links for 2008-04-09

• New Product Design and Business Development
  creating an elevator pitch
  (tags: business communication design development presentation tool)
• Online Chat, as Inspired by Real Chat - New York Times
  the rise and rise of browser-based 3D virtual worlds
  (tags: virtual virtual_world online online_community social_network social social_software)
• Psychology of Facebook - Syllabus
  For ten weeks we will focus on persuasion psychology in Facebook. In other words, we will examine Facebook as a system that can foster attitude and behavior change.
  (tags: facebook education persuasion psychology social social_software socialnetworking web2.0 social_psychology online online_community onlinesocialnetworks)

Virtual Worlds: market research

Quite a good round-up presentation from the Virtual Worlds Forum by Nic Mitham from KZero about the demographic segments of the current virtual worlds landscape:

Key features I take away:

* so few people are looking realistically at the virtual worlds landscape at the moment, but the people behind existing worlds are aware that competitors are interested in chomping away at market leadership. This is particularly clear looking at the slide displaying the 20-30 year old market, where there are many virtual worlds in development aimed at this group. Why this group? According to the presentation, the major growth for this demographic is convergence. Embedded media does not a virtual world make.

* i’ve never seen the spread of virtual worlds for the 10yo crowd. Great to have a baseline to move forward from.

* Mitham says that one of the growth areas for the 30+ age bracket - which is grossly under-supported in the VW space - is to ‘[bring] existing social networks together’. How convenient, as that’s exactly what my attention has been drawn to in the past few months.

links for 2008-04-08

• Social Innovation Camp: Show and tell
  Bobbie gives the details of the social innovations dreamed up at this year’s Social Innovation Camp. Mighty.
  (tags: innovation social tech technology)

links for 2008-04-06

• Circular walks in East Sussex
  for sunny afternoons
  (tags: uk)

Trapped in the closet: web of deceit

clipped from www.ifc.com

A fantastic example of a network, this one documenting the indecent connections between the characters in R. Kelly’s Trapped in the Closet.

Marvellous.

links for 2008-04-05

• Creating Learning Communities
  pub’d 1999 by Claudia L’Amoureaux
  (tags: collaboration education learning web2.0 online online_community)

links for 2008-04-01

• Singularity
  web conference 24-26 October 2008
  (tags: community conference technology web singularity)
• Futuresonic
  The Social Technologies Summit
  (tags: conference socialnetworking socialsoftware technology)
• Microsoft Brings WeeWorld to the NHS
  Avatars in the health service’s internal network.
  (tags: games virtualworlds online_community social_network)

links for 2008-03-29

• Gamasutra - Features - “Better Game Design through Data Mining”
  an oldie but a goodie
  (tags: data games visualization)

links for 2008-03-19

• Poll Junkie
  a free poll tool
  (tags: online questionnaire survey tools web)
• The World Clock Meeting Planner
  the most useful tool in the world ever. at least for multinationals
  (tags: tool)

links for 2008-03-16

• BarCampLondon2 - Visualisation Presentation
  all kinds of ways to visualise the stuff you can’t see
  (tags: barcamp visualization data research)