links for 2007-11-18

“I’m bet­ting on open. The Inter­net was designed around redun­dant, self-heal­ing net­works that could route around the cat­a­stroph­ic dam­age of ther­monu­clear war. I’m feel­ing pret­ty good about its abil­i­ty to out­last the lat­est hot­shot start­up from Palo Alt

Ideas on how to include mas­tery track­ing into sce­nario based soft­ware design methodologies.

(Am book­mark­ing some stuff that was sit­ting around in Yojim­bo.) About how Bungie have gone about eval­u­at­ing the playa­bil­i­ty of Halo 3 using instru­ment­ed game lev­els and so on.

Van­der­w­al on what’s need­ed to move tag­ging for­ward, thoughts on mon­i­tor­ing and analy­sis and enter­prise use.

Laman­tia on tag­ging’s future: “…tag­ging will fol­low two paths to vary­ing degrees. The first path leads tag­ging to become com­mer­cial­ized as a rec­og­nized part of the tech­nol­o­gy ecosys­tem … The sec­ond path leads tag­ging to open source legitimacy”