David N Wallace has written a great post about accessing touch technologies and the disabled. The Touch Barrier – Accessibility and usability issues around touch technologies June 14th, 2008 I’m Worried. Worried about recent technology developments – actually the application of one technology in particular – touch. In this instance, when I say ‘touch’ I’m referring to devices requiring skin – a finger as opposed to a stylus – ala the iPhone and nearly every laptop on the market. (read more) Yes. It’s important and not a minority issue.How about this for game benefits? Disabled Gamers’ Comprise 20% of Casual-Videogame Continue Reading…
Jun 142008
Posted by Laurel Papworth at 8:47 pm Tagged with: Casual, developmental disability, iphone, learning disability, MMORPG, one technology, Online Communities, recent technology developments, social networks, touch technologies
Jun 122008
This is a fun job! Title: Sr Producer – Virtual Worlds US-CA-North Hollywood RESPONSIBILITIES: Job Description:Senior Producer, Virtual Worlds, Multiplayer Online Games – Job ID 138859Disney Online is committed to leading the market in creating, marketing and operating, industry defining, entertaining, interactive and high quality, premium online experiences for kids and families.Products in the team’s portfolio include Disney.com (including Disney Xtreme Digital), Disney’s Toontown Online – the award winning and first massively multiplayer game for kids and families, Disney’s Game Kingdom Online – a subscription product for kids 3 – 8, Playhouse Disney Preschool Time Online – a subscription product Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 12:35 am Tagged with: broadband, high speed internet, jobs, Jobs, select high-speed Internet service providers, Senior Producer, Snr Producer, Social Media Australia, social networks, subscription product, United States, virtual worlds, web 2.0
May 272008
First…Second Life on the mobile phone. Second,… virtual world on Android (Googles mobile phone opensource platform). Lots more information here (guys, it takes more than increasing # of avatars on a SIM to 400 to kill off Second Life). Oh and skip the video to 1:29 to get to the groovier stuff. …the way we consume content – short form, long form, is changing… not just the platforms. Technorati Tags: cellphone, mobile, Online Communities, social networks, virtual world, web 2.0, second life, android, worlds, MMORPG
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 3:22 am Tagged with: Android, cellphone, cellular telephone, mobile, Online Communities, social networks, web 2.0
May 212008
If you shut down social networks where members are active – spending time and money to build community- sooner or later there will be a backlash. Disney should think before they shutdown yet ANOTHER online community site. Why would you join ANOTHER Disney site when you know how they are going to treat you?
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 1:06 am Tagged with: Caspian, Disney, entertainment, mobile, mobile social network, Nintendo, Nintendo DS, playdom, Prince, producer, Seth "Yavn" Mendelsohn, shutdown, social media, social network, social networking mobile, social networks, the 50th anniversary of Disneyland, Toronto, Walt Disney Co.
Note: Social Media is user-generated, member created, content. Not interactive stuff from a web agency or traditional media company.I’ve been following 5min_tech on Twitter for a while now. 5min – Find the Best How To, instructional and DIY videos – people uploading 5 min videos to educate other people. It’s called a videopedia. Kinda cool to have people doing stuff for free – how many businesses are having their models threatened now? I would be shoving the videos I usually sell up in 5min chunks on this site, and then using it to promote my live tutorials, workshops and labs Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 4:41 pm Tagged with: Bartlett, cellular telephone, creative cross media platform, Facebook, Josh, Media, media overarching storyline, Melbourne, mobile, mobile phones, Motorola, Online Communities, President, Sam, second life, social media, social network, social networks, Sydney, synchronous device, teacher, Twitter, user generated content, virtual reality, web agency, youtube
SilkCharm in Eyeore Pajamas and yellow Fluffy Duck slippers in Second Life (SilkCharm Sachertorte). I was running around Second Life in my Eyeore pajamas and fluffy duck slippers that light up last night -well, it was waaaaay past SilkCharm’s bedtime – when I bumped into Anya Ixchel (Angela Thomas, lecturer at University of Sydney). They have a job for someone arty/animator-y: very creative project for someone – contact the producer, KateRichards (kate.richards (at) bigpond.com) : I’m producing a Second Life prototype for a arts-based client and I’m looking for a Art Director/animator with experience in Virtual Worlds development. Graphic production Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 1:44 pm Tagged with: Art Director, director, laurel papworth, Lecturer, Melbourne, Online Communities, producer, professional networks, second life, Social Media Australia, social networks, Sydney, United States, university of sydney
Not my usual well thought out – *frowns at you* – post , just some jottings on the consumer economy. BANKING 2.0 – social network personal banking and peer to peer loans will take off in a big way. Perhaps not the way Virgin Money/CircleLending, or Zopa or Prosper see it, but it will happen. Screws the banks in the same way Web 1.0 screwed Music industry. Not social media, straight p2p banking sites. RECRUITMENT 2.0 – already recruitment is dead. In Australia, the big recruiters have been busily buying up any small recruitment company that has been able to Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 6:43 pm Tagged with: business, China, CNY, collaborative products, consumer economy, customers creating products, economy, Facebook, flat web page, Hugh Mcleod, iphone, lawyer and a secretary and a web designer, Monetization, Online Communities, online currency transactions, p2p, peer to peer, peer2peer, personal banking, satellite communities, second life, seth godin, social media, Social Media Australia, social media economy information, social network, social networks, straight p2p banking sites, Twitter, United States, USD, Yahoo!
