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TaaD event – Social media: beyond the hype

October 26, 2009

Introduction Quick plug for this event by organised by Codeworks Connect this coming Thursday. As credited by Herb Kim at the recent TEDxNewcastle, I am helping to ‘produce’ the evening – i.e. Herb and the team were kind enough to adopt my rough concept for the evening – and organise it! :-D Aims (from my [...]

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Byte Night 09 – the sleepover @ The BALTIC

October 6, 2009

A write-up of the combined exploits of Byte Night 09 North East. At last it has arrived! I have to admit to being a bit apprehensive before the event. I had done some prep – as documented here and here. But I was a bit in the dark about what was happen, so really wanted [...]

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Second Skin – film about Virtual Worlds

September 18, 2009

Intro Those who’ve met me know I can bore for England on Second Life – e.g. people laugh when they hear my SL avatar is called Tandoorichicken Masala. You might have seen this summary of virtual world-related posts (on this blog) I put together recently. I really should check out some other virtual worlds, but [...]

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Please help me raise money for Action for Children #bytenight

August 10, 2009

I’ve decided to take part in Byte Night, a rather good Tech Industry fund-raiser, probably because I’ve seen photos of Jenny Agutter in Computing each year, and think it might be a good laugh. Speak it softly, but I’m sort of looking forward to donning a whole load of technical gear, as my interest in [...]

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How Teenagers consume media and other stories

July 24, 2009

Last week there was a bit of a to-do when a teenager, working as a Summer intern at the investment bank Morgan Stanley, was suddenly propelled to his 15 minutes of fame by the MS PR machine. His report below was published and kicked off a mini media storm (well ok, some City analysts were [...]

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GameHorizon live-blog #7: ‘Marking your self-published IP’; ‘Games driving other Interactive Content’;‘Heavy Rain’

June 24, 2009

Panel Discussion: ‘Game Exposure – The naked truth about marketing your self published IP’ Sponsored in partnership by BAFTA and Northern Film + Media. Chaired by Charles Cecil, MD of Revolution Software with Martyn Brown (Development Director, Team 17), Mark Morris (Managing Director, Introversion), Paul Farley (Managing Director, Tag Games). ‘How games can be used [...]

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GameHorizon live-blog #6: ‘Future of Digital Distribution’; ‘Future Technologies’; ‘PlayStation Home’

June 24, 2009

‘Separating Fact from Fiction: the Future of Digital Distribution’ Roger Walkden, CEO, AWOMO ‘Future Technologies’ Steve Clayton, Microsoft ‘Development Opportunities in PlayStation Home’ Peter Edward, Director, PlayStation Home Platform Group UPDATE – I’m publishing the first bit of this session as a bulleted list, as the CIL service was offline to begin with… ‘Separating Fact [...]

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GameHorizon live-blog #5: Sneaking in the Back Door to become an AAA Multiplatform Studio

June 24, 2009

Sneaking in the Back Door to become an AAA Multiplatform Studio’ Sponsored by Game Republic Paul Wedgwood, CEO and Game Director, Splash Damage Ltd. GameHorizon #5: Sneaking in the Back Door to become an AAA Multiplatform Studio Technorati Tags: north east england,technology,interesting,ideas,gateshead,gamehorizon,games,business This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike license.

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SCL at GameHorizon conference

June 22, 2009

If you’re looking for the live-blog sessions I’m doing at the GameHorizon conference, use the info in these boxes to tune in on whichever session is live (or passed). More info to be had on live-blogging etc. via this post. Technorati Tags: virtual worlds,metaverse,north east england,technology,interesting,ideas,gateshead,gamehorizon,games,business This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution [...]

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Visit to D|Lab, Institute of Digital Innovation

June 10, 2009

Last week I was lucky enough to visit Philip McClenaghan and Dan Riley at D|Lab: a multi-disciplinary team of designers, researchers and digital specialists located within the Institute of Digital Innovation (IDI) which, in addition to developing product and service innovations for a range of industry clients, works extensively with business partners wishing to explore [...]

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