When games collide with movie makers

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321 Studios gives movie makers going
away payout

321 Studios gives movie makers going
away payout 08/10/2004 09:53 PM
Thanks for the memories

Video games to get ads; makers to get
richer

Video games to get ads; makers to get
richer 04/11/2005 06:17 AM
San Jose Mercury News Apr 11 2005 10:33AM GMT

Video games on a Movie T

Video games on a Movie T 08/29/2004 12:50 PM
Techzonez Aug 29 2004 5:21PM GMT

Movie-Based Video Games

Movie-Based Video Games 08/19/2004 11:06 PM
G4 Tech TV Aug 20 2004 2:55AM GMT

tech.life@play | Movie-based video games
attracted gamers in 2003

tech.life@play | Movie-based video games
attracted gamers in 2003 01/01/2004 04:32 AM
Philadelphia Inquirer Jan 1 2004 3:35AM ET

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virals • funny emails and email
attachments

movie clips • games • funny
virals • funny emails and email
attachments 08/22/2004 04:13 AM
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Chinese Movie Industry Recognizes Movie
Watching Is A Social Experience

Chinese Movie Industry Recognizes Movie
Watching Is A Social Experience 03/22/2005 05:03 PM
Yesterday we noted that the MPAA and movie theater owners were whini ng about how much people coming in an taping movies was hurting their business. The obvious response, we pointed out, is to recognize that going to the movies is a social experience. It's not just about the content (though, that is important), but the overall experience. If they improved that, then people would want to go -- even if they could score the same movie off the internet or a cheap DVD bought off the street. While the folks in Hollywood refuse to entertain this idea, someone (anonymously) in the comments to that story pointed to an article in China noting that this is exactly what Chinese movie theaters have done. After years of declining attendance, they finally shaped up and made going to the movies cool again. They improved the overall experience, putting in better equipment and more comfortable seats. They improved the sound and the lighting as well. It sounds like they also made some theaters to be more like bars, to help attract young adults away from traditional bars. Yet the supposedly "creative" movie people in Hollywood insist "nothing can be done" to get people into the theater.

When Worlds Collide: AGP vs PCI-E!

When Worlds Collide: AGP vs PCI-E! 04/18/2005 02:02 PM

When dunes collide

When dunes collide 12/25/2003 06:42 PM
The mating habits of barchan sand dunes.

When universes collide...

When universes collide... 12/19/2003 11:35 AM
Once More With Hobbits - the Lord of the Rings meets Once More With Feeling, the Buffy the Vampire musical episode. There are only lyrics at the moment, but mp3s are promised soon. Until then, you'll have to sing along yourselves!

Technologies collide

Technologies collide 07/02/2004 07:44 PM
USA Today Jul 2 2004 11:06PM GMT

WiMAX, 3G Could Collide

WiMAX, 3G Could Collide 03/22/2005 07:29 PM
Extreme Tech Mar 22 2005 9:03PM GMT

UFOs Collide

UFOs Collide 04/05/2005 12:17 PM
My last postings have been the boring non-illustrated kind; so here's a photo Kåre, Janus and I caught last year of two UFOs colliding in Death Valley! . We were lucky to catch this photo and another one of eerily human-like aliens from outer space after Kåre and I had been sitting in the desert for more than an hour taking pictures of the stars (having fun with the 17-35mm lens on a F3 (wiiiiiide) and taking digital pictures with...

Two cultures of fauxonomies collide...

Two cultures of fauxonomies collide... 06/05/2005 10:47 PM

There's been an enormous amount of good stuff around about tags and folksonomies recently, which I've not really had enough time to interrogate fully. One particularly interesting experiment has been the Cloudalicious service. Cloudalicious was apparently inspired by the Grafolicious service which tracks changes in the rate of bookmarking for any given URL as well as creating browsable interfaces for getting to grips with tags. Cloudalicious takes this one stage further - showing how the actual tags that people use to describe a given URL change over time. This blurry mess of semantic data is known as a 'Tag Cloud'.

But what do changes in a tag-cloud mean? Probably the most obvious underlying cause for a change in the words used to describe a site would be that the site itself has changed. You could probably use an analysis of the changing tag-cloud to get a handle on what's happening to the site. That's quite interesting.

