from fake to pause.... interesting take on scaling contacts

good piece by tom armitage. like the idea that games are full of social objects - experiences and incidents in games that we create meanings from - and that these should be exportable to the wider net, or wherever we want to put it.

Some cracking videos here from Shirky and Boyd; the best speakers around on social software.

Tom Armitage on the clunky way that big consoles and platforms try and deal with the social web. Games need to stop being so insular and the user needs to be given more freedom over what they can do with all their data

Great presentation from etech06 about applying gaming mechanics to wider context of the net.

shannon on social gaming...

Dopplr introduces public profiles. Beginning to see how Dopplr's design philosophy of an app that sits within the wider context of the net, now bearing fruit with integration with gmaps, flickr, upcoming etc.

good overview of his six spaces

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...

The creators of any piece of social software must carefully choose where to punch holes in pure computational deterministic perfection to let human attributes like intelligence or taste shine through. Their choices define the project. This "you want X, I