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I was with Rain at EIF08 and thought I’d pick up on a few of the other talks given while we were there.
In this post I've pulled together my notes from the presentations from Margaret Robertson of Gamecity and lead economist on Eve, Eyjolfur Gudmundsson. There's an interview with Eyo online as well as Graham Brown Martin from handheldlearning. I'll be posting my impressions from the Dare to be Digital competition in part 2 as soon as I can as well as my notes from Graham's presentation.
Overall I really enjoyed the festival. There was tons to play with and some excellent talks on subjects that you maybe wouldn’t find at other games festivals. Here’s my take on it all...
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Following from the previous prototype Adam has launched his twitter bot which will recommend you other artists based on one you send it. It was first demoed at Mashed 08 but has now gone live for anyone using twitter to use. Just send a message using @recomme or direct message recomme with a single artist name and it will search through last.fm and other sources like /programmes for other artists it thinks you might like. Simple but clever.
Off-site link to prototype: http://twitter.com/recomme
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From the Mailing list,
Personally I'm waiting for the time when we can pause a program and scroll over the items on-screen and it'll tell us what they are and where we can buy them, like when Ed Norton describes his apartment at the beginning of Fight Club.
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