After that - or alongside that - another underlying cause could be a change in the vocabulary around a subject. At a really grand level, if you can imagine a one hundred year tag-cloud around a gay novel, then it might start with lots of people using the tag invert, with this gradually giving way to homosexual, then gay and potentially after that, queer.

There's a really nice illustration of this on a weblog called P.S. which has a post called Tagclouds and cultural change. In it, there are a lot of illustrations of the take-up of the tag 'Ajax'. You could argue this one in a couple of ways - a new concept emerges and a weblog might change direction to deal with it. In that case it's just about the content changing. But for the most part the examples that the article uses are about specific unchanging individual articles, not whole weblogs. The vocabulary around the posts is changing, not the posts themselves. In the following graph from that article, Ajax is the pale blue line that - over time - becomes the tag of choice for the article in question:

But there's also a third potential cause for changes in a tag-cloud over time - that people might approach the very act of tagging differently - that their understanding of what they're doing might develop. This is a change in the nature of tagging itself. And this is what I want to talk about really briefly.

Matt Webb and I did a fair amount of work around tagging with a project called Phonetags that I never get time to properly write up. As we were working on it, we came to realise that each of us had a radically different understanding of what a tag was. Matt's concept was quite close to the way tagging is used in del.icio.us - with an individual the only person who could tag their stuff and with an understanding that the act of tagging was kind of an act of filing. My understanding was heavily influenced by Flickr's approach - which I think is radically different - you can tag other people's photos for a start, and you're clearly challenged to tag up a photo with any words that make sense to you. It's less of a filing model than an annotative one.

When I came to use del.icio.us I approached tagging in the way that made sense to me from Flickr. So any and all links were covered with loads of keywords with no thought for how they ought to clump together. I just tried to describe what the link was about in some way. Joshua and I had a bit of an argument about the way I was using it, actually. The browsing interface didn't really suit an approach that had an enormous number of orphaned tags. You can get a sense of how out of control it all got with this visualisation of my tags. At the end of the argument I said to Joshua that it was almost like he was treating tags as folders. And he replied, exasperated, that this was exactly what they were. It was just that now an object could exist comfortably in a number of folders so you didn't have to enforce an arbitrary heirarchy on your filing...

So two radically different forms of tagging that really share very little in common with one another - which leads to the question, is there room for two different paradigms here (at least) or will there be some refactoring and adaptation that moves us towards one or other model?

To help answer this question, here's a representation of the tag-clouds surrounding my weblog over time (you can see the original in context on Cloudalicious):

So this basically traces my weblog over the last year. Each coloured line represents a particular tag - its height on the graph indicating its 'weight' - how often it is used in relation to the other tags. Here's where it gets interesting - there's at least one really significant shift of emphasis that happens over the year, between the blue and the red lines. This really does look like an ongoing shift of emphasis in the community of people who have bookmarked my site. And here's the really interesting bit - the two tags are almost exactly the same. The blue one is blogs and the red one is blog. But why such a dramatic shift between the two tags?

Now of course, this is only one weblog and it's difficult to come to any significant conclusions based on one example like this. But we could use it to form a hypothesis for other more technical people to test elsewhere. So here is that hypothesis - that the shift from people using blogs to blog represents the increasing dominance of a Flickr-style paradigm of tagging. Imagine the process of annotating a weblog - if you tag it with 'blogs' it seems clear that you are adding it to a collection of some kind. 'Blogs' is clearly the name of a folder which houses links to weblogs rather than an attempt to describe the weblog itself. But tagging something with the term "blog" suggests quite the opposite - to tag a link 'blog' suggests that I'm attempting to describe the link not as belonging to a bin labelled 'blogs' but simply as a 'blog' in and of itself. It is my conjecture, therefore, that the folder metaphor is losing ground and the keyword one is currently assuming dominance.

