Posts Tagged ‘ wink ’

Google Lively Machinima Potential

Jul 10th, 2008 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Last Post, Virtual Worlds, Web 3.0

Although this new soon to be ubiquitous virtual world is not as vastly customisable as Second Life it has some nice useful, linear machinima features such as the rather quaint preset animations and its obvious cartoon aesthetic. I just put together a quick sequence of some of the ’solo’ animations of the toons up onto [...]

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Selection of My Speaking Gigs Coming up

Feb 18th, 2008 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Events, Participatory Media, Second Life, Social Networks, Speaking, Virtual Worlds, Web 3.0

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As usual a slowish Australian conference start to the year, still getting used to these hot Jan/Febs Coming up though cool conferences and seminars I am appearing at and will add more to this post as others firm up. In chronological order:

Feb 24-29 - LAMP, Victoria. Directing the 8th residential in Marysville, Victoria
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Let the Goldrush Begin

Sep 11th, 2006 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Alternate Reality, Cross Media, Games, Production, TV

In two days time the latest Mark Burnett show, I blogged about in April ‘Alternate Reality TV‘ , will begin. I think this programme will start to blur the line between pure reality TV and the immersion afforded by alternate reality game type quests across media. Much of this seems to be primarily designed to [...]

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“Slow down you move too fast

Feb 25th, 2006 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Advertising, Creativity, Distribution, Innovation, Interactivity, Metadata, On-demand, Personalization, Production, Profiling, TV, Targeting

…you gotta make the adverts last”. (you have to sing/think that in Simon and Garfunkel mode of course). In a world of on-demand - whether via (1) synch’d Personal Digital Recorder (eg: iPod, PSP), (2) broadcast capture (DVR, TiVo) or (3) straight forward server pull (cable, dsl, broadband) - advertising as we currently know it [...]

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