OLPC Market Penetration

Right now, a learning game on this platform has to be self-contained.

Flash

There are some things here...

Game Development and Academic Achievement

Well, almost everything is here.

3 devices with dgbl implications

Why we need universal gadget standards.

DIY Fundraising

Let's see what kinds of pages go up and what's popular and what's not.

Game Dynamics in Virtual Worlds

Game Based Work

Twine ties the Semantic Web together.

WOW!

I Want A New Platform

So do I...

MMORPG in education.

Open Game Engine Social Network Sites

Metaverse, et al, give the apprehension of a whole new web construct.

Game Changing Capacitor-like Battery Technology

There is another article on a carbon nanotube version of this that multiplies the efficiency to another level. So...

Digg - 15 Web Addresses for Wasting Time ... View At Your Own Risk!

Digg - 15 Web Addresses for Wasting Time ... View At Your Own Risk!
Some self proclaimed Web 2.0 gaming sites! Plus lots of other stuff. Memorize all these.

The Internet's new Dr. Spock? | Tech News on ZDNet

The Internet's new Dr. Spock? | Tech News on ZDNet
This is an in depth discussion of new media participation, implications for learning.

SiliconValley.com - Women driving 'casual game' boom

SiliconValley.com - Women driving 'casual game' boom
Core market!

Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing: Web 2.0 = web app + 2 founders + 0 revenue

Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing: Web 2.0 = web app + 2 founders + 0 revenue
Good solid stuff here about revenue streams for my consideration.

Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing: TechStars Demo Day - 10 new companies ready to launch

Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing: TechStars Demo Day - 10 new companies ready to launch
My heroes...

The Seoul Times

The Seoul Times

DFNG is the perfect tool to mediate all this language education...

FUTURE-MAKING SERIOUS GAMES: MacArthur Announces $2 Million Digital Media and Learning Competition

FUTURE-MAKING SERIOUS GAMES: MacArthur Announces $2 Million Digital Media and Learning Competition
Someone step forward and help me apply for this!

Activision Reports Sluggish Sales For Sousaphone Hero | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

Activision Reports Sluggish Sales For Sousaphone Hero | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

My Name is Dennis C and I am a Guitar Hero-aholic...
Must keep sense of humor...

Vernor Vinge on the Singularity

Vernor Vinge on the Singularity

One significant point I disagree with strongly is the statement that most development of humans has already been achieved. I believe that DGBL will take our present cognitive capacities to levels that cannot be predicted now. Many 10s or even 100s of times our present capacities. And the amplification of presently unknown or measured capacities.

Bubblegeneration Strategy Lab

Bubblegeneration Strategy Lab
I've been thinking this all along, so what else am I thinking for which I should be paid?

Web: Why Your Web Marketing Strategy Needs A Widget

Web: Why Your Web Marketing Strategy Needs A Widget

Again, the DFNG widget is, well, ahead of its time!

Richard Carey Associates > Emerging Technology Solutions, Learning Games & Simulations

Richard Carey Associates > Emerging Technology Solutions, Learning Games & Simulations
Please, everybody memorize this info.

What Does Crowdsourcing Really Mean?

What Does Crowdsourcing Really Mean?
Great article for the future of creativity!

MyGame: Create & Publish Simple Flash Games

MyGame: Create & Publish Simple Flash Games
A small step for Game, a giant step for GameKind...

Technology Review: Second Earth

Technology Review: Second Earth
Oh Yeah! (Free) Subscription required.

NASA - Space - Cosmos - Inventors and Inventions - New York Times

NASA - Space - Cosmos - Inventors and Inventions - New York Times

Good Ole Yankee Knowhow! And I'm still a mad scientist...

A Giant Leap: Space Diving Could be the Future for Astronauts and Extreme Dare-Devils - Gizmodo

A Giant Leap: Space Diving Could be the Future for Astronauts and Extreme Dare-Devils - Gizmodo
My new mission is to train to do this!

Metaverse Roadmap: Pathways to the 3D Web

Metaverse Roadmap: Pathways to the 3D Web
Where Consciousness Is Going...

Prepare for the SAT Test, or Play With Your iPod? Have It Both Ways | TideSports.com

Prepare for the SAT Test, or Play With Your iPod? Have It Both Ways | TideSports.com
This is the competition?

blog.pmarca.com: Analyzing the Facebook Platform, three weeks in

blog.pmarca.com: Analyzing the Facebook Platform, three weeks in

Uh oh, uh oh, uh oh...