To test if this theory is correct - to see if one model of tagging is becoming dominant over another - should be relatively simple. You could use tag-stemming to spot tags with common roots in popular URLs, and then look for significant changes in their proportionate usage over time. I'd be particularly interested in tags that described the format of the object on the page (article vs. articles, quiz vs. quizzes, searchengine vs. searchengines) rather than the subject (trees, nuclear fission, cats). If someone was to do this kind of research then I'd be delighted - because it's those kinds of studies and observances in user behaviour that allow us to design better interfaces to support these innovations.

when gadget bl0gs collide

when gadget bl0gs collide 03/08/2004 11:17 PM
the important thing, when entering a market with an established player, is having some sort of differentiation

IBM, Microsoft Collide on Collaboration

IBM, Microsoft Collide on Collaboration 02/05/2005 09:20 PM
Analysts say the battle could determine which vendor leads the markets for messaging, which Microsoft has traditionally led, and collaboration, which IBM has dominated.

One dead as two coaches collide

One dead as two coaches collide 01/27/2004 03:34 AM
One person dies and 41 are injured in a collision between two coaches on the Yorkshire Wolds.

Animation and mobile devices collide

Animation and mobile devices collide 02/05/2005 09:10 PM
Remember when you were a kid and you learned how to animate something? You took a notepad and slowly drew pictures on each page, then created a "flip book" that would animate the drawings until you ran out of paper. My favorite animation to draw was an Evel Knievel-type motorcycle jump over several cars that always ended in disaster.

Like Particles, 2 Houses of Physics
Collide

Like Particles, 2 Houses of Physics
Collide 01/22/2004 03:19 AM
A drama of two renowned laboratories played out at a conference in Oakland, Calif., over a puff of primordial matter with an otherworldly name: the quark-gluon plasma.

Four Police Cars Collide During Exercise
(AP)

Four Police Cars Collide During Exercise
(AP) 09/22/2004 04:27 PM
AP - Don't give up the training. Traffic snarled for miles on a highway in northern England on Wednesday after four police cars collided with each other and blocked the road, apparently during a training exercise.

Charter Schools and Testing Collide

Charter Schools and Testing Collide 08/19/2004 03:19 PM
The education policy of the Bush administration is founded on two pillars: standardized testing and charter schools. However, as reported in this New York Times article (see also the audio archive at NPR or nonsubscription coverage at the Boston Globe) , the US Department of Education's own testing data show that nationwide, charter schools are, in aggregate, lagging their public counterparts.

Small Planes Collide in N.J., Killing 5
(AP)

Small Planes Collide in N.J., Killing 5
(AP) 08/07/2004 03:39 PM
AP - Two small planes collided Saturday morning in New Jersey, killing all people five aboard and sending one aircraft plunging into the back yard of a home.

Logging and Politics Collide in Idaho

Logging and Politics Collide in Idaho 08/08/2004 09:17 PM
A Bush administration plan to overturn a Clinton-era ban on building roads in roadless areas is drawing the usual divisions.

Two Small Planes Collide in New Jersey
(AP)

Two Small Planes Collide in New Jersey
(AP) 08/07/2004 10:19 AM
AP - Two small planes collided Saturday morning in New Jersey, killing at least one person and sending one aircraft plunging into the back yard of a home.

Two Power Brokers Collide in Iraq

Two Power Brokers Collide in Iraq 08/21/2004 11:24 AM
Moktada al-Sadr has shown how a portly cleric with a dedicated militia and an artful grasp of Shiite street politics can confront American power.

Two Trains Collide in NY During Morning
Commute (Reuters)

Two Trains Collide in NY During Morning
Commute (Reuters) 04/19/2004 08:25 AM
Reuters - At least 30 people were injured during their Monday morning commute when two trains collided in a tunnel near New York's Pennsylvania station, officials said.

Have you heard? It's in the stars, next
July we collide with Mars...

Have you heard? It's in the stars, next
July we collide with Mars... 01/01/2004 01:29 PM
A better 2004? A mixed look at what Indian and Chinese astrologers see for the new year. We're soon to move into the Chinese year of the monkey, a symbol of revolution, movement and changes... a year of more conflict and disharmony in international relationship but there are good chances of seeing new light and brighter future after struggles.
But on the brighter(ish) side, Stargazers agree that the coming 12 months cannot fare much worse than the seesaw ride that the world went through in 2003, dogged by war in Iraq, fluctuating financial markets and mysterious diseases.

