late last year at the bitforms gallery in New York City (Link). The videographer also posted a second video showing another piece titled “Echo [...]
Harness and Monitor or Die?
BrandWeek posted an Adweek piece earlier this month, “Study: Cyber Presence Key to Sales” (Link), that should be of interest to a wide range of people; not just brand advertisers and marketers. In particular, I found this excerpt relevant to many of the virtual world/product development topics I cover here:
“We are absolutely certain that marketing [...]
Sir Ken Robinson Talks Creativity and the Potential Damage of “Benign Advice”
From TED|Talks (Link) by way of Wonderland (Link).
Entertaining.
Insightful.
And something everyone needs to hear.
I skipped it the first time I watched the 2006 TED videos. Wish I hadn’t.
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Smart Vending
I suppose there are a few people who wonder why I find vending machines interesting and blog about them. I’ll try to keep this short and to the point:
1) Vending machines can fabricate an item on demand. Example: the Pouchlink system (reLink)
2) Vending machines can be significant point-of-sale locations. Example: Automated C-Stores (reLink)
3) Vending machines [...]