About Serious Games

Serious games (SGs) or persuasive games are computer and video games used as persuasion technology or educational technology. They can be similar to educational games, but are often intended for an audience outside of primary or secondary education. Serious games can be of any genre and many of them can be considered a kind of edutainment.

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Monday, 31 March 2008

muccachucka: news game



http://www.muccachucka.co.uk/

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US Forclosures: Google Maps API



http://www.propertymaps.com/browse.foreclosure

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OLPC runs the Processing and Arduino programming environments



At NYU’s ITP program, the Processing and Arduino programming environments are widely used. Since my main interest in the OLPC is to use it as a controller for projects, and since most of my projects are built using those two tools, I was very interested in getting them running on the OLPC.

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Web 2.0 is producing a new wave of entrepreneurs with London acting as the epicentre for most of the UK developments

"Everybody wants to sell for Bebo-style multiples, but there are not many companies with that kind of scale," he says. "The numbers do the talking and there are not many businesses around that could do another Bebo - but there are a lot of wannabes."

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Saturday, 29 March 2008

Jeremiah Owyang is emerging as social media's expert on online communities for companies struggling with changes

Forrester Research senior analyst Jeremiah Owyang is emerging as social media's expert on online communities for companies struggling with changes. He talks about how communities happen and why a great many companies will miss the new opportunity. He gives a few excerpts from his Forrester Report on communities and advises vendors on how to succeed or fail while visiting Forrester. he also looks at trends on what is hot and what is not in terms of corporate adoption of social media.

Jeremiah is among the brightest and hardest working members of the social media community, or so it seems to me. He's the guy who produces useful data and this interview is filled with takeaway nuggets.



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Friday, 28 March 2008

My new blog



http://mediaar.com/

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Jonathan Zittrain - `The Future of the Net (and how to stop it)''



JZ's thesis goes roughly that the Net is in danger: the openness that allowed it to flourish sows the seeds of its closure. Pragmatic, expert-driven communities "got things done" on the Net, all the way from the protocol stack in the Internet's innards to its Domain Name Server (DNS) system to Wikipedia. But forces of organised interests that do not play by the rules, like malware peddlers, identity thieves and spammers are allowing another army of interests---corporate protectionists, often--- to demand centralised, authoritarian solutions. This is the future of the Net unless we stop it.

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IBM sounds death knell for desktop Portable computing will surpass and replace, says giant

IBM, one of the biggest contributors in the rise of computing has decided that the end is nigh for desktop PCs.

Mike Rhodin, General Manager of IBM Lotus software, revealed in his keynote speech to VoiceCon that the company feels desktop computers will slowly disappear as more and more people switch to the portability of laptops.

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Thursday, 27 March 2008

A tiny revolution - mini laptops in schools

These mini laptops have caused a stir in the education sector, not least because they offer many features found on full-sized laptops, including built-in wireless networking. Their low cost (£169) is partly down to their use of open source software like the Linux operating system and free software packages such as Open Office. This does away with many software licensing costs incurred when using Microsoft Windows. So what are they like in practice?

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Corporation Pop to develop Second Life presence for Manchester Business School


Design and new media agency Corporation Pop has been commissioned to develop a Second Life island for Manchester Business School.

The team has only just collected the brief, but did take time out to reveal to How-Do some of the details behind the project.

Design and new media agency Corporation Pop has been commissioned to develop a Second Life island for Manchester Business School.

Apparently the ‘island’ is set to take the form of a virtual campus and will be developed primarily as a learning, teaching and recruitment tool.

The Linden Lab’s location will allow MBS to reach out to a broader worldwide audience, showcasing the school’s departments and facilities – albeit virtually – on a global basis.

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IBM and Forterra team up: “Unified Communications”


IBM and Forterra are teaming up to create collaboration tools for intelligence agencies. Both companies (IBM on 01/22/07 and Forterra on 06/25/07) have presented at the Virtual World SIG over the past year.

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http://www.forbes.com/technology/2008/03/20/cyberspies-virtual-feds-tech-security-cx_ag_0320virtual.html

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Myrl - a social network for the Metaverse.



Here your avatar can connect to multiple online worlds and to the web.

Myrl is all about collaboration and user controlled information: share, shape, show, vote and rank what's important to you.

http://www.myrl.com

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The Sims Carnival - new online game community



The Sims Carnival is a new online community and gaming experience from The Sims that makes game creation and sharing more accessible and fun than ever before.

