“The Elements of Player Experience”

Do fodástico A Momentary Flow.

Hal Varian e o moedor de pimenta

For Varian, everything – including his culinary choices – can relate to data. Last year, while looking to buy a pepper shaker online, he hit upon the idea of a Google Price Index (GPI). It uses Google’s web shopping database to create a daily measure of inflation. It could, one day, be a complement – or competitor – to the official, yet less frequent, Consumer Price Index (CPI).

There’s a systemic gap, Varian points out, between the low-frequency data employed by governments and the high-frequency data of business. Government is working on it, though. “It’s now using supermarket scanner data to predict inflation rates,” notes Varian. How did it predict them before? “They used to send people out with notebooks to write it down.”

More communication between government and business clearly benefits both, says Varian. Business can provide more real-time data. “If you look at most businesses now, pretty much everyone – think of UPS, FedEx, MasterCard – has a real-time database. And that’s powerful.” Government can, in turn, aggregate information, giving businesses insight into their industry and the economy as a whole.

Se você não conhece Hal Varian, envergonhe-se.

Via Think Quartely, uma puta publicação do Google feita na Inglaterra.

“All the time in the world”

Matt Jones, da fodástica Berg London.

“All the time in the world”, posted with vodpod

Vendado, ninguém anda reto

Ninguém consegue andar em linha reta se estiver vendado. Sem um ponto de referência qualquer, como um prédio, uma montanha, o sol ou a lua, a gente começa bem, mas depois de um tempo assumimos um padrão circular.

Porra, isso vai tão além do senso de direção. Para mim, isso fala sobre padrões de comportamento da sociedade, sobre influência.

Ah, por isso que a NPR é foda!

Via UoD, inclusive o título do post.

“The Currents of Our Time”

Carl Malamud is an orator from a different era. He gives speeches. Rousing, moving, elevating speeches that turn our shared history into a kind of sermon; that inform us and inspire our better angels in equal measure. This is the kind of speech whose stirring coda lifts an audience to its feet and leaves them hitting replay in their heads — not just to pilfer the richest sound bites for their tweet streams — but to gather it all in.

Via O´Reilly Radar

Aula magna de estratégia em redes sociais

Ou “How A 13 Year Old Gained 16,000 Fans In 96 Hours“

Como serão as interfaces do futuro?

Assim.

“Fucking patterns!”

Análise foda em cima de possibilidades sobre o Linkedin:

The company has some 70 million members. That’s data on 70 million careers. Conceivably, the company could provide a service showing each one of us the paths that others took when they were in the same position we’re in now. It could diagram where those choices led. … “Maybe he ends up deciding to be a high school math teacher,…” Nishar [Vice President of Products and Services at LinkedIn] says. In that case, he could find current math teachers who have followed that path and debrief them.

Esse trecho é tão foda que me lembrou da palestra mais foda que eu já vi na minha vida, e que já postei aqui. A forma como os dados são trabalhados é estonteante.

“Media Inventor”

Fun­da­men­tally, I think, a media inven­tor is some­one who isn’t sat­is­fied with the suite of for­mats that have been handed down to him by his cul­ture (and econ­omy). Novel, novella, short story; album, EP, sin­gle; RPG, RTS, FPS–a media inven­tor doesn’t like those choices. It turns out a media inven­tor feels com­pelled to make the con­tent and the container.

Robin Sloan, via Noah Brier, que por sua vezs mostra uma interface foda do NYT sobre documentos da crise financeira.

Hayaku

“Time Lapse” no Japão. Foda! Puta viagem ao país dos orientais esquisitões.

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