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Research on Sesame Street versus Blue’s Clues found that narrative is “sticky.” Stories retain attention better.
We DO need to lick the “story problem” in online games.
- Raph Koster’s Small Worlds talk from GDC 2003
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Humans always overestimate character and underestimate circumstances - Fundamental Attribution Error.
One way to combat it is to ask yourself how you would act in the same situation? Of course that would imply that you were totally aware of the situation.
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The acquisition reflects the growing interest in social gaming companies and underscores how mobile is the future of social gaming, much like it’s the future for all web services.
- The Future of Social Games is Mobile
Mobile is the future of everything. Of course I’ve seen more than one mobile TV company fail. Is it really the future of everything or is mobile just caught up in hype?
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In many ways, Facebook is the industry’s first “TV of gaming” – the site allows users to flip from game to game in a safe, standardized environment, with the expectations of no barriers-to-entry and that their friends will be playing the same games. By allowing players to advertise their accomplishments and invite their own personal network to play, the site goes beyond TV by letting players exert direct social influence on each other.
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This should be interesting, but it looks to be more collaborative fiction than interactive story like the old Choose Your Own Adventure books.
http://justingibbs.tumblr.com/post/1262634618
Who ever heard of the “adventure comedy” film? I thought movie makers were treading into dangerous waters with comedy horror films like the ill-fated ‘Vampire in Brooklyn” but watching “Shanghai Surprise” thanks to the glories of Netflix streaming my opinion for Hollywood and risk or stupidity has grown by leaps and bounds.
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Socializing on the Internet is to what socializing what reality TV is to reality
Aaron Sorkin
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In hindsight, the problem with Digg clones is that they’re just like forums. Anyone can set up a forum, but if there’s no community to post there, it will be empty – it’s as simple as that.
Lesson learned: without a community, most communication tools are useless.
Propeller Goes the Way of the Dodo
http://justingibbs.tumblr.com/post/1179106240
Next might be a slow and unannounced pullback from non-core businesses. It may already be happening: last year, Microsoft manager Shane Kim (now gone) remarked that the company hopes to keep the Xbox 360 alive for ten years. That doesn’t sound like a company excited about the growth potential in console gaming and ready to pin Nintendo and Sony to the mat with the next generation. That sounds like a long, slow exit from a business that never made much sense for Microsoft in the first place.
FINALLY: Microsoft Just Stopped Pretending It’s A Growth Company
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But Digg, based in San Francisco, still struggles against the same force that has made MySpace an also-ran: Consumers don’t have an endless appetite for social networks, and only the most appealing and useful survive. All of which leads to a harrowing question for the company: Will people who are already on Facebook and Twitter become regular users of Digg as well, or have those sites already made Digg irrelevant?
Can Digg Find Its Way in the Crowd?
http://justingibbs.tumblr.com/post/1147724403
But today at the Austin Game Developer Conference, the company told VentureBeat that it would be opening up Lively to third-party game developers.
Will Google’s Lively Turn Into A Virtual Arcade? (GOOG)
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“But today at the Austin Game Developer Conference, the company told VentureBeat that it would be opening up Lively to third-party game developers.”
— Will Google’s Lively Turn Into A Virtual Arcade? (GOOG)
http://justingibbs.tumblr.com/post/50560646
There’s nothing to do in Lively if you’re not talking to someone
Virtual worlds | If you build it… | Economist.com
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“There’s nothing to do in Lively if you’re not talking to someone”
— Virtual worlds | If you build it… | Economist.com
http://justingibbs.tumblr.com/post/47359787
It’s getting worse,” Rick Sharga, RealtyTrac’s executive vice president for marketing, said in an interview. “The number of properties that have been foreclosed on by the banks and still haven’t sold is the highest we’ve ever seen.
Bloomberg.com: Worldwide
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“It’s getting worse,” Rick Sharga, RealtyTrac’s executive vice president for marketing, said in an interview. “The number of properties that have been foreclosed on by the banks and still haven’t sold is the highest we’ve ever seen.”
— Bloomberg.com: Worldwide
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Only twice since 1965, despite half a dozen recessions, have Americans spent less in a year than the previous one. Indeed, it often seems that we have defined ourselves by our ability to buy supersized everything, from McMansions to tricked-out SUVs to 60-inch flat-screen televisions—all enabled by decades of cheap credit.
Consumerism: Are We Nearing The End Of Credit Card Consumerism?
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“Only twice since 1965, despite half a dozen recessions, have Americans spent less in a year than the previous one. Indeed, it often seems that we have defined ourselves by our ability to buy supersized everything, from McMansions to tricked-out SUVs to 60-inch flat-screen televisions—all enabled by decades of cheap credit.”
— Consumerism: Are We Nearing The End Of Credit Card Consumerism?
http://justingibbs.tumblr.com/post/45731216
All in all, Twitter’s been preaching to the same choir for over two years. If that’s not a failure on the mainstream scale, I don’t know what is.
Why Twitter Has Failed: The Power of Time and Mainstream | SheGeeks
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“All in all, Twitter’s been preaching to the same choir for over two years. If that’s not a failure on the mainstream scale, I don’t know what is.”
— Why Twitter Has Failed: The Power of Time and Mainstream | SheGeeks
http://justingibbs.tumblr.com/post/45696007
“Despite many attempts to measure “engagement” or “ROI” there still is no industry standard to measure the efforts of social media at the personal –and corporate level. While many have developed their own ability to measure on a one-off way, there’s no industry way to quickly –and easily agree pan-industry.”
— The Many Challenges of the Social Media Industry
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Despite many attempts to measure “engagement” or “ROI” there still is no industry standard to measure the efforts of social media at the personal –and corporate level. While many have developed their own ability to measure on a one-off way, there’s no industry way to quickly –and easily agree pan-industry.
