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GameHorizon live-blog #2: The best things in life are free

June 23, 2009

‘The best things in life are free’ Rick Gibson, Games Investor: How freemium is transforming the world of online games Panel discussion: ‘The best things in life are free’ Chaired by Rick Gibson (Games Investor) with David Jones (Creative Director and CEO,Realtime Worlds), Sarah Bryan (Director of Production, Jolt), Paul Mayze (CEO, Mounmental Games), Simon [...]

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GameHorizon live-blog #1: Welcome; Introduction; & Session 1 on persistent online games

June 23, 2009

Welcome to GameHorizon Conference Carri Cunliffe, Conference Director Introduction Ian Livingstone – Host and Life President of Eidos Session 1: ‘Building a persistent online game, and everything that goes with it’ David Jones, CEO and Creative Director, Realtime Worlds. GameHorizon: Building a persistent online game, and everything that goes with it Technorati Tags: metaverse,technology,north east [...]

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Justin in Virtual Worlds

June 19, 2009

I was thinking that my activities relating to Virtual Worlds are beginning to bear fruit, in that I can go to business development meetings with potential clients and be able to talk VWs with credibility. I’m blowing my own trumpet here [er, I think that’s called Marketing – Ed.], but hopefully you will find the [...]

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Raising your Whuffie

June 12, 2009

This post looks at the importance of Social Capital online. For those of you who attended Thinking Digital recently, we were treated to Tara Hunt tour-de-force which, unfortunately, was too quick & snappy for me to live blog :-(. I’m therefore embedding the presentation so you can see for yourself. :-) Happiness as Your Business [...]

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Thinking Digital feedback #tdc

May 28, 2009

A quick post re my thoughts about Thinking Digital. I’ve just filled out the feedback survey, and that is probably the better way to feed back… Overall, I thought Herb & the Team did an amazing job. I met loads of great people and learned some fascinating new things. I loved the mixture of sessions, [...]

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Thinking Digital live blogs posts #tdc

May 19, 2009

Hello! Thanks for stopping by and thanks to Herb for the shout and link to my live-blogs of Thinking Digital. :-D For your convenience, this is the list of posts which have embedded Cover it Live sessions: Social Media Masterclass hosted by Stowe Boyd #TDC Session One: (Present at the Creation) #TDC Session Two: (Disturbing [...]

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Session Seven: (Thinking Post-Digital) #TDC

May 15, 2009

Panel Ben Hammersley, Wired Magazine UK Darius Pocha, Enable Interactive Andy Redfern, Ethical Superstore Tara Hunt, author of The Whuffie Factor Live blog Session Seven: (Thinking Post-Digital)

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Session Six: (Content and it’s Discontents) #TDC

May 15, 2009

Panel Oonagh Cassidy, singer Erik Huggers, BBC Matt Mason, author of The Pirates Dilemma Russell Davies & Ben Terrett UPDATE: it was actually Kerstin Mogull who delivered the BBC slot. Live blog Session Six: (Content and it’s Discontents)

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Session Five: (Unconventional Wisdom) #TDC

May 15, 2009

Panel Rob Colling Matt Ridley, author of Genome Bob Baskin, Spotlight Analysis Hans Rosling via videolink from Stockholm Tom Scott, York University Live blog Session Five: (Unconventional Wisdom)

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Session Four: (Stop Making Sense) #TDC

May 14, 2009

Panel Michael Shermer, Scientific American Chandler Burr, The New York Times Caleb Chung, Toymaker & Creator of the Furby & Pleo Live blog Session Four: (Stop Making Sense)

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