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Wow look at that Mark Zencke has listed my panel session with Koster and Jacobs as the defining the moment of one of the most siginificant trends in...
A very interesting (and large 36 pages) white paper has been published by the guys behind Virtual Worlds News.com Joey Seiler and Christopher Sherman. http://www.virtualwo...
Over and Zen of Design Damion has brought up the advancement of MMO gameplay by relaxing the UI hunt for quests and using the golden exclamation point. I was tickled to see GoPets/me pop up in...
http://homelessmoon.com/wordpress/?p=112#comment-77 This is a very thoughtful and great post. I can tell you right now that this online site's greatest contribution to the authors would be the...
An appalling and dismal reminder that we all need to do much more to achieve basic human rights in this...
George Clooney bought the first one.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GINWQ0QakV0&eurl=http://thinkorthwim.com/index.php?tag=cars -Erik Originally posted on LiveJournal
Over at Raph's blog I saw a link to the white noise mechanics at Sean Barrett's 300 game mechanics. While browsing this one caught my eye as of course that is what I am doing every...
Here is a news story that warms my heart - more evidence that the word virtual is getting worn out and...
Rambling from the item-based model to taxes, to Woman’s suffrage and back to online human rights When I discuss the item based business model the first thing people reject with is that they...
So here at GoPets we work against a weekly patch schedule. That means every week we ship some new features, bug fixes and items. In general we do it local time Wednesday morning. From time to time...
At Interplay I used to play MTG sealed deck tournaments run by a friend of mine Bill Dugan (aka Weez). To me he is one of the most fiendishly smart and funny guys that said jokes so outrageous that...
My Dad sends me cool stories all the time. It is actually very warming. He is the only guy that sends me letters in envelopes stuffed with interesting clips from the newspapers. I use them as...
So it is the Korean holiday of Chuseok here, or the equivalent of Thanksgiving, but more like the break between Christmas and New Years. So we have a lot of time off to be home... So I bought a WoW...
Wow this is very cool to me, below is a blog post and comments at Damion Schubert's (M59, Shadowbane, Bioware Austin) on the talk I gave at AGC on the need for directed content in GoPets, lots of...
Wow holy crap! I just spent the morning doing 15 zero-g parabolas here in Austin! I went to Richard Garriott's house this week for an event the University of Texas is putting on to raise money for...
Underwood Global Forum Yonsei University July 12, 2007 **Korea****’s Place in the Virtual World** Erik Bethke **Erik Bethke:** Thank you guys very much. My name is Erik...
So I was flying over to LAX from Incheon and met Lance Armsrtong on the plane! This is the first time I ever asked for a celebrity's autograph for I grew up in Hollywood and never really got all...
LinkedIn Questions and Answers truly rocks! Last night I had a question about which wiki technology should I put more resources behind: TWiki or MediaWiki, so I decided to give a shot at the...
Hey this is pretty cool: So I asked 3 VCs privately where they keep their own money - direct stocks? mutual funds? angel investing? You know what 3 for 3 said all in private? ...
here is the blurb about this event in case you are interested... The Virtual Worlds Conference takes place Oct 10-11, 2007. I'm speaking at the event and wanted to provide you a 10% discount if...
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