My Recent Pic

blog.pmarca.com: The Pmarca Guide to Startups, part 1: Why not to do a startup

blog.pmarca.com: The Pmarca Guide to Startups, part 1: Why not to do a startup
While initially depressing, I have no alternative given my little life mission here.

Paying taxes is a pleasurable duty - being-human - 14 June 2007 - New Scientist

Paying taxes is a pleasurable duty - being-human - 14 June 2007 - New Scientist

This research should be fundamental in determining the evolution of tax systems worldwide. Choice of where tax money is spent should follow free market principles. There, Neocons! Put yer $ where yer uknow is!

GigaOM GigaOM Top 10 Most Popular MMOs «

GigaOM GigaOM Top 10 Most Popular MMOs «

$1 per month per person is $36M. A penny is $360K. Per Month.

» Research at Mediatech

» Research at Mediatech

Arcane, but pertinent. I think we can do better.

Terra Nova: Will we ever see this on a resume?

Terra Nova: Will we ever see this on a resume?
Not only will we see this on a resume, but ARGs, virtual worlds and DFNG's LILA will BE the resume!

Top 15 Google Street View Sightings

Top 15 Google Street View Sightings
There are dozens of game ideas in here. What fun!

And Still I Persist » Introduction

And Still I Persist » Introduction

An IT version of Sun Tzu's classic Art of War, referred from Guy Kawasaki; let's all memorize this!

Terra Nova: June Guest Robert Bloomfield

Terra Nova: June Guest Robert Bloomfield
This is certainly the right direction, and possibly a venue for our assessment engine.

Gamasutra - Patent Strategy in the Game Industry

Gamasutra - Patent Strategy in the Game Industry

After reading 10,000 things, this is very pertinant for this stage of things...

One Laptop per Child Organizes Game Jam to Create Free Video Games for the World's Poorest Children

One Laptop per Child Organizes Game Jam to Create Free Video Games for the World's Poorest Children

I wish we were ready to submit our little toy...

SCRATCH - Crowdsourcing Tool For Kids of All Ages MIT Medialab/Lego Mindstorms

This could be one of the greatest breakthroughs for DFNG yet.

A Serious Games Explanation

This is a comprehensive analysis of what is quickly becoming the name for this part of The Learning Industry.

Avant Game: Massively multi-citizen science is almost here

Avant Game: Massively multi-citizen science is almost here
Might be repeating this, oh well...

Technology Review: Games and Their MIT Makers

Technology Review: Games and Their MIT Makers
This link is to page 2 where there is a reference to Seymour Papert and this critical quote:
Game writer, producer, and consultant Sande Chen '92 is the coauthor of Serious Games: Games That Educate, Train, and Inform, published in 2005. She also leads Girls in Games, a nonprofit that encourages girls and women to enter the industry. In 2006, Next-Gen.Biz named her one of the industry's "Top 100 Most Influential Women."
Must have this list...

The smartest (or the nuttiest) futurist on Earth - May 14, 2007

The smartest (or the nuttiest) futurist on Earth - May 14, 2007
Definitely the King Hell Daddy of his ilk.... By the way, when has he predicted a 'Singularity' in education technology? Anyone? I wanna know when DFNG reaches that tipping point.

24 Top innovators | 1 | FORTUNE

24 Top innovators | 1 | FORTUNE
There's gotta be a $B of VC money on these guys...

KnowledgeWorks - Map of Future Forces Affecting Education - Education Map

KnowledgeWorks - Map of Future Forces Affecting Education - Education Map

Wait'll he gets a load of DFNG, can you say EXPLOSION of learning technologies?

Knowledge Communities

Here is something with almost all the pieces. I particularly like the idea that folks can create taxonomies and folksonomies (I know, big words) by tagging, something that I think can be used in DFNG gamescapes. OOOOhhhh!

Serious Games in Virtual Worlds: The Future of Enterprise Business Intelligence

Serious Games in Virtual Worlds: The Future of Enterprise Business Intelligence
Hey! Teacher! Leave those kids alone! How can you have any meat if you don't eat your pudding? I know, I know...

Public Library Geeks Take Web 2.0 to the Stacks -

Public Library Geeks Take Web 2.0 to the Stacks -
They're calling it Learning 2.0, which looks like the the whole smorgasbord of new fun and powerful things not just for librarians.

