Question:
What's new news?

Answer:
BLIZZARD ENTERTAINMENT
"..It's easy to dismiss World of Warcraft as just another videogame. Easy, but dead wrong....In China, meanwhile, hordes of "gold farmers" earn a living by selling the fruits of their WoW labors to time-strapped players in the United States.

SLING MEDIA
"...TiVo sparked a media revolution by popularizing "time shifting"; allowing TV viewers to watch on their own schedules. Krikorian is doing the same with "place shifting"; enabling people to remotely watch programming streamed from their home TVs. Reading between the lines, this means that, though you might never own a Slingbox, Sling's technology will be coming soon to a set-top box near you.

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Tags: iblee, Knowledge, Knowledge_Architect, Fluency_or_Literacy

Question:
What's cool?

Man, this is cool:
"Sometimes you can't smooth these 'seams' away, and so seamful design is about taking account of these reminders of the finite, limited and physical nature of digital media. It's about deliberately but selectively revealing these seams to users, to let people make of them what they will. Seamful games are a means to try this kind of system design out, as well as an end in itself."
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Question:
When will the pure physical, virtual, and ubi-quical converge, blend, and be seamless?

Cool:
"...Equator is a six-year Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration (IRC) supported by EPSRC that focuses on the integration of physical and digital interaction..."
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