Just played two games of werewolf (well, three, but i was killed early in the first one, so it doesn’t count). I need to play games like that more often, it’s quite a lot of fun. Conferences are a good place for games full of deception and mindgames — you don’t really know people well [...]
Archive for March, 2007
Rightscale, a nice front-end to EC2
Rightscale is the new name for AWS-Console (a much better name, i must say). It seems to be the easiest way to play around on Amazon’s EC2. I had a server up in minutes, with most of the delays being due to poor wifi. A neat little business model, smoothing out the wrinkles in amazon’s [...]
Happiness
Just heard Jane McGonigal’s talk about happiness. I really, really like her prediction for the future (quick notes, not verbatim): quality of life is the primary metric positive psychology is a principal influence on design the public expects tech companies to have a clear vision for a life worth living to succeed, products/brands/etc. must increase [...]
argh.
Just noticed my wordpress installation is borked, people’s comments aren’t visible. Will try and fix tomorrow.
ETech 2007
I’m at ETech 2007 in San Diego. Notables: Twitter-mania is everywhere. PaulK on what twitter has on blogging: “If you’re going to be inane, at least be inane concisely”. And someone on IRC: “Twitter: teaching America about SMS”. Fun is in. This is a good thing, except that creating fun is turning into a process [...]
