Links for 2009-12-11
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Steal this competition entry! Brilliant move by the guys at 31Volts: they've published their entry into a local competition under a CC license. Prize money of up to € 15.000 is available for the most innovative, sustainable project idea. Their idea is pretty cool too: a design agency that is part of the municipality, aimed at tackling abstract problems with design methods.
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James and Tijs update us about the current state of affairs with their social web app for art lovers. The way they're open about both the good and the bad is something you don't see too often. Refreshing.
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"…absolutely everyone I heard speak about or pitch ARGs seems to approach them as a narrative form. […] It’s not about taking TV and print skills into new media, it’s about taking game and interaction design skills out into all media." A good description of some of the things the ARG scene struggles with at the moment.
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A wiki where Staffan Björk is redeveloping the patterns he created together with Jussi Holopainen for the Game Design Patterns book. Hypertext seems a good fit for their sprawling work.
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A series of urban games developed by The Patching Zone; a "transdisciplinary praxis laboratory for innovation". These are played in Rotterdam and employ sidewalk tiles expanded with sensors and LEDs.
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A news ticker for your feeds. Far too obtrusive for my liking, but then I have all notifications on my system turned off.
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Something like a Last.fm for blogs. This service uses a Firefox plugin to track what you've been looking at and generates a list of most read blogs that you can show as a blogroll. Interesting.
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