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13 October 2008
Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:18:01 GMTEveryware
Adam Greenfield
Adam Greenfield’s 81 theses on the future of ubiquitous computing. Shoudl’ve nailed ‘em up to a door somewhere. A sensible look at how computers are set to work their way further and further into our daily lives, hopefully for the better, but who knows.
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13 April 2006
Thu, 13 Apr 2006 23:13:12 GMT Why face-to-face still matters!via Kjell Olsen2127 days agoMan, do I hate IM. And email is great for informational exchange, but not keeping up with people. I hate talking on the phone. I’m glad to hear that we won’t stop talking to each other any time soon.
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15 November 2005
Tue, 15 Nov 2005 18:32:00 GMTMassively Multiplayer Online Soccer: The Ultimate User Generated Content?
I really wish I could get into video games – they can be really fun.
But games today suck. My roomate and a friend are here playing midnight racer all the time, and I can’t believe they’re still at it. It’s the same goddamn thing over and over, the same five songs repeating, just you racing around cities at night.
I think Beattie is on to something here. I played a mud pretty obsessively for a year or two, and got really into it before I just quit one day and never went back. Around the same time I’d mastered Madden 2000 and could beat anyone I played. Now I can hardly play a game without getting bored.
Computer games of today are the same as they were five years ago. Better graphics, but the graphics still aren’t that good. In fact, the closer virtual humans come to real humans, the worse they get.
There needs to be something more compelling to gaming. A kid on my floor plays WoW all the time, and apart from me being all RPG’d out, I’d give it a try.
I think that the same thing that happened with social software, the enabling of user participation, is that usable content balloons so significantly when users are enabled to participate at the highest level. Skinnable computer games enable way more creativity then static console games. So they enjoy a greater popularity for a longer time. How many of you really kept playing Tony Hawk after beating it?
The thing I loved about that mud was that not only is it open ended, but because it’s text based you can write scripts to capture the environment of the game and do whatever you want with it.
Games today are at the communication level of phone calls – bi (maybe tri) directional. As games begin to approach the level the internet has reached, as they begin to take on multiple nodes of simultaneous communication, I think they’ll really start to kick.
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27 October 2005
Thu, 27 Oct 2005 08:16:05 GMT pricingvia Kjell Olsen2295 days agoI’d want something like this if I was starting up. Interesting thoughts on payments to freelancers.
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29 September 2005
Thu, 29 Sep 2005 08:46:00 GMT Computer users move themselves with the mind - Electrode cap allows users to think themselves along a virtual street.via Kjell Olsen2323 days agoCalled a brain-computer interface, the device detects activity in certain brain areas linked to movement, and uses the signals to mimic that movement in a virtual world.
Could make for a kickass video game.
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14 September 2005
Wed, 14 Sep 2005 16:11:00 GMT web|works content, part 2via Kjell Olsen2338 days agoSweet presentation on web interface design. Direct to presentation. links.
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