Gaming & Social Networks
“This is this is the second notice that your vehicle’s factory warranty is about to expire,” or so says the automated voice at the other end of the phone, regardless of whether or not you actually own a car in the first place. An annoyance that has hit a nerve with the American public and [...]
Been having a bit of a “Corporate America has a large stick up its arse,” discourse over the last few days on my world famous blog… Which you should check out on a daily basis, or forever be consigned to the seventh circle of Hell with the BDA “Ignorati.” This particular chat is about how [...]
We recently profiled Multitouch Barcelona at OFFF. They have just released a video of their Human Interface interpretation, which includes a person executing analog versions of digital tasks. A surface-top touch screen serves as communication between you and your very personal Human Interface. Be sure to check out the rest of their projects here.
Distance Lab is a group of “fearless researchers” dedicated to overcoming the disadvantages of distance using digital media technologies. They’ve created an intriguing romantic communication environment called Mutsugoto that’s meant to connect distant couples using light drawings.
They explain:
Mutsugoto is an intimate communication device intended for a bedroom environment. Instead of exchanging e-mail or SMS messages [...]
We’ve written about Secret Wars before on PSFK. It’s a “fight club for artists” battling live on stage with a marker and a white wall. At the end of 90 minutes, two judges and the crowd decide on the winner.
From June 12–22 Secret Wars will be hosting a series of events culminating into a final [...]
The Institute For The Future has developed a solid list of ten workplace skills for the future which emphasizes social networking skills, collaboration, pattern recognition, ability to deal with accelerated change and big picture thinking.
The skills:
Ping Quotient
Longbroading
Open Authorship
Cooperation Radar
Multi-Capitalism
Mobbability
Protovation
Influency
Signal/Noise Management
Head over to the Institute’s site for the details.
(image of the Treehouse Co-Working space in Brooklyn)
The ease in which YouTube has allowed users to share digital video has helped enable a variety of projects that exist as offshoots of the service: the video mashup, web vlogging stars, and now, frame by frame visualization tool yooouuutuuube.com. Perhaps a little less known is You 3b. A project of former Eyebeam fellows, You [...]
At our 2009 New York conference, a panel led by Florian Peter (CScout) discussed how creators and the community openly come together to develop new thinking and make ideas happen. John Geraci (Outside.in), Scott Heiferman (Meetup), Avner Ronen (boxee) and Domenico Vitale (PI&C) explain how they leverage open communities to develop new products, services and [...]
Everything is information and information is everything. It’s the mantra of marketing in an age where people are constantly creating collectible data—all the things we do, say, use, buy, click and share are data points in the graphs of our lives. But in an increasingly visual society, pie charts and bar charts can’t begin to [...]
Designer John Brennan recently won the Social Actions Change the Web Challenge for his live map of positive social change going on around the world. Brennan is also the creator of imdoingmypart.org, a site that breaks down small ways to improve life on the planet.
Triple Pundit explains the project:
Every moment of every day, somewhere in [...]
As part of its promotion of the Core 2 Duo processor, Intel has released a series of viral videos in China under the slogan: “If You’re Going to Play, Play Big” (玩，就玩大的). One of the more recent videos features a gamer imagining himself using a construction crane to play a massive real-life game of Tetris.
Another [...]
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Following in the path of Kutiman’s YouTube mashup videos, “In Bb 2.0″ is a collaborative music and spoken word project that uses a grid of video clips as tracks in a musical composition. Visitors to the inbflat website can play, pause, and adjust the volume on any of the videos to create a unique musical [...]
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Playwright and programmer Llewellyn Hinkes has a brilliant essay over at The Morning News which explores how people tend to assign and associate memories, emotion, meaning and significance to physical objects - what he describes as a kind of fetishisation. And he wonders about the decreasing value and significance we place on all the digital, [...]
The four young Catalans behind the experimental technology design group Multi-Touch came across at OFFF as the boy-band of media arts. In a darkened hangar before an audience of hundreds, the team presented the work they had achieved since they had come together just over a year ago - and explained how their view of [...]
Amid much fanfare, Art We Love launched its free-access site during New York’s massive Armory Arts Week. After a year of members-only access, now anyone can use the site to explore and discover the global contemporary arts scene. The site acts like your own personal art consultant, featuring worldwide venue and show listings, expert commentary [...]
Inspiration to make things better.
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