September 2010
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Good Slide Deck on Digital in China →
August 2010
20 posts
“Open and closed are in a great dance, always have been. Openness is where...”
– Tim O’Reilly in Wired
“While Google may have controlled traffic and sales, Apple controls the content...”
– Michael Wolff in Wired
“The delirious chaos of the open Web was an adolescent phase subsidized by...”
– Chris Anderson in Wired
“You find out whether people truly like a product in the second phase after...”
– Rashmi Sinha in SlideShare Pro Case Study
Start-Up Chile →
Start-Up Chile Is an initiative of the Chilean Government to attract world-class early stage entrepreneurs to start their businesses in Chile.
Ayeah Games →
Ayeah Games put users at the intersection of media trends and breaking news, letting them interact with others in real time and see how day-to-day events impact their lives.
“Don’t worry about what happened yesterday (or five minutes ago). Focus on...”
– Seth’s Blog
“We will likely continue to see new game publishers burst onto the scene. At the...”
– Jeremy Liew on Mashable
Trophy 2.0: Achievement Systems and the Social Web →
Seven types of game mechanics/ achievements: 1 Tutorial 2 Completion 3 Collection 4 Virtuosity 5 Special Play Style 6 Dedication 7 Social
“Farmville isn’t actually a computer game–it’s a computer hobby. We can...”
– Amy Bruckman
“Many games these days “come with the answers” — there’s only one way to solve...”
– Raph Koster
“Games have the power … more than any other medium, to put you in the...”
– Jesse Schell via Michell Goodman on AdWeek
“Foursquare boasts that users have gone to the gym more since it introduced a gym...”
– Brian Morissey on AdWeek
“Smartphones have transformed the real world into a giant game board, allowing...”
– David Griner on AdWeek
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“The critical thing about the design process is to identify your scarcest...”
– Fred Brooks
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“If you like the upbeat metaphor of the Internet as a hive mind, then maybe...”
– Rob Walker in NYT
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“Maybe ‘accidental player’ (paraphrasing accidental tourist) is a more fitting...”
– Aki Jarvinen
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“The most important thing to understand about seduction is this: it only works...”
– Seth Godin
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“As the world becomes more addictive, the two senses in which one can live a...”
– Paul Graham
July 2010
17 posts
WatchInteresting “instant mockup” tool from Balsamiq (via @ksarda).
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“(Even as virtual worlds slowly emerge from the ‘Trough of Disillusionment’ in...”
– Do Virtual Worlds Have a Future?
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“I am wondering why there is not a really good social gaming application to...”
– Fish Thoughts: Social Gaming
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“Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do…Play consists of whatever a...”
– Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
(via nattomaki)
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“Usability is about removing the potholes on the road. Seduction is about...”
– Seductive Interactions by Stephen Anderson via todaysmusings
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“Method 1 to change the world with a game. Get fans to “engage” with the problem,...”
– An Inconvenient Truth About Changing the World with Games — Fans, Activist, and Actors - Facebook Indie Games (via kingsley2)
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“Earning badges and climbing a ladder of “levels”… is officially the hottest...”
– Caroline McCarthy on CNET (via nattomaki)
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Armchair Revolutionary →
Armchair Revolutionary is a new social game with activities that support worldchanging science and technology projects.
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“What initially excited you about Foursquare was getting “rewards” for living...”
– Dan Macsai in Fast Company
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“The pillars of success are play (having something fun to do), express (a way to...”
– Zynga’s chief designer shares tips learned from social games (via pauldubois)
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“There is not enough depth or emergence in Facebook games.
Another way of...”
– Alistair Doulin in Gamasutra
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“Game designers have spent 30 years learning how to optimize human happiness.”
– AvantGame by Jane McGonigal (via vvunder)
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“How do game characters contribute to shaping the playing experience? What kinds...”
– Character-Driven Game Design via Zeitalter 3.
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Game Seeds: A Card Game to Design Games →
Game Seeds is a card game designed to spice up your brainstorm sessions on character and game design.
Game Seeds are wild free-spirited tiny creatures that you can play with, combine, hack and get inspired by to bring new characters and game ideas to life. The goal of the game is to embed the gameplay and the future players actions in the behaviour of the designed characters. Throughout...
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“There’s no private space on Twitter to play. Everything I do is published to the...”
– Twitter Is Not (Yet) A Game Platform
June 2010
3 posts
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“Each of our beverage brands has a strategy and marketing platform that will be...”
– Frank Cooper, Chief Consumer Engagement Officer, PepsiCo
More at Gauravonomics Blog
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