Posts in the "Emerging Media" Category

• Randy Pausch

  Education
  

  I’m not a huge Oprah fan but this is an amazing video from a courageous and inspiring man called Randy Pausch giving his ‘last lecture’. I’ve blogged about Randy Pausch before – he is one of the founders of the Carnegie Mellon University Entertainment Technology Center and was jointly responsible for developing an amazing and [...]

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• Remember Thirtysomething?

  Emerging Media
  

  Well I do. Tells you something about my age. Just watched the new online serial Quarterlife from the creators of the original Thirtysomething series. Got to say it’s the most compelling drama I’ve seen online. A lot of the others like Lonelygirl15, Kate Modern and PSTrixi were aimed very much at a teen girl demographic. [...]

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• BAFTA Award for Game

  Education
  A couple of graduates of the USC games course have just been nominated for a BAFTA Award for Games Innovation. I’ll warn you now, their short game flOw is highly addictive as well as strangely beautiful from a visual and audio perspective. It’s great news that the BAFTAs have been far sighted enough to recognise [...]

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• My World

  Innovation
  A student at Arizona State University has posted on a Mac rumours forum some observations about a new 3D social network being developed and tested there. The blogosphere has since come alive with rumours that Google is about to launch ‘My World’, a virtual world/social network which may link to Google Earth and Maps applications. [...]

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• The game has changed

  Casual Games
  Connectivity is changing everything. Have been looking at some presentations from the Austin GDC conference and one slide of Raph Koster’s presentation stood out for me. The game has changed The hot platform is the net The hot audience is the non-gamer The hot feature is other players The hot technology is connectivity The hot [...]

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• Miniclip vs Facebook

  Casual Games
  Ever thought that there are more popular activities than social networking and media sharing on the web? Apparently online gaming – particularly of the casual variety – is the most popular activity on the internet as attested in a recent article in gamesindustry.biz which you can read here. And for those hardcore gamers who don’t [...]

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