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

Socialbomb was at ETech

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Socialbomb unit, originally uploaded by doryexmachina. Last week we took Socialbomb to O'Reilly's Emerging Technology conference. We held a BoF session on getting social games away from the keyboard, and ran ...

Social Bomb interview

Rucyl Mills of TechTrekTV interviews us about Social Bomb.

Social Bomb on Cnet

Social Bomb was mentioned in a recent CNet article on ITP! One project in the works is from a team led by first-year student Adam Simon. Called "People Rank," or "Social Bomb," it is a system designed to automatically measure social reputation and popularity through a game. Essentially, players wear a small ...

Social Bomb concept

I've been brainstorming with Mike and Scott about ideas for our Networked objects final, and after consulting with Tom today, we're definitely honing in on building some kind of game interface. Here's my description of our idea, which is totally unvetted by the others and subject to much changing in the ...

CookieNet followup

Here are the results of CookieNet, which I deployed Wednesday afternoon to an unsuspecting ITP. Implementation: The deployed version of CookieNet worked as described in the initial project outline, with four cookies to a parcel and three parcels plus on single cookie to a box. The boxes were then delivered to members ...

CookieNet

For our Network Effects midterm, we have to design and implement a network. Here's my proposal for CookieNet, which will disseminate cookies throughout ITP. Cookies will be packaged four in a bundle, with four bundles plus one single cookie in each of three boxes. For the sake of cookie tracking, each ...

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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