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Eric Wardell

Get Started with My IGN - Online Gamer Community - IGN - 0 views

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  • Eric Wardell on 19 Mar 12
     
    This is the social networking homepage of a online gaming website, IGN. I wanted to share this because it seems to overtly combine the gaming and social elements of social media. It also, similar to the AXE site, allows users to follow certain products and claim an identity based on what products the user owns in comparison to other members of the community. Within the site itself members have some level of gaining badges and competing by listing and comparing their games and interacting with each other. Also, on the level of competition, there are prizes available for different interactions on this site which further invokes the sense of gaming and competition.
Sandy Baldwin

Jury rules that Eolas's "interactive web" patent is invalid - 0 views

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  • Sandy Baldwin on 14 Feb 12
     
    Jessica Murphy writes: "Eolas's "interactive web" patent being ruled as invalid and Berners-Lee jumping for joy about the ruling."
Jessica Murphy

5 Great Interactive Fiction Games You Can Play Online Right Now - 0 views

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  • Jessica Murphy on 24 Apr 12
     
    Along with Zork, here are a few other interactive fiction games. I played Lost Pig for a while.
Jessica Murphy

Semi-Interactive Webcomic - 0 views

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  • Jessica Murphy on 24 Apr 12
     
    My coworker sent this to me a while ago to see my reaction. This comic responds to the user's movements on the page. If you're jumpy, you've been warned!
Mikenna Pierotti

Dori Hartley: When You Die on Facebook - 0 views

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  • Mikenna Pierotti on 28 Apr 12
     
    Interesting yet slightly morbid. Does immortalizing the dead on a social media platform that by definition requires interaction among the living to fulfill its purpose reveal yet another narcissistic impulse? For whom are we writing? Obviously not the dead (unless you can make some sort of argument that they check their feeds from the afterlife). For ourselves? If that were the case, we could just as easily sit at home and mourn a photograph. It seems more like this type of mourning is much more performative and public than that...
Benjamin Myers

Connect With Your Creation Through a Real-Time Editor - 0 views

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  • Benjamin Myers on 14 Mar 12
     
    I thought this might be interesting, especially as we head toward the section of the class where we discuss games. Here is an excerpt from the default blurb: "Victor has worked on experimental UI concepts at Apple and also created the interactive data graphics for Al Gore's book, Our Choice. In the talk Victor showed off a demo of a great real-time game editor that makes your existing coding tools look primitive at best."
Eric Wardell

About | Tumblr - 0 views

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  • Eric Wardell on 13 Mar 12
     
    Of the different online accounts I have, Tumblr is one account I don't have and after reading O'Reilly and looking at the site I have to admit I'm a little fascinated by it. It seem like in many ways it's taken the parts of Myspace, facebook, and twitter that work and pasted them all together at once. In some senses this seems overwhelming, but just from the sample pages, what I see doesn't look entirely unlike what I'm creating for this class. I intentionally linked to the about page since I think there is a great deal of interesting info that feels like it came almost came straight out of O'Reilly's book especially in regard to building communities and allowing for participation, customization, and interaction. The home page also has some useful pieces worth exploring I think.
Jillian Swisher

Kinect desktop: Microsoft's sneak attack on the future of computing | Electricpig - 0 views

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  • Jillian Swisher on 20 Mar 12
     
    I really liked the idea from this week's reading that we should look to gaming for the future of interactive interfaces for social media. This article explains the ways that computing could be transforming in the future with motion sensing input devices like the Xbox Kinect. It's crazy to think that some of these things are possible!
Rachel Henderson

Friending Your Professor: Social Networking in the Classroom | Daily Gazette - 0 views

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  • Rachel Henderson on 21 Mar 12
     
    While sites like Facebook and Google seem to be taking over the world, it would be nice to be able to eliminate some of the sites we all are constantly having to check or update or interact on or remember logins and passwords for! Just think: no more Blackboard, you're already on Facebook all the time-why not post for class while you're there? :-)
Jillian Swisher

The Ballad of Sand and Harry Soot - 1 views

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  • Jillian Swisher on 22 Feb 12
     
    This is the hypertextual poem by Stephanie Strickland called "The Ballad of Sand and Harry Soot," to which Hayles refers in her article "Electronic Literature: What Is It?" Hayles's idea that we must recognize "the specificity of new media without abandoning the rich resources of traditional modes of understanding language, signification, and embodied interactions with texts" is absolutely at work in this poem.
Jessica Murphy

Vigilant Schools or Invasion of Privacy? - 0 views

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  • Jessica Murphy on 01 May 12
     
    A school district in Delaware recently proposed a rule that would require teachers to unfriend students, a district in Maine is banning all social networking, chat sites, forums, and other sites from state-provided laptops, and now the New York City Department of Education will now monitor teachers' interactions with students on professional social networking services. Teachers were warned not to expect any privacy and that administrators and officials should have access to the professional accounts. This makes me wonder if now workplaces and universities will require employees to loosen their privacy settings on their accounts.
Mikenna Pierotti

