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Moving Patterns - Victoria and Albert Museum
really liking this blog from the V&A curator Helen Scalway...
art  blog  curating  curation  museum  gallery 
january 2009 by technogoggles
IDEO Labs
IDEO starts blogging about what it does...one to watch...
idea  design  blog  research  ideo 
september 2008 by technogoggles
Tagaroo » Make blogging better!
As you're writing a blog post, this plugin searches for relevant external stuff to put in there: eg. flickr photos....
opencalais  ner  wordpress  blog  semanticweb 
september 2008 by technogoggles
context:forge
mark ng's stuff. i like it.
semanticweb  calais  blog  markng 
september 2008 by technogoggles
BBC - Radio Labs - Still Playing in the Cloud
using live text as a means to extract meaning about BBC content from which you can you know, do stuff..
text  radio  javascript  html  blog  linkeddata 
september 2008 by technogoggles
Nokia Beta Labs blog
Blog on the emerging and developing apps, products on services coming out of Nokia's labs.
nokia  blog  development  inqwork  mobile  innovation 
august 2008 by technogoggles
Dopplr Blog » Blog Archive » New ways of getting your trips into Dopplr: Twitter, SMS and Email!
that's really quite cool. ubicomp gets a everyday app to work with and actually derive some value from. i really do need to travel more.. i'm feeling really inadequate on dopplr.
blog  dopplr  instant  integration  app  ubicomp  publishing 
july 2008 by technogoggles
Quake done Quick
Great example of a performance space in gaming. Players show off their Quake skills by completing the game as quickly as possible and publishing their movie files on the site
quake  performance  games  gaming  blog  blogs 
june 2008 by technogoggles
Raph Koster's Home Page
Raph Koster's slides from a talk given at Games Developers Conference in 2007. Where games meet the web. Some interesting design thoughts, but need the audio to accompany it...
raphkoster  gaming  blogs  blog  design  socialsoftware  resources 
june 2008 by technogoggles
PS3 gets Xbox Live style features | Games | guardian.co.uk
Good to see the PS3 following XBOX by ntroducing more sociality into gaming. Plugging existing social networks into the gaming architecture is going to be more and more widespread i think
sociality  gaming  resources  blog  blogs  xboxlive  ps3 
june 2008 by technogoggles
Wonderland: Something to chew on
Stats about MMOG usage. Playing with 'real' friends in MMOGs more widespread than strangers. Greatly heightens the experience and makes them far more interesting than TV
alicetaylor  gaming  resources  blogs  blog  MMOG  consumption 
may 2008 by technogoggles
Terra Nova: Alone Together in World of Warcraft?
Much talked about piece. In summary, instrumental group play in the context of quests might not be an important source of social interactions in WoW. Guilds are also very sparse social networks. A society of the spectacle.
gaming  resources  blog  blogs  wow  society  mmorpg 
may 2008 by technogoggles
PlayOn
Blog by Nicholas Ducheneaut of PARC about the social dimensions of online gaming.
gaming  resources  blog  blogs  socialgaming  nicholasducheneaut  PARC 
may 2008 by technogoggles
Social Interaction via MMORPGs - Wikipedia
Great article and resource for studies into MMORPGs.
mmorpg  gaming  resources  blog  blogs  papers  wow  everquest 
may 2008 by technogoggles
Wonderland: SXSW: Will Wright Keynote 2007
An old keynote by Will Wright talking about Spore. Talks about game narratives, how people share content, tell stories through games and shared experieces.
children  virtualworlds  social  gaming  resources  blog  blogs  development  rules 
may 2008 by technogoggles
COPE: James Wallis levels with you
James Wallis slatest ARGs. ARG fatigue. There's too many of them, too many to demand your attention and they are no longer mysterious. Still driven by a small hardcore of players. How do you make your ARG stand out from the crowd?
arg  community  gaming  resources  blog  blogs  jameswallis 
may 2008 by technogoggles
Games as team-building exercises? | Games | Guardian Unlimited
A nice example of real-world 'use' for MMOGs. Using MMOGS as team-building sessions instead of adventure weekends in the Pennines.
gaming  resources  blog  blogs  teambuilding  MMOG  CNN 
may 2008 by technogoggles
Futuresonic08: playing games with urban & social media - Guardian Unlimited
Aleks Krotski blogs about another inpromptu talk she did at Futuresonic08 about games involving urban and social media. Some useful links here.
