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WordPress as a Social Platform

By on August 13, 2008 in Next Tech, Social Media

Earlier this year Automattic founder and WordPress creator Matt Mullenweg suggested on his blog that the future of WordPress MU (multi user) is social media. TechCrunch covered the story too. As a user of WordPress and advocate of the new convergence I think it’s great news. From the BuddyPress site: The idea of BuddyPress is [...]

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The Search Game

By on May 7, 2008 in Business & Marketing, Games & Simulations, Next Tech

A shout out to Eliane Alhadeff for her recent post Search as a Serious Game which highlights a seriously cool search interface from SearchMe.com. A picture says a thousand words so file this under User Experience and go take it for a spin to see what web search + gamer centered design might look looks [...]

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taxonomy of serious games

Taxonomy of Serious Games — Updated

By on February 20, 2008 in Educational Technology, Games & Simulations

According to Ben Sawyer (Digital Mill) and Peter Smith (University of Central Florida), “Everyone has their own name for what serious games should be called. When they’re using these terms, they’re still talking about serious games… It’s not that these words are wrong. It’s just, they’re trying to categorize things. And there’s nothing categorical about [...]

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Serious Game Engine Shootout: A Comparative Analysis of the Technology

By on February 23, 2007 in Games & Simulations, Next Tech, The Biosphere

Serious games and educational simulations are an unique product category with functional requirements that are different from platform and casual games, MMOGs, and drill–n-skill learning games. The gameplay itself is only the tip of the iceberg: hidden out of sight is an engine the player doesn’t see. As an emerging market, however, little has been [...]

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