Monday, March 31, 2008

Delicious in plain english

For a few years I've been totally hooked on this great social bookmarking site called Delicious. It's absolutely brilliant for a number of reasons:

1. You have your bookmarks availiable on any computer.
2. ...your friends can see them too.
3. You can choose not to share when you are a tight ass.
4. You can access and even RSS-feed everything all other users tag with a certain word so that you'll be super-updated.
5. You can bookmark-stalk a nerd (read: very knowledgable person)
6.
7.

...I have been ranting on about the greatness of this for ages. Today I found the greatest pressentation of it ever. Here it is, Social bookmarking in plain English.



See you on delicious.


...and if you havn't checked out the "Zombies in plain English"... well, you should, 'cos I tell you - they are comming.

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Gaming trends

Businessweek predicts a continuing boom for the gaming industries and lists the biggest trends.

1. Simple games that are less time-consuming developed for less experienced gamers like EA:s Boom Blox developed in colaboration with Steven Spielberg.
2. Gradual roll-out of games such as Mass Effect on Xbox where the new episode was sold for USD5
3. Free-to-play - the games are for free but things in the game are bought. This will be the case for the new release of Battlefield.
4. Indie games released free online. (Check out "N" below.)
5. Merges among publishers.
6. User generated/developed games where the players can develop and share their designs. Example? "Little big planet" from Sony.

I don't really get what Businessweek mean when they talk about indie-games. Thought that it had always been that way. Well, this game "N" is quite amusing. Help the ninja collect all the coins and open the portal. Simple and to the point.

N Game Just play it.

Sunday, March 23, 2008

Zombie obsession

This morning I woke up at 6:30. My mind was speeding down zombie-lane. Seriously, it's time to get this project out of my dreams and into my... eh car.

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Zombie time!

For your own safety, check out these Zombie-survival instruction videos.





The Zombie walk movement seems to be global. Warsaw had one, Ottowa had, Sydney did too. This is often used as a way to create mass-scenes for Zombie-films and/or to do political protest or fundraising.

In the second largest zombie walk to date, 894 participants gathered at the Monroeville Mall in Pittsburgh, which served as the set of the classic zombie film Dawn of the Dead, on October 29, 2006.[4] In addition to setting a Guinness World Record, the event was a benefit for the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank. The attendees where all were instructed to bring canned food for a local food drive. In 2007, the people of Pittsburgh broke their record with over 1100 zombies at the same mall, during their all weekend zombie festival.

This is fotage from Pittsburgh.


This is London.

This is Toronto.

Forge @ Subtopia

Forge On the top floor at Subtopia.



(Swedish only, sorry.)

Monday, March 10, 2008

Hometown Baghdad - now back online.

Hometown Baghdad is back on the Internet. If you didn't notice they were pulled from youtube while Mike and the others at CTP were trying to seal a deal for tv-broadcast.


Well, now you can see all of them right here.

Charles Leadbeater

Sunday evening me and Karin will head off to Warzaw for a conference on "Creative Cities" hosted by British Council.

I'm so stoked to meet all the awesome people who will be attending... including Charles Leadbeater who is releasing his new book shortly.



...and for those of you who have not yet seen his presentation on TED... well, I strongly reccomend you to check it out.

I'm also really curious about Lorraine Gammon who will lecture on "The dark side of creativity"... Please drop a comment if you know who she is.

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Freeze!

Okej det här är så jäkla cool.

Boutani on Bambuser

Jag har fått en fet jobbtelefon och kan äntligen börja använda Bambuser.

...och fan det funkar så fint.

Hatten av... Måns du rockar.