blog  gaming  resources  alekskrotoski  urban  social  media 
may 2008 by technogoggles
Kongregate: social gaming
"By wrapping user-submitted Flash games with various community features, Kongregate’s site serves as a unique way for users to play great web-based games alongside friends”
gaming  resources  research  blog  social  flash  kongregate 
may 2008 by technogoggles
Does gaming still have a stigma? | Games | Guardian Unlimited
Media headlines talk about 'gaming addicts' but the perception of gaming is changing. Are the Wii and the DS making gaming cool?
blog  gaming  resources  ps2  guardian 
april 2008 by technogoggles
Channel 4 gets ready to educate - Guardian Unlimited
C4 Education as part of their revamp of their strategy are going to be moving their focus from tradition TV broadcast and begin commissioning cross-platform projects such as ARGs. This post is a good summary of where games fit in with education and 'info
gaming  resources  c4  arg  blog 
april 2008 by technogoggles
Kotaku: Games Industry Affects Social Changes
Bit frustrating to see such an OTT headline. People have always played games with other people (yes including families!), it's not a social change! What Nintendo have done is realised that this need exists and has provided a more suitable and modern pla
gaming  resources  blog  news 
april 2008 by technogoggles
Games and stories - Guardian Unlimited
6 Ways to tell stories through games by Aleks Krotoski of the Guardian
gaming  resources  blog  penguin  6tostart 
april 2008 by technogoggles
just in teractive: Community Analysis:
Justin Hall (of PMOG fame) analyses the community aspects of WoW, Xbox, 3 Rings, PMOG,
gaming  resources  blog 
april 2008 by technogoggles
Gamasutra - The Casual Games Manifesto
The issues involved in designing and marketing casual games. Good overview of the market.
gaming  resources  blog 
april 2008 by technogoggles
The Lost Ring - Worldwide Twitter activity
A mashup of Google Maps and Twitter to show the latest tweets related to ARG, The Lost Ring
resources  gaming  ARG  blog  twitter  google  maps 
april 2008 by technogoggles
Why we disagree with Don Norman - (37signals)
for all good reasons and most importantly because they work closely with their audience already and have great feedback loops. the apple example is more interesting... but they have super strong brand and service support.
article  blog  design  development  innovation  research  strategy  ucd  usercentreddesign 
april 2008 by technogoggles
Passively Multiplayer Online Gaming
MMOGs require too much effort, time and attention. "Passively Multiplayer Online Games take MMOs and feed them our everyday activities" the first step in ambient gaming!
gaming  pmog  mmog  passive  resources  blog 
april 2008 by technogoggles
The future of football: a virtual certainty | Games | Guardian Unlimited
WoW for Football. Guys in Nottingham developing it. Playing games in teams of 11, and all the glamour that comes after it: women, fast cars, promotions etc. A different market from those who play Fifa, PES etc.
virtual  football  gaming  resources  blog 
april 2008 by technogoggles
The Escapist : The Myth of the Media Myth
it doesn't surprise me that people have these views that Brenda uncovers. there's a knee jerk reaction to kids and screen based media = negative that cuts to the heart of our relationship with technology.
article  children  computer  games  gaming  myth  resources  blog 
april 2008 by technogoggles
ariadne > Blog
sheesh > ARGs just demand so much from you [a good filter maybe but always a bit too high?]. They need to devise different levels of involvement.
ARG  blog  games  gaming  mcdonalds  resources 
march 2008 by technogoggles
just in teractive: Social Compression for MMOs
Something lacking about XBOX live's buddy list - need to bring a more sophisticated level of sociality into the mix
gaming  xbox  live  sociality  resources  blog 
march 2008 by technogoggles
Frag with friends for fun | Games | Guardian Unlimited
"social" gaming is on the rise? clive thompson thinks so.
gaming  social  armyoftwo  blog  resources 
march 2008 by technogoggles
Giant things that blog
from bbjones. indeed a magical thought that there are big, mighty, old things out there like airplane engines that are saying what they're doing. who's listening?
idea  noidea  blog  spime 
february 2008 by technogoggles
MySpace Launches Games Section
which only play in myspace profiles but you can embed 'em. be nice if you could also display dynamic scores amongst friends and wider net. that'd be cool. it potentially opens up simple game genres to more complex narratives too...
gaming  games  myspace  teens  c4  resources  blog  news 
february 2008 by technogoggles
A List Apart: Articles
website  design  process  user  blog  article  webdesign  css  html  javascript  a  list  apart 
october 2007 by technogoggles

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