In his keynote at CES this week Activision’s Mike Griffith predicted that video games would overtake all other media in popularity within a decade. Social gaming, more interactivity and better technology will help gaming dominate the entertainment landscape in future. Movies, recorded music and TV – these are all stagnating or contracting entertainment sectors. Griffith [...]
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Making Virtual Worlds Accessible
After developing educational technology products for Pearson and Scholastic, I’ve come to appreciate the value of creating products that are accessible to users with vision-, hearing- and learning-related disabilities. Whether because they are English language learners (ELL), have auditory or visual deficits, input/output disorders or other issues, it’s not only good karma and good business [...]
Games People Play
The Pew Internet Project released a data memo this morning on Adults and Video Games. Among their main findings: More than half – 53% – of all American adults play video games of some kind, whether on a computer, on a gaming console, on a cell phone or other handheld device, on a portable gaming [...]
Long Live the Parrot!
I received an email this morning from a friend who paraphrased Monty Python’s Blue Parrot sketch to describe the financial meltdown: This financial system is no more! It has ceased to be! ‘It’s expired and gone to meet its maker! ‘It’s a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace! If you hadn’t nailed ‘it [...]
Did Second Life Precict the Meltdown?
Was the meltdown of the financial system predicted by events in the online virtual world Second Life more than a year ago? Alan Greenspan, former head of the Federal Reserve, admitted last month that lending institutions could not always be trusted to regulate themselves. Really? Then maybe the 2007 collapse of Second Life’s virtual bank [...]
It’s Bad You Know
R. L. Burnside’s (1926—2005) timeless blues boogie “It’s Bad You Know” was the perfect setup for the adventures of Tony Soprano and his capos. Week by week we knew they were going to be so bad that it would be good, that Burnside would keep setting it up and that Tony seldom failed to deliver. [...]
Safer on the Edge
Is it safer “on the edge” in economically turbulent times like these? In his recent blog post Innovate or Wither – Personal Strategy for Times of Change, my colleague Lee Wilson asserts that in times of rapid change and market disruption, “…the cutting edge is the safest place to be.” Although he was talking specifically [...]
From Plastic to Pixels: Lego Goes Virtual
Mark William Hansen, who leads product development at Lego, talks about their transition from a toy company to developers and publishers of an immersive 3D virtual world set to launch in early 2009. For more on Lego Universe read the Reuters story Virtual World is Lego’s Latest Brick Trick and visit the Lego corporate site. [...]
Tivo is Dead, Long Live Tivo!
Since I started using Hulu and more recently learned about the open-source video aggregation software Miro and the video sharing plugin Kaltura, it seemed to me that Tivo’s days were numbered. Evidently I’m not the only one. In her Halloween post on the Wired Blog Network, Meghan Keane observes “the future of the company which [...]
Top 10 WordPress Plugins
WordPress — the open-source content management system that runs this site and millions of others around the world — is almost infinitely extensible, which was the intention of the development team from the beginning. One of the core philosophies of WordPress is to keep the core code as light and fast as possible but to [...]
Is it Time to Start a New Business?
At the Dow Jones Media & Money conference last week, a panel of executives representing digital media developers, investors and advertisers debated whether it’s possible to start or grow an advertising-supported web service at a time when even huge corporations are challenged to survive. With the market down yet again today, some of their answers [...]
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