ProphecyBoy

Strange to think that the thing we've been working on for the past 6 months is launching next week. Huh. - more on Twitter

Random Crap! Get ‘Yer Random Crap!

I thought I'd try something a little more front-and-center than my del.icio.us links, since I've got a little to say about a bunch of stuff piling up in NNW that's worth a bit more than just bookmarking. This is impressive, though it might not seem so at first. Each of those ...

Marketing and Creativity Links

I was talking to one of the Rogue Artists a couple of weeks back about marketing / organizing this outreach program they've started. (I'm currently working with them on a SOSE/RAE collaboration - HYPERBOLE: epiphany.) We got to talking, and it became clear that I was up on a lot ...

Podcasting explosion

After nine months, podcasting is set to explode into the general population in the next two weeks. Ev William's ODEO is launching right now - it's only a matter of time before all those invitations are sent out. ODEO looks like it will be the thing that levels the production playing ...

full-text-feed Gawking

Joy of joys! Gawker Media has seen the light and has graced us humble disciples of RSS with the full text of the posts in all of their feeds emanating from their World Headquarters atop Mount Blog. While this is undoubtedly a joyous day, can the looming specter of inline RSS ads ...

Yahoo 360 will solve the problem of blog proliferation

While doing research for a course I'm pitching, something hit me: I have so many frickin' blogs! With the influx of money in social software and the term "blog" now resting comfortably on the lips of your local soccer moms, sites are unexpectedly throwing free blogs at me like nickels at ...

Bits and Bobs

Further proof that Larry Lessig is cooler than you: he's now a character on the West Wing, being played by Christopher Lloyd. Damn. (Via Boing Boing) INdTV, part-time purveyor of exploded media, has re-launched their website (now with 20% more spif!) and is accepting submissions for possible broadcasting. Fun! Still no word ...

GoDaddy!

If you haven't seen GoDaddy's superbowl commecial yet, stop, drop, and roll video (there's also an extended version on their site, worth viewing as well). Back? Okay. Now. First of all, let's all join in a big group hug of GoDaddy for striking while the iron's hot and delivering a swift ...

ProphecyBoy, the Microbrand

This morning, Seth Godin has been writing about the job hunting / employee hiring process and why it's broken (start here, go thru here, come to here and stop). As someone who's looking for a job, I can certainly relate to what he's saying. I think I've always fancied myself a ...

Blog Debutante

It's a big launch day for new blogs: Gawker Media is launching Lifehacker, a productivity tools kinda blog, and Gridskipper, an urban travel blog. After a first-day perusal of both new Gawker sites, I have to say I like Lifehacker as a low-carb complement to the excellent 43 Folders. It's not a ...

The Apple Blog

I've just signed on to write for The Apple Blog. I'm very excited to be working on this, and I've just posted my first article, Apple de Luxe, so check it out. Obviously, most of my Apple-related postings will now be routed there, but I'll post a link here on ...

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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