There have been a few iPhone apps that suggest where things are heading, not necessarily with the iPhone as musical instrument (it is still a small toy) but with musical instruments of the future. The multi touch, inertia driven interface at larger scale is going to be very interesting as well as the proximity and [...]
Ok so my new favourite thing ever…..even though I haven’t played it yet (fickle aren’t I!? ), and do not yet have a PS3 so am unlikely to be able to play it even when it does come out any minute now…. *gasp* remember to breathe Cass..
LittleBigPlanet!!! I know you [...]
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 [...]
Seems you can’t turn your back on Social Virtual World development nowadays. A couple of weeks after I put out this video which covers ‘most’ of the major players along comes Multiverse Places. I suspect that the slow take up of multiverse engine as a ‘tool’ needed a little Linden pzzazz to get things moving. [...]
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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 [...]
Twice this week I’ve stumbled across interfaces which I’ve found irresistible and blog-worthy. The first is PicLens (not brand new this week - but certainly within living memory ie: several months). The second is the Zoomii interface for browsing Amazon books.
PicLens is a Firefox 3.0 plugin which allows you to navigate through sites such as [...]
Courtesy of Michael Ball:
“Is there a market for feature-length films on the mobile phone?” I asked Tomas Gewecke, new President of Digital Distribution for Warner Bros., at the US Mobile Entertainment Forum Conference MEFCON last week.
You’d think, by the audience reaction, that I just confessed to running over his dog.
Warner cut a deal recently with [...]
It would seem that multi-touch interfaces are the new black. In any case - they’re really really popular. They’re popping up like mushrooms all over the place with companies like Microsoft and Apple in a mad race to get devices/concepts to market. Ken Han introduced the genius of his multi-touch interfaces to a rapt [...]
The world had real-time news about China’s massive earthquake as victims dashed out Twitter text messages while it took place, in what has been touted as evidence of micro-blogging outshining mainstream news, claims Newslimited media potral News.com.au.
As the earth shook with tragic consequences, people in the parts of China that felt the quake used their mobile [...]
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 [...]
from news.com.au:
An American mother has been indicted in connection with a MySpace hoax that ended with a 13-year-old girl committing suicide after being spurned by a fictitious boy.
A federal grand jury in Los Angeles indicted Lori Drew, 49, on criminal charges of conspiracy and accessing MySpace computers “without authorisation to inflict emotional distress on the [...]
A much publicised patent application published in December 2007 revealed that Apple had explored allowing handheld owners (such as the iPhone) to place orders from local stores. The system would, for example, allow customers to order a drink with the press of a button on their iPhone which would then notify them when their order [...]
LonelyGirl15 actress Jessica Rose is making a comeback to the computer-screen with a new web series called Blood Cell,produced by digital studio 60Frames. This new series is not a faked vlog but a well-produced murder mystery. Part of the current onslaught of professionally produced web content with a hyper-syndication (the viral distribution of content through [...]
MySpace UK has just announced a deal with the Lonelygirl15 team to make a 60-part webisode series called I Love Chieftown. This comes hot on the heels of a deal with Bebo to create the Kate Modern series and, in the style of LG15, will be highly interactive and designed to exist within the ecology [...]
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” [...]
