If you’ve been reading this blog for a while and/or know me at all, you’re familiar with my absolute obsession with Alternate Reality Games (ARGs); specifically the currently running ARG for the upcoming Dark Knight movie that I’ve written about HERE and HERE. I love the engagement they demand from the players and how they […]

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Today the keynote is Mark Zuckerberg, father of Facebook. I’ll be interested to see if he addresses the repercussions of all those application notices, invitations,  and commercial spam that’s disguised as a Facebook “group” that are flooding user homepages.  If you have a Facebook account and have checked it recently you know exactly what I’m […]

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We’re live from SXSW Interactive ‘08 and I just got into the Exhibit room for the Contextual Web talk that will  be given by Nick Finck from Blue Flavor, a web/mobile design and development company out of Seattle, Washington. The talk is about “…how to design for the next generation of the web which will […]

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I’ve been a pretty avid Arcade Fire evangelist for a few years now after being introduced to them by an old roommate then seeing them at ACL; they’re innovative, refreshing and put on one hell of a show. I was delighted (but not too surprised) to find that their new video was incredibly cool. You’ll […]

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I ran across this little commentary on the future of spending for online advertising at GigaOM and thought that I’d share. From November 7:
This being the week of ad:tech, news of online advertising has dominated the conversation: from MySpace’s hyper- targeted ads to Facebook’s new ad system to broadband advertising systems introduced by companies […]

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