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ARG Superstar Jane McGonigal describes the business implications of Alternate Reality Games

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Good news! The National Science Foundation has funded a second phase of the interdisciplinary Future Internet research project with Golisano Computing colleague Dr. Nirmala Shenoy for approximately $250,000. As before, the Saunders College team will identify and model the business impacts/ adoption patterns that are likely for a novel Internet technology. The complete award note [...]

Hiya, Google released their 3D world to beta today. It is called Lively.  I found much easier to use than secondlife, but with less power. However, it is a power-to-the-people kind of thing so if the community around it grows bigger there will be lots of free virtual goods. I even made my own island [...]

Much has been written and continues to be written about the forces that drive our behavior online. I really like, for example, Nick Yee’s articles describing the motivation of online game players.

Discovery. Its the one of Nick’s subcomponents that keeps popping up all over the place in my life. Maybe all of the online [...]

I just returned from an invigorating two days at my first NSF Future INternet Design (FIND) community meeting. As you may know, Golisano Computing colleague Nirmala Shenoy and I were fortunate to have a grant accepted for this program.

What I learned quickly at this meeting is that the FIND community are a VERY impressive group [...]