NBC have taken a bold step in making it clear that it is ramping up quality programming exclusively for the web reported by AdAge. Although the episodes are in the 4-5 minute range they will have high production values as if made for prime time TV. The whole initiative is seeking key advertisers to be [...]
I introduced Indigo Prophesy (aka Farenheit) to AFTRS a couple of years ago when we ran some LAMP workshops as well as cross-media design courses and it opened the minds of a few writers and directors here to the potential of highly emotional story and character driven game design. A couple of those staff and [...]
Interesting enterprise development from California based, Electric Sheep Company (notable for doing branded developments across virtual worlds like There.com and Second Life) as well as cross-over, mixed reality gigs like the CSI-virtual world mash-up last year. They have developed Webflock, a easy to implement solution for any company/organisation to brand and deploy, as if any [...]
As the LAMP team are busy developing internal courses here in AFTRS, Mr. LAMP is having a well earned rest from external cross-media development for a few months. So what are you all to do? Well as regards other incubator labs in Australia that actually grow your idea we wouldn’t have any hesitation in recommending [...]
I have talked about Rocketboom at many LAMP events as being a great model of how a collaborative and personality driven video blogs can reach audiences that rival that of traditional TV and radio. LAMP mentor and speaker Andrew Apostola’s enterprise Portable Content Festival is touring three seminars with the creator in Sydney, Adelaide and [...]
Nice but relatively random Spaghetti Code sculpture image: George Hart Computer Science Department NY
Heard this on “Heritage Media” channel 702 ABC (AM!) Radio Sydney this morning. Deborah Cameron was interviewing Ben Eggleton of Centre for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS) a consortium between five Australian universities: The University of Sydney, Macquarie University, University [...]
Over half of all the LAMP projects are in or have been produced to audiences now. üBERgroover.tv was a project that came into our 4th residential on Milson’s Island in 2006 and we have just heard from ex-AFTRS student Tina Lymberis, it’s driving force, of the official launch and plans to take on the world. [...]
There has been a lot in the news recently of serious VC funding for Serious Games. This one reported by TechCrunch from Lumos Labs called Lumosity which got a smooth $3m is typical of the current rush. The robust business model for ‘improvement games’ echoes some of my 1990s research into business models around ‘old [...]
New technologies focusing on the convergence of TV and community continue to turn watching TV into a social activity. The connected TV experience is aimed at providing remote users with a joint viewing experience - chat, vote, comment, or just watch your favorite shows with other fans or distant friends.
The idea of transforming an experience [...]
To help add a social networking feel for Microsoft Outlook e-mail users, San Francisco startup Xobni has launched a beta service aimed at helping organize their e-mail inboxes by business and personal relationships.
As Outlook remains the most common program used for e-mail in corporate America, Xobni (available for download here) aims to make it easier [...]
Following on from the watercooler post last week on Second Life running on a Samsung phone it is interesting how in the last month we have virtual worlds appearing on mobile devices at every turn - iPhone etc: below. Will May 08 be known as the month Web 3.0 (the real time, social virtual world [...]
An interesting video with the creators of the new pilot web site from Carnegie Mellon University, called Spongecell. Spongecell. brings together the interactivity of social networking to product marketing and promotion campaigns. An interesting example was the Yari Film Group in the USA..
Yari Film Group sees 40% opt-in
“We wanted to promote our movie “Final Season” [...]