The introduction of this new creative endeavor from The Sims is designed to convert millions of players into game designers - no programming skills required!

http://www.simscarnival.com/

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mmogchart.com - Lots of MMO stats here



http://www.mmogchart.com/charts/

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Wednesday, 26 March 2008

Child-like intelligence created in Second Life



Four-year-old Eddie might behave like a typical young boy. Outside of the Second Life virtual world, however, he is anything but.

The child is a product of logic-based artificial intelligence and complex modelling techniques, and operates on what has been said to be the most powerful university-based supercomputing system in the world.

A creation of researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Eddie has his own set of beliefs, and the ability to reason about his beliefs to draw conclusions in a manner that matches human children his age.

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ASUS 8.9-inch Eee PC will include touchscreen, possibly GPS



http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/26/official-asus-8-9-inch-eee-pc-will-include-touchscreen-possibl/

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EA-Land!


What is EA-Land?

I would like to introduce you to EA-Land, a world that is free-to-play.. Yes, free.

In mid 2007, a team was assembled to create a game based on a re-engineered The Sims Online architecture. After months of ongoing hard work, we can say proudly that we have been successful and we have made this game fun again!

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Ubisoft's DS pedometer wants you to lose



It's not enough that the Wii Fit is trying to cajole you into getting off your couch and actually engaging in physical activity -- now the DS is worming in on the action.

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http://www.mcvuk.com/press-releases/35618/A-Healthier-Life-Thanks-To-My-Health-Coach-Weight-Management

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Posted by AC at 11:22 1 comments

Our house in cyberspace


Soon real buildings will be monitored and taken care of remotely through cyber replicas on the net — and their inhabitants too:

It's not often you catch a grown man playing with a doll's house, let alone doing it while pretending to be a little old lady. But this is not your average Barbie residence, and it's all in the name of research.

The adapted PlayMobil house is in fact part of an experimental platform to explore new ways to bridge the gap between virtual and real worlds. A range of sensors and gadgets inside the house allow it to be monitored and controlled through an exact digital replica inside the virtual world Second Life.

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Play Brainbox Challenge - the brain-boggling BBC Two show that tests mental agility, nerve and skill.



http://www.bbc.co.uk/brainboxchallenge/

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Everex Cloudbook to rival Eee PC



http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2007/12/everex_cloudbook_to_rival_eee_pc.html

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Microsoft Brings WeeWorld to the NHS



http://gigaom.com/2008/03/20/microsft-brings-weeworld-to-the-nhs/

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The Web Apps Google Uses Internally



http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-03-12-n39.html

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The Best Tools for Visualization



Visualization is a technique to graphically represent sets of data. When data is large or abstract, visualization can help make the data easier to read or understand. There are visualization tools for search, music, networks, online communities, and almost anything else you can think of. Whether you want a desktop application or a web-based tool, there are many specific tools are available on the web that let you visualize all kinds of data.

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PMOG is the Passively Multiplayer Online Game.



This unconventional massively multiplayer online game merges your web life with an alternate, hidden reality. The mundane takes on a layer of fantastic achievement.

http://www.calacanis.com/2008/02/23/pmog-the-playful-web-and-some-brilliant-stuff-that-almost-chan/

http://pmog.com/

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Monday, 24 March 2008

Sentient world: war games on the grandest scale



Perhaps your real life is so rich you don't have time for another.

Even so, the US Department of Defense (DOD) may already be creating a copy of you in an alternate reality to see how long you can go without food or water, or how you will respond to televised propaganda.

The DOD is developing a parallel to Planet Earth, with billions of individual "nodes" to reflect every man, woman, and child this side of the dividing line between reality and AR.

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Sunday, 23 March 2008

Hugh MacLeod on Social Objects



http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/000009.html

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Saturday, 22 March 2008

Bridging Desktop And Web Applications

New platforms like Adobe Air and Mozilla Prism are evolving that combine the benefits of Internet flow with the flexibility and power of desktop applications. They are part browser, part desktop app and are extremely efficient for certain types of applications.

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Jason Calacanis introduces his new search engine Mahalo

Jason Calacanis, founder of Mahalo, introduces us to his new search engine and directory. This is a unique search engine because the results aren't produced by algorithms. Rather people all over the world contribute to it. Calacanis claims that that will bring dramatically better results. But this is a startup and it's too early to say it'll take on Google. In the meantime, though, we think it's a search engine you'll want to check out and Calacanis has some very interesting philosophies. We'll split this interview into two parts, with the second part coming next week. But here you meet Eric Stephens, director of user experience. He explains how Mahalo tests features (it's a different kind of user testing than we've seen before).



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