Founded in 2004, Games for Change is the leading global advocate for supporting and making games for social impact, including for learning (serious games). The 8th annual Games for Change Festival just wrapped up in New York. Al Gore’s keynote on Monday opened the three-day festival with strong acknowledgement for games and social media’s ability [...]
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App Camp 2011 Videos
If you’ve been reading my posts over the years you know I’ve been a participant, video blogger and fan of Warren Buckleitner’s Dust or Magic — a mini-TED that attracts the top people in children’s entertainment and educational technology. Last year Warren started the Dust or Magic App Camp which just wrapped up its second [...]
Gamification is Coming. Are You Ready?
The debate about the use of game mechanics in digital media — lately known as gamification — hardly started before being overtaken by tools, workshops and service providers all too willing to use game techniques to tart up your latest digital masterpiece. But many in the gaming world are complaining “Not so fast!” and The [...]
Cat Meets iPad
No way around it this is a silly cat video, but it’s worth it (thanks Ecks & Gizmodo). Backstory: I decided to wait for the initial product shakeout and a v2 release of the iPad before buying one. After seeing this I wish I’d gotten in line early and unless you’re allergic, I bet you [...]
Naturally Speaking
We used voice to text, text to voice and semantic data analysis successfully on two products for Pearson Education a few years ago — AMP Reading and Quick Reads — which rocked, technically and commercially. But successful though they were, as products for middle-school kids there was professional but not personal relevance. Finally, these technologies [...]
Augmenting Reality Before Breakfast
The panel discussion on Augmented Reality I moderated for Sobel Media’s executive breakfast series was eye-opening — and not just because the early hour allowed for watching the sun rise down Central Park South or Bouchon Bakery’s excellent java augmentation (though the latter surely helped). Before we seated the panel, Esquire’s Creative Director David Curcurito [...]
Contrary to Published Reports…
I have not disappeared from the planet, I’ve just been heads-down working on business development, social media projects and prototyping several exciting new products for the consumer market. More details coming soon. In the meantime, the summer has yielded a few lessons about project management. About how work expands to fill the time allotted; how [...]
The First Augmented Reality Browser
Video of the world’s first mobile Augmented Reality browser, initially for the Android platform, from Layer Technologies in the Netherlands. So cool that it makes adding an Android to my quiver very tempting.
PC Touch-Screen Technology Moving Beyond Curiosity
First Jobs and Woz visited Xerox PARC, got the idea for a graphical interface, which in 1984 led to the Macintosh. Then Bill Gates got into the act and Windows was born. Some twenty-five later, Apple brought us the iPhone and iTouch, the first mass-market devices with touch screens. Then along came H.P., Dell, Intel [...]
Web 2.0 — What Will Make it Work?
Join us this Friday for a deep dive into marketing and Web 2.0 technology at The Executive Summit: Marketing & Technology-the Next Frontier hosted by Pace University’s Lubin School of Business. Click here for more information and to register. According to the program notes “This has been the most discussed area of marketing and yet [...]
The iPod Touch, Supersized
The recent announcement of the third generation iPhone OS has fueled persistent rumors of an Apple netbook or other intermediate size device, something I’d welcome for so many reasons. So this morning I was happy to stumble on Rex Hammock’s blog post predicting a supersized iPod Touch: Within the next 45 days, not later than [...]
Sleepless in New York
I spent the last weekend in January participating in the first Global Game Jam at New York’s Columbia University (there were 1,650 participants at 54 locations in 23 countries in all, including a group at New York University). Now that I’ve recovered from too many Doritos and soda I can say it was great to [...]
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App Camp 2011 Videos
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Using Social Media and Game Mechanics Improve Learning
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Gamification is Coming. Are You Ready?
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New Sites and Projects
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$20 Million in 7 Minutes
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App Camp 2011 Videos
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Using Social Media and Game Mechanics Improve Learning
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Gamification is Coming. Are You Ready?
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