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Travel: San Francisco for WWDC, LA afterwards

I'll be in San Francisco for Apple's Worldwide Development Conference June 9-17 (both for my own self-improvement and covering public events for Cool Hunting), then Los Angeles June 17-23 for vacation. Get in touch if you're around and we haven't already made plans! I'll be back in conference mode, with near-real-time ...

Play Area Code, Work area/code

For the first bit of what's shaping up to be a multi-part epic of a summer, I'm going to be working on a project for area/code, which Kevin plucked me for in part because of its spooky similarity to those blasted routers. I start tomorrow, making next week possibly the ...

SXSW

I'm headed to the South by Southwest Interactive festival next week, hence the general site cleanup and the appearance of my day time and night time SXSW schedules in the sidebar. As you can see, I'm way over booked, but things will shake out after I've had a chance to ...

Travel: in LA next week

I'll be in LA from next Wednesday to the following Tuesday (1/2). After that I'm free to play in NY for a couple of weeks before school stars up again. You've been forewarned. Get in touch if you want to hang out!

Games Save the World for eTech

Well, I just submitted my first conference proposal ever. It's for O'Reilly's Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego next March. I knew I wanted to submit something, if only to get in the habit of such things, but in the past two weeks it solidified for me that I want ...

Offline!

I'm blogging from the Fifth Avenue Apple store right now, not because I'm so swanky cool (well, not just because I'm so swanky cool), but because my iBook bit the dust this morning, hard, and is likely in for a new logic board. He just couldn't hold out for ...

Alive and Well in Park Slope

Now that I've been in New York for a week and a half, things are returning to normal. Well, normal for this strange transition period, when I'm done moving across the country, but have no discernible purpose for being here yet. It still feels a bit like vacation - very ...

Travel & Events

New York I'll be in New York from May 5 - 11 to do some groking of the whole ITP thing, scope out some housing options, and, generally, wave exuberantly at my future home. My only firm plans are to be at the ITP Spring Show on May 9 & 10. ...

If I was going to choose one word to describe my ideal mate…

adorkable: Both dorky and adorable. A higher state of being all dorks strive towards. [Urban Dictionary via Snarkmarket]

NYU ITP to me: “you’re in!”

In the most casual, off-the-cuff way possible, I just found found out... I got in to ITP! I just got an email saying the following, as if I had already known what was going on: "This message marks your subscription to an NYU email announcement listserve for recently accepted applicants for the Fall ...

Colophon

Turning coffee into feats of intellectual derring-do since 2001

Hi there, I'm Adam Simon. I'm the Creative Director and Co-Founder of Socialbomb, a social gaming startup in New York City. I recently graduated from NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), doing research in large scale game design, social networking, urban computing, performative technology, and networked objects. You can find info on my thesis here, and a big list of all my ITP-related posts here

I sometimes work at area/code.

Projects that I've been a part of which you might have heard of include BootyDialer, The Invention of Murder, Rumplestiltskin (An Aretefactual Performance), & Sharkrunners

You can email me at adam @ [the name of this website].

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Social Heroes: Games as APIs for Social Interaction (aka, my ITP thesis)

Because I've been busy/lazy and off the blogging habit, here, at long last, is my thesis for ITP, almost a year late. Comments and such are still more than welcome, as many of the ideas are still being worked on in my current projects, and Social Heroes itself is likely ...

Crazy Blind Date: A Quintet for Human & Computer

The appeal of Crazy Blind Date\ is immediately apparent, and seems custom-designed for busy city folks: “on very short notice we can set you up on quick dates with total strangers at public places like bars and coffee shops. You're not allowed to see their picture or even communicate.” Created ...
March 29th 2008
Tags: Social Software Studio, Thesis 2 Comments

Social Heroes

My thesis has split into two ideas, something which was foreshadowed at the end of my midterm presentation. I mistakenly assumed that one of the ideas would seem obviously better than the other, but that hasn't happened. Rather, I'm stuck with two ideas which I think explore the ideas I'm ...
March 16th 2008
Tags: ITP One Comment

PCBs from Eagle to Production

In this post I'm going to explain how to output files from Eagle PCB in order to send your designs off to be professionally fabbed. There are two major steps before this in the process: creating the electrical schematic, and moving from that schematic to a board layout. I'm not ...
March 14th 2008
Tags: Social Software Studio, Thesis One Comment

Thesis: midterm presentation & playtest

| View | Upload your own ITP Thesis: Midterm presentation (with notes) (PDF) Here's the midterm presentation I just gave in my thesis section (the PDF includes the presenter notes, and is perhaps more comprehensible). I felt like this presentation was a return to form for me - lots of photos, ...

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