links for 2007-12-14

Dopplr has launched. If you’re not in there yet, make sure you sign up. It tru­ly is a beau­ti­ful part of the web, not ‘just’ a beau­ti­ful web site.

Arti­cle on this year’s best game char­ac­ters wraps up by nam­ing “you” a mem­o­rable char­ac­ter (much like TIME did a while back). The authors per­pet­u­a­tion of the story/game dichoto­my jars me a lit­tle to be honest.

Video of some sweet phone inter­ac­tions: shak­ing your phone to feel how many mes­sages are in your inbox, or how much juice is left in your bat­tery — literally!

“This vol­ume looks at games as sys­tems in which young users par­tic­i­pate, as gamers, pro­duc­ers, and learners.”

Green­field inter­viewed by a Bel­gian IT mag. Rec­om­mend­ed read­ing for my Dutch speak­ing friends.

Con­grat­u­la­tions to my friends at Info.nl with the award for Volk­skrant Banen!