Who’s going to Online Games drinkies tonight? Hmm Friends don’t let friends drink and game… Online games going mainstream – the implications for the media and advertising industries The Online games industry is morphing into a compelling new medium. We are seeing the convergence of games, movies, virtual worlds and social networking applications into an environment where the participant can create their own mash-ups of entertainment experiences. Many online games have the community as a major part of the entertainment and from this we are seeing new trends emerging about how we play and socialise. These trends, along with powerful Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 5:53 pm Tagged with: David Edery, MMORPG, mobile
Mar 182008
Interesting article re: leveraging user generated content in and around games. You really should read the whole thing at clickz but here’s some snippets: Reinforcing the value of UGGC, Cliff Bleszinski, lead designer for “Gears of War,” said, “For a PC title that expects any sort of longevity in sales, playability, and online time, a mod community can be extremely important. Having thousands of fans of the game purchase and then modify the title while exchanging the fruits of their labor can turn a simple game into its own gaming platform.” (clickz) You have to understand the Chuck Norris Facts Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 12:07 pm Tagged with: MMORPG, user generated content
Mar 122008
At 1:15 is the New Zealand one – really really funny. And mean. But funny. (in a grown-up voice) I don’t understand these people who play around with ‘avatars’ and have multiple personalities online. I mean, they’re not real, not like real people. At least we know what we are getting when we meet real people? Not that pretend stuff. You can’t trust people online, only flesh and blood, right? Heh. A discussion I had yesterday with Il Paparazzo at AD:TECH Her *clicking away with some big-ass camera* : What’s an avatar?Me: A dolly online that you move around and Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 5:34 pm Tagged with: Avatars, India, MMORPG, multiple personalities, New Zealand, online avatar, online persona, social networks
This could be you? One of the Second Life Cable Network TV shows is looking for a webmaster/webmistress who knows Drupal and Second Life. We are looking for somebody who knows both Second Life as well as Drupal to be a part-time webmaster for the metanomics.net site. Metanomics is a prestigious weekly show about the metaverse and its impact on business and society hosted by Robert Bloomfield of Cornell University. It has been written-up in the Wall Street Journal and is the definitive show about this topic. This doesn’t pay a lot, but also won’t require too much time for Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 7:02 pm Tagged with: Cornell University, Kelly Services, knowledgable webmaster, metanomics.net site, part-time webmaster, part-time webmaster for the metanomics.net site, Robert Bloomfield, second life, social media, Sun Microsystems, The Wall Street Journal, Wall Street Journal, webmaster
Mar 042008
There t’was I, minding my own business in World of Warcraft, when suddenly, out of the blue, up jumps Labour MP Keith Vaz (from ITWire) British MP: In modern games you “can rape women” A member of the British parliament has decried modern gaming as a way to live out humanities darkest endeavours. Another example of blatant, ignorant, public stereotyping of the video games industry? According to this report from MCV via Spong , Leciester East Labour MP Keith Vaz has launched a somewhat wobbly attack upon the state of modern gaming during a Private Member’s Bill debate session. In Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 3:41 am Tagged with: British Board of Film Classification, British parliament, Conservative MP, Julian Brazier, jumps Labour MP, Keith Vaz, Leciester East Labour MP, Leicester, MP, Online Communities, Online Games There t'was, Private Member, social networks
Mar 032008
OMG I can’t even create decent real life Microsoft Powerpoint presentations. How on earth am I going to do artistic, scintillating, quirky, dynamic, whizbang presentions in Second Life?:(hat tip: @skribe on Twitter and skribe something in Second Life, possibly involved with Massively?). Got your free, open source copy of Zebra Presenter, the professional presentation and productivity suite for Second Life? This video walks you through how to use it, and make your presentations look fantastic! I did buy some cute new clothes (not the green wings, they are old) for SilkCharm yesterday. She was starting to whinge about being a Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 10:40 pm Tagged with: business, laurel papworth, Microsoft, Online Communities, second life, social networks, Twitter
I wrote a few paragraphs recently for The Venture Group newsletter – the pdfs from that issue are gone, but what I wrote seems to be popular. Note the top right: in the next years the market for web 2.0 companies will get standardized. It seems to me that investment companies really do want to invest in your you-beaut idea for an online community. But they only want three things: your exit strategy and your revenue stream. Well, there’s probably a third thing but I don’t know what it is. You, of course, are creating your community with ethics, high Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 4:26 pm Tagged with: ABC, active Internet users, advertising channel, All, Australian Habbo Hotel, Chris Anderson, Christmas, cnn, ebay, entertainment products, Facebook, Ford, Guide, Habbo Hotel, Harley Davidson, large satellite communities, massive social networks, mobile, mobile phones, MySpace, Nike, official, Online Communities, Online Communities piece, online community, online world, peer to peer, pixel products, product/services, retail chains, ROI, social media, Social Media Australia, social network, social networks, South Korea Telecom, Sulake, telstra, the Official Guide, USD, user generated content, virtual community, web 2.0, you-beaut idea, youtube
Virtual world job at Disney, via Monster: Job Description:Senior Producer, Virtual Worlds, Multiplayer Online Games – Job ID 138859Disney Online is committed to leading the market in creating, marketing and operating, industry defining, entertaining, interactive and high quality, premium online experiences for kids and families. Products in the team’s portfolio include Disney.com (including Disney Xtreme Digital), Disney’s Toontown Online – the award winning and first massively multiplayer game for kids and families, Disney’s Game Kingdom Online – a subscription product for kids 3 – 8, Playhouse Disney Preschool Time Online – a subscription product for preschoolers, Disney Connection – a Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 10:19 pm Tagged with: America, broadband, career, high speed internet, jobs, MMORPG, online games, producer, select high-speed Internet service providers, Senior Producer, subscription product, USA, virtual worlds, Walt Disney Company, Walt Disney Corporation
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