Recent bit from the New York Times about burglars picking houses based on Facebook status updates. Not surprising at all. Does remember to namecheck PleaseRobMe.com.
See also Tom Scott’s project that datamines public phone numbers from Facebook.
Data Dangers Redux
September 16, 2010
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The Future Of Gaming
March 17, 2010Here’s the video for an interesting speech by Jesse Schell entitled “Design Outside The Box.”
Topics of the speech include:
- the psychology of games – making them sticky
- the consumer desire for realism and authenticity as a recent trend
- technological convergence/divergence of devices, the iPhone, the iPad, and the “pocket exception”
- the possibility of game achievements improving behavior
- the fact that there are more FarmVille players on FaceBook than there are Twitter accounts
Achievements are already leaking over to non-games, some items that could have been mentioned:
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