Interesting article at eweek.com about the BlogOn Social Media Summit in NY that happened end of Oct.In fact, attendees—a collection of bloggers, blog management tool vendors and marketers dying to infiltrate the blogosphere—acknowledged that the blog alone is passé and the real interest is in the community-building nature of the new “social media.”Yep, no surprises there. Egocasting won’t be a revenue maker and my loves, while blogs are popular as diaries and travel logs, its the move to more collaborative technologies and many-to-many discussions that is interesting. “You don’t own the community. You don’t start the community,” said Jarvis. “The Continue Reading…
Nov 132005
Talking of money, my Donations Please netted me the sum total of zero dollars and five cents. So the chances of my asking Mr Murdoch wanton questions on his internet acquisitions over sumptous din-dins are now also zero as wabanhood paid $57,100 for the privilege. I’ve emailed wabanhood to ask her if she intends to write or blog the experience. I refrained from asking her if she had a brother called Robin… Why “her“? Because nothing is secret from the all-powerful all-seeing all-googling moi. But identities merge and mutate, nothing is a cert on the ‘net, so we’ll have to Continue Reading…
Off to Slattery’s tomorrow night and I’m really looking forward to hearing Mark Pesce speak. I haven’t read any of his books – it’s really bloomin’ hard to find them – but I have listened to hyperpeople. All 40 minutes of it, several times through (there’s still bits I’m struggling with). I would’ve paid for that content by the way. Ok, maybe not up front as I had always assumed the guru of VRML would be a geeky nerd who talks in a monotone. (Hmmm You’ve had to sit still and listen to that type too, admit it). But paying Continue Reading…
Tis not only Nature that abhors a vacuum.The minimilism of this site has got the Digerati (and SMH) all a-quiver. So what is Illyria and what will it yield? Lacking patience and in the absence of anything good on telly, its time to weave a spell, spew out some hocus pocus and basically polish off the ol’ crystal ball. As a massively multiplayer online game, Illyria enables thousands of players to come together online and battle against the world and each other. Players from across the globe can leave the real world behind and undertake grand quests and heroic exploits Continue Reading…
Nov 072005
The blurb: Ooh, what a sexy phrase. Don’t we all want our significant others whispering sweet nothings about new games we’re all waiting for, or unchecked SYN packets. To give it that extra edge, the japanese text is a loose translation. So my question is, what does the Japanese mean (just how ‘loose’ is that transalation?!!111!!). Jinx has done everything right – a really brilliant little community has sprung up around a small niche commercial site. I love reading the comments from buyers of their admittedly-limited range of geeky slogan’ed t-shirts. Uploading of fotos of customers wearing the t-shirts was Continue Reading…
From time to time I’ve blogged on about the industry revolving around buying and selling virtual items on eBay. No-one has got a good grasp of what sort of impact this industry is going to have, least of all companies that ban trading of accounts and items and currencies. The Escapist makes a great point about the pejorative labelling of avatar clothing or gaming weapons as “virtual” products and how we are not as dismissive of purchasing dvds or online newspapers which are also virtual products. The article then exposes exactly why companies only send cease-and-desist letters to online traders Continue Reading…
Demonware announces targeted ingame advertising solutions: The Dynamic Network Advertising (DNA) platform has been created to satisfy growing industry demands for precise, individually tailored advertising solutions, targeting a specific audience through the analysis of multiplayer gaming habits, player profiles and associated data About time! It actually annoys me to see *fake* billboards in City of Heroes and There.com. Why advertise some non-existent restaurant or shopping mall when it would be kinda cool to see a Nike ad? Well, one that was context sensitive and didn’t disrupt the immersive world experience. Like the World of Warcraft ads in China I guess. Continue Reading…
At the BBC site, a photo album – Robbie Cooper has a fascinating “expose” (over used word but what the heck) of online gamers and their avatars. And w00t! One of the Lineage kings is there!Post here if you have ever met an ingame friend and how they compared to their avatar, ever thought that the person behind an avatar was maybe a famous movie star or if you know what Leroy Jenkins – or should I say “LEEEEROY JEEEENKINS” looks like (one for the WoW fans!).
Nov 042005
I had mentioned to someone over coffee yesterday that the number one online community was roleplaying games and number two was umm the other roleplaying game – The Dating Game. This “friend” had the temerity to question my figures. After a violent debate where cups may have been broken, I thought I better go double check my data.From a Wiki at Queensland Uni of Technology: Dating sites are increasing not only in the area of consumer usage, but also in terms of the industry’s progression toward providing both online interaction and the business models to support online communities. The online Continue Reading…
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