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 [...]

ORIGINALLY POSTED BY GARY ON PERSONALIZEMEDIA
Fed up with your avatar having to live inside a wall-garden world? Want to bring it out into the wider web to play? Well it seems a revolution is at hand, early days and a few notable services listed below, but keep your eyes peeled as virtual characters start to [...]

Described by it’s creators as the “first step in an ongoing social experiment, based on twitter inspired by wefeelfine and drawing data from summize“, Twistori is a real time visualiser which displays tweets containing the words love, hate, think, believe, feel and wish. It has a much narrower focus than wefeelfine which visualises a massive [...]

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 [...]

Natalie Spence flicked over some Flickr in-the-know this morning. It’s an article from Flickr’s George Oates on their experience building and cultivating their online community. A thread includes  minimising the ‘rules’ and allowing users to tangle, mangle and get creative with the given infrastrucure.
“People don’t like being told what to do. We like to explore, change things around, [...]

Very interesting research from Lawrence Kutner and Cheryl Olson who have just researched for ($1.5Mill US) and written a book called “Grand Theft Childhood” which makes the claim that rather than video simulations (games for the oldie readers) being about social rejects the actual opposite is true. Those children who are not exposed to playing [...]

I just captured and uploaded to YouTube a TV show (yes they are still going!) this morning featuring Australia’s leading social network strategist and social network hostess with the mostess, Laurel Papworth - also occasional LAMP mentor and speaker!.
Also featuring Aussie K (who has 102 000 MySpace Friends) they both talk with David and Kim [...]

A cross-post from the main LAMP blog cause this is cool…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTv975gPvow

A mini ARG (Alternate Reality Game) with virtual world parallel components as part of the 8th LAMP residential in Marysville, Victoria Australia.
We have been running LAMP residential workshops for nearly 3 years now and on the first day we normally run a team bond/building game. [...]

The block is from Advanced TV and seems to be another brick in the wall of proof that the ‘two-way-network’ is now starting to reach an ‘advertising’ contender level of maturity as most folk are spending most of their time on the web. It has synergy with other reports from Pew and Nielsen (which we [...]

Interesting to see a number of “design” companies relying heavily (but poetically and thoughtfully), on code to generate visualisation work these days. I know it’s nothing new, but I am genuinely excited by the possibilities inherent when really good information design, generates really good visual design generated by really good code. People are probably familiar [...]

In December 2007 Technorati was tracking over 112 million blogs. With this many people blogging worldwide it’s no wonder that they are beginning to be used as a reliable measure of social sentiment in fields as diverse as politics, finance and art. It might not be visualised with the beauty of  We Feel Fine but [...]