Jeff Barr, from Amazon, was at BarcampBrighton as part of a long European tour, talking up cloud computing. apologised for going to be a little more commercial than others….but taken out the prices so it’s not a sales pitch! been at Amazon for 6 years.  Saw real potential, the first catalog service. they started sending […]
BarCampBrighton and Stories and Games
Adrian Hon from Six to Start talks about Games and Stories Creative Director at Six to Start, make ARGs, but not what I’m going to talk about it ARGs are games that use multiple media or media in interesting ways to tell a story. Email, twitter, newspapers, IM, GPS etc. Â What I want to talk […]
Jane McGonigal Keynote at SXSW
Jane McGonigal Keynote. The Lost Ring Video played. A call for help. Being going a week – are you in? going to talk yo you about alternate realities. instead of trying to make games more realistic, trying to make the real world more like games. we need more alt. realities and the real world needs […]
BarCampBrighton – Slorpedo
This is about Slorpedo – a mixed reality game in Second Life based on an Icehouse game Torpedo. Difficult to play in real world, due to complex rules. so fits well with a virtual world built at HackDay London, uses reacTIVision How it used to work – runs on laptop (server), interacts with SL, via […]
BarcampBrighton – Portable Information
A group panel about portable data and information Jeremy Keith Microformats – semantic web hCard is probably the most popular. there is an existing format called vCard. hCard is a 1:2:1 mapping of vCard. Use of vCard info on a web page. same details as in your address book/phone. the idea behind microformats is not […]
BarCampBrighton – the morning so far
I decided last night to come down to BarCamp Brighton, when I saw there were some tickets made available. A friend was travelling down so I got a lift straight to the campus and arrived just as it was kicking off. The usual introductions were made and everyone did the traditional standup and give three […]
Jane McGonigal dancing Soulja Boy
The final part of the excellent keynote at SXSW today was a dance… Click To Play
Self-replicating Awesomeness at SXSW
Deborah Schultz, Chris Heuer, Jeremiah Owyang, Tara Hunt, Hugh MacLeod, David Parmet  DP: Brian Oberkirch put this together – he asked 2 questions. How to market into community without being too marketer like. And how do you build a community around what you are doing? What does ‘no marketing’ look like? How can we use […]
Sexual Privacy Online – SXSW
discussing the aspects of Sexual Privacy online.  Violet Blue, Jonathan Moore, John d’Alderio, Zoe Margulis, Jason Schultz VB: fetishes…online allows you to seek this even if you did not seek in real life, but could cause issues. online can be a healthy way to let people express their fetish. Sexuality and sexuality online calls into […]
Charlene Li and Revolutionaries at SXSW
Charlene Li about the changing of corporations and social media. Examples of the change: the HD DVD key and Digg. Jericho and the peanuts. Shaun Daly was a fan of Jericho drove the change – you had to have something physical that CBS could not ignore. They bought it back, and it’s doing OK. CBS […]
SXSW – ARGS and Games
Dan Hon, Tony Walsh and Dee Cook Tony Walsh, Phantom Compass, Toronto, Games design. Fallen, Regenesis. Dee Cook, working on ARGs, since 2003. Worked on World without Oil Dan Hon, Six to Start. worked on Perplex City, working with Channel 4 education DH: ARGS are a new way of telling stories, using all forms. People […]
Steven Johnson and Henry Jenkins
Keynote at SXSW Saturday. Notes, not a true live blog. Henry Jenkins and Steven Johnson SJ: have you seen another wave of the backlash, the dumbing down? HJ: these things do come in waves and we’re probably overdue. Never underestimate the desire of parents to see their children as dumb, it’s easy to imagine our […]
Tony on Ads
I asked Tony what his favourites were – World of Warcraft. Click To Play
Social Breakfast – CC, Eric, Will and VinVin
I went along to the Social Breakfast organised by Ewan Spence this morning at Magnolia. I asked the table my question of the week. Will, from Austin, CC Chapman, Eric Skiff and VinVin Click To Play
Aaron and Loren
Aaron talks about Holiday Inn Express and Loren chips in with a comment about Geico
More question about ads – Hugh and Ewan
Some more interviews. Hugh Macleod on Dove Ewan Spence on Playstation Portable Games Click To Play
What teens want online and their phones
Anastasia Goodstein brings together a group of teenagers to talk about how they use mobile and the web. they are early adopters but the tech needs to meet core needs. This is atalk with a panel of teens from ages 12-17 What do you like? Goodreads.com, cos a social network site, plus reviews of books, […]
Journey to SXSW
That was an interesting 24 hours, but not too bad as people who travelled via Dallas, where everything got cancelled due to snow. Getting to the airport took a bus and 2 tubes; on arrival I found that all the check-in desk luggage computers had gone down so there was a small bit of chaos. […]
What’s in My Bag
I’ve copied Roo and put a ‘What’s in My Bag’ photo up. This is the handluggage for the SXSW travel, where I put in all the electronics (hate putting them in the hold). Quite useful to do, as I realise I’ve left out notebook, pen and keys. Click through to see the notes on what’s […]
Travels and ad videos
I’m off to SXSW tomorrow, to have fun, to do a little speaking and to take some videos. I’ve decided to do a wee video series, asking people what their favourite marketing campaign is at the moment. I’ve been using qik on the N95, which I won’t be able to use in the US, so […]