links for 2007-07-26

Com­mer­cial for a game released in Japan that comes with a hard­ware add-on that turns your Nin­ten­do DS Lite into a slide con­troller. Long live exper­i­men­tal game interfaces.

Yes WoW is huge­ly pop­u­lar (or so it seems). I won­der how many peo­ple are actu­al­ly patho­log­i­cal­ly addict­ed to it though. Is sus­pect this is still mar­gin­al. The DEA can hold its hors­es in this case.

Inter­est­ing social casu­al game con­cept which basi­cal­ly comes across as a but­ter­fly sim. Expect to see some beau­ti­ful graph­ics (on the Xbox 360 at least) and hope­ful­ly some cool social interactions.

Richard Ziade has start­ed blog­ging record­ed white­board sketch­es that include audio. He calls it sketch­cast­ing. I call it an inter­est­ing idea. I won­der what tools he uses to pull this off.

Almar with some inter­est­ing thoughts on attack­ing the myth of the fold in webdesign.

SlideShare promis­es to make it easy to mash up your slideshow with an audio track Might give this a try with the next pre­sen­ta­tion I do. Not one but two new *cast­ing tech­niques launched in one day. Oh my!