Talk: The Fragments of Play – Transocialmedia Entertainment
Talk: The Fragments of ... // I was invited to keynote at the IADIS multi conference in the really tough summer environment that is Carvoeiro (a quaint Portugese coastal town & limestone cliff’d seascape on the Algarve). The conference (at...
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Letting Audiences Play with your Pieces – Participatory Film & Music
Letting Audiences Play ... // There are a multitude of sites out there asking the ‘audience’ (grrr)  to submit films, music, scripts, stories, bits of their personal life and anything the brand or property feel will draw them into their...
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Games & Virtual Worlds are Dying? So What’s The ROI?
Games & Virtual Wo... // Dying? More in the middle of this post – Thought I would share my lil’ introduction slides from ad:tech 2009 earlier this week. It is such a short time (each panel is given 50 minutes) to cover such a vast area...
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RocketOn & On & On – Twitter 2.0?
RocketOn & On ... // If RocketOn grows at its current rate it may be the follow-up to Twitter as a real time, web 3.0, animated avatar, 2D web integrated social application. It will of course need much more sophisticated friend and group management...
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Virtual Worlds rescue TV?! or v.v.?!
Virtual Worlds rescue T... // What may save TV may also truly grow Social Virtual Worlds. As online audiences continue to ignore TV and vanilla/social virtual worlds suffer from a lack of direction, perhaps the marriage of the two will save both from...
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Review “Life III: Escape from Reality” game
Review “Life III:... // Life III Box So been having a nice break here in Bondi, doing all sorts of cool commercial and/or creative non-LAMP projects plus playing some great new games (Fallout 3, Mirror’s Edge, Elder Scrolls/Oblivion etc:)...
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Football Superstars, iPhone Ocarina, NBC WebTV and Lost in SL
Football Superstars, iP... // Another selection of my items cross-posted from another of my original blogs, lamp watercooler. The Ulitmate Mashup Launches – Sport, MMOG & Social Virtual World – 16 Oct 08 Football Superstars is the world’s...
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The Future of Social Media Entertainment
The Future of Social Me... // I gave an early 9-10.15am keynote presentation to the trendy young filmmaker folk at SPAA fringe on Saturday. It was received well by all who I spoke to and on the grapevine. It built on the many case studies shown by Peter...
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Marketing to New XBox E... // Interesting times ahead – the Console space finally collides with the Social Virtual World space as Sony and Microsoft race to be first to offer non-closed beta, ’social (read: commercial) virtual world’...
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Video: Cinematic Game R... // Have we reached a tipping point – with many more user hours spent with games than films are they now more culturally relevant (as in our cultures are saturated with them)? With most films having ‘game-like’...
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Games and Virtual World... // OK I had better blog this ‘press release‘ copied below which quotes me, but also as I am heavily involved in the creation of these courses and still running LAMP (the innovation unit at AFTRS). Frankly it is...
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Social Media Entertainm... // Hats off to the producers, Ellenor and Marcus, of this social, cross-media show. Scorched – Australis’s first ‘what-if’ disaster telemovie with a few enhancements. Did they get their fingers burnt,...
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Choose Your Own Adventu... // “Make Games and Virtual Worlds at Australian Film, TV and Radio School” – OK time to wear that other hat as Director of the Laboratory for Advanced Media Production at AFTRS and plug some of the cool new...
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