Science, Politics Collide in Election
Year

Science, Politics Collide in Election
Year 08/17/2004 03:30 PM

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“With more than 4,000 scientists, including 48 Nobel Prize winners, having signed a statement opposing the Bush administration’s use of scientific advice, this election year is seeing a new development in the uneasy relationship between science and politics….

Tour Bus, Pickup Truck Collide, Killing
1

Tour Bus, Pickup Truck Collide, Killing
1 01/04/2004 01:32 AM
Reuters via Wired News Jan 4 2004 0:37AM ET

Science, Politics Collide in Election
Year (AP)

Science, Politics Collide in Election
Year (AP) 08/14/2004 01:02 PM
AP - Last November, President Bush gave physicist Richard Garwin a medal for his "valuable scientific advice on important questions of national security." Just three months later, Garwin signed a statement condemning the Bush administration for misusing, suppressing and distorting scientific advice.

Two Trains Collide Near Amsterdam
Central Station

Two Trains Collide Near Amsterdam
Central Station 05/21/2004 01:04 PM
Reuters via Wired News May 21 2004 5:18PM GMT

Economy, Politics Collide for Bush Team
(washingtonpost.com)

Economy, Politics Collide for Bush Team
(washingtonpost.com) 08/07/2004 12:08 AM
washingtonpost.com - With job creation stalled, the stock market sliding and oil prices at record highs, a divided White House is under pressure to produce an economic policy response for President Bush's fall reelection campaign, Republican economic advisers said yesterday.

"The Way We Eat Now: Ancient bodies
collide with modern technology to
produce a flabby, disease-ridden
populace "

"The Way We Eat Now: Ancient bodies
collide with modern technology to
produce a flabby, disease-ridden
populace " 05/27/2004 09:08 PM

Planetwide Games to Publish Pixel
Poppers™ Library of 80 Video Arcade
Games

Planetwide Games to Publish Pixel
Poppers™ Library of 80 Video Arcade
Games 06/05/2005 10:52 PM
Games based on uWink Game Library Developed by Nolan Bushnell. [PRWEB May 18, 2005]

Games Pavilion at Macworld Conference &
Expo in San Francisco Showcases Best New
Games for 2005

Games Pavilion at Macworld Conference &
Expo in San Francisco Showcases Best New
Games for 2005 12/17/2004 06:44 PM
FRAMINGHAM, MA, December 15, 2004 – IDG World Expo, the leading producer of world-class tradeshows, conferences and events for technology markets around the globe, today announced that the Macintosh...

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Blue Sphere Games To Distribute Java
Games On Nokia's Preminet Solution

Blue Sphere Games To Distribute Java
Games On Nokia's Preminet Solution 02/01/2005 10:01 PM
Blue Sphere Games Ltd, a leading Mobile Games Developer, today announced it will distribute its Java Games to mobile network subscribers worldwide using the new Preminet Solution from Nokia. [PRWEB Jan 14, 2005]

Jollygood Games Announces Partnership
with Digital Eel - Four New Games
Available Immediately for Microsoft
Windows and Macintosh OS-X.

Jollygood Games Announces Partnership
with Digital Eel - Four New Games
Available Immediately for Microsoft
Windows and Macintosh OS-X. 12/19/2004 03:10 PM
Jollygood Games and Digital Eel today announced a strategic partnership where Jollygood Games will publish and distribute the entire catalog of Digital Eel games for both Windows and Macintosh platforms, including Weird Worlds: Return To Infinite Space, the eagerly-awaited sequel to Strange Adventures In Infinite Space. Weird Worlds, which has already been chosen as one of the finalists in the upcoming annual Independent Games Festival, is slated for release in early 2005. [PRWEB Dec 17, 2004]

Games interview: Kojima slams Japanese
games industry

Games interview: Kojima slams Japanese
games industry 05/21/2004 07:01 AM
Computer Buyer May 21 2004 11:07AM GMT

New NCsoft games show the best, worst in
online games

New NCsoft games show the best, worst in
online games 06/01/2004 08:24 PM
Augustachronicle.com - Mon May 31, 07:30 am GMT
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