links for 2007-04-07

Aram Bartholl has peo­ple walkign around the city with WoW style name bub­bles above their heads. The result is weird, but not as effec­tive as I’d expect­ed. He should’ve dressed the peo­ple cary­ing the poles Kuroko style.

Boyd thinks the next wave on the web will be loca­tive stuff. The web becom­ing more and more con­nect­ed to the phys­i­cal reality.

Julian Bleeck­er writes about his über cool device that records time, motion and touch in a slowed down man­ner. He calls them Flavonoids. He’s going to make weird mobile games with them.

Cool ideas by Bleeck­er on where we could take mobile gam­ing — mov­ing into every­day life, on the go.

Shirky on the Sec­ond Life hype: “If most of the peo­ple who try Sec­ond Life bail (and they do), we should adopt a con­sid­er­ably more skep­ti­cal atti­tude about procla­ma­tions that the oft-delayed Vir­tu­al Worlds rev­o­lu­tion has now arrived.”

Use­ful post by Joshua Porter on the mechan­ics behind the suc­cess of del.icio.us’s tag­ging: “don’t try and make [tag­ging] the pri­ma­ry thing to do. Instead, make sure per­son­al val­ue pre­ceeds net­work val­ue. Then you’ll have plen­ty to aggregate.”

Anoth­er piece on lack of stan­dards in mobile gam­ing. This real­ly needs to be addressed before the indus­try can take out­side of Asia.