Month: September 2007

Future technologies

Predicting future is hard, but fun job. Here is a pick of videos from YouTube:

There is something slightly comical in this line of techno-futurism and excitement about the future, if you keep on watching these long enough. On the other hand, optimism is sweet. One-sided, but still sweet.

GameSpace workshop

GameSpace workshop
Originally uploaded by FransBadger.

Our research project on games design and evaluation methodologies organised another internal workshop this week. The project is focused on the design challenges of casual, multiplayer mobile games, and this time we worked on techniques of low-fi game mechanics prototyping. More on GameSpace here: http://gamelab.uta.fi/GameSpace

Google video embedding into WordPress

I had to move from using Youtube into Google Video service to share our family videos — the benefit of Google is that they do not appear to set any file size or duration limits for the video clips. YouTube is also too slow and unreliable these days (downsides of too fast growth?) Embedding Google video into a WordPress.com blog was not so simple though. The way I finally got it working is to take the Google video ID from “Mail this video > Embed HTML” code box, and insert it into code to replace “XYZ” below:

Thanks: Embed Google Video & Odeo In WordPress « Twist & Shout

Updated: travel schedule with web links

I updated my travel schedule and listed also the web pages for those conferences and seminars:

Note that the dates are my travel dates, and thus not necessarily those of the entire conference or seminar duration. See you somewhere around this globe this fall!