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Felipe from Brazil shares a link-full reference page -- scroll down for the WIKI URLs, which offer good introductory reading. Particularly useful for thinking about wikis in the workplace is Stowe Boyd's take on Wikis - insightful and articulate as usual.
Russ Beattie pulls some numbers from the Motley Fool message boards and makes a case for emergence of a viable smartphone market:
The important point to make from these numbers is not the total handsets (there were similar numbers of phones sold last year) but the *type* of handsets. For the last six months or so, a vast majority of those phones shipped are color, Java-enabled, MMS-enabled, data-capable phones. In the next quarter coming up, a good chunk of the phones are going to be MIDP 2.0/WAP 2.0 phones, if not all of them. By the end of the year, almost 600 million new phones will be sold and all will be capable of mobile data services and applications. 150+ million will be camera phones, and a good percentage will be advanced smart phones too.And not only are the handsets arriving in vast numbers, data services have arrived as well. GPRS and CDMA2000 1x is rolled out worldwide, EDGE is here in the U.S and 3G has arrived in Europe and Asia. We have the devices and we have the connectivity. Woohoo! Finally! The time many of us have been waiting for since the end of the Internet Boom in 2000 is here.
Tip o' the hat to Game Girl Advance for finding this report on the Korean Game market. Good reading for game developers -- check it out.
I'm working with a client who's starting to integrate Wikis & Weblogs internally. During this process, I've collected a few links that offer a good introduction to understanding what a Wiki is, and how to think about it. Here are my favorites so far:
What's a Wiki (blog post w/links by Shirley E. Kaiser)
The Wiki Way (Book Review by Eugene Kim)
Wiki Software (wikipedia entry republished at NationMaster.com)
Why Wiki Works (Wiki page by Ward Cunningham)
Everyone is an Editor (Salon article about the WikiPedia)
Beyond these refs -- if you know of a good, introductory URL that explains how to use Wikis in the workplace, please post a comment with the link and I'll add it to the collection. Thanks!
Interesting announcement today about Sega SuperStars, an EyeToy party game featuring mini-games populated with Sega characters from acroos their franchises -- including Sonic, Virtua Fighter, House of the Dead, and Samba de Amigo. Sounds promising - can't wait to learn more. I LUV inviting friends over to play rhythm-n-music party games, and I want MORE MORE MORE!!!!
Just got back from a business trip to Honolulu, doing some work for Blue Lava Wireless, a games company that's best-known for brining Tetris to mobile phones. We had a fantastic time there -- lovely weather, productive work, and warm and hospitable hosts. We stayed at a Japanese business hotel called the Hawaii Prince, and spent our free time snorkling, visiting friends, playing in the tidepools, and communing with the fishes (as my son Gabe is doing here). We even saw some sea turtles just off the coast, swimming alongside us in the gentle waves. Ahhhh, Hawaii -- I can't wait to go back.
Had a fascinating conversation today with Rene Hinojosa of Jetro USA, a japanese external trade organization. We discussed social trends in mobile gaming, and explored the market opportunity for foreign companies who want to target the US mobile gaming market. Fun stuff -- and as a bonus, the Jetro home page has a lovely little Javascript animation.
I love stumbling across tiny, unexpected delights in my day. Don't you? :-)
Yesterday, I visited Harmonix, a Boston-based game development studio that's produced some of my favorite PS2 titles. I had a great time chatting with Alex Rigopulos and Greg LoPiccolo, who patiently answered my burning questions about Karaoke Revolution (KO) (a kick-ass party game that I've written about before). Turns out that ALL the audio tracks in KO were recorded by an outfit in Los Angeles; NONE are from the original recordings. Color me surprised - I could've sworn that some songs were original tracks. Somebody out there really knows how to nail a cover version :-)
I also met a lovely, dynamic woman named Tracy Rosenthal-Newsom, who showed me some new stuff that Harmonix is working on. Tracy has a 6-year-old, so we swapped stories about introducing KO into family events. It's really great to have a PS2 game that you can play with your kids. Harmonix will be announcing some exciting new products at E3 this year - so stay tuned for more innovative, family-friendly entertainment from this cutting-edge developer.
If you know of any PS2 titles that are great for kids (age 5 & up) please let me know! I'm on the hunt.
I'm in Boston right now, speaking at a 2-day Innovation Summit at MIT, organized by Eric Von Hippel, a professor who studies user-driven innovation. Eric has gathered together a fascinating group of folks from industry and academia - I'm hoping to learn a lot, and share some of my recent (hard-earned) lessons from industry.
Here's some Rappin' Easter Fun to enjoy -- flash player required.
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