Game Design, Psychology, Flow, and Mastery - Blog - Making Games At last week's Unity engine conference, Flashbang Studios gave a presentation about how to make games faster. To me, it was a surprising and great presentation. Surprising because went against my expectations of what a talk at the Unity conference would be about. Flashbang decided to make games on an 8-week cycle (!!) Reframing the Problem Matthew Wegner (founder and CEO) and Steve Swink (game designer and kindred sprit) presented. What if your problem is, "how do we make games faster?" Two Amazing Hours The first part of their theory is that we really only get about 2 hours of seriously focused, amazing-quality work per day--if we're lucky. Ok, so how do we make sure we get that super-charged-time each day? Flashbang tried an experiment. They said that if you see your time as an unending ocean ("hey, I'll be here for another 15 hours anyway today, and again tomorrow"), then it doesn't even phase you if the solution to a problem would take 5 hours of menial labor from you. The Best ROI?
Investing: The Net Wisdom of Peers Increasingly disenchanted with professional advisers, investors are finding sound advice and improved returns with the help of online communities Two years ago, Eric Wolff, 25, was handed the reins of a $5 million family trust after his family saw how badly it had been managed by a full-service brokerage firm. For the four months ended Oct. 31, the $1 million in accounts that he directly oversees has returned 13%, something he attributes to advice he received on Covestor.com, an online investing community, and top-notch research he's found at other financial Web sites such as Valueinvestorsclub.com and Seekingalpha.com. People saving for retirement are equally inspired to find the best investment advice. Burned Retiree Tries His Hand Bob Craft, 64, a retired pilot for Delta Air Lines (DAL), joined online investing community ValueForum.com in early 2004 after losing 82% of his defined pension when Delta filed for bankruptcy. Communities' Key Asset: Transparency What Investors Want
The Cluetrain Manifesto AN APPROACH TO THE GLOBAL MUSEUM Bollettino del CIC, Numero 2, Anno 1994 Eleonora Bilotta, Mariano Fiorito, Pietro Pantano, Centro Interdipartimentale della Comunicazione, Università della Calabria, Cubo 20, 87036, Rende (CS), Italy. Daniele Struppa, Math. Science, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, 22030, USA. Abstract: In this paper the authors describe an interactive hypermedia prototype which can be considered as a an "educational-exploring tour" through the Calabrian culture (a Southern Italian region) to be placed in a museum or any cultural agency as a stand-alone tool. In particular they show how they managed the hypermedia organization and the information retrieval system, and, above all, the access to the contents by defining "ergonomic" interfaces appropriate for the naive and casual users. 1. Moreover, recent technological trend developments in terms of multimedia-hypermedia offer a wide range of opportunities for the user to cope with rich information environments. 2. 3. 4. 5. Fig. 2 The multimedia page 6.
Open Source - Dimdim: Web conferencing for everyone. Dimdim prov Social Networking with the Elite Tired of the Web masses? Now you can find your own gated communities on the Net—if they'll let you in Are you on the digital A-list? It's no longer enough to get invited to exclusive conferences or be asked to join professional organizations—many movers and shakers are taking their hobnobbing online, where a new crop of social networks aim to keep out the riff-raff by demanding credentials at the virtual door. As MySpace (NWS), LinkedIn, and Facebook have expanded to people of all ages, classes, and affiliations, there's a backlash against the open culture of social networking. In October, British news giant Reuters (RTRSY) launched a private online networking community for hedge fund managers, traders, and analysts. Launched in April, 2006, INmobile.org is a network of more than 900 executives who work in or close to the wireless industry. This invitation-only social and business network, making its debut this month, relies on a selection committee elected by all members on the site.
Cómo hacer la transición hacia la Organización 2.0 (2) Media Studies 2.0 My 'Media Studies 2.0' article was first presented here in February 2007. Then four years later, I added a new introduction which responds to some of the comments that have been made about it. So below you have the new introduction followed by the original article. Note that there is now a Kindle book, Media Studies 2.0, and Other Battles around the Future of Media Research, published July 2011, which brings together this essay alongside more recent articles, responses and rejoinders. Original article (2007): In a recent interview about the newly popular concept of 'Web 2.0', following a spate of mainstream media coverage of Second Life, Wikipedia, and other collaborative creative phenomena in autumn 2006, I found myself mentioning a possible parallel in a 'Media Studies 2.0'. In this article, I thought it might be worth fleshing out what Media Studies 2.0 means, in contrast to the still-popular traditional model. Outline of Media Studies 1.0 Outline of Media Studies 2.0 Updates: References
New York City 2009 » Growing Community with BuddyPress – an Intr Lisa Sabin-Wilson This weekend we’ll all be at CUNY in NYC for a weekend of learning, sharing, networking, eating, drinking and soaking in all the amazing WP goodness that comes out of every WordCamp across the world. I’m excited, aren’t you?? The tireless organizers of WCNYC have worked hard to put together a really fantastic line up of sessions….simply something for everyone. I know how challenging it is to organize and event such as this – hats off to them for what is sure to be a pretty phenomenal weekend in NYC! Speaking of sharing and socializing – - my session at WordCamp NYC is aimed towards introducing bloggers to the BuddyPress - a suite of plugins available for the WordPress MU platform that is rich with features that allow you to take your WordPress MU site to the next level by engaging a community on your own web site through dynamic features such as: Extended ProfilesFriendsPrivate MessagingActivity WiresBlog TrackingStatus Updates…and more!
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