links for 2010-02-13

“game devel­op­ers should have some kind of pro bono allo­ca­tion for games for good” have yet to watch Jane’s TED per­for­mance but this piece sounds like the usu­al pitch, slight­ly evolved. Which is noth­ing to com­plain about, because it is such a wor­thy cause. Curi­ous about Evoke, too.

“Any busi­ness or indus­try can learn some­thing from Foursquare’s effort to make the dis­cov­ery of the per­mu­ta­tions of a com­mer­cial ecosys­tem the point of an expe­ri­ence, rather than the obsta­cles that stand in its way.” Ian Bogost decon­structs Foursquare and offers some inter­est­ing insights in the process.