A much-reduced Team Supernova was at SLUK 07 this weekend and managed to get SLorpedo finished off - complete with torpedos, explosions, and sinking subs.
Check out the YouTube video.
Well done to Jim, Nigel, Paul and James.
Tagged Cool, second life, Technology
“Have some of these, Andy”, said Roo, passing me a silvery packet of cards. And thus began my current frustration – Perplex City.
Roo, you see, is secretly evil.
Perplex City is essentially a series of collectable puzzle cards of increasing difficulty, all tied in with a website where you can register and enter the answers, scoring points for each card you solve.
There’s also much more to it than that. Perplex City is – or rather, has been until very recent cancellation – also an Alternate Reality Game, where the puzzles and the stories told on the backs of the cards, combine with real-world clues and other media to act as an interactive game. Fellow eightbar writers Ian, Roo and Nick have all blogged about it before.
I’m late into it, and I’ve never played ARGs before… so I can’t claim to really “get it”. Unfortunately, on the very day that Roo handed me those cards, Mind Candy (the makers) announced that the current “Season 2” of the Perpex City ARG had been cancelled, although the cards will continue to come out. Still, I’m left with a stack of, well, far too many cryptic Perplex City Season 2 cards, to tease my poor brain. Maybe the ARG part would have blown my mind completely.
I’m really not sure I can solve them all…
Technorati Tags: arg, mind candy, perplex city, virtual worlds
Tagged Cool
One of the things I love about using social networking technologies is the ability to extend my real life, physical networks. That’s what it is all about.
Some examples:
hi guys! check out Twitter, please…There are lots of other examples, these are the recent ones. I love this stuff!
Technorati Tags: blogs, dopplr, socialnetworking, socialsoftware, twitter, WMB
Tagged Cool, Technology
The awesome MOO have moved on from their wildly successful Minicards to produce Notecards – 10cm square cards which you can post, and which stand up with a little folding flap to one side.
I just ordered my first pack, and at the same time ordered my 3rd box of Minicards – not quite in time for my trip to Las Vegas next week, which is a shame – think I’ll run out during the week, I only have about 20 left from the current batch.
The very easy-to-use interface has seen some interesting tweaks, too.
You can now choose your buddy icon, no icon, or a range of icons with flashes like “invitation”, “new baby”, the Creative Commons logo etc., on both the Notecards and the Minicards. You can also have MOO fill in photo details from Flickr (title, date etc.) instead of just putting freeform text on the cards, and they have a tiny URL system so that people can find your images online with minimal fuss.
I like it. They know how to win my continuing custom.
Tagged Cool, Flickr, Photography
I’ve been quiet and I’ve been on the road (although like many people, I’m twittering wildly).
Thanks to Roo, I’m now also starting to play with Dopplr. It’s a remarkably simple idea – mark the dates when you’ll be in a particular place and work out when contacts might be in that same location. In true Web 2.0 style it has the usual feeds, tagging, Google Maps mashup, etc.. Looks very useful. The information is limited to you and the group of trusted other travellers, and it is invite-only (and I’m currently out of invites), but I think this “trusted circle” idea is probably a sound one. Looking forward to seeing how the service develops.
[1] aka “webspherepalooza”… that is, if you are Kelly…
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