ProphecyBoy

@fixx Thanks, looks pretty good, but we're looking for something hosted and pay-by-the month. You should really consider both of those. - more on Twitter
March 20th 2005
Tags: Navel Gazing

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Tomorrow morning, bright and early, I start running

I’ve never, ever been a runner, but it’s probably the best exercise for me because it requires relatively little time to get a good workout. I would love to be cycling regularly again, but it quickly becomes a day-consuming activity in order to make it challenging. Considering that I’m working ...
February 17th 2005
Tags: Navel Gazing

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A Curse Upon My House

Unlike a lot of single people, I look forward to Valentine's Day. Not because of anything remotely romantic or even sexual. I look forward to it so that it can finally be over. You see, I am cursed. Somehow, somewhere, I must have sideswiped Santa's sleigh, because I have seriously bad ...
February 2nd 2005
Tags: Blogging, Navel Gazing

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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 ...
January 27th 2005
Tags: Los Angeles, Navel Gazing

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Life and the Legend of Zelda

Sean Bonner, who runs the sixspace gallery here in LA and also started Metroblogging, the rapidly growing city-centric blog empire, is about to turn 30. It's great to see someone in my age-range having done so many cool and impressive things. It's also fun to see him freak out a ...
January 26th 2005
Tags: Navel Gazing, Politics, Theater

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Sapien Sapien

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening That is translated through you into action, And because there is only one of you in all time, This expression is unique. If you block it, It will never exist through any other medium And be lost. The world will never have it. It is not your business to ...

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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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April 14th 2008
Tags: Social Facts, Social Software Studio No Comments

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, ...
March 11th 2008
Tags: ITP, Network Effects, Networked Objects, Socialbomb 2 Comments

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 ...

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