Raph Koster is on it.

"Kickstarter is a funding platform for artists, designers, filmmakers, musicians, journalists, inventors, explorers..."

"New technologies and a closely related culture of collaboration present radical new models of social organisation. This project brings together leading practitioners and thinkers in this field and asks them to determine the opportunity for government."

"Swift is a Free and Open Source toolset for crowdsourced situational awareness and is a collaborative effort by several leading organizations in this space. The first use of Swift is as a complement to Ushahidi to monitor the Indian 2009 Elections"

"<unassigned variable> is a guild operating on the EU World of Warcraft server Nordrassil. It is not your typical WoW guild. We don’t do Kara and Black Temple. We do needlepoint, in-world tourism, dinner-parties and geophysical surveys of Azeroth. We don’t get phat loot, we get Boing-Boinged. Our priorities are different to your priorities, and we have more fun than you do. You can’t join."

"...connect, tag and share real time sensor data from objects, devices, buildings and environments around the world. The key aim is to facilitate interaction between remote environments, both physical and virtual."

social games live

more on data portability woes

too much data portability makes my brain hurt.

"Pecha Kucha Night, devised by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham, was conceived in 2003 as a place for young designers to meet, network, and show their work in public."

"Wine Recommendations - Wine Search Engine - Wine Forum"

p2p lending - micro-lending revolution, ahoy?

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