Qajacking Hell! We need your help with the Qajack video teaser. We figured using future star Qajackers such as yourselves would make sense and be kinda funny for this social gaming experiment.
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In the spirit of Halloween herewith a poor copy of a magnificent Simpsons’ rendering of Edgar Allan Poe’s, The Raven as read by James Earl Jones.
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Unlike losing your virginity, launching your first start-up takes longer than you think.
Looking back I haven’t written on the Qajack blog since June 24 when Iceland was just beginning to use virtual fish as an alternative currency.
I recall telling Mike Butcher at Techcrunch that we’d be ready to launch mid July!
But today I got a look at Qajack, due to go into private beta on the 15th November, followed by public beta early December.
I’m hooked and I can’t even upload video yet. It’s an application with a personality and one that uses gaming mechanics to engage the user. At its heart it’s predicated on three things:
People want to know stuff
People want to win stuff
People are competitive
I’ve thought of a fourth thing:
People want to know what other people know
Still much to do, including David insisting on rounding off some corners, but here’s a taster:
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Sometimes I wake up and I just want to make sweet love to the web before it becomes a criminal offence.
Today is such a day as I have discovered a video about how to make a big foot costume out of old fur coats.
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I’ve been a cantankerous git this past week, so to placate the team who have been at the mercy of my micro rage, I tell them this:
Image by Cross Stitch Ninja
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Contains the immortal line, ‘after you got drilled by that human cannonball’.
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Heavy brain matter, from the Space Collective:
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I’m copying an article I wrote for Beautiful Crime here because, well I can and because it’s about digital communication. Please Digg it if you feel so inclined as for once it’s a serious and academic piece rather than some pop tech ramblings and mixed metaphors, which I know you all enjoy:
Never have street art and political activism combined to elect a US President.
That they have now with Barack Obama says a lot about the art, the man and how we communicate.
Shepard Fairey, marries respect with commerce as America’s most recognisable street artist. His Obama series of posters, ‘Progress’ and ‘Hope’ were pasted across America’s cities in the run up to Super Tuesday on February 5th. This wasn’t some sub Warhol camp extravagance, this was forthright, counter culture political activism.
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