IAIP member Eric Williamson continues his panel reviews of the 18th annual SXSW® Interactive Festival. Here he reviews the "User Research in Gaming" panel administered by Bill Fulton, Rich Riden, Ray Kowalewski and Marina Kobayashi.
It is getting hard to keep track of all the startups out there these days. There are so many that are getting press from respectable publications and blogs that they are all sort of running together.
So, it is a little ironic that one that stands out is a startup that refuses to tell anyone what the company does. The secretive startup I am referring to is Hipster...
Another booming year in the digital industry is coming to a close, which means a time for reflection on the year gone by. And what better way to recap the highlights than a Top 10 list? To help sift through the hundreds of lists floating around the interwebs, I’ve created the ultimate list – a digital industry Top 10 list of “Top 10” lists from 2010. So cozy up with a glass of eggnog and enjoy the best of the best from the past 12 months...
I am checking out a new startup/ site called Memolane, and it is pretty great in its simplicity. Basically it takes the API from your various social properties (Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, etc) and pulls in all of your outbound activity from each stream and aggregates them together into a single chronological timeline...
Qwiki is an interesting startup that is a Wikipedia type information resource that delivers the information to the user in a totally new way. The new way that the information is delivered is a multimedia (visuals + audio narrative) style presentation...
It's hard to juggle your smartphones, laptops, computers, tablets, and other single functionality technologies. That's why researchers are outlining a strategy to create a personal cloud. Predictions report that it will be a $12 billion dollar market by 2016.
Although Julian Assange is being held under house arrest, his organization is still leaking information that governments would rather you didn’t hear. The Irish Independent newspaper, the country’s largest selling daily newspaper, has been given the ‘Ireland Cables’ from WikiLeaks to be published throughout the week.
It's YouTube's sixth birthday, and it's more successful than ever. Users are uploading 48 hours worth of video every minute. Every MINUTE. Not only that, users are watching more than 3 billion videos every single day, crazy! Happy birthday, YouTube!
As a pioneer of experimental technology, Google is planning to use the world’s first seawater-cooled data center in Finland to serve live traffic. This fall Google plans to do the immpossible, use a seawater cooling system that will need cleaning without letting their data center go offline.
Google's Android isn't just for mobile and tablet devices any more. At its I/O developer conference yesterday, Google announced two initiatives that will expand the reach of Android in the years to come. Android Accessory Mode allows third-party developers to build hardware accessories that connect with Android devices via USB, while Android@Home strives to connect with your home appliances. Google's next step toward world domination? Or just some really cool stuff?
