Isn’t it ironic the industry which consistently struggles to monetize its digital content is the business with the highest potential to do so. Everyone producing content is starting to make money from it it seems, with the exception of the music industry who clamps desperately its retail model. They watch their income only drop on [...]

Posted on: June 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »

A quick post on a ‘new’ application of the Papervision 3D technology. After we’ve seen Johnny Lee take the Wiimote to his interfaces for head tracking and touch screens, Seedylifestyle has found a way to put the Nintendo Wiimote to use in Flash (& browsers) through Papervision. The provided demo speaks for itself:

What excites me [...]

Posted on: June 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »

The adoption of mobile technology hasn’t been a matter of ‘if’ for a long time now, but seems to be stuck on the ‘when’. I used to think the ‘next gen’ phones with larger screens and continuous internet access where to be the last step towards mass adoption, but I don’t see ‘the masses’ running [...]

Posted on: May 21, 2008 | 8 Comments »

 
The Gillmor Gang, a podcast with some of the leading voices of ‘the social web’ talked about data portability in an ‘epic’ episode with internet heavyweights like Mike Arrington and Robert Scoble. Data portability is the idea of having your data of your ’social profile’ - your friends or any other information tied to a [...]

Posted on: May 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Amongst all the Weblins madness of last month (don’t get me started on this, ‘paradigm shift…’) I added a little wordpress feature called ‘Gravatars’, nice colourful faces to the comments. Nothing really ‘new’ to the world but I liked it well enough to make a post about it.
Gravatar aims to be the ‘globally recognised avatar’ [...]

Posted on: May 15, 2008 | 7 Comments »

Another presentation by Cory Ondrejka (Former CTO of Linden Research, Inc.) on the future of Virtual worlds. I’m really glad it confirms some of my own, recent thoughts on the metaverse as I have a lot of respect for Cory’s vision towards Virtual Worlds. The basic component of Corys presentation is ‘expectations’. How are [...]

Posted on: April 30, 2008 | No Comments »

I was writing a reply to Dusan Writers (great new design by the way) article on the ‘Sheeps Sweet Spot’ called ‘The Thinner the Client, the sweeter the Pie‘- Overall a good article and as it triggered a line of thoughts I’d been having myself lately It ended up a rather long reply and wanted [...]

Posted on: April 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »

It’s often said 2D has advantages over 3D just as 3D has advantages over 2D. While 2D allows good overviews, particularly with text (a 2D medium per definition) and area/location based overviews (maps) it also has its limitations. 3D gives more of a feeling of presence, and has advantages due to a better relation with [...]

Posted on: March 13, 2008 | 4 Comments »