Wagner James Au Online world Journalist/Blogger, New World Notes/nwn.blogs.com Robin Hunicke Lead Designer, Electronic Arts Robert Scoble Evangelist, PodTech.net Susan Wu Charles River Ventures Is Neal Stephenson’s “metaverse” here, and is it the Net’s next generation — or just a glorified game? Once gamer-only turf, 3D virtual worlds like Second Life and World of Warcraft […]
SXSW – Building a Community Ecology
Moderator: Jake McKee Lead Samurai, Big in Japan Virginia Miracle Dir Word of Mouth Mktg, Brains on Fire Rebecca Newton Global Safety & Moderation Mgr, Sulake.com Terrence Ryan Moderator, suicidegirls.com Betsy Whalen Dir Mktg, Discovery Education Jake: why did i use the term ecology? working with communities, they are mini ecosystems, they require a certain […]
SXSW – Digital Distribution of games
Alexander Fernandez CEO, Streamline Studios David Burks Mktg Mgr, Seagate Technology Dan Connors CEO, Telltale Productions Craig Allen CEO, Spark Unlimited Q: Does p2p count as distribution? what is it? Craig: yes. in it’s purest sense its about creating commerce. To get the big companies you have to go to the publishers. there are a […]
SXSW – LonelyGirl15 discussion
David Hudson Editor, GreenCine Miles Beckett Producer, Lonelygirl15 Mesh Flinders Producer, Lonelygirl15 Greg Goodfried Producer, Lonelygirl15 Miles: a short format, about 5 videos a week. a popular serial drama. Greg: there’s the top level show; then there is the interactive element, teaching the characters as real people. you can send private messages and we answer […]
SXSW – Day 2
Day 2 of the joy that is SXSW. Being sensible with the parties last night means I feel pretty good this morning, even with the loss of an hour through daylight saving. I learnt yesterday that one should not wear a Google shirt – I kept being asked if I worked in the new building, […]
SXSW – Production 2.0
Production 2.0 looking at how to make money from video blogging. I was 15minutes late to this..again and did not catch all the names. Some are in parentheses when I grabbed them) Q: there a re growing pains, and you need to take time to focus on things. A: it is worth it to pay […]
Barcamp hanging
instead of going to sessions this afternoon I’m hanging out at barcamp, listening to some great talks (even over the talking) and sipping iced drinks in the sun. lovely.
SXSW – Attack of the ARG
Update: This panel was one of the ones I most wanted to see whilst I was here. I’m starting to get my head round the space that is alternate reality, but only dipped my toes in the water in the more ‘amateur’ games. The commercial side is not one I’ve had too much experience of, […]
SXSW – Emerging Social and Technological trends
As usual, I will be transcribing the talks and posting the notes. Analysis may follow later. Unfortunately I did not make this panel in time for the introductions, so did not capture names of those speaking, and I was not close enough to read the name cards so quotes are not attributed, unless someone was […]
PSFK Conference – Inspiration from commercial art
Interview: Inspiration From Commercial Art – Wendy Dembo How do artists use their inspiration to develop commercial art for brands and their agencies. Wendy Dembo interview leading artists Scott Campbell and Laurie Rosenwald. Although listed as an interview, both artists actually gave a presentation about how they worked before being asked a few questions. Both […]
Bluejacking is back
Well, according to the BBC anyway. The craze that never was is back in favour and is currently the most emailed story on the news site. Interestingly, the site links to stories from way back in 2003. The only time I got messages this way was in a W hotel in New York, just the […]
PSFK Conference – Eco-shift or Greenwash
Eco-Shift or Greenwash? – Tamara Giltsoff (OZO Car) Brands and organizations seem to be taking up the call to ‘get green’ – but how much of this is misleading posturing? Panelists: Marc Alt (MAP), Jill Fehrenbacher (Inhabitat), This wa a general panel on sustainability and green credentials; there were a lot of examples given in […]
PSFK Conference – Dave Rosenberg
A Whole New World – David Rosenberg (JWT) What is driving the widespread adoption of video gaming and online worlds? What cultural shift is video gaming defining? I work with Dave on a day-to-day basis, so it was interesting to see what he had to say about a space we donlt spend too much time […]
Arrived in Austin
Finally arrived in Austin after a slightly delayed flight but nothing too bad. it’s lovely and warm here, the sun is out, a far different climate after cold New York. Checked in, got my badge and met up with Ewan in the line 🙂 One nice meal later, and the odd marguerita, decided to catch […]
Twitter responses
The success of Twitter is hard to define, I place it in the realm of gossip and nosiness and just fun. It looks to be struggling under the load as numbers grow, every few days it gets really wonky, but people are still signing up. Different behaviours are emerging; somewhere, someone started to use the […]
PSFK Conference: Elizabeth Speirs, Dead Horse Media
The conference opened (at the early hour of 830) with a talk from Elizabeth Spiers, founder and publisher of Dead Horse Media. Tomorrow’s Media Today – What are the key developments in media publishing in terms of genre, format and functionality? What should we be reading, watching, interacting with? 10 years ago, we were expecting […]
Too much to blog, too little time
I’ve got the last NextNY session to write up, everything from the PSFK conference on Tuesday and off to SXSW tomorrow. I feel like I’m not going to catch up. Expect variable blogging over the next week.
Events this week
Monday Night Tuesday Friday
A Taste of things to come
Just went and got my hair cut and the young lady who washed my hair congratulated on my lack of grey hairs. I’m pretty sure she meant it as a compliment.
MoMoNYC February
Mobile Monday this week was set up as a demo night, with 8 companies presenting for 6 minutes. The host (Dan?) did a brilliant job of keeping everything moving and ensuring no-one lasted longer than their allotted time. I did not make all of the presentations, but here are brief notes from those I saw. […]