I came across a post from Bob Cringely (tech industry blogger), riffing on a recent speech by Roger McNamee (tech VC/investor), arguing that Facebook is “so 2010”. In Silicon Valley, it’s the done thing to skate to beyond where the puck is headed, and to call things old before they are new. But it’s a little far-fetched to declare Facebook as over when it has only so far demonstrated pervasive stickiness and not yet proven a scalable profit model, nor has the “next Facebook” yet emerged!
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Tags: Apple, Bill Gates, DEC, Facebook, Google, IBM, Ken Olsen, Leo Apotheker, Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft, Steve Jobs
So Steve Jobs will be making another bunch of announcements about iOS 5 and the revamped iCloud tomorrow (Monday, 6 June, 2011) at Apple’s WWDC (Worldwide Developers’ Conference). The buzz is they’ll re-announce a cloud-based iTunes service that will try to lock Apple-philes into the iOS platform even further by holding captive their personal content and app libraries. I’d rather Apple’s “stickiness” was a great user interface and brilliant functionality that continually improves faster than the competition. So they can achieve that, I’d first like to see Apple make some really basic fixes to iOS:
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Tags: Android, Apple, Chrome, Firefox, Google, iOS, iPad, iPhone, Microsoft, Mozilla, Steve Jobs, Windows, Windows Phone
Welcome to WetWareGames, and pleased to make your acquaintance! This a personal blog for sharing thoughts and discussions on hopefully interesting topics with friends and colleagues – and perhaps make some new friends along the way. According to Wikipedia, the fount of all human understanding, “wetware” refers to 
both the physical brain and the human mind. So the name “WetWareGames” covers a breadth of subjects on which I might write:
- Games, especially unplugged, acoustic or analog games (aka boardgames, cardgames or tabletop games) – since these are games that can be played with just your wetware
- Passive Media (books, film, TV) – as the most intelligent media can set off a around of mental gymnastics (wetware games)
- Tech Disruptions – while tech is about software and hardware, in the end it’s wetware that drives the biggest innovations
- Social Commentary – as not everything is a game
- Cognitive Development – with a young family, it’s fascinating to watch a child’s wetware develop, and for them, learning is play!
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Tags: Age of Empires III, Agricola, Apple, Ascension, Caylus, Christopher Nolan, computer games, Dominant Species, Dominion, Facebook, Glory to Rome, Google, IBM, Inception, Microsoft, mobile games, movie, Nightfall, politics, Puerto Rico, Race for the Galaxy, religion, Settlers of Catan, social games, The Prestige, Thunderstone, Twilight Imperium, unplugged games, Verräter, video games, Zynga
I came across a post from Bob Cringely (tech industry blogger), riffing on a recent speech by Roger McNamee (tech VC/investor), arguing that Facebook is “so 2010”. In Silicon Valley, it’s the done thing to skate to beyond where the puck is headed, and to call things old before they are new. But it’s a little far-fetched to declare Facebook as over when it has only so far demonstrated pervasive stickiness and not yet proven a scalable profit model, nor has the “next Facebook” yet emerged!
So Steve Jobs will be making another bunch of announcements about iOS 5 and the revamped iCloud tomorrow (Monday, 6 June, 2011) at Apple’s WWDC (Worldwide Developers’ Conference). The buzz is they’ll re-announce a cloud-based iTunes service that will try to lock Apple-philes into the iOS platform even further by holding captive their personal content and app libraries. I’d rather Apple’s “stickiness” was a great user interface and brilliant functionality that continually improves faster than the competition. So they can achieve that, I’d first like to see Apple make some really basic fixes to iOS:
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Welcome to WetWareGames, and pleased to make your acquaintance! This a personal blog for sharing thoughts and discussions on hopefully interesting topics with friends and colleagues – and perhaps make some new friends along the way. According to Wikipedia, the fount of all human understanding, “wetware” refers to
both the physical brain and the human mind. So the name “WetWareGames” covers a breadth of subjects on which I might write:
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Posted by Jokersmiley on March 29, 2011 in Book Reviews, Cognitive Development, Film Reviews, Game Design, Game Reviews, Game Strategy, Games, Passive Media, Social Commentary, Tech Disruptions, TV reviews
Tags: Age of Empires III, Agricola, Apple, Ascension, Caylus, Christopher Nolan, computer games, Dominant Species, Dominion, Facebook, Glory to Rome, Google, IBM, Inception, Microsoft, mobile games, movie, Nightfall, politics, Puerto Rico, Race for the Galaxy, religion, Settlers of Catan, social games, The Prestige, Thunderstone, Twilight Imperium, unplugged games, Verräter, video games, Zynga