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Jesper Juul on the experience of gaming

http://www.half-real.net/

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Take some time to listen….

Thank you christy for mentioning this …

http://cms.mit.edu/news/podcast/

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Must read book

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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2007… Breakthrough of new crossmedia formats?

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 business to measure reach on any floor, but it is especially interesting on the shopping floor. Do you want to know how much visitors reached which assortment AND what is the effect on sales? How long where they standing there? Is this time spent value made up by the margin on the sales floor? Do you want to pump up your floor productivity. I have developed the tool to let the productivity and profits in shops grow… continuously!

What is the connection of this tool with crossmedia communication?
Have you ever wondered what the effects of your above the line communication are on the below the line shopping floor? You know that place where the FINAL DECISION is made?
Compared results in other media channels to results in the final media channel, the shopping floor, on a continuous basis? Probably not, because you did not have the means to do so. Well, now that problem is solved. Yes this is a sales pitch. I rarely gave one on my weblog. There must be a reason I do now. ;-) I will tell you what is the reason, this tool will really help to clarify a lot of questions on media effects in a rapidly changing media environment. Don’t we need that now, to measure the effects of crossmedia initiatives? What is the risk-benefit? Retail Treks (name of this tool) will help to answer one of the most important questions in the sequence.. what is the effect in store?

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The next level

Through the long tail blog of Chris Anderson (read his book).. I found this:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.10/cloudware_pr.html

Take away the battery problem and increase processing power multifold..
Your mobile device will become your life’s directory.

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crossmediaweek,, a late reflection

A little late, but here are my impressions from the crossmedia week in Amsterdam.
I will quote some of the interesting phrases I heard:

- World creation with ecosystem of organical growth of emergent stories
- mash ups; quick presentation, comments, points of views (tools machinima and quick storyboarding)
- Atlas of codecs that guide through events
- Crossmedia development is a profound moment in the evolution of media - existential happening - it is about US and our creativity (Gary Carter Fremantle FX; excellent relevant presentation!)
- meaningful relationships, beloning connection, protection, trust, intentioned attention, from ease of use to improving quality of life; protect, filter and support (Linda Stone; the most profound speaker at the whole event.. that I got to see)
- real meaning is in the use, affiliated spending on- and offline, more dependent on the web, battle is threefold, for attention, the home and the pocket, new interactive layers to navigate unlimited choice, having control and making smart use of it, media is technology in disguise and the best disguise makes it most usable, profound change occurs after shifts in time-spending and money spending, transformative power of the brand, engagement versus interruption (John de Mol, an invitation to the advertiser to join in the movement)

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start crossmediaweek in Amsterdam

Today the crossmediaweek in Amsterdam started its programme. The entourage is great. The programme today was.. sufficient. No really exciting things.. yet. An interesting debate at the crossmedia cafe about the value of a crossmedia idea versus person operationalising the idea. Value is offcourse idea AND person (better still ..team). Frackers claimed ideas are not so important, it is what you make of it. I agree completely. When he invests he looks at the person and later maybe at the idea. As an ideabroker I can only say that this feeling is mutual. For I am not interested in money per se, it is only a means to get to a goal. It is who you make the journey with the team you build, the one giving you money to grow is part of the means, part of the team. If you do not know where you put your coins, stay out of the game.., this is a lesson we learned from the internetbubble. Finding intelligent money is difficult (in my opinion). What good is money if they pull the plug two months too early, or keep pumping it into idle ideas, pulling down total revenue of a portfolio?

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What is MIT doing on convergence..

The illumious MIT.. Find out what there doing on convergence right here:

http://convergenceculture.org/weblog/

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Talpa interested in Hyves

Word has it…reliable journalistic resources… that Talpa is interested in buying social network hyves. (http://www.hyves.nl) This fastgrowing community, primarily populated by 12 to 25 years old, can peak at each others lives and stay in touch. The peaking around in the others “krabbels” and pictures is the true power of attraction of the system.

Talpa would make a very strategic crossmedia move here.
Anyway price will drive up, because somebody will buy them, soon.

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new market figures on convergence

Accenture has made a report on the future of convergence and identifies fierce competition from Asia. I have accentuated this before.. Asia has the perfect base for convergence; a highly skilled IT workforce, large film and television industry (bollywood is as big as hollywood, in production size and turnovers) and they can make the leap for going digital all at once (many parts of the territory is not yet on analogue television..).. no heritage like we have in Europe..

http://www.accenture.com/xdoc/en/industries/communications/convergence/landing_convergence.pdf

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