March 2008

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I defer you to Dee’s post about the content of Jane’s aw3some speech and my thoughts on that. Thus, all I have here is a youtube clip from the premier of her latest ARG trailer. Enjoy!

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How Piracy Will Save the Music Industry in a nutshell… sort of. Jason Schwartz of Angelsoft records. He described a clandestine Fight Club type group called “The Scene” who are responsible for the best quality and first released pirated content. These are people who are deeply embedded within the entertainment system. According to Schwarts, the […]

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me: Jane McGonigal chatJonathan: YES!!me: So what do you think of her so far?Jonathan: So, happiness is the new capital?me: Is that sarcasm?Jonathan: I really think her ideas are innovativeme: Because she’s awesomeHahah okay goodI really love that she is talking about how happiness is definedJonathan: yes, it’s really neat to think that gaming is […]

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You heard it here first. Videos to come of her general awesomeness and also, a chat transcript between the infamous Jon Zmikly and I as we watched Jane’s keynote. Stay tuned!!———————————————————————————-Edit: Thoughts after her Keynote I still maintain that Jane is awesome and her keynote was great but there are a couple of points I […]

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Video on demand (VOD) as a distribution model for content. TiVo has already done that, by allowing a linear platform to shift the content to another time frame. How can that time shifting of content such as VODs be done to monetize the content being created by users. It is in the early stage to […]

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The Mexican Manifesto was an interesting panel, though sparsely attended by SXSW standards. Too bad for those who didn’t attend, since they served shots of tequila at the end of the panel. No kidding. The Usability and Accessibility for the Web International Seminar, organized by the State Government of Nuevo Le-n and the Universidad de […]