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19 January 10

Conquer the Universe with LEGO

LEGO has finally made their move into MMOG. Bring all the creativity you’ve applied to your real world LEGO creations into LEGO Universe.

Beyond the obvious revenue stream that they’ll be banking from the addictive nature of sites like these. LEGO will be gaining a real time R&D platform for future products.

Me predicts that this is going to be HUGE. Oh, and I think kids will like it too.

21 December 09

Hacking Virtual Reality with the Wii Remote

Microsoft researcher Johnny Chung Lee hacks the Wii Remote to create this very cool VR prototype.

There’s speculation that Apple is working on displays to bring this technology to your desktop. I could see this working great for games, but, with the amount of times I shift my position while in front of my computer, I’d find this disorienting in a desktop environment.

You can check out more of Johnny’s Wii hacks at his blog.

20 December 09

A Tale of Two Tablets

Over the past couple of weeks two proof-of-concept videos have been making the rounds that give a glimpse at where a tablet-centric magazine experience might go.

Here’s a look at both…

14 October 09

Guess What? Money Doesn’t Motivate Us.

Powerful TED talk delivered by Dan Pink.

Science has proven that people motivated by money do not perform as well in cognitive tasks as people who aren’t incentivized.


Dan challenges business to shed their old ways and figure out how to better tap into the things that really motivate us:

  • autonomy
  • mastery
  • purpose

 

09 October 09

Remembering Netscape

imageSilently on the night of March 1st, 2008, AOL officially ended its support of the Netscape web browser. I somehow randomly ended up at the page posted to announce this. While bloated kludgy and buggy in its later days, Netscape still managed to eek out a final innovation - tabbed browsing. While not perfect, we’re still trying to create something that works better.

I have to admit, when I saw that logo of the N stepping over the horizon line it brought back many great memories and feelings of those early days of exploration and discovery. All of the sudden the world had opened up. There was this electricity, a sense of hope and wonder that you’d start your with as you sat behind your computer. Sipping your coffee, you’d type in that first url of the day and watch the shooting stars blaze past the N.

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