In Honor of the Our Neighbors to the North

On this, their Thanksgiving Monday and in light of the recent mobile release of our own Decades, we bring you an article from Canada.com's tech section regarding the rapid-fire production of gaming that's being caused by the acquisition of mobile phones by almost every single individual in the first world, and some in the second. 


The piece illuminates how much mobile devices are doing to shape both the way the games are programmed and how many people and which or them are getting to do it. In the article's case a 19 year old both programs a game as a class assignment and well as comments the following: 

"A game's creativity used to depend on the hardware," said Ide, a 19-year-old computer programming student who is developing an iPhone game as part of his studies.

"A successful game now is one that's simple and reaches a wide network of people..."

We'd say that that's pretty right on and rather insightful for someone of that age. But, then again, if you check our article from last Thursday, you'll see that young gamers are the brains behind todays apps and consoles. Check out the full article on here and for those of you celebrating, mazel tov. Enjoy the Turkey!

new content distribution models finally making waves?

Courtesy of @angryaustin

The Deal Storm That Changed Us: Blip.tv, YouTube, FreeWheel

Eyes on the grid, fingers on the pulse of the media sphere, most of us like to think we know what business deals mean at a glance, right when they are announced. Sometimes, even with the biggest deals, a little airtime and talk amongst ourselves is all we need to come to grips with industry happenings and go about our daily business.

But, occasionally, there is a meaningful confluence of such big deals in a short period of time, immediately floodlighting the future to come -- that we must stop, look and listen. As consumers and as media executives, we must know what time it is and expand our outlook accordingly.

http://bit.ly/YCmhy

Google Wave

Google Wave is a new tool for communication and collaboration on the web, coming later this year.

http://wave.google.com

The demo for Google Wave is pretty amazing. in HTML 5 it offers the ability to collaboratively communicate in real time and in a way that will supplant email and instant messaging while allowing users to broadcast the results. I'm a bit concerned about how backward compatible it is with existing email programs. The API is exciting as it allows easy extension. I think that once Orkut full integrates Google Wave Facebook should be afraid.

The new spell check is freakin amazing. It takes context into account. That imeediately makes me think about game design. Well, honestly, my first reaction is that this whole thing is already a game, but they've written some gadgets that are specifically games. Soduko, chess... these yurn in competitive experiences. But I think Wave could be the tool that jumpstarts a massive expansion in collaborative social gaming.