Tag Archives: social media
The Experience Points Economy
Experience points are quickly becoming as valuable as real money. What happens when they exceed it?
Also tagged advertising, augmented reality, culture, experience economy, macro-organism, retail, social gaming, thoughts, video games 7 Comments
Email must die
We're all getting more connected all the time. More connections equals more communications. Too many communications and we get nothing else done.
Also tagged advertising, augmented reality, conversation economy, culture, macro-organism, thoughts 1 Comment
Why creative people are really really really important
The rate of change and the level of complexity have come to a point where nothing is ever finished, because in between the prediction of a successful product and it's launch, everything's changed.
Also tagged advertising, creativity, experience economy, social gaming, thoughts, video games 2 Comments
Farmville 2020: Day of the Triffids
Its 2020. The building I live in has a vertical farm on the 5th floor deck. The garden is filled with sensors that make it a part of the larger Internet of Things. The sensors feed farming simulations that my neighbors and I play like a game. The garden feeds the people who play with [...]
Also tagged 2012, culture, social gaming, thoughts, triffids, user-generated content 2 Comments
Farmville vs. Everything
Farmville vs. Everything. 2004 - present day
Also tagged data driven design, infographic, social gaming, zynga 2 Comments
Stuff we make makes stuff more fun.
Games that people are still playing after decades have something in common: user-generated content.
On privacy, and why you’re better off without it
The fact is, this isn't some dystopian future where a single entity has the dirt on all of us. We all have the dirt on all of us.
Also tagged conversation economy, culture, identity, macro-organism, open source, systems, thoughts, user-generated content 1 Comment
How robots are making us more human