Friday, February 03, 2006

games MMOGs With Television, Movie Add-Ons. [Slashdot] sort of interactive television that will have great appeal to marketers for targeted advertising inserting into the game where designing gameplay contexts for instant ordering and impulse buying may become an economic artform.  The movie part is just the promo for the game play.  -- BL 10:48:29 AM    comment

audio The wrath of the Mac zealots. With Version 4.9, iTunes became capable of functioning as a "podcatcher" -- that is, a program that subscribes to RSS feeds with enclosures and downloads the enclosed media files. Although I've used iTunes for podcatching since then, it was only recently that I needed to copy and paste one of its feed URLs. Astonishingly, although you can display that URL in iTunes, you cannot copy and paste it. I had to manually transcribe the 188-character monstrosity. Again, not theoretically a lock-in, but practically so. This subtle coercion puts participating universities in an awkward position. The Web was first conceived as a means of academic collaboration. Blogging and podcasting represent the long-awaited fulfillment of that dream. Universities are natural allies of the Web, sharing the values of accessibility and open discourse. But the iTunes relationship strikes a discordant note. [Full story at InfoWorld.com] -- designing for dollars by lockin --BL ... [Jon's Radio] 10:06:59 AM    comment