We’re big fans of our medical dramas here in the danhon household. Private Practice is one of them. And season two is about to start airing on Living. But when? First out of the gate is a Never Miss reminder email from Sky.com, which would be a fantastic service – if it was right. Here’s [...]
WEvent description: Key games industry figures discuss how they’re making money from web-based advergames, PC and console download services, and the iTunes application store – revolutionising the old model where publishers paid developers to make games, and customers paid publishers to buy them in the shops. But can these new revenue streams generate the large [...]
Project Canvas – Google search, amusingly, predictably and depressingly, the top result is someone’s blog entry rather than anything official, and another search yields a 404, at which point you’re wondering: why bother, really, but I digress – anyway, Project Canvas (actual BBC Trust supporting documentation with Googlejuice as good as a wet sock, it’s [...]
Digital Britain Position Paper Dan Hon danhon@gmail.com A heartfelt position on the Digital Britain interim report in the style of a blog post. Bluntly: this is quite raw. Stating what I hope to be the obvious: this is the opening of a conversation. Stating what should be obvious: keep comments civil. You have a right to [...]
See this thing I wrote? It talks about things like: not having to explicitly save integrating CVS (well, it was 2003) with document editing systems so you can scrub timelines for revisions Well. Finally: iPhone apps (the good ones, at least) are persistent and you don’t have to “save” Cory’s busy writing into SVN git [...]
… like in Scanners. This is really, really quick, because these are ideas that have been variously bubbling away in my head both pre-and-post-SXSW. The Fictional Field – what you get when the internet is finally everywhere (because it will be: there is no mobile web. There is just the web) and you can dip [...]
Dan Hon (danhon@gmail.com) has sent you an invitation to join Skynet: I’ve been using Skynet, and here’s an invitation so you can give it a try as well. ——————————————————————– What’s Skynet? Skynet is a privatized ex-military research project that began its life at DARPA, where the Internet was invented. Skynet helps you make decisions and [...]
Or, more accurately, Telefonica O2. Being a series of related bullet points. I was in Austin for SXSW, and subsequently Toronto for IN09. If you follow my Twitters, this would’ve been painfully evident. My (i)phone stopped working. It stopped working on the day I was due to fly up from Austin to Toronto via Houston, [...]
Lord Carter Keynote Speech at NESTA, Tuesday 24 February 2009 Speakers: Lord Carter, Minister for Communications, Technology and Broadcasting Neil Berkett, CEO, Virgin Media Peter Bazalgette, Media Expert Jonathan Kestenbaum, CEO, Nesta. Jonathan Kestenbaum: welcome on behalf of the NESTA team. Stephen’s first set of public comments since the publication of the interim report. I [...]
Only pulling out the story/character ones, but: STORY AND CHARACTER Assassin’s Creed Jade Raymond, Patrice Desilets, Claude Langlais Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft Entertainment Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Development Team Infinity Ward/Activision Fable II Development Team Lionhead Studios/Microsoft Game Studios Fallout 3 Todd Howard, Emil Pagliarulo Bethesda Game Studio/Bethesda Softworks Europe Grand Theft Auto IV Development [...]
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