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Monthly Archives: August 2010
shout out: Limbo
I know this is old news, but I have to give a shout out to Limbo. This game for xbox 360 has such killer mood and great simple story telling. No dialogue. No instructions. You just slowly figure the game out in a wondrous act of discovery as things start to make sense. The game has a truly disturbing aesthetic, the depths of which are merely hinted at below.
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things keep getting smaller and smaller
http://wrttn.me/ perplexes and amazes me. Want a webpage? Just type and create it. No bulky blog to get in your way. It kind of hurts my head thinking of what this might be good for, but it is taking stripped down simplicity to the next level.
Type in the box. Click create. You are given a published page with a url. share the url with those you want to read your page. If you want to edit your page, you are given a special admin url. Remember this url, it is the only way to edit your page later. Anyone you share this admin url with can edit the page too.
What do you think? Super-simple. Anonymous. There is a lesson here somewhere.
Admin URL: http://wrttn.me/admin/1fdc2100f09b/
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The Facebook Project
via bavatuesdays.com
This is a must watch, as far as I am concerned. See what happens when edcation takes delivery from the cluetrain.
Bonus: Think about the fact that half of faceboook’s users never used the internet before. Now think of all that these users are doing with this platform. No wonder disruption is listed high on the menu these days.
It’s game over, man.
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The Setup
I just spent a long time reading a lot of the posts on this site. I am in full Internet Hipster Mode, IHM for short. I am a fan of Richard Stallman’s setup. Not that I share his hardcore ideological practices, but really you don’t need much more than a small netbook from which to command your ship upon the networked seas.
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Creation
It felt good today to block off a little time and actually create something. For a long time we have talked about the need to make it easier to post with Blogs At Penn State. I whipped up a way to create a new post when you view your blog and are logged in. The challenge around developing something like this comes from the fact that when you are looking at a blog, you are seeing a static html page served by a completely different server than our instance of Movable Type. This one feature is just a component of an overall strategy to get to a place where a student can edit their blog without ever having to visit the dashboard.
(I know MT motion has something similar, but that is a whole other story.)
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closing thoughts on wave
While it’s been in developer sandbox longer than in public release, I liked the small tweaks in the user interface made for public launch that made it more user friendly — tutorials and “next unread” prompts, for example. More importantly, much of the excitement of Wave was not necessarily in what Google created, but in the extensions that developers were creating to use in Wave.
via renegade element
Robin sums up my thoughts on google wave more articulately than I am able to do myself.
Here’s the comment I left on her blog:
I think wave was the product of a great vision. The problem was wave was mostly a set of stuff for developers to tinker with and not a service. It wasn’t facebook or twitter or google docs. It was a technologic basis on which the next crop of services like google docs would built. Looking at it as a service, it was a failure. Too bad google didn’t have the long-term cojones to stick with this one.
Maybe it is fitting wave took it’s name and other terminology from the tv series Firefly. Wave, like Firefly, was killed by a large company unwilling to offer it the time to grow and find its audience.
BTW, Robin has one of the most pimpin’ fly blogs@psu-powered Websites around.
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