Memories of Friends Departed Endure on Facebook - 0 views

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  • The question soon came up: What do we do about his Facebook profile? We had never really thought about this before in such a personal way. Obviously, we wanted to be able to model people's relationships on Facebook, but how do you deal with an interaction with someone who is no longer able to log on? When someone leaves us, they don't leave our memories or our social network. To reflect that reality, we created the idea of "memorialized" profiles as a place where people can save and share their memories of those who've passed.We understand how difficult it can be for people to be reminded of those who are no longer with them, which is why it's important when someone passes away that their friends or family contact Facebook to request that a profile be memorialized. For instance, just last week, we introduced new types of Suggestions that appear on the right-hand side of the home page and remind people to take actions with friends who need help on Facebook. By memorializing the account of someone who has passed away, people will no longer see that person appear in their Suggestions.
  • Mikenna Pierotti on 28 Apr 12
     
    From facebook itself on the idea of memorializing.
Eric Wardell

Technology » Obscura Digital - 1 views

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  • Eric Wardell on 19 Feb 12
     
    I found this site for a company that creates products that allow us to mix our real-world and digital experiences at once. One interesting product creates the image of fire or waves on a pool table that chases the pool balls as you hit them. I wonder in what way this is like e-literature.
  • Jillian Swisher on 22 Feb 12
     
    Eric, some of these technologies reminded me of Hayles's explanation of site-specific installations for interactive literature. I'm not sure how "literary" these things would be considered, but I found there to be an interesting parallel between the two ideas.
Benjamin Myers

Video: Inventing on Principle - 0 views

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  • Benjamin Myers on 14 Mar 12
     
    The previous post referenced in "Connect With Your Creation Through a Real-Time Editor"
Mikenna Pierotti

At Last, They See: E-Books 'Democratize' Publishing : NPR - 0 views

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  • the world of publishing has been slow to embrace the transition from print to e-books
  • It was the kind of crowd where some were more inclined to say "Steal my book!" than to argue over what that e-book should cost
  • Dominque Raccah, CEO and publisher of Sourcebooks, is experimenting with the "agile publishing" model — which allows authors and readers to interact as the book is still being written.
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  • Digital enhancements may even make the book smarter, but the experience of reading will be fundamentally the same.
  • Mikenna Pierotti on 24 Feb 12
     
    Interesting in terms of our discussion on the democratic nature of electronic literature.
Rachel Henderson

E-texts: Dragging books into the 21st century | Entrepreneur | Financial Post - 0 views

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  • Take, for example, an Inkling produced biology text that generates 3D models of molecules and contains high-definition videos, or the undergraduate music appreciation text that weaves audio samples from live performances with descriptive text.
  • “There’s always going to be a need for books. When I have kids I’ll be reading them books. There’s nothing inherently bad about a book,” says the native Cape Bretoner.
  • “But for the purposes of helping somebody learn a complex concept or personalizing the learning experience – a book is a terrible device. It is, by definition, one-size-fits-all. It can’t be updated, it can’t be interactive, and it’s not terribly engaging.”
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  • The titles are downloaded through Inkling’s website, and cost about 40% less than their print counterparts
  • “I am, to this day, blown away that when you walk into most classrooms – including in Canada – technology is not a core component of how people learn,” he says.
  • Rachel Henderson on 28 Feb 12
     
    another plug for e-texts
Jessica Murphy

Enhanced Brain-Computer Interface Promises Unparalleled Autonomy for Disabled - 0 views

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  • Jessica Murphy on 29 Feb 12
     
    Moving closer to the Matrix? A Spanish research center called Barcelona Digital is coordinating a three-year initiative called the BrainAble project to develop technologies that will improve the quality of life for people with disabilities. By developing advanced brain-computer interface (BCI) systems, ambient intelligence (AmI), and virtual reality (VR), researchers enable users to operate a robot, interact in virtual environments, communicate more easily, and remotely control lighting, heating and other devices in their homes. Plus, this technology could also benefit the eldery and people in rehabilitation, as well as allow the remote monitoring of people with neurological disorders.
Jessica Murphy

Codecademy -- Free Programming Lessons - 0 views

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  • Jessica Murphy on 08 Mar 12
     
    Codecademy is the easiest way to learn how to code. It's interactive, fun, and you can do it with your friends.
  • Benjamin Myers on 14 Mar 12
     
    I have messed around with this, and I think I came near graduating the free class that they offer. It was useful, but I didn't find that it got me too far into javascript. I did find that I liked the points and badges. Did you see the pay option alternative site (I think linked off Code Academy somewhere ... or it comes up when you search Google for Code Academy) where you can learn various coding languages as you play games? One of them teaches you CSS or Javascript as you fight zombies. If you didn't have to pay ... I would totally get into that. :)
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