For all of us in the DMA, this is an important New York Times article to read:
Digital Devices Deprive Brain of Needed Downtime by Matt Richtel
Could you give up the Internet or your cell phone for 7 days?
In The Unplugged Challenge, The New York Times asked volunteers to give up certain types of technologies for a period of time. Watch videos about how they survived this challenge.
Voyeur With a Ticket by Ben Brantley, a New York Times article, is an interesting look at how theater can involve the audience in a performance and draw on interactivity as an element of drama.
This series of videos from Google I/O 2010 Developer Event introduces new platform Google TV and many of its features. Scheduled to be released in the Fall of 2010, Google TV promises seamless integration of the Web and TV based on Google’s Open Source platform called Android and many hardware manufacturers.
Check out the videos: http://www.youtube.com/googledevelopers#p/c/B09682344C2F233B
Check out this article from Geek.com: “Watch Flash 10.1 running on Android 2.2 using a Nexus One” and watch a presentation of Flash performing on the upcoming version of Android 2.2.
It seems that the Adobe-Apple fight will never end.
Click here to read “Next Round in the Adobe-Apple Fight” by Nick Bilton (The New York Times article).
From The New York Times:
Google and Partners Seek TV Foothold by Nick Bilton
A platform called Google TV will bring the Web into the living room
through televisions and set-top boxes.
From The New York Times:
Telling Friends Where You Are (or Not) by Jenna Wortham
Giving people more choices in revealing their locations with their
cellphones is being popularized by the Foursquare service.
Practical Game Design : The Rule of Threes by Lars Doucet, posted on Gamasutra
The battle of the mobile OS continues as Microsoft introduces its new Windows Phone OS:
Microsoft Starts Over in Phone Software by Ashlee Vance, New York Times article