Artist Paul St. George’s steampunk sculpture wryly suggests that using technology to create social networks predates the web, wiki and blog by at least a century.
When it opened to the public two weeks ago, the London Telegraph described St. George’s Telectroscope as “looking like something from the Victorian era” or “a […]
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Steampunk’d Social Networking
Published June 1st, 2008 in Culture, Social Networking, Uncategorized and nextNY. 0 CommentsYour Web Domain Analyzed
Published March 21st, 2008 in Culture, User Experience and nextNY. 0 CommentsEver wonder your website or blog wold look like if all the links out were traced five or ten hops to their ultimate destination?
David Polinchock at BrandExperience found this applet by Salathe Marcel where you “…put in your web address and it turns it into this very cool, visual graph.” Very cool indeed.
The illustration […]
Current Events & Learning Games
Published February 22nd, 2008 in Culture, Educational Technologies, Serious Games and nextNY. 0 CommentsGiven the amount of time it takes to design, develop and go to market, it’s rare for current issues or events to find their way into a game. ICED, a new issue-oriented learning game that takes on the hot-button topic of immigration, is an exception to that rule and also shows how new development tools […]
Extreme Localization
Published January 30th, 2008 in Culture, Emerging Technologies, Serious Games, Uncategorized, User Experience, Web 2.0 & Beyond and nextNY. 0 CommentsThough I haven’t added any new posts for nearly a month, “Reports of my demise have been greatly exaggerated,” as Marc Twain famously said. What I have been doing is studying the effect of extreme localization by playing Rayman’s Raving Rabbids II on my neighbors Wii. It didn’t get rave reviews, but the reviewers don’t […]
Bubbles Big and Small
Published December 31st, 2007 in Business & Finance, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Uncategorized, Web 2.0 & Beyond and nextNY. 0 CommentsHaving lived through the first Internet bubble I see as many differences with “Web 2.0″ as similarities to the madness of the ’90s. Still, this video from nextNY.org is too funny and timely not to share. So enjoy your tiny bubbles tonight, let’s avoid making another big one, and see you next year!
The Best of 2007
Published December 21st, 2007 in Business & Finance, Culture, Dust or Magic, Educational Technologies, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Project Management, Serious Games, Uncategorized, User Experience, Web 2.0 & Beyond and nextNY. 0 CommentsI decided to publish a readers “best-of-2007″ list for my final post of the year based on a Google Analytics site report. Here are a dozen plus two of the best stories on this blog in 2007 (click on the title to go to that post) ranked by number of visits:
Games Meet the Social Web
A […]
SIIA Ed Tech Forum Wrap-up
Published December 14th, 2007 in Business & Finance, Educational Technologies, Emerging Technologies, Serious Games, Uncategorized, Web 2.0 & Beyond and nextNY. 0 CommentsI’ve written summaries of most of the sessions at SIIA’s Ed Tech Business Forum including the two previous posts, below. Those that I missed were covered by Ileana Rowe, and all of them are (or will be) posted on SIIA’s website here: http://www.siia.net/etbf/2007/presentations.asp. The presentations covered myriad topics in the business of educational […]
Children’s Technology Trends in 2008
Published November 7th, 2007 in Business & Finance, Culture, Dust or Magic, Educational Technologies, Emerging Technologies, Uncategorized and nextNY. 2 CommentsIn this video presentation I taped at the 7th annual Dust or Magic conference, Robin Raskin forecasts the trends she sees coming in children’s technology for 2008 and beyond.
Robin has been translating technology into consumer friendly terms for more than 25 years. Today, as a writer, new media consultant, and speaker she spends a great […]
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