The Many Challenges of the Social Media Industry
http://justingibbs.tumblr.com/post/45091220
In the West, which extends from California to Colorado, 54 percent said their homes either increased in value or held steady, but in reality, 88 percent of homes dropped in value.
Survey: Homeowners are in denial about declining housing values - Baltimore Business Journal:
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“In the West, which extends from California to Colorado, 54 percent said their homes either increased in value or held steady, but in reality, 88 percent of homes dropped in value.”
— Survey: Homeowners are in denial about declining housing values - Baltimore Business Journal:
http://justingibbs.tumblr.com/post/44976238
“He has led GM into a situation where his choices are to cut costs or to file for bankruptcy. During the booming SUV and truck years, Wagoner could have invested the profits in energy efficient vehicles.”
— With a $15.5 billion loss, can GM or its CEO survive? - BloggingStocks
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He has led GM into a situation where his choices are to cut costs or to file for bankruptcy. During the booming SUV and truck years, Wagoner could have invested the profits in energy efficient vehicles.
With a $15.5 billion loss, can GM or its CEO survive? - BloggingStocks
http://justingibbs.tumblr.com/post/44368456
A great way to see box office returns in a visual format.
http://xach.com/moviecharts/2008.html
Simple breakdown of the progression of technology development.
http://blogs.electricsheepcompany.com/swords/2008/07/24/a-question-on-liddles-three-stages-of-technology-adoption/
“These guys are drinking their own Kool-Aid. They don’t understand why Yahoo shareholders are upset.”
— Bloomberg.com: U.S.
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These guys are drinking their own Kool-Aid. They don’t understand why Yahoo shareholders are upset.
Bloomberg.com: U.S.
http://justingibbs.tumblr.com/post/44355082
That’s why I’m interested in peer-to-peer approaches to delivering internet applications. Jesse Vincent’s talk, Prophet: Your Path Out of the Cloud describes a system for federated sync; Evan Prodromou’s Open Source Microblogging describes a federated open source approach to lifestreaming applications.
Open Source and Cloud Computing - O’Reilly Radar
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“That’s why I’m interested in peer-to-peer approaches to delivering internet applications. Jesse Vincent’s talk, Prophet: Your Path Out of the Cloud describes a system for federated sync; Evan Prodromou’s Open Source Microblogging describes a federated open source approach to lifestreaming applications.”
— Open Source and Cloud Computing - O’Reilly Radar
http://justingibbs.tumblr.com/post/44250815
“They have been living off their 19th- and 20th-century heritage for a long time. At the opening of the 21st century, they need to redefine themselves.”
— Paris in decline
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They have been living off their 19th- and 20th-century heritage for a long time. At the opening of the 21st century, they need to redefine themselves.
Paris in decline
http://justingibbs.tumblr.com/post/43429179
I commonly see headlines on virtual goods like, Virtual goods starting to pan out for Facebook game app developers, and not just the venture-funded ones. Virtual goods are of course an important…
http://justingibbs.com/virtual-goods-a-fad-generational-thing-or-here-to-stay
“Facebook is a generational platform. Just like AIM was the most popular social tool of the nineties in the US and MySpace was huge a few years ago, Facebook is the new king in the social space. Right now, it’s cool for high school and college kids to log on to Facebook, send messages to each other, and play the myriad games that make it such a compelling platform. But as those kids grow up and enter adult life, they will find other tools – much like the AIM and MySpace crowds did – and leave Facebook in its wake.”
— Why it’s Time for Facebook to Sell
http://justingibbs.tumblr.com/post/43418127
Facebook is a generational platform. Just like AIM was the most popular social tool of the nineties in the US and MySpace was huge a few years ago, Facebook is the new king in the social space. Right now, it’s cool for high school and college kids to log on to Facebook, send messages to each other, and play the myriad games that make it such a compelling platform. But as those kids grow up and enter adult life, they will find other tools – much like the AIM and MySpace crowds did – and leave Facebook in its wake.
Why it’s Time for Facebook to Sell
http://justingibbs.tumblr.com/post/43418127
“Second life is a place, its like Luton, you can play games in Luton but Luton is not a game”
— eightbar » Blog Archive » Virtual Policy 08 Conference - Car boot sales and micropayments
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Second life is a place, its like Luton, you can play games in Luton but Luton is not a game
eightbar » Blog Archive » Virtual Policy 08 Conference - Car boot sales and micropayments
http://justingibbs.tumblr.com/post/43404821
I just registered for the Virtual Worlds Expo in Los Angeles, September 3-4. With the suge in funding for virtual worlds and explosion in small worlds with Google Lively and WebFlock,…
http://justingibbs.com/registered-for-virtual-worlds-expo
l’ve tried to keep this blog focused as best as I could, but I think people are still very much confused by it. The metaverse and virtual worlds are still new to people and almost no one, and I…
http://justingibbs.com/making-my-blog-more-blog-like
“We’ve turned from a nation of savers into debtors thanks to our own stupidity, the media helping us ignore that we eventually have to pay, and predatory practices of credit card companies.”
— Debt Slavery: Why Are Americans So Willing To Dig Themselves Deep Into Debt?
http://justingibbs.tumblr.com/post/43291980
We’ve turned from a nation of savers into debtors thanks to our own stupidity, the media helping us ignore that we eventually have to pay, and predatory practices of credit card companies.
Debt Slavery: Why Are Americans So Willing To Dig Themselves Deep Into Debt?
http://justingibbs.tumblr.com/post/43291980
The great post from Hamlet Au, Meeting Abi: How Intelligent Have Second Life AIs Become?, introduced me to the term robotar. Basically a robotar is a bot that uses an avatar to gain access…
http://justingibbs.com/how-far-is-it-from-robotar-to-virtual-character
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