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April 23, 2007
Douglas Gayeton lived in second life for nine months to find out the where abouts of Molotov Alva, a man who disappeared from his californian home. Gayeton found material of Alva in Second Life.. you can watch the seven episodes machinima documentary here http://www.molotovalva.com.If you want to find out backstory to Molotov Alva check this: [...]
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April 5, 2007
Finally I have some time to report on CMID07. First of all, what a wonderfull thing Charlotte did by organising this event in the lovely Hemavan Zweden. We had a very diverse bunge of people coming from all over the world and from all different disciplines.
Christy Dena made a clear start with addressing the subject [...]
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March 7, 2007
David Perry starts a new project where he will -from the start- co-create a new game. Co-creation of new levels and characters is already much usance in the game environment. What makes this project special is the co-creation act of building the game from scratch. Currently 20.000 ‘amateur” builders have signed up to the project. [...]
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January 31, 2007
Nickelodeon has taken a bold step into the burgeoning virtual-worlds arena with the launch of Nicktropolis, a personalizable, avatar-dwelling playground for kids on the Web. Nicktropolis, which goes live on Nick.com and Nicktropolis.com on Jan. 30, is sort of a Second Life for tweens: Kids can create a virtual identity for themselves – a 3D [...]
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January 25, 2007
A recent report on market expectations and development of interactive content and convergence:
http://europa.eu.int/information_society/eeurope/i2010/docs/studies/interactive_content_ec2006_final_report.pdf
http://europa.eu.int/information_society/eeurope/i2010/docs/studies/interactive_content_ec2006_annexes.pdf
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January 17, 2007
finally I have some news on the venice project, alias Joost. Kazaa and Skype entrepeneurs Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis have landed in our country (holland) to develop a peer 2 peer television service, mainly motivated by tax policy (and I suspect the legal system and p2p being relatively favorible in the Netherlands). They aim [...]
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January 15, 2007
Jesper Juul on the experience of gaming
http://www.half-real.net/
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January 15, 2007
Thank you christy for mentioning this …
http://cms.mit.edu/news/podcast/
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January 3, 2007
http://www.nyupress.org/books/Convergence_Culture-products_id-4756.html
I waited for this a long time, did not look at it for a long time to see that it is already available. Cannot be anything else then a must read
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December 5, 2006
Will the new year to come finally set movement in the market to develop new crossmedia formats? Are we able to convince that the risk-benefit balance of crossmedia communication is turning positive? I plan to put much energy in there. For a long time I have not blogged regularly. Reason is the set-up of a [...]