Social Media

Global Game Jam – Startup Weekend for Gaming

No Comments 03 February 2009

So last weekend was the first Global Game Jam (GGJ). CGJ is, as they describe it, “a worldwide event challenging game developers to create innovative games in just 48 hours”, to me it sounds a lot like Startup Weekend for Game Developers. The one difference I see between Startup Weekend and Global Game Jam (aside [...]

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Mobile Phones

Location-based gaming on your mobile phone

No Comments 31 January 2009

This was bound to come along when GPS came to mobile phones. from The Gadget Show Reminds me of geeks playing dundeons and dragons but think this is a great evolution to mobile gaming. Who knows what games will come of this. RPG, Adventure, Racing, Detective ? The game mentioned in the above video segment, [...]

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Arb Thoughts

Now over a billion internet users

No Comments 27 January 2009

Just saw on Economist.com today, China is the number one Internet user in the world, overtaking USA from just a few months a ago. Interestingly, looking at comScore’s graph below, the top 3 internet users, China, USA and Japan cover 40% of the internet users in the world. Over 1/6th the worlds population is now [...]

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Social Media

Write what your readers want? Skribit your suggestions.

No Comments 12 May 2008

Bloggers that care about their readers listen to their readers. Now there’s a pretty nice way to find out what your readers want to read. Skribit allows you to put a wiget on your blog which allows your visitors to make suggestions on what they want to see on your blog. I’ve seen some bloggers [...]

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Arb Thoughts

Pangea Day from Somerset House, London

No Comments 11 May 2008

So I was at Somerset House in London yesterday for the live Pangea Day screening. Yay! It was pretty amazing, with intense short films, live bands, celebs and lots of great people. Here are some pictures from the event. My phone is crappy at night shots, here are only a few shots from earlier in [...]

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Cape Town

The Festival of Ideas

2 Comments 04 May 2008

This sounds a lot like TED, only it’s a bit more laid back. It still has some great speakers, like the likes of Charles Leadbeater, George Ferguson and Baroness Susan Greenfield, however instead of TED’s jam-packed set of talks within 3 days, the Festival of Ideas occurs of a whole month in the City of [...]

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Arb Thoughts

Win a VIP trip to the Monaco Formula 1 Grand Prix

3 Comments 04 May 2008

Did you know you don’t need to live in the UK to play the UK lottery? PlayUKLottery.com is runnning a competition via their sister website PlayEuroMillions.com. What can you win? Tickets to the Monaco Formula 1 Grand Prix. And you don’t just get tickets, you get to go in style. A week in one of [...]

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Innovation

Coming soon: The Grid, invented at CERN, is 10,000 times faster than the Internet

No Comments 06 April 2008

The first thing I checked when I read this article was if it was posted on the 1st of April The latest spin-off from Cern, the particle physics centre that created the web, the grid could also provide the kind of power needed to transmit holographic images; allow instant online gaming with hundreds of thousands [...]

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Arb Thoughts

Happy April Fools Day!

No Comments 01 April 2008

This has got to be the most loved and awaited day for Geeks and mischieve makers all over the world And, I see Google is at it again, together with Virgin this year, with Virgle Inc. Virgle is a joint venture between the Virgin Group and Google, with the goal of establishing a permanent human [...]

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