Tim O'Reilly: Web 2.0 Is About Controlling Data -

Tim O'Reilly: Web 2.0 Is About Controlling Data -
Ok, what he says on page 2 is really scary, the increased power of network effects and all, and mainly the data created by DFNG is truly scary. Please, Google, call me now. Please, write, send flowers. Something.

Marketing & Strategy Innovation Blog: Our own Wiki-experiment

Marketing & Strategy Innovation Blog: Our own Wiki-experiment
Wow! Should we let them in on our own soon-to-be little secret? Seriously, this is a treasure trove of genius bits.

Richard Carey | Why Educational Technology is Important

Richard Carey | Why Educational Technology is Important
Great relay of Dr. Karl Fisch's slide show(a teacher in Arapaho Basin, CO). Found on YouTube, and presented in flash mode in his article, it is a compelling directive to blow open the floodgates of Digital Fun 'n' Games.

Techdirt: Attention Startups: Google Uninterested In Acquiring Your Eyeballs

Techdirt: Attention Startups: Google Uninterested In Acquiring Your Eyeballs

I need feedback for exactly how I should communicate my business model to Google. Here's the standard.
"Speaking to a group of VCs, one of the company's top executives involved in making acquisitions said that [Google] ... wants companies with a clear business model that will lead to revenue growth.

Lärning genom gärning: Learning Games 2.0

Lärning genom gärning: Learning Games 2.0
Here's a note on the user-generated content notion. Plus a reference to an article by Jane on some cool cognitive intelligence gaming stuff. Wow!

Future games to harness players' collective wisdom | CNET News.com

Future games to harness players' collective wisdom | CNET News.com
Hi Jane, please contact me, I have thought up an assessment engine that you can use to get that Nobel Prize.

BBC - Science & Nature - Human Body and Mind - Body - Brain Map

BBC - Science & Nature - Human Body and Mind - Body - Brain Map
Rudimentary, my dear Watson (& Crick), but still fascinating...

Gamasutra - Q&A: Quizzing The Queen Bee Of ARGs, Jane McGonigal

Gamasutra - Q&A: Quizzing The Queen Bee Of ARGs, Jane McGonigal
Does the Nobel Prize committee call real early in the morning, like the Oscars?

STANFORD Magazine: March/April 2007 > Features > Mind-set Research

STANFORD Magazine: March/April 2007 > Features > Mind-set Research
Brainology is a computer-based training module to simulate a workshop that catalyzes learning.

Serious Games Source: 'Study Finds MindFit Brain Game Helpful To Seniors'

Serious Games Source: 'Study Finds MindFit Brain Game Helpful To Seniors'
Maybe we can hire CogniFit to do DFNG study for a %?

http://www.newsfactor.com/news/Off-the-Shelf-Collaboration-Opens-Up/story.xhtml?story_id=0320024RI0IO
10c per hour, $2.40 per day, <$75 per month, <$900 per year for nearly unlimited computing capacity. My only question: What does nearly mean?

Museum 2.0: Game Friday: Harnessing Collective Intelligence with Jane McGonigal

Museum 2.0: Game Friday: Harnessing Collective Intelligence with Jane McGonigal
Please, Universe, guide this woman to me! She gets it.

Hacking Knowledge: 77 Ways to Learn Faster, Deeper, and Better | OEDb

Hacking Knowledge: 77 Ways to Learn Faster, Deeper, and Better | OEDb

Informal Learning Blog :: Google Desktop as learning platform

Informal Learning Blog :: Google Desktop as learning platform

The Neuromancer reference was a little too much, but...

Robotic Nation Evidence: Robots and teachers

Robotic Nation Evidence: Robots and teachers
This guy should definitely be on the team...

Beacon Journal | 02/20/2007 | Toy makers create Internet playgrounds

Beacon Journal | 02/20/2007 | Toy makers create Internet playgrounds

So, with my old hypercard stack touch screen interface for babies...

http://terranova.blogs.com/terra_nova/2007/02/mmo_vc.html#more

wow, here's a lot of talk for me to digest and network with these folks

http://terranova.blogs.com/terra_nova/2007/02/mmo_vc.html#more

wow, here's a lot of talk for me to digest and network with these folks

MercuryNews.com | 02/12/2007 | Alternate realities: the latest twist in the ad game

MercuryNews.com | 02/12/2007 | Alternate realities: the latest twist in the ad game
This is exactly what needs to happen to bring a dose of reality to advertising.

The king of alter egos is surprisingly humble guy - USATODAY.com

The king of alter egos is surprisingly humble guy - USATODAY.com
I like this, would be even better with DFNG assessment engine driving the scoring for an in-house game.

Director of One Laptop Per Child Initiative to Take Center Stage at Serious Games Summit GDC 2007 @ SYS-CON Media
THIS IS THE GUY TO TALK TO!!!!

Can't Touch This - Jeff Han - Touch Screen
This is the perfect toy/tool for my preschool touchscreen interactive learning encyclopedia.

FUTURE-MAKING SERIOUS GAMES: The Educational Power Of Serious Games
Some ingo on U. Wisconsin's approach to learning games and the Mac grant

Independent Online Edition > This Britain

New brain game?

Informal Learning Blog :: Designing a Web-Based Learning Ecology
Wow! Makes me wish I was 16.
Good new word. LEARNSCAPE!

Google Gadget Award Winners

These are the most exciting new things I've seen!

Technological singularity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Scary/Exciting, here DFNG might seem to be a primary driver of AI induced cognitive enhancement technologies leading to neo-humans.

The Common Review: Spotlight
Must think about this. Difficult, but thoughtful review of The Knowledge Deficit. What are the implications for DFNG technology?

YouTube - Program yourself
This is a fun video illustrating perceptions and programming of consciousness...

I Love Bees - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
More info re the previous post...

AVANT GAME by Jane McGonigal
Could she be the one?

Somebody Figured It Out.

It started as a flood of spam and then a computer virus. Not a very malicious one, at first. In fact, a lot of people thought it was fun. And, of course, that's why it spread. IT administrators tried to block it for all the right reasons: bandwidth issues, employee time wasting, fear of trojans, etc. But then, a series of studies showed that people who played the simple little word games not only got smarter, they also became better workers. And, after a flurry of two or three days of pretty constant playing, players settled down to no more than 15 minutes of play per hour or an hour or two a day. A few played more. When kids played the games, their test scores, grades and behaviors improved. So, nobody fought it. They just left it alone.

They called it Digital Fun and Games, DFNG or The Game. And then dagame. One word. And the irreverent called it DaFuckiNGame. It was driven by some kind of phenomenal learning engine algorithm.

Sure, there were reports: About how it had seemingly come from nowhere, invented by a couple of marginal fringe types who eschewed any publicity. There were various stories about who they were, mostly conflicting ones; young, old, male, female, racial and ethnic hybrids. Various media personalities speculated about their motivations, good and evil. No one really cared until it was apparently too late. By that time, it came out that money generated from advertising on the little games had purchased significant shares in almost all of the big corporations in the world. Almost every industry had a one or two firms owned by DFNG. Eventually, many of these companies, particularly Internet and Media companies, came to be owned outright by DFNG. Strangely, as this process continued, these companies all got better. They didn't just have better products and services, they became better corporate citizens. Many of these DFNG owned companies started giving away their products and services, the result being that somehow they made even more money, which they began to invest in all sorts of humanitarian ventures. Feeding the poor, researching in health and aging, funding projects that helped people to overcome all sorts of emotional and social problems, including mental illness and pollution. Almost every industry transformed with the innovations that these DFNG influenced businesses brought. Murder rates plummeted. Most people, even most who played the games didn't really think that much of it. After all, lots of this kind of thing existed, and lots of companies trumpeted their philanthropy. No one could guess the scope of change that had occurred within less than five years.

It was one project that started THE RESISTANCE. Which, needless to say, has been heretofore futile.

Somewhere around two years after DFNG had become ubiquitous, churches noticed that their memberships dropped precipitously. Before the drop in attendance, churches were doing even better than before DFNG. Apparently, people playing the game initially donated significantly higher percentages of their income to churches. It came out that players started increasing their earnings fairly quickly after starting to play the game. And the churches benefited. At first. Then while a drop in attendance was noted, it wasn't considered a problem because of the increase in contributions. But it continued. Some churches emptied out completely. Many found that they didn't really have a mission anymore and shut down. Then two things happened. The churches started to be bought, by whom wasn't yet clear. The second thing was what started THE RESISTANCE. A report came out that people who played the games stopped going to church when they reached certain levels of three of the game modules.

That's when people started to fight back. It didn't last long, every resistance leader seemed to be coopted some kind of way by DFNG. It's like they could give you whatever you wanted to give up, so why fight? I'm writing this as a kind of record of the last ragged days of the few remaining in the Free Human Resistance. I can't really think of anything else to do, I'm getting very tired of fighting, mostly I sleep as much as I can, but I feel like giving up. I'm going to try and finish this first.

DFNG started recruiting the best players for a 'game within the game.' These recruits formed groups that worked as pods, first developing special mods for the game. When someone added a 'mod' to the game, they got rewarded by how many people used it. Players got access to devices that allowed them to 'play the game' much of the time. The games were set up to get players to develop whatever technology DFNG wanted to develop. They created 3D graphic programs with flythrough visuals for chemical and biological imaging capabilities. They were able to make buckyball polymers cheap and abundant overnight. They created industries supplying lightweight wearables, headgear and clothing with thermal and insulative properties, 360 degree video camera capabilities, real/virtual goggles with binocular amplification and true surround sound capabilities. Programmable clothing allowed for variation in texture from that of spandex to absolutely impenetrable chain mail, shape and color changes from a pressurized bubble that would float on water to virtual invisibility. At first these 'spacesuits' were part of the game, making you like Superman and the Predator all rolled into one. They were able to measure a lot of the functions of the body, such as mood, stress, some medical stats, neuromuscular contractions, as feedback in the game. It wasn't very long before the recruits in these pods just kept them on and everything they did became part of the game. Soon, almost anything that needed to be done could be done 'virtually,' by playing some module in the game.

Anyway, back to the church thing. When the churches were being bought up, bells started to ring for people that maybe this was starting to be creepy. Pun intended. What they started doing with the churches really provoked us. They took all markings, or brands, if you will, off the churches. No crosses, stars, crescents, Ankhs, Om symbols, whatever. When the games started, they were many little names for the various modules that started cropping up. After they had coalesced into an entire alternative reality, then infused real reality with its presence, it stopped being referred to as anything other than what was going on. Like they said, fish don't refer to the water that they swim in as 'the water.' And people could exist in 'The Game' and reality at the same time. It became school, play, work, love. Everything happened in and through it. That's when the infinity symbols started to appear in the game, almost as a kind of brand. Self referential. Like God calling IT-self God.

That's when we figured out that DFNG was trying to take over the world.

Clearly influenced by some unknown force, these church pods played the most sophisticated games designed to develop mental and physical powers which they called siddhis, the Sanskrit word for spiritual powers like levitating, telepathy and a power over form they called transmutation. And they began to be able to program their awareness, so that they were united in a kind of group trance they called non-duality. When one of them conceived a child using these powers, they worked together as a group to make sure that the child had the most pleasurable gestational experience possible, culminating in a water birth ritual accompanied by a specially designed sound and light show attended by the growing congregation, meditating and chanting as the new 'member' emerged. They even endowed each child with a million dollar fund so that they were taken care of very well for their entire lifetimes.

We've tried to figure out what this DFNG is, why it's happened. How did it come about? Who or what is this? Is it the only manifestation of an alien invasion; once it plays out, they will come in and take over? If they have the kind of power to do this to us, why didn't they just get rid of us, or are we being trained as slaves for them? Is it some demonic entity, or the devil, that has come to fulfill our temptations and take over our souls? We probably will never know. I surely don't believe the reason they tell us. Maybe I'll get to that later, it's thinking about that which seems to drain the last bit of fight out of people. DFNG members all walk around like zombies in bliss.

Politics, energy, transportation, communication, parenting, health care, education, housing, entertainment and media, manufacturing, textiles, mineral resources, refuse and pollution, food and nutrition, religion, crime and prisons, war. Nothing is the same.

Whatever it is, we must fight to keep from surrendering.

200 million under-fives are 'intellectually stunted' - health - 05 January 2007 - New Scientist
DFNG & McDonald's daycare to the rescue!

Star-Gazette.COM - Local News
Duh!

Emotion-aware teaching software tracks student attention - tech - 05 January 2007 - New Scientist Tech
DFNG should perform this function.

Device warns you if you're boring or irritating - being-human - 29 March 2006 - New Scientist Tech
Rodney Dangerfield joke: All my friends got together and got me this for my birthday!

How to go to M.I.T. for free | csmonitor.com
How to indeed! Teach me! Teach me!

In Silicon Valley, the Race Is On to Trump Google - New York Times
Gotta take some of these folks seriously...