Posted by Mike Sugarbaker at 11:07 am on 5/23/2005
I’m excited about this new audio program I’m a part of, and I think you’ll be just as excited about it, if not more. The Honest Information Program is chock full of ideas and gentle meditations to turbo-charge your thinking while you sleep. If you don’t agree that the Honest Information Program is the finest legal spoken-word product on the Internet, you’ll be pleased to hear that an RSS feed is on the way, so you will know precisely when you need to avoid it.
The Honest Information Program: Get HIP!
(Produced in association with Signalstation.com.)
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Posted by Mike Sugarbaker at 4:54 pm on 5/16/2005
Game Neverending was officially cancelled a while back. Here’s what I wrote about it back when it was still on (long before Flickr took over Ludicorp):
We all know what happened to MUDs. The text-based online dungeon crawls of yesteryear begat Meridian 59, Ultima Online and finally EverQuest, which begat so much raw cash that it spawned an industry within an industry. But what happened to MOOs? […] MOOs fulfill the other side of the promise of immersive worlds (AKA cyberspace, the Metaverse, or whatever you want to call it). EverQuest puts you in someone else’s world, but in a MOO, the world was yours to help create. Perhaps for that reason, MOOs tended only to attract the upper echelon of intelligent, technical freaks - the sort of people who have weblogs these days.
I had, of course, answered my own question there. The Web is what happened to MOOs, and it’s why they still languish today while MUDs are eating the gaming industry whole (even more than they used to be).
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Posted by Mike Sugarbaker at 12:35 pm on 5/2/2005
If you use Gmail, Google’s free email service, you may have noticed some occasional variance in its login screen over the last month or so. Sometimes, but only sometimes, it says “Log in to Google Accounts” rather than “Log into Gmail” or whatever. Now, since Google has long made use of Gmail logins as the key to their new-ish system for Google Groups, and recently enabled search history for logged-in users, plus other stuff, it’s pretty clear that they have their eye on Google Account as a brand, for the short run at least. Maybe they’ll even integrate Google Accounts with Blogger usernames, although that would be a bear of a job. But I think they have their eye on something a lot bigger.
Google needs searchers to have accounts if they want to defeat search spam, the deceptive results created and artificially boosted by the efforts of SEOs, or “Search Engine Optimizers